Our reputation for excellence is no secret. Our talent begins with our highly successful law school recruiting program, which includes top graduates of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan, Columbia and other distinguished schools.
Over the years, the firm and its partners have repeatedly been identified as the best of the best.
Most graduated with honors. Over half were law review editors; more than 20 were federal district or circuit court clerks; nine have taught law; and 15 were assistant U.S. attorneys, one was the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles. Some were or are general counsel to corporations.
One of our partners is the only lawyer to appear twice in the last five years on The National Law Journal’s annual list of the 10 Top Trial Lawyers in the U.S. Another of our partners has won in excess of $2 billion in verdicts in his career. Another was the former Dean of the Stanford Law School, who is on anyone’s list of the top appellate advocates in the country. Another partner is recognized in arbitration circles internationally as both an advocate and arbitrator and is on the Executive Committee of the AAA, a Regional Director of the ICC and the co-editor of the leading treatise on international arbitration. Another was selected recently as one of the top lawyers in the U.S. under the age of 45 by The American Lawyer.
The firm has likewise regularly been recognized as being the "best of the best" and on everyone's "top" lists in most all of the major legal publications around the country and in polls of our peers-- The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, Chambers USA: American's Leading Business Lawyers, California Law Business -- just to name a few.