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Dear Reader:
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every facet of society, and the legal field has not remained unscathed.

How the Pandemic has Affected Lawyers
The 2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession is a 140-page compilation of statistics and trends among lawyers, judges and law students, gathered from within the ABA and from courts, the federal government and nonprofits.

Survey Illuminates
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) 2021 CLO Survey, in partnership with Exterro, the exclusive ACC Alliance Partner for E-Discovery, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Compliance, shows the ever-increasing role of Chief Legal Officers as key business partners.

Groundbreaking Study Focuses on
In 2020, the California Lawyers Association and the D.C. Bar announced their participation in the project, which has now yielded the first of several forthcoming papers.

Los Angeles County Bar Association Forms
Earlier this year, the Los Angeles County Bar Association's (LACBA) Board of Trustees announced approval of its new Diversity in the Profession Section.

Latest Legal Management Trends Revealed in New Report
The recently released 2021 Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report from LexisNexis CounselLink reveals some insights into the recent changes that the legal profession has undertaken in the wake of the pandemic, as well as some surprising and unexpected metrics.

Los Angeles County Bar Association’s ‘My LACBA’
If you’re a lawyer in Los Angeles and you want to access more of the benefits of being a Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) member, there’s an app for that! In case you missed it, right before the pandemic hit, LACBA launched its “My LACBA”...

California Consumer
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides consumers with groundbreaking rights over their personal information. Attorney General Rob Bonta reported that upon receiving a notice of alleged violation, 75% of businesses acted to come into compliance within the 30-day statutory cure period.

LACBA and WLALA Call on Law Firms to Commit to Gender Equity
The Call to Action 2021 comes out of the LACBA-WLALA Joint Task Force on the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers and includes measures to promote the advancement of women, institutionalize gender parity, and invest in mentorship, professional development and training.

State Bar Targets Client
The Committee on the Special Discipline Case Audit, established on July 23, will further analyze the audit report on specific closed discipline complaints and propose a comprehensive corrective action plan.

Latest Bar Exam Results Demonstrate Increased Pass Rates
In May, the State Bar released its bar exam results data, announcing that 1,151 people passed the general bar exam, a pass rate demonstrating a 10.4 percentage point increase over last year's test.

State Bar’s Annual Report Provides Snapshot of Legal Landscape
The report also arrived after more than a year of lawyers having to navigate uncharted waters. In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic drove the State Bar to implement significant changes to continue to meet its public protection mission at the same time it advanced important strategic initiatives and critical policy work.

California Lawyers Association
The opinion promises to be a vital resource for any law firm wishing to minimize the risk of conflicts. Several rules of professional conduct expressly provide for implementation of a screen without client consent to rebut the presumption of shared confidences, and CLA’s opinion clarifies and expounds on those rules, including 1.

Revamped Law School Accreditation Rules Approved
At its meeting on May 13, 2021, the State Bar Board of Trustees adopted new accreditation rules for California accredited law schools. The new rules, effective Jan.

State Bar Furthers
“Accountability, transparency, efficiency, and access are the key pillars that support our mission and guide all of our efforts,” said Interim Executive Director Donna Hershkowitz.

California Lawyers Association Promotes Privacy Law Section
Late last year, the California Lawyers Association (CLA) announced the formation of its new Privacy Law Section, which focuses on thought leadership around the legal, regulatory, and business issues involving privacy in the digital age.

Legal Groups Denounce Attacks on the Belarus Legal Profession
The report analyzes 24 cases of retaliatory acts against lawyers who represent defendants in politically sensitive cases or publicly speak about human rights abuses in Belarus following the contested august 2020 presidential election.

Shared Insights From The Event
As part of this year’s inaugural In-House Counsel Leadership Awards, the L.A. Times B2B Publishing team staged a virtual event panel discussion exploring the hot button issues and trends affecting the legal landscape in 2021 as it pertains to in-house counsel and the companies and people they serve.

EDUCATION/NONPROFIT
Professor Paul Belonick serves his community by helping early-stage startups and teaching UCLA and UC Hastings College of Law students through UC Hastings College of Law's Startup Legal Garage program, which was founded in 2010 by Professor Robin Feldman.

