PARTNERS: Los Angeles, California (Main Office) Office
Leslie L. Abbott, Partner
CV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law
George W. Abele, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law; Major Verdict Post-Trial Motions and Appeals; Appellate Litigation; Class Action Litigation; Wage and Hour Law; Wrongful Discharge; Discrimination; Retaliation; Sexual Harassment; Arbitration
Nancy L. Abell, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Private and Public Employment Law; Class Actions; Wrongful Discharge; Discrimination; Harassment; Whistleblower Litigation; Labor-Management Litigation; Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and Affirmative Action; Compliance...
Carl T. Anderson, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate
Mark W. Atkinson, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law and Litigation
Elena R. Baca, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Kenneth R. Bender, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Securities; Business Law
Woodson T. Besson, (P.C.), Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Complex Business Litigation; Lender Liability; Class Actions; Environmental Matters; Procurement Fraud; Securities Litigation; Financial Institutions Litigation; Superfund Litigation; Toxic Tort Litigation; California Environmental...
Jamie Broder, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Healthcare Litigation; Entertainment Litigation; Professional Liability Litigation; Alternative Dispute Resolution
Siobhan M. Burke, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities Regulation; Risk Capital Partnership Formation and Investment; Venture Capital Financing; Leveraged Buyouts and Joint Ventures
Robert R. Carlson, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Securities; Venture Capital; Technology Licensing; Biotechnology; Mergers and Acquisitions
Eve M. Coddon, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Insurance Coverage Litigation; First Amendment and Media Litigation; Professional Liability; Entertainment Litigation; Ethics Law
Dennis S. Ellis, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation; Entertainment Law
Philip N. Feder, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Law; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Workouts; Bankruptcy
Jason M. Frank, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation
Norman A. Futami, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Business Law; Financial Services; Asia-Pacific Business; Strategic Alliances; Joint Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions; International Transactions
Terry D. Garnett, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Patent Licensing; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property Licensing; Intellectual Property Litigation; International Intellectual Property; Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property; Electronic Intellectual Property
Michael Glazer, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Investment Adviser and Investment Company organization; registration, operation, acquisition and sale; Counsel to independent directors; General Corporate Law; Securities Law; Hedge fund organization and operation
Paul Grossman, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law; Wrongful Discharge; Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Whistleblower Litigation; Labor-Management Litigation
Jeffrey S. Haber, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Land Use; Real Estate Development; Constitutional Law
Stephen H. Harris, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Reductions in Force Programs; Corporate Downsizing; Employment Law; Employee Benefits Litigation and Taxation; 401(k) Plans; Executive Compensation and Employment Contracts; Pension and Welfare Plans; Severance Agreements; ERISA
John F. Hilson, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Finance; Commercial Finance; Asset Based Finance; Secured Finance; Unsecured Finance; Loan Workouts; Letters of Credit; Interest and Usury; Foreclosures
Nancy L. Iredale, (P.C.), Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Tax Law; Tax Controversies; Tax Consultation; Domestic and International Tax; Commercial Transaction Taxation; Merger and Acquisition Taxation; Civil and Criminal Tax Matters
Eric H. Joss, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Private and Public Employment Law; Wrongful Discharge; Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Retaliation; Labor-Management Litigation; Union Organizing; Collective Bargaining Negotiations; Arbitrations; Wage and Hour Law; Privacy; Alternative...
Robert M. Keane, Jr., Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Joint Ventures; Real Estate Acquisitions; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Investment; Real Estate Development
Rick S. Kirkbride, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Resort, Restaurant and Recreation Practice Group; Concentrating in the representation of real estate development companies,; Institutional lenders; Investment banks; Opportunity funds and other capital providers; Owners and operators...
Kenneth Krug, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Partnerships
J. Al Latham, Jr., Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor Relations; Employment Law; Union Organizing Campaigns; NLRB Elections; Collective Bargaining; Arbitrations; Strikes; Wrongful Termination; EEOC Litigation; Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs; Wage and Hour Regulation
Alexander M. Lee, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Taxation
Michael K. Lindsey, Partner
BV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Domestic and International Intellectual Property; E-Commerce; Antitrust; Trade Regulation; Franchise Matters; Sale, Distribution and Marketing of Products and Services; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate
Ethan Lipsig, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: ERISA(30%); Employment Law(20%); Reductions in Force Programs(10%); Employee Benefits Litigation and Taxation(30%, 50); Executive Compensation(10%)
Robert I. McMurry, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Land Use; Litigation; Environmental Law; Real Property
Donna D. Melby, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Litigation; Business Regulation; Complex Business Litigation; Public Law; Public Policy
Mitchell B. Menzer, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Project Finance; Real Estate Law; Environmental Law
Robert A. Miller, Jr., Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; General Corporate; Corporate Finance Transactions; Corporate Buyouts; Venture Capital; Investment Partnerships; Aviation Industry Representation
Heather A. Morgan, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Greg M. Nitzkowski, Partner
BV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Finance; Joint Ventures; Real Estate Law; Commercial Real Estate Transactions; Equity Investments; Joint Venture Formations; Acquisitions and Dispositions; Real Estate Lending; Real Estate Securitizations; Real Estate...
