Tammy Brandt is a seasoned executive with extensive technology, brand and consumerfacing experience with a proven track record as a general counsel.

David Muckley joined Secfi as general counsel in November 2021. Secfi’s platform empowers shareholders with the education to make informed financial decisions and, critically, provides the financing needed for individuals to build wealth for the future.

Ashley Johnson Good serves as chief legal officer for Acorns Grow Incorporated, the leading saving and investing app, where she has led the company’s legal function since 2020.

Betsy Tucci is general counsel and company secretary of InStride, where she oversees all legal affairs.

Michelle Fang is a technology executive with a proven track record of developing people, disrupting staid industries, scaling teams around the globe, collaborating across functions, and finding creative solutions to complex problems.

Phil Voss is the associate general counsel at United Talent Agency (UTA), where he helps support strategic initiatives including acquisitions, venture capital investments and client partnerships.

From 2003 through 2011, David Eisler was a corporate associate focused on mergers and acquisitions, securities, venture capital and general corporate matters at Dorsey & Whitney (2003–2005); and DLA Piper (2005–2011).

Chris Norton joined World Oil in 2017 as chief legal officer coming from a diverse legal background having served as General Counsel at Andell and Maguire Properties Trust.

Roy Hadavi started his career as a solo attorney practicing general transactional business law; his mindset being that in order to advise businesses, you need to know how to run one.

Jonathan Feldman is general counsel and secretary of Therabody, the global pioneer in wellness technology.

Newly appointed as the general counsel of ad tech company Taboola, Blythe Holden has oversight of all the company’s legal affairs both domestically and abroad.

In 2015, Sabra-Anne Truesdale came to Western Digital (WD) from a firm and had no full-time in-house experience – she suddenly had attorneys reporting to her who had been at the company far longer – but was able to seamlessly transition into WD by participating in various programs promoting female inventors and employee well-being.

Donald Yoo’s path to being an in-house lawyer has not been linear. Drawn to public service, he began his legal career as a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Based in downtown Los Angeles, Clifton Albright is the president of Albright, Yee & Schmit. Albright specializes in labor and employment law.

Southern California continues to maintain its status as a center for thought leaders and power brokers in the legal space.

Stephen Bradford is a partner in the Musick, Peeler & Garrett’s Los Angeles office, and he leads the firm’s Corporate and Business Law Group. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Thomas Dover provides cutting-edge legal strategies focused in all areas of intellectual property, corporate transactions and advertising. His experience in the U.S.

Blank Rome partner and gaming industry co-chair Dennis Ehling has worked with clients in the gaming and interactive entertainment industries for decades on a wide variety of issues, including regulatory and compliance,...

Morgan Chu has secured many of the world’s largest – and in some cases precedentsetting – verdicts, judgments and settlements, resulting in actual payments totaling more than $9 billion.

Mary Lynn Coffee has extensive experience providing legal and regulatory advice and counsel complying with and permitting under CEQA, NEPA and state and federal water quality, wetlands, endangered species and other natural resource protection laws.

Melvin Felton, II, is a partner at Sanders Roberts LLP. He represents corporations and individuals in a wide range of employment and business litigation matters.

Terri E. Hilliard is the principal of Terri Hilliard, P.C. in Westlake Village. Her practice centers on advanced estate and business succession planning, asset protection, special needs trusts, and family protection planning for seniors.

Nicole Hoeksma Gordon, a partner at The Sohagi Law Group, advises public agencies on complex environmental and land use matters at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels.

Keith Gregory is a partner and leader at Snell & Wilmer, a full-service business law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing in 16 locations throughout the United States and Mexico, including three offices in California.

Adam Fox is an experienced trial lawyer, trailblazer and community leader. He has served as the managing partner of Squire Patton Boggs’ Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s 12-person Global Board, which oversees the strategic direction of the firm’s international practice.

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 (USPTO), a position to which he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.

With 15 years in practice, Kayla Horacek has extensive experience handling divorce and family law matters, including business evaluations, complex property division, child custody issues, and litigation over contested matters.

Brian Holman is a partner in Musick Peeler’s Los Angeles office. He advises and represents educational institutions and other parties in facility and working capital financing transactions and general corporate and operations matters.

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

As the leader of Greenberg Gross LLP’s Los Angeles office, Sarah Kelly-Kilgore has built a reputation as a highly skilled and innovative trial and appellate lawyer with the ability to persuade judges and juries in cases with the highest stakes.

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.

Christianne F. Kerns is the first female managing partner of the prestigious 121-year-old Pasadena-based law firm, which has transitioned from a historic “old-line firm” into a majority woman and minority-owned firm.

Blank Rome partner and chair of the firm’s 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.

Former U.S. District Judge and Larson LLP founding partner Stephen Larson has been a renowned trial lawyer for high-stakes civil, commercial, and white collar matters since returning to private practice in 2009.

After beginning his career at a national law firm and spending a decade at a Los Angeles business litigation boutique, Patrick Maloney founded The Maloney Firm, APC in 2012.

Neal Marder, a partner at Akin Gump, is a highly accomplished trial lawyer and class action litigator in California and throughout the country, obtaining highly favorable outcomes for clients across myriad industries.