SMALL PRIVATE COMPANY
Lynn Whitcher is general counsel of MD7, a mobile infrastructure solutions consultancy serving wireless operators across 19 countries and five continents.

MID-SIZE PRIVATE COMPANY
Dawn Haghighi has masterfully and consistently represented the international city of Los Angeles around the globe over the course of her 20+ year career in both professional and community service capacities. She is a successful general counsel with responsibility at public, multi-national, and private corporations.

Herd Immunity Can Strengthen Cybersecurity
As these cyberattacks demonstrate, for good or bad, all businesses are connected. Cyber risk is not some other person’s problem. It falls to every business to do what it can to fend off cyberattacks. Measures can be taken to protect business operations from cyber criminals.

LARGE PRIVATE COMPANY
It is rare for a Fortune 250 lawdepartment to have in-house counsel prepared to try large cases in court without the use of outside counsel. Brian Cardoza is an exception to this norm.

SMALL PUBLIC COMPANY
Jeff Plumer serves as general counsel of Newport Beach-based Evolus, Inc. Evolus is a performance beauty company with a customer-centric approach focused on delivering breakthrough products.

MID-SIZE PUBLIC COMPANY
Elina Avakian negotiated and closed several important deals for Snap Inc. over the last 24 months, across Snapchat, Bitmoji and Spectacles.

LARGE PUBLIC COMPANY
Aline Taireh is the executive VP&U.S. general counsel of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), one of the world’s preeminent developers and operators of flagship shopping centers and lifestyle destinations, with a portfolio valued at $68.8 billion (as of December 31, 2020).

ENTERPRISE PUBLIC COMPANY
As a Boeing executive, Jennifer Fisher serves as intellectual property (IP) counsel for The Boeing Company’s military and space programs. She selfidentifies as a “rocket scientist confidante” and is an equity champion, both at Boeing and in the community.

Pandemic-Related
There is a dizzying array of issues to keep in-house counsel and their teams up at night. In my conversations with some of the sensational L.A. Times B2B Publishing In-House Counsel Awards finalists and nominees, it was no surprise to learn that was truer than ever over the last 18 months.

Report Outlines
WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTRIBUTING TO A NATIONAL SURGE IN EVICTIONS, THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION HAS TEAMED UP WITH THE HARVARD NEGOTIATION & MEDIATION CLINICAL PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY NATIONWIDE BEST PRACTICES TO DIVERT EVICTION FILINGS AND ENHANCE HOUSING STABILITY.

Heather Antoine
Heather Antoine is a partner and chair of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ Trademark & Brand Protection practice and co-chair of the Privacy & Data Security practice group. Antoine’s practice is focused on protecting a company’s intellectual property.

Douglas A. Axel
Doug Axel was brought up in a family where law was the family business. Axel graduated from UCLA school of engineering, then Hastings Law School. He practiced three years with Munger Toles & Olson. He then was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney (Chief of Major Frauds in L.

Sean A. Andrade
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...

Mike Arias
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.

Anthony Arnold
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...

Matthew Barhoma
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.

Andrée Blais
Andrée Blais, a partner in Nossaman LLP’s nationally recognized infrastructure practice, focuses her practice on the delivery of major public infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships (P3s) and other alternative delivery methods.

Laura W. Brill
Afounding partner of one of Los Angeles’ premier litigation boutiques, Laura W. Brill has been a leader in getting young people voting and engaged in civic life, the lawyer who secured the courtroom win to get an L.A.

Andrew Baum
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.

Anthony Consoli
Anthony Consoli is a managing partner of Massumi + Consoli LLP in Los Angeles, where he represents private funds and other financial institutions, along with their portfolio companies, in structuring and negotiating complex private equity and M&A transactions in the middle market.

Karen Corman
As the leader of Skadden's West Coast Labor practice, Karen Corman advises clients on a vast range of complex labor and employment matters, including litigation and dispute resolution, compliance and issues arising in corporate transactions.

