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Nearly 40 O’Melveny Lawyers Named to Best Lawyers in America® 2019
August 15, 2018FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES—August 15, 2018—Thirty-eight O’Melveny lawyers have been named to the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, the nation’s leading survey of lawyers. The annual guide also named O’Melveny partner Michael Yoder a Bet-the-Company Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in Orange County.
Recognition by Best Lawyers is based on peer review, with a methodology designed to capture the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. Individual lawyers with the highest overall peer feedback for a specific area and geographic region are recognized with the title of “Lawyer of the Year” for each specialty and location.
Through partnerships with publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, Best Lawyers reaches more than 17 million readers in city, regional, and national publications across the globe.
The following is a list of all the O’Melveny lawyers recognized in the 2019 guide, along with the year they first appeared on the list.
Century City
Robert Blashek (2006)
Tax Law
Steven Grossman (2006)
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Securities/Capital Markets Law
Christopher C. Murray (1995)
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Daniel M. Petrocelli (2006)
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Stephen Scharf (2010)
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Los Angeles
Seth Aronson (2006)
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
Apalla U. Chopra (2010)
Employment Law - Management
Labor Law - Management
Litigation - Labor and Employment
George C. Demos (2006)
Health Care Law
Richard Goetz (2012)
Insurance Law
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants
Evan M. Jones (2006)
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Ben H. Logan III (1995)
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Litigation - Bankruptcy
Martin J. (“Kelly”) McTigue (2008)
Environmental Law
Litigation - Environmental
Luc Moritz (2015)
Tax Law
Mark A. Samuels (2007)
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Litigation - Patent
Patent Law
Robert Siegel (2013)
Employment Law - Management
Steve Warren (2006)
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Mark Wood (2009)
Insurance Law
Menlo Park
Warren T. Lazarow (2012)
Venture Capital Law
Heather J. Meeker (2008)
Copyright Law
Information Technology Law
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Litigation - Patent
Scott W. Pink (2007)
Information Technology Law
New York
Bradley J. Butwin (2013)
Commercial Litigation
Howard E. Heiss (2010)
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
John J. Rapisardi (2007)
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Litigation - Bankruptcy
Eric B. Rothenberg (2008)
Environmental Law
Newport Beach
Jay Herron (2011)
Corporate Law
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Wayne Jacobsen (2001)
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
David A. Krinsky (2007)
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Michael Yoder (2006)
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
San Francisco
Daniel Bookin (1995)
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Martin S. Checov (2006)
Insurance Law
Darin Snyder (2014)
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Patent Law
Michael Tubach (2013)
Antitrust Law
Litigation - Antitrust
Suzzanne Uhland (2006)
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Washington, DC
Walter Dellinger III (2006)
Appellate Practice
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Peter Friedman (2014)
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Litigation - Bankruptcy
Jonathan Hacker (2010)
Appellate Practice
Ian Simmons (2010)
Litigation - Antitrust
Henry C. Thumann (1989)
Commercial Litigation
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Luc Moritz
Mark Samuels
Robert Siegel
Steve Warren
Warren T. Lazarow
Scott W. Pink
Bradley J. Butwin
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John J. Rapisardi
Eric Rothenberg
Wayne Jacobsen
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Martin S. Checov
Darin Snyder
Michael Tubach
Peter Friedman
Jonathan Hacker
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