Sean Andrade is an exceptionally talented and creative lawyer who is well known for his ongoing representation of the nation’s second-largest school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District, playing a critical role in leading the district...

Anthony Arnoldmanages and provides guidance to deal teams of legal professionals in the areas of intellectual property, securities, debt finance, tax, employment and executive compensation, and environmental law, as well as for accountants, bankers...

Mike Arias is the founding and managing partner of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos LLP. He holds a unique place in the California legal field as a leader in the legal community, a leader in the political realm, and, most importantly, a vigorous advocate for justice.

Criminal lawyer Matthew Barhoma devotes his Los Angeles practice to ensuring defendants wrongfully or over-convicted are freed from prison or not incarcerated for longer than the law requires.

Glaser Weil partner Andrew Baum has successfully litigated and resolved multi-million dollar claims in a wide variety of business and litigation matters, including partnership disputes, construction matters, employment actions, consumer and class action claims, as well as securities and white-collar criminal matters.

Reuben Cahn is a courtroom advocate of rare experience and ability. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has tried over 100 cases to jury verdict and has argued twice before the Supreme Court in addition to numerous arguments before both the 9th and 11th Circuits.

Morgan Chu recently scored an unprecedented hat trick of victories for his clients, including a Supreme Court win and two trial victories of more than $1 billion each. A partner at Irell&Manella LLP, Chu has secured many of the world’s largest – and in some cases precedent – setting verdicts, judgments and settlements.

With over 40 years of experience, Nancy Sher Cohen leads Lathrop GPM's Insurance Recovery & Counseling practice team, is the partner in charge of the firm's Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm's Executive Committee.

Paul S. Chan is the managing principal of Bird Marella. His practice focuses on the trial and arbitration of complex business disputes, including commercial fraud, class action, securities, and intellectual property litigation. He also represents companies and individuals in regulatory and parallel civil/criminal investigations.

In 1988, Robert Darwell moved from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles and combined his passion for entertainment and media with his interest in international business. Today, Darwell is a partner in the Entertainment and Digital Media Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin’s Century City office.

When advising high-net-worth individuals and families on the planning and administration of multimillion-dollar trusts and estates, Gabriel R. Duarte provides strategic counsel to preserve clients’ legacies and honor their wishes on transferring wealth to the next generation.

William Delgado is a seasoned litigator and a leader in the class action and IP arenas, representing major big consumer product and retail brands. He has recently been serving as lead counsel representing a major automobile manufacturer in three class actions alleging that the vehicles had defective fuel pumps.

Charles “Chuck” Cox is the leader of Alston & Bird’s Los Angeles Litigation Team and a partner in the firm’s Securities Litigation Group.

Terrence Franklin has developed a reputation as a preeminent trusts and estates attorney in his 30 years of practice, handling the most complex cases involving significant dollar amounts. He is responsible for several published appeals and the landmark Moeller v.

As a member of Hahn &Hahn’s Litigation and Employment practice groups, Laura Farber brings and defends claims before all state and federal courts and administrative agencies, for general and complex civil matters in a wide range of areas. Her expertise includes wage and hour and employment claims, business and commercial disputes and tort claims.

In a world where privacy and data security are among the most urgent issues facing government, business and individuals, nobody knows more about how to navigate the fast-changing regulatory landscape than Frankfurt Kurnit Privacy & Data Security chair Tanya Forsheit.

Alan Friel, deputy chair of the Squire Patton Boggs Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, is an industry leader in digital media, intellectual property, and privacy and consumer protection law, with three decades of relevant experience to address...

Benjamin N. Gluck is recognized as one of the topwhite collar criminal defense attorneys in the nation. Gluck devotes a significant portion of his practice to representing health care providers in state and federal criminal matters.

David C. Holtz is a principal of Holtz, Slavett & Drabkin, a Professional Law Corporation. He practices all aspects of tax litigation including tax assessment defense, collection defense and criminal defense. While Holtz is an attorney, he began his tax career as a certified public accountant.

Jeff Huron is an attorney in Dykema’s Business Litigation Group who also serves as the managing Member of the firm’s Los Angeles office. With over 30 years of experience litigating and arbitrating business, real estate and entertainment disputes, Huron has tried and won multimillion dollar, high-stakes cases for a wide range of clients.

Robert Hudock founded Hudock Employment Law Group in 2015 to deliver tailored legal services to California companies that thrive in vibrant, creative work environments.

