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There are many brilliant lawyers in Los Angeles – masters of their craft that can prepare individuals and businesses for any legal issue that should come up – while expertly writing the documents designed to protect their clients’ assets and livelihoods. But there is a very special breed or attorney that needs to transcend expert comprehension of the legal system – the litigator. Attorneys who go to the proverbial mat to fight for their clients before judges and jury have their own unique sets of skills. In this special section we have gathered some of the very best litigators in the business. These are the lawyers you want in your corner in court. We’ve alphabetically listed this lineup of superb litigation specialists, along with some basic information about their careers, practice and some relevant recent successes they’ve achieved. Congratulations to the attorneys who made this prestigious list.
Letter from the Publisher
Josh Schimmels
Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers
ANGELA AGRUSA – DLA Piper
JOSEPH N. AKROTIRIANAKIS – King & Spalding
SEAN ANDRADE – Andrade Gonzalez LLP
JAMES AZADIAN – Dykema Gossett PLLC
BRAD D. BRIAN – Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
WILLIAM BRIGGS, II – Venable LLP
JOSHUA BRIONES – Mintz
RALPH CAMPILLO – Mintz
SUSAN E. COLEMAN – Burke Williams & Sorensen
MARK T. CRAMER – Buchalter
ROBYN CROWTHER – Steptoe & Johnson LLP
JOHN DARLING – Hunt Ortmann Palffy Nieves Darling & Mah, Inc.
MICHAEL DE VRIES – Kirkland & Ellis LLP
DANIEL DECARLO – Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
DANA DELMAN – Delman Vukmanovic LLP
ERIC P. EARLY – Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP
SCOTT A. EDELMAN – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
MILES J. FELDMAN – Raines Feldman LLP
AMBER S. FINCH – Reed Smith LLP
ADAM FOX – Squire Patton Boggs
DEBORAH J. FOX – Meyers Nave
TERRENCE FRANKLIN – Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise LLP
DAVID GINDLER – Milbank LLP
TOM V. GIRARDI – Girardi Keese
KATE GOLD – Proskauer Rose LLP
JUSTIN M. GOLDSTEIN – Sklar Kirsh LLP
VALERIE GOO – Crowell & Moring LLP
DAVID GRAELER – Nossaman
GABRIEL G. GREEN – Buchalter
DAVID M. HALBREICH – Reed Smith
JOHN D. HANOVER – Alston & Bird
THOMAS HILL – Holland & Knight
JOHN C. HUESTON – Hueston Hennigan LLP
CHAD HUMMEL – Sidley Austin LLP
ROY JIMENEZ – TLD Law
ROLAND M. JUAREZ – Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
MOEZ M. KABA – Hueston Hennigan LLP
MITCH KAMIN – Covington & Burling LLP
ALEXANDRA SLOAN KELLY – Barnes & Thornburg LLP
GREG KNOPP – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
MICHAEL KUMP – Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP
ALLEN L. LANSTRA – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
STEPHEN G. LARSON – Larson O’Brien LLP
SCOTT LEIPZIG – Allen Matkins
MARGARET LODISE – Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise LLP
NEAL MARDER – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
SANFORD MICHELMAN – Michelman & Robinson, LLP
SKIP MILLER – Miller Barondess, LLP
JAMES I. MONTGOMERY JR. – Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt
MARISOL MORK – Squire Patton Boggs
ANN MARIE MORTIMER – Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
DALE ORTMANN – Hunt Ortmann Palffy Nieves Darling & Mah, Inc.
TIMOTHY L. PIERCE- K&L Gates LLP
HILARY POTASHNER – Larson O’Brien LLP
MARVIN PUTNAM – Latham & Watkins LLP
SCOTT E. RAHN – RMO LLP
ARJUN RAO – Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
GEOFFREY S. SHELDON – Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
AMNON SIEGEL- Miller Barondess, LLP
ASHLEY SIMONSEN – Covington & Burling LLP
MATTHEW E. SLOAN – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
ADAM F. STREISAND – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
JULIA B. STRICKLAND – Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
PETER STRIS – Stris & Maher LLP
PETER A. STROTZ – King & Spalding
VIVIAN LEE THOREEN – Holland & Knight
TODD C. TORAL – Jenner & Block
RHONDA TROTTER – Arnold & Porter
BRIAN P. WALTER – Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
PERRIE WEINER – Baker McKenzie
ALEX WEINGARTEN – Venable LLP
BART WILLIAMS – Proskauer Rose LLP
JACK S. YEH – Sidley Austin LLP
STEPHANIE YONEKURA – Hogan Lovells
JAMES J. YUKEVICH – Yukevich | Cavanaugh