Belinda K. Orem, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Complex Business Litigation; Fiduciary Liability; Complex Financial Services Litigation; Securities Class Action Litigation; Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Litigation; Patent Litigation; Trustee/Executor Liability...
Ronald M. Oster, (P.C.), Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; First Amendment Protection for Commercial Rating Entities; Property Damage and Business Interruption Litigation; Asbestos Litigation; Insurance Coverage; Environmental Insurance; Insurance Bad Faith
James Franklin Owens, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Health Care; Healthcare Transactions; Healthcare Regulatory Law; Nonprofit and Proprietary Healthcare Business; Multi-Facility Health Systems; Free-Standing District and Community Hospitals; Provider Networks; Ancillary Healthcare...
Howard M. Privette, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Commercial Litigation
Patrick A. Ramsey, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Transactional Real Estate; Real Estate Acquisition; Disposition; Construction; Leasing; Financing and Development; Real Estate Environmental Issues
Derek V. Roth, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Finance; Development; Acquisitions; Leasing; Real Estate Joint Ventures
Derek E. Smith, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Transactions; Joint Venture Transactions; Investment; Real Estate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Sale/Lease Back, Finance and Development; Real Estate Finance; Commercial Real Estate; Workouts; Restructurings; Foreclosures
Robert S. Span, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Aviation; Complex Business Litigation; Class Action; Airline Labor Arbitration; Breach of Contract; Power Project Finance and Construction; Antitrust; Employment; Regulated Industries; Unfair Competition; Alternative...
William F. Sullivan, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation; Securities Litigation; Shareholder Class Action; Shareholder Derivative Actions; SEC Enforcement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Intellectual Property Litigation
Kaoruhiko Suzuki, Chair, Asia-Pacific Practice Group
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; International Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Geoffrey L. Thomas, Partner and General Counsel to the firm
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Professional Liability; Libel
William S. Waldo, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Employment Law; Labor Law; Trade Secret; Non-Compete; Employment Class Actions; Jury Trial Litigation; Wrongful Discharge; Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Whistleblower; Trust Fund Disputes; Office of...
David M. Walsh, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation
Alan W. Weakland, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Vincent K. Yip, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Jennifer St. John Yount, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Finance; Bankruptcy
Thomas A. Zaccaro, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation; Securities Litigation; White Collar Criminal Defense; Corporate Governance
James A. Zapp, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Arthur L. Zwickel, Partner
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Securities; General Corporate; Investment Management
SENIOR COUNSEL: Los Angeles, California (Main Office) Office
Dennis H. Vaughn, Senior Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor Relations; Employment Law; Equal Employment; Commercial Arbitration
OF COUNSEL: Los Angeles, California (Main Office) Office
Jennifer S. Baldocchi, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law
Michael Bradford, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Resort and Hotel Development; Mixed-Use Development; Timeshare Development; Condominium and Condo-Hotel Development; Condominium Conversions; Common Interest Developments; Real Estate Securities; Condominium Development;...
Cynthia M. Cohen, Of Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Complex Business; Corporate and Commercial Litigation; Antitrust; Corporate Reorganization; Insolvency
Julian B. Decyk, Of Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Tax
Jan Elizabeth Eakins, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law
Marco P. Ferreira, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Michele A. Freedenthal, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law; Wrongful Discharge; Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Wage and Hour Law; Americans with Disabilities Act; Labor Law
Judith M. Kline, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Entertainment
Ann Lawrence, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Corporate Finance
A. Catherine Norian, Of Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Land Use; Litigation
Jeffrey G. Varga, Of Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Civil and Criminal Tax Litigation; Civil and Criminal Tax Audits; Federal, State and Local Tax Controversies; White Collar Criminal Defense; Complex Civil Litigation
Deborah S. Weiser, Of Counsel
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law
ASSOCIATES: Los Angeles, California (Main Office) Office
Vanessa Au, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Law
Maria A. Audero, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Employment Discrimination; Employment Litigation; Family and Medical Leave Act; Fair Labor Standards; Sexual Harassment; Wage and Hour Law
Jennifer A. Awrey, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Litigation
Nick Begakis, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Class Action Defense; Litigation; Civil Litigation; Complex Litigation; Defense Litigation; Federal Civil Litigation
Reshma Bishnoi, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Christopher M. Bissonnette, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Amanda A. Bolliger, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Jessica Pae Boskovich, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Marti Ellen Breier, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Elizabeth (Lisa) A. Brown, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Employment Discrimination
Peter S. Burke, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Commercial Finance; Asset Based Lending; Secured Finance; Loan Workouts
Hua Chen, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property Infringement; Intellectual Property Litigation; Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property; Patent Litigation; Patent Infringement; Pharmaceutical Patents; Molecular Biology Patents; Electronic...