Jonathan A. Hyman is a partner in Knobbe Martens’ Los Angeles office and is also co-chair of the firm's CBD and Legal Cannabis Group.

Nicky Jatana is the office managing principal of the Los Angeles office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Her practice focuses on employment litigation, as well as on advising employers regarding dailyworkplace issues.

Before returning as a partner to Irell & Manella LLP in April 2021, Andrei Iancu served as the undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a position to which he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.

Eric Israel has been a lawyer and advisor for more than 40 years in Los Angeles for debtors, trustees, creditors, creditor committees, and shareholders in complex bankruptcy and workout scenarios. Clients seek Israel's counsel for bankruptcy, workouts, debtor-creditor litigation, exemption planning, and business reorganizations.

Robbin Itkin is a partner in Sklar Kirsh’s Bankruptcy practice group. Her experience restructuring billions of dollars of debt includes insolvency resolutions in Chapter 11 cases and numerous restructurings outside the courtroom.

Stephen J. Kaufman founded Kaufman Legal Group in 1996. A recognized authority in the field of campaign finance and election law, Kaufman represents elected officials, candidates, PACs, labor unions, corporations, non-profit organizations, ballot...

Richard B. Kendall, a founding partner of Kendall Brill & Kelly law firm, has been the lead counsel in one of Hollywood’s most significant lawsuits in memory, the dispute between talent agencies and writers, as well as serving as board chair for the groundbreaking Broad Stage as it navigated the pandemic.

Jason Karlov is the goto for a wide range of big names and labels in the entertainment and music arenas, with live events and in the cross-over with various technologies. He advises and guides virtually all types of clients through advertising, branding, content and sponsorship deals, from both the buyer's and seller's vantage points.

Tracey Kennedy is a trial attorney responsible for employment litigation matters on behalf of employers and management, including jury and bench trials and arbitrations.

Barry Kurtz is widely recognized across Southern California as a principal authority on franchise law. He represents domestic and international franchisors and franchisees. His client base includes start-up franchisors and franchisees as well as franchisors with hundreds of franchised units.

Wendy E. Lane is chair of the Employment Department at Greenberg Glusker, focused on employment counseling and litigation on behalf of a variety of clients, including media, gaming and entertainment companies, celebrities, real estate and investment...

Jeffrey Kobulnick routinely represents clients across a wide range of industries in highly complex intellectual propertymatters to develop, protect and enforce copyright and trademark rights around the world.

Blank Rome partner and chair of the Privacy, Security & Data Protection Practice, Sharon R. Klein is committed to ensuring that her clients understand and mitigate the risks involved with use of data in their businesses. Her goal is to enable them to comply with regulations while still positioning themselves to leverage the value of that data.

At Murchison & Cumming, Dan L. Longo is a senior partner and serves as themanaging partner and co-chairs the Health Law and Professional Liability practice groups. He primarily represents skilled nursing facilities, board and care facilities, and hospitals.

Nina Marino’s complex litigation and white-collar crime practice is national and international. She negotiates with the U.S. Department of Justice, state Attorneys General, district attorneys, and Interpol in her defense of individuals alleged to be involved with Medicare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practice Act violations and tax, cyber and other crimes.

Lisa Helfend Meyer is recognized as a strong litigator and trial attorney who achieves favorable outcomes for her clients in high stakes divorce and custody disputes. She founded Meyer, Olson, Lowy & Meyers to bring a strong female presence to family law.

D. Jason Lyon is a litigation partner at Hahn & Hahn LLP. His practice focuses on commercial litigation involving complex financial matters and intricate fact patterns. Prior to joining Hahn & Hahn, Lyon was an associate with Latham&Watkins, practicing in the Complex Commercial Litigation and Securities Litigation groups.

Devin McRae routinely represents A-list talent in contested litigation matters, including a highly publicized insurance coverage bad faith action against an insurance company. The suit claims that the A-list talent was forced to pay out of pocket after her home was severely damaged by the Woolsey Fire.

Felicia R. Meyers is a Los Angeles high-asset divorce attorney who handles high-asset and high-conflict divorce and custody matters. Meyers’ work with the firm focuses primarily on complex litigation and trials, leveraging her extensive experience as a civil litigator prior to MOLM.

Ann Marie Mortimer co-heads Hunton Andrew Kurth’s commercial litigation practice and is the founder and managing partner of the Los Angeles office. Her commercial litigation experience focuses on data security, false advertising and unfair competition class actions.