Reuben Camper Cahn
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
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.

Nancy Sher Cohen
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
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.

David deRubertis
During the last few years, David deRubertis has been lead counsel in single-plaintiff employment settlements totaling almost $55 million, with an average settlement of over $2 million for individual employment cases.

Dennis M.P. Ehling
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, intellectual property,...

Robert Darwell
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.

Gabriel Duarte
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.

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

Miles Feldman
Miles Feldman is a founding partner of Raines Feldman LLP. With more than 50 lawyers, Raines Feldman LLP is one of the preeminent business law firms in Los Angeles. Feldman runs the Trials, Litigation and Dispute Resolution department of the firm with more than 20 litigators.

Kerry Garvis Wright
Kerry Garvis Wright applies her tenacity, ingenuity and results-oriented approach to her clients’ legal problems, and she has emerged as her own force in the legal community.

Terrence Franklin
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.

Laura V. Farber
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.

Tanya Forsheit
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
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...

Albert Giang
Few attorneys – and even fewer persons of color or openly queer attorneys – are on speed dial for a broad swath of the tech industry.

Henry H. Gonzalez
Henry H. Gonzalez is a founding partner at Andrade Gonzalez LLP, one of the topminority-owned litigation boutiques in the Los Angeles area. Gonzalez began his legal career focusing his practice on a wide array of commercial litigation, complex and mass torts, and white-collar criminal matters.

Benjamin Gluck
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.

John Hueston
John Hueston has been described by Chambers as “the best lawyer of his generation” with a “commanding reputation for his trial advocacy.” Rated one of the nation’s top trial lawyers, Hueston has been recognized as a “Lawyer of the Decade” (2010-20) and twice as a “California Lawyer of the Year,” including for his recovery of $5.

Steve T. Gubner
Steve Gubner, Brutzkus Gubner’s managing partner, represents financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies (and their financing divisions), closely held businesses and high-net-worth individuals in complex bankruptcy and insolvency matters.

David C. Holtz
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
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
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 Hyman
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.

Lawrence Iser
Larry Iser ismanaging partner of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley. He handles complex litigation matters for the extremely high-profile entertainment industry and other corporate clients. Over the past year, Iser represented a major Southern California theme park company in a number of contentious class action and fraud lawsuits.

Moez Kaba
Moez Kaba has prevailed in trials and arbitrations across the nation, including, most recently, a complete win – on all claims – for a household-name online retailer in a breach of contract and tortious interference suit brought against it by another heavyweight online brand.

Nicky Jatana
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.

Andrei Iancu
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
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
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.

Jennifer Keller
Jennifer Keller is one of America’s most successful trial attorneys. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of high-stakes commercial litigation and white-collar cases.

Richard Kaplan
Criminal defense attorney Richard D. Kaplan manages serious criminal charges that threaten the livelihood and reputations of white-collar clients, including high-networth individuals, entrepreneurs, corporations and their officers and executives.

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

Randall S. Leff
Randy S. 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 “bet the company” business disputes in both state and federal court. His clients value his consistently customized, high-quality legal services with his signature enthusiasm, creativity and passion.

Michael Kump
Michael Kump is a founding partner at Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP and has been at the forefront of numerous high-profile entertainment and intellectual propertymatters over the past year, including his high-profile representation of...

Barry Kurtz
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
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
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.

Sharon R. Klein
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.

Margaret Lodise
In her 30-plus-year career, Margaret Lodise has established an impressive reputation for successfully handling some of the most complex and high-dollar trusts and estates disputes.

Jonathan Littrell
Jonathan Littrell is the managing partner and CEO of Raines Feldman LLP and is one of the youngest managing partners for a midsize firm in California. His practice focuses on corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, securities, private equity and general corporate governance.

Dan L. Longo
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.

Thomas M. Madruga
Thomas Madruga is widely considered to be one of California’s preeminent litigators, with his trial skills having been recognized by state and national peer groups, bar associations, and media outlets.

