Los Angeles magazine - February 2022

ARE YOU SAFE ?

Barbed wire at the Grove. Home invasions in Hollywood. Smash mobs at CVS. Are we being paranoid, or is the city really falling apart?

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PETER KIEFER

THE DEAT H OF DRAK EO An eyewitness account of the rap legend’s murder

BY JEFF WEISS

THE MOS T DAN GER OUS NEIG HBO RHO ODS IN L.A.

GOO D COP, BAD COP The battle between the DA and the sheriff

BY JASON MCGAHAN

PLUS: An LAPD deep dive and the city’s most stolen cars

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REMEMBERING DRAKEO

The short life and brutal death of a rap icon.

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The Doctor Is In

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The Death of Drakeo

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Turn of the Century

David Agus is the world’s most connected M.D.— doctor to the late Steve Jobs, pal to Elon Musk, counselor to Biden. He built a massive oncology complex for Cedars-Sinai, but can he change the course of cancer treatment in the U.S.?

The 28-year-old rapper survived a malicious prosecution to become one of the most dazzling young stars of L.A.’s hip-hop scene. In December, he was stabbed to death by a mob just as he was about to go onstage. Our writer was there.

For decades, the Century Plaza Hotel was where the famous celebrated: presidents, astronauts, and movie stars. But time had its way with the hotel, and it was nearly torn down. Now, after a $2.5 billion renovation, it’s back.

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The Crime Report How Bad Is Crime in L.A.?

» With shootings up by double digits, the city is running scared. The stats tell only half the story.

BY PETER KIEFER PAGE 59

Countermeasures

» Panicked residents in upscale zip codes are circling their G-Wagens.

BY STEVE APPLEFORD PAGE 63

The Year of Living Dangerously

» Car theft, robbery, burglary, homocide: we map where they’re up— and down—across L.A.

BY JON REGARDIE AND GABRIEL KAHN PAGE 64

Good Cop, Bad Cop

» What could mortal enemies Alex Villanueva and George Gascón possibly have in common?

How about everything (and nothing).

BY JASON MCGAHAN PAGE 67

Behind the Badge

» A revealing snapshot of the LAPD.

BY JON REGARDIE PAGE 71

Car Trouble

» Vehicle thefts are surging in Los Angeles. Blame old models and key fobs.

Time to hide your Hondas!

BY JON REGARDIE PAGE 72

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Buzz Trade War

» Who the hell is Tatiana Siegel? How a clumsy attempt to poach a scoopserving scribe sparked a nasty civil war in the incestuous world of Hollywood media.

BY AARON GELL PAGE 13

The Brief

» Michael Avenatti says Trump sent him to El Chapo’s hellhole; LVMH’s new Hotel California; Robert Downey Jr., like Iron Man, attempts to save the world.

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Ladies Who Launch

» Fed up with everyone sharing their supposedly perfect lives online, three friends got real—and really raunchy—and started the LadyGang podcast.

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L.A. chocolatiers are crafting Valentine’s Day treats that transcend the holiday’s clichés.

» How did West Hollywood become the gayest city on earth? Is it true that only half of the Huntington Gardens are open to the public?

Was Glendale really a “sundown town”?

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S O ON A F T E R this publication started up in the 1960s, it went on to attract a dazzling range of talent—not just local authors and photographers, but artists from around the country: John Updike, Herb Ritts, Ray Bradbury, Carolyn See. But there was one early contributor to the magazine, a young, just-getting-started writer with permanently arched eyebrows and a piercing gaze, who would later come to define the West Coast journalistic sensibility.

Joan Didion was a cerebral, iconoclastic, and almost supernaturally observant chronicler of American culture and politics. When she died on Dec. 23, at 87, the country lost one of its great literary pillars.