Starting as an associate in Mintz’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring group in 2009 and elevated to partner in 2019, Abigail “Abby” O’Brient has risen to the top in the high-demand male-dominated commercial bankruptcy practice due to her ability to lead successful trial teams and guide buyers in distressed transactions.

With over 40 years of experience, Louis R. “Skip” Miller is an accomplished litigator and trial lawyer. He has tried cases in state and federal courts in California and around the country before judges.

Arameh Zargham O’Boyle, member at Mintz, is a trailblazer and is the first female partner in the firm’s growing Los Angeles office.

Mark Powell is an attorney and a certified specialist in estate planning, trust, and probate law with the California Bar Board of Legal Specialization in Holland & Knight's Los Angeles and Orange County offices.

Robyn Polashuk has more than 20 years of experience in network distribution and content licensing, both as a lawyer for Lifetime Television as well as in private practice, currently as co-chair of Covington’s Communications and Media Industry Group.

After spending over a decade litigating high-stakes cases at Quinn Emanuel, Megan O’Neill launched a woman- and minority-owned law firm in 2019. She is viewed as a leader in the class action space,...

Los Angeles-based Best Best & Krieger LLP partner Christopher Pisano’s litigation practice was already unique with many of his clients being California public agencies involved in a wide range of litigation matters.

Scott Rahn is known for in-depth financial investigations and deftly handling intra-family dynamics and decades-long family friction.

Reginald Roberts, Jr., a co-managing partner of Sanders Roberts LLP, defends his clients against difficult plaintiff's counsel who are willing to go to trial. Roberts, a top-notch employment defense trial lawyer and a persuasive advocate for his clients, handles cases from pre-litigation all the way through trial.

Apracticing attorney for nearly 25 years, Angela Reddock-Wright is regarded as a “go-to” attorney and human resources professional when it comes to any issues dealing with the workplace.

John Quinn moved to Los Angeles from New York decades ago with a vision of a law firm that did just litigation. He started the firm with just four people, knocked on doors of the biggest companies in SoCal and won cases for them, and in less than 15 years his firm hadmultiple offices.

Neema Sahni, partner, co-chair of Covington’s Music Industry Group, and vice chair of the firm’s Sports Industry Group, has built one of the most diverse legal practices serving the sports, media, and entertainment industries and has become a go-to counsel for some of the industry’s biggest names.

After many years as an equity partner at Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, Sauer and his colleague Eve Wagner founded Sauer & Wagner LLP in May 1997, and it has become a preeminent boutique law firm.

Zev Shechtman represents debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, trustees, shareholders, asset purchasers, and other parties in bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency matters. He is often sought to assist attorneys in other practice areas dealing with complex litigation or transactions requiring bankruptcy expertise.

Justin H. Sanders is the founding and comanaging partner of Sanders Roberts LLP. His practice focuses on business litigation, general liability defense and criminal investigations involving medical professionals.

David Singer is cochair of Jenner & Block’s nationally recognized Content, Media, and Entertainment Practice andamember of the firm’s Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Antitrust, and Litigation Practices.

Jeffrey A. Sklar is the co-chairman of Sklar Kirsh LLP, a preeminent boutique law firm in Los Angeles that has grown to 36 attorneys from its humble beginnings when Sklar left BigLaw to start a solo practice in 2010. He chairs his firm’s Corporate Practice and sits on its Management Committee.

Richard J. Sweet is a corporate attorney and chair for Greenberg Glusker’s Business & Tax Department. Sweet’s background and experience in the automotive industry, coupled with his decades-long experience expertise in a variety of transactional and...

Peter A. Strotz, the founding and managing partner of King & Spalding’s Los Angeles office, has been litigating tort, product liability, and commercial matters for over 30 years and has first-chaired dozens of trials in courts throughout California and the U.

Kate Spelman has “Big Law” and inhouse experience defending some of the country’s largest food and beverage manufacturers from consumer class actions and other claims.

Mitchell Tsai is a Pasadena-based, public-interest, environmental and land use attorney who focuses on representing public-interest organizations in environmental and land use matters.

Robin Thornton, who chairs Wendel Rosen’s Eminent Domain Practice Group, has over 18 years’ law firm experience, including 12 years practicing in eminent domain law.

Emily Burkhardt Vicente, co-chair of Hunter Andrews Kurth’s national labor and employment team and diversity and inclusion committee, has a robust litigation practice that focuses on complex employment litigation and wage hour matters, particularly in California.

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