Jay C. Chiu, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property
Gina Cook, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Employment Class Actions; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Harassment; Sexual Harassment; Title VII Discrimination; Wage and Hour Law; Wrongful Termination Defense
Mandana Dayani, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Laurie A. Dee, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Investment Management
Ryan D. Derry, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law; Employment Discrimination; Wage and Hour Law
Lyn G. Diaz, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Jeffrey D. Diener, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Finance; Real Estate
John Durrant, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation
Caroline L. Elkin, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law
Julie A. Engels, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate(100%)
Stephen N. Etheredge, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Elizabeth A. Falcone, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law; Labor Law; Harassment; Discrimination; Employment Claims; Employment Class Actions; Employment Defense; Management Employment Law; Wage and Hour Law; Wrongful Termination Defense
Cameron W. Fox, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation(25%); Labor and Employment(75%)
Melanie Full, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Gillian K. Garrett, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation
Jeffrey P. Geida, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Taxation
James W. Gilliam, Jr., Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Securities Litigation
Amanda Gilman, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
John R. Giovannone, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Gayle A. Goldman, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Employee Benefits
Paul A. Gomez, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate; Health Law
Melinda Gordon, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Joshua G. Hamilton, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Complex Litigation; Class Action Defense; Business Litigation; Intellectual Property; Real Estate Litigation
James S. Han, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Elizabeth A. Hanks, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate(10%); Land Use(90%)
Laura D. Heckathorn, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law(100%)
Nicole M. Herter, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Daniel G. Hick, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate Acquisitions; Real Estate Development; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Joint Ventures
Jennifer B. Hildebrandt, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Financial Services
Terry Huang, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Joshua R. Isenberg, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Hunter Jackson, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Corporate
Claire M. Kennedy, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Edgar Khalatian, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Land Use; Real Estate
Nicole Kline, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate Development; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Partnerships; Real Estate Secured Lending; Real Estate Title Insurance; Nonprofit Corporations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance
Nasym Korloo, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions
Holly R. Lake, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Employment Law(95%); Labor Law(5%)
David B. Lambert, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Transactional Real Estate; Leasing; Acquisition; Development; Construction; Environmental; Entitlements; Real Estate Secured Lending
Stephen E. Lee, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate; Corporate Law; Corporate Finance; Corporate Formation; Corporate Governance; Takeovers; Tender Offers; Small Business Corporations; Public Corporations; S Corporations
Stanley Liu, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Shane Loomis, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment(100%)
Tamara H. McCrossen-Orr, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Eleanor K. Mercado, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: SEC Enforcement; Securities Class Actions; Securities Fraud; Securities Fraud Class Actions; Securities Litigation; Insider Trading
Molly Mitchell, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Cindy J. Morgan, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Age Discrimination in Employment; Employment Class Actions; Employment Civil Rights; Employment Defense
Katherine F. Murray, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation
Jeffrey T. Myers, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Lauren L. Nungesser, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Nkechi C. Odu, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate Finance
Kevin M. O'Sullivan, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Corporate
Elisa L. Paster, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Land Use Law; Zoning Law; Municipal Law; Land Use Litigation
Daniel Prince, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation; Antitrust; Intellectual Property
David M. Ritchie, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Federal and State Taxation
Stephanie M. Rohde, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Lauren A. Scher, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Finance
Adam David Schneir, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: SEC Enforcement; Securities Litigation
A. J. Sharp, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Litigation
Geoffrey T. Stover, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation
Jennie Tan, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Stephen J. Turanchik, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Taxation
Jared M. Weinstock, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Patricia N. Whitten, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Peter J. Wied, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
Joanne Y. Yang, Associate
Office: Los Angeles, California
ATTORNEYS: Los Angeles, California (Main Office) Office
Jack T. Conners, Attorney
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Jacqueline B. Fleischer, Attorney
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Susan G. Spira, Attorney
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Real Estate Transactions(100%)
Katherine A. Traxler, Attorney
AV Rated
Office: Los Angeles, California
Practice Areas: Financial Services; Bankruptcy; Insolvency; Debt Restructuring; Creditors; Debtor-in-Possession Financing; Chapter 11 Plans; Cash Collateral, Automatic Stay and Lease Litigation; Valuation Litigation; Asset and Stock Sales in Bankruptcy;...