Peter Massumi
Peter Massumi is a co-founder and managing partner of Massumi + Consoli LLP, a law firm focused on representing private funds and other financial institutions, along with their portfolio companies, in structuring and negotiating complex private equity and M&A transactions in the middle market.

Nina Marino
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 Meyer
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
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 A. McRae
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.

Alissa Miller
Akin Gump entertainment and media partner Alissa Miller is widely recognized as a leader in her field for handling some of the industry’s highest-visibility deals between independent movie production companies and financial institutions and for her innovative media and entertainment-focused pro bono practice.

Yuri Mikulka
Yuri Mikulka is a partner and Alston & Bird’s leader of the Consumer Technology Patent Litigation team. She specializes in representing companies around the world in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret litigation and commercial litigation.

Felicia R. Meyers
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.

Darrell Miller
Founding chair of Fox Rothschild’s national Entertainment & Sports Law Department, Darrell D. Miller has been a trusted advisor behind the growth of many celebrity brands for over two decades. Representing A-listers and rising talents, Miller has earned a reputation for elevating his clients’ careers across multiple platforms.

Mark Mizrahi
Mark Mizrahi’s expertise includes preparing trademark and copyright applications, preparing and negotiating licenses and agreements relating to intellectual property rights, and preparing patent applications.

Ann Marie Mortimer
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.

Abigail "Abby" O'Brient
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.

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

Richard Pachulski
Richard Pachulski is widely regarded as one of the preeminent corporate restructuring attorneys in America. For the past four decades, Pachulski has represented debtors and creditors' committees in both out-of-court workouts and in-court proceedings.

Nathan D. O'Malley
Nathan O’Malley is a partner in Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP’s Los Angeles office where he focuses his practice on advising and representing clients on legal matters related to cross-border business.

Mark E. Powell
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
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.

Megan O'Neill
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,...

Christopher Pisano
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.

Elsa Ramo
Elsa Ramo’s leadershipwithin the legal and entertainment communities extends beyond her successful Beverly Hills firm. She dedicates substantial time to mentoring women through various organizations. Additionally, she is a go-to commentator and instructor on legal issues related to film financing and the entertainment market.

Arjun Rao
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.

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

Reginald Roberts, Jr.
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.

Angela Reddock-Wright
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
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.

Daniel A. Rozansky
As lead attorney for SA&M’s Media and Entertainment Litigation practice, Daniel Rozansky is at the forefront of Hollywood’s most high-stakes disputes. Rozansky has been listed as a top entertainment and media litigator in Chambers USA and in Variety’s annual “Legal Impact Report.

Jason Russell
A Southern California native, Jason Russell is the new head of Skadden's Los Angeles office. He has earned a reputation as a highly skilled litigator with particular experience litigating some of the most high-profile cases in sports and entertainment and consumer products, as well as complex class actions.

Neema Sahni
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.

Christian Scali
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...

Jodie Shihadeh
Aleading entertainment attorney, Jodie Shihadeh recently announced the launch of Shihadeh Law PC, a boutique transactional entertainment law firm that holds offices in New York and Los Angeles. The firm houses an impressive roster of clientele that consists of creators, entertainment companies, and industry executives.

Gerald Sauer
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
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
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
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.

Julia Strickland
As chair of Stroock’s Financial Services Litigation, Regulation and Enforcement Group, a member of Stroock’s national Executive Committee and managing partner of its Los Angeles office, Julia Strickland is often the first attorney called when a...

Margaret Moore Sohagi
Margaret Moore Sohagi’s practice for the last 30 years has focused on assisting cities, counties, and other public agencies navigate the legal complexities of land use, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Jeffrey A. Sklar
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 Sweet
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 Strotz
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
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.

Jeff Zuber
Jeff Zuber is a founder of Zuber Lawler. He focuses on intellectual property along with regulatory and commercial litigation. Zuber frequently handles hotly contested corporate and partnership disputes.

Kevin Yorn
Kevin Yorn is a preeminent entertainment lawyer, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. Through his firm, as well as personal early investments in categorydefining companies and in leading funds and vehicles, he embodies a truemulti-hyphenate.

Mitchell Tsai
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
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
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.