Nearly 40 O’Melveny Lawyers Named to Best Lawyers in America® 2019

August 15, 2018

FOR 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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Christopher Rieck
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
+1 212 326 2218
crieck@omm.com