Sadly, Didion wasn’t the only larger-thanlife L.A. icon to pass away that month. Eve Babitz died 12 days earlier, at age 78. Though she was also a writer and journalist, Babitz was Didion’s polar opposite. Didion was cool and aloof, a Westside brainiac who penned erudite polemics and hit screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Babitz was a bawdy bohemian, an L.A. It Girl who traveled with the rock ’n’ roll carnival that once clogged the clubs on Sunset Strip. Didion’s writing, in books like Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, was sharp, precise, and teeming with intelligence. Babitz’s work, 10 L A M A G . C O M

“Not long ago, writers and artists saw it as a professional obligation to stir up trouble.”

in highly autobiographical books like Eve’s Hollywood, L.A. Woman, and Slow Days, Fast Company was wild and chaotic—unabashedly decadent and brimming with passion.

But the two women did share a few things in common. They were both raised in California, and while they were never exactly friends, they occasionally crossed paths and knew some of the same people. (Notably, Didion employed Harrison Ford as a gardener before he became an actor. Babitz bedded him after he became a star.)

One defining trait they certainly shared was complete fearlessness. Didion took down Woody Allen decades before it was popular, and she had the cojones to attack the Reagans, California’s first couple, even though they lived just a few blocks away.

Babitz was a different kind of brave. She was a literary exhibitionist who didn’t think twice about posing naked while playing chess with French artist Marcel Duchamp for the photographer Julian Wasser, who also shot the Didion photo you see here. His racy Babitz image became so iconic, it was made into a poster for the Museum of Modern Art. I’ve been thinking a lot about fear (and fearlesness) this month, and not just because we’ve been working on an issue about the crime wave—if that’s indeed what it is—that has sent much of the city into a panic. COVID hasn’t helped, of course, leaving millions of people too terrified to get a vaccine, or too frightened to leave their house.

But it’s one thing for politicians and civilians to play it safe—journalists are a different matter. Not long ago, writers and artists saw it as their professional obligation to stir up trouble. In 2022, though, many avoid producing anything that could cause the slightest offense, lest they arouse the prim Twitter scolds who swarm over every slight, real or imagined. So it’s probably a good time to remember a pair of inimitable scribblers who didn’t give a damn who they triggered with their words. On the contrary, they delighted in poking at the pompous and the powerful, which seems like a noble pursuit for any journalist. So I’m dedicating this issue to two of L.A.’s greatest literary heroes, Didion and Babitz. Long may they offend.

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Trade War WHO THE HELL IS TATIANA SIEGEL? HOW A CLUMSY ATTEMPT TO POACH A SCOOP-SERVING SCRIBE SPARKED A NASTY CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE TOP PLAYERS IN HOLLYWOOD MEDIA

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T ’ S T H E season’s most captivating melodrama— an incestuous and keenly observed love triangle with two ill-matched suitors wooing a scrappy up-and-comer. Where’s Nora Ephron when we need her?

On one side, you’ve got Jay Penske— automotive scion; prep-school lacrosse legend; rich, handsome, polished. A hardcharging mogul whose expanding stable of titles at the Penske Media Corporation includes Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Rolling Stone, and Billboard, as well as IndieWire, GoldDerby, and TVLine. Think James Spader, but less oily.

And on the other? Rumpled journo Richard Rushfield—irascible, curmudgeonly, but shrewd. A Peter Falk type, who parlayed a possibly unhealthy obsession with American Idol into a series of gigs editing entertainment coverage for Gawker, Buzzfeed, and Yahoo! News, P OW E R C O U P L E Janice Min, former editor of Us Weekly and the Hollywood Reporter, has joined forces with Richard then launched the Ankler, a sardonic Rushfield, editorial director of arguably the most influential Substack newsletter in the industry. newsletter for studio insiders.

Caught in between them is, yes, a Newsletters like Ankler and Puck (home to a well-read induswoman. It wouldn’t be fitting to call her the love interest, try column by former Min protégé Matt Belloni), along with since it wasn’t her affections these suitors were vying for, but Insider’s new Hollywood service and a smattering of others, her scoops. Tatiana Siegel (Sandy Bullock? Connie Britton?) have opened a whole new front in the war for eyeballs in is a longtime investigative reporter, known for a series of Hollywood: the email in-box. town-shaking takedowns—Scott Rudin, Kevin Tsujihara—in To the casual observer, all this may seem a bit mystifying. the Hollywood Reporter, where she served most recently as After all, in a world where even Steven Spielberg can’t open a executive film editor. movie, why would anyone care?