Randy Leff is a co-managing partner of ECJ and a partner in the Litigation Department. For more than 30 years, he has tried and resolved “betthe-company” business disputes in both state and federal courts.

Nina Marino oversees a complex litigation and white-collar crime practice that is both 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.

Byron Z. Moldo is a partner in the Bankruptcy, Receivership, and Creditors’ Rights Department at Ervin Cohen & Jessup. Moldo’s legal career has specialized in bankruptcy, receivership, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and all aspects of insolvency.

Janice L. Miller is the managing partner of Miller Haga Law Group, LLP, a premier law firm based in the Los Angeles area that provides innovative general counsel services to both privately-held and Fortune 100 companies.

Steven Morris consistently achieves case-winning results for clients involved in complex commercial and business litigation, particularly when it comes to real estate matters and partnership disputes, the focus of his practice for nearly 40 years.

Michael Mortenson’s litigation career began at Bingham McCutchen LLP (now Morgan Lewis) working in the business and securities litigation group. As his practice grew, he moved to K&L Gates, Baker Hostetler and then to Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, where he rejoined his former Bingham colleague, Craig Taggart.

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.

Jennifer Post is a skilled attorney, client relationship partner, leader and active member of the community. As an attorney, she leads corporate clients in sophisticated transactional work.

Thomas P. O’Brien, a partner with Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP, was formerly a partner at an international law firm for nearly a decade, where he led the firm’s west coast white-collar litigation practice and served as chair of the Los Angeles Litigation Department.

Sabrina C. Narain is an ambitious Hispanic & Asian Indian attorney breaking barriers in Los Angeles’ auto manufacturing litigation space. She became the first female partner in March 2020 after only three years at the diverse boutique legal firm Sanders Roberts,...

Elsa Ramo represents over 100 films and 50 television scripted and unscripted series per year, providing comprehensive legal services to producers, financiers, creators and owners of film, television, and digital content and projects across a range of budgets and production levels.

Arjun Rao has built a national reputation for handling high-stakes consumer class actions and financial services litigation, including regulatory matters and government investigations, as well as defending companies in a wide range of actions.

As killed litigator, Halbert Rasmussen has delivered wins for his clients for such matters as franchise disputes including terminations instituted by manufacturers, complex multi-party claims arising out of dealership buy-sell agreements, and breach of contract matters, among others.

California attorney Scott Rahn resolves contests, disputes, and litigation related to trusts, estates and conservatorships, creating a welcome peace of mind for clients. He represents heirs, beneficiaries, trustees, and executors.

With over two decades of complex litigation experience, Kevin Rising offers clients deep experience in multiple industries that range from entertainment, healthcare and manufacturing to financial services, technology and telecommunications, retail, and chemical compounds.

After passing the Japanese bar exam when the passing rate was only 2.5%, Miwa Shoda began her career at one of Japan’s premier law firms. With the blessing and support of that firm, she traveled to the U.S. to receive her LL.

Fisher Phillips’ Todd Scherwin is a powerful and effective advocate for Los Angeles-area business clients facing thorny employment issues and perilous lawsuits.

Christian Scali has a diverse automotive industry practice that includes advice and counsel and complex and high stakes litigation involving franchise disputes, lender liability, reinsurance, and flooring disputes, consumer finance, consumer and...

Rose B. Sorensen is a corporate and securities partner in Snell & Wilmer's Los Angeles office, whose practice includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, commercial finance, private placements, venture capital, corporate governance, telecommunications services, joint ventures, licensing and entity structure and formation.

Kirsten Spira represents the country’s largest law firms in their most pressing professional responsibility matters, including several mentioned in this nomination.

As chair of Stroock’s Financial Services Litigation, Regulation and Enforcement Group, a member of their national Executive Committee and managing partner of its Los Angeles office, Julia Strickland is often the first attorney called when a financial services company needs anything from practical guidance to the fierce defense of contentious and high-stakes litigation and regulatory enforcement matters.

Craig Taggart is a partner at Mortenson Taggart Adams LLP. Prior to starting his own firm, Taggart was an equity partner at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth in Newport Beach. He is a trial attorney who has worked on high-profile litigation matters in California and throughout the country.

Dan Stone is a partner in the Litigation and Entertainment and Media groups of Greenberg Glusker. He helps plaintiffs and defendants navigate their disputes at all stages of litigation and dispute resolution, including at trial and on appeal.

Ivy A. Wang is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP. A former federal prosecutor, she practices white-collar criminal and regulatory defense, and litigates a wide variety of commercial disputes, including trade secrets, unfair business practices and contract disputes, in state and federal court.

Andrew Walsh is a partner of Hueston Hennigan who represents clients in complex civil business disputes, high-stakes environmental and entertainment litigation, and white-collar criminal actions, in both state and federal court.

Munck Wilson Mandala partner Jenifer Wallis was recently promoted to co-managing partner of the Los Angeles office, making her the first woman at the firm to hold a managing partner title.

Emily Burkhardt Vicente co-chairs Hunton Andrews Kurth’s national labor and employment team and diversity and inclusion committee. She was selected as co-chair of the national labor and employment practice of an American Lawyer 100 firm after only eight years as a partner.