It all came to a head on December 14, when the New York One answer, as always, is money. Even as ratings for Times reported that Rushfield had teamed up with editorial awards shows continue to tumble, the market for For Your golden girl Janice Min (Awkwafina meets Laura Linney) to Consideration ads is as strong as ever. expand the Ankler into a much bigger and more ambitious “No one under the age of 35 cares about Hollywood media contender. Guess who wealthy people giving themselves a pat on their first hire was. Or so they believed, the back,” one top studio executive says. until Penske claimed otherwise.

“Those day are over.”

But before we delve any deeper into the “In a world where But that hasn’t stopped industry newSiegel saga, some background might be even Spielberg comers Netflix, Apple, and Amazon from useful because the squabble isn’t merely can’t open a dropping hundreds of millions every year about a single Hollywood journalist (who movie, why would to boost their contenders—especially in actually lives in Rhode Island)—it’s an the ever-popular special issues. “If you’re epic struggle for control of the twentyanyone care?” not in them, it’s like, ‘How come every first-century entertainment-media-indusother movie was there except mine?’ ” says trial complex. another veteran executive. “The trades For most of the twentieth century, play on those insecurities.”

Variety was viewed as the paper of record—the only news Industry insecurity may also help explain why upstarts source anyone in town really cared about. That began to like the Ankler and Puck have been able to find an audience change as the internet brought a slew of blogs—Harry (even at the Ankler’s $17-a-month subscription price). Those Knowles’s Ain’t It Cool News, Nikki Finke’s Deadline, Sharon boffo Spider-Man numbers notwithstanding, Hollywood is Waxman’s the Wrap—onto the stage. Then, in 2010, Min, in crisis. Between an attenuated pandemic that may hasten former editor of Us Weekly, swooped in and gave THR a the end of theatrical moviegoing and the implacable rise of much needed glow up, turning the sleepy daily into a glossy the streamers, nobody knows what’s ahead. They just know must-read weekly. And now, in the early days of the 2020s, it won’t be pretty. a new species of Hollywood media has arrived on the scene.

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But back to Siegel. News of her defection from THR left Penske “livid,” an insider says. And why wouldn’t he be? You don’t spend a decade stitching together a bona fide media monopoly to just wave adios as one of your prize thoroughbreds trots off to not-especially-greener pastures.

What followed was an unseemly tugof-war, beginning on December 15, when the THR staff assembled on videoconference for a previously scheduled town hall meeting. After cheery presentations from the editorial and business sides, Penske beamed in from his ninth-floor office to smoothly address the elephant in the Zoom. Tatiana Siegel was indeed taking a new position. Only—plot twist—it wasn’t at the Ankler but at PMC’s own Rolling Stone.

This is the scene in the movie where Siegel looks down to discover that her ankles have been shackled to her office chair and we cut to a grinning Penske dangling a little key: Sources say her contract included a sixmonth noncompete. Though such clauses are rarely enforced in California, Siegel couldn’t have afforded a lengthy court battle with a man with seemingly bottomless pockets. (A Penske spokesperson denies the company ever threatened legal action.)

The following afternoon, on December 16, Rushfield and Min received an email. A reporter at Penske-owned Variety was writing about Siegel going to Penske-owned Rolling Stone, and would they like to comment? Less than an hour later, as the new team scrambled to formulate a response, the piece went live: “Janice Min Loses First Hire at Ankler Newsletter to Rolling Stone (EXCLUSIVE).” As if that dunking parenthetical weren’t sign enough that this round would be fought bare-knuckled, the story highlighted THR’s “big financial losses” during Min’s editorship and concluded by noting her brief association with Quibi (groin shot).

What Variety reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister didn’t include, curiously, was a comment from Siegel or Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman, nor any indication that she’d even sought one. The Ankler team smelled a rat.

“Publishing this incendiary piece claiming [Siegel] wasn’t coming to us might be part of their negotiation strategy,” Rushfield told Los Angeles, “but it’s not journalism.” (A PMC spokesperson replied, “To suggest that the story in Variety is anything but factual or accurate reporting on a Rolling Stone personnel matter is another example of desperation by the newsletter.”)

The next move was Min’s, via Twitter: “This is insanity,” she wrote, declaring the story “false,” and adding, “What say you, @noahshactman?”

But both the Rolling Stone editor and his supposed new hire didn’t utter a word for six suspenseful days, until Wagmeister’s Variety story was updated with words of mutual admiration from the two of them. Then Siegel tweeted, Solomon-like, that she was “joining Rolling Stone as a senior writer AND The Ankler as an editor at large.”

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From top left: Rolling Stone editor Noah Shachtman; Jay Penske with his wife, Elaine Irwin, at a 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar party; Tatiana Siegel moderates Close-Up With The Hollywood Reporter LIVE at Sundance in 2016.

So, officially, Siegel now holds two titles and has multiple overlords—Penske and Shachtman over at PMC and Rushfield and Min at the Ankler. What that means exactly is still an open question.

“She’ll be writing for both of us,” Rushfield declares. “No one will be putting a meter on her time.”

Or will they? “Rolling Stone is thrilled to have Tatiana join their team as a full-time senior writer and reporter,” PMC insists, noting that her role at the Ankler is limited to a podcast.

So yeah, awkward.

Siegel declined to comment for this story, so we’re left to speculate on one key point. Why would she have even considered ditching a steady gig—thereby nuking her relationship with the most powerful publisher in Hollywood—to take a flyer with an iffy new venture? It can’t have been money.

Although there’s a ton of awards-season cash sloshing around these days, Ankler Media is very much a shoestring operation.

It received $125,000 from startup accelerator Y Combinator, along with an advance on earnings as part of the Substack Pro program. But that’s not enough to make anybody rich, at least not yet.

Instead, sources at THR believe Siegel was motivated by a tense relationship with Reporter stablemate Kim Masters, a legendary journalistic giant killer with more pelts on her wall than Don Jr. The relationship grew especially frosty, sources say, due to differing takes on actor Ray Fisher’s battle with Joss Whedon and Warner Bros. (Neither reporter would discuss the matter on the record.)

Whatever the reason Siegel “ankled” her gig at THR, she’s certainly got the town’s attention. And who knows? Maybe her instincts were right, and the age of the in-box really is at hand.

“The truth is, everyone’s looking for answers,” a top studio executive says. “I think of it like, if you want to know if you have cancer, you can look at the trades. But if you want to know why you have cancer, you might look at the Ankler.”

Either way, the prognosis is poor. “There’s a reason that people slow down when there’s an accident on the 405,” the executive adds. “They’re looking to see if there’s any blood.”

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Daniels and Avenatti in 2019, shortly before his arrest in the Nike case.

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a high-security cell once occupied by El Chapo, one Avenatti—the floor above Jeffrey Epstein’s California attorney who briefly final accommodations. became a media star and Avenatti claims that Democratic presidential William Barr, Donald hopeful in 2018 when he Trump’s eager-to-please represented adult-film star attorney general, personally sent him Stormy Daniels in there. In an lawsuits against exclusive stateDonald Trump—is ment to Los currently under Angeles, Avenatti house arrest in said: “10 South a friend’s twoconsists of six bedroom Venice cells designed Beach apartment to hold the most as he awaits the dangerous indistart of his twoviduals on the and-a-half year planet and is prison sentence widely considon federal fraud HARD TIME ered worse than convictions. But The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Guantánamo where he’s going Barr, and Trump.

Bay. You can’t isn’t likely to be even be placed there as bad as where he’s been: absent an order from the solitary confinement in attorney general. Trump the darkest recesses of and Barr targeted me and Manhattan’s Metropolitan did everything in their Correctional Center, power to break me.” where he spent 74 days in MICHAEL

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The 10 South block is the “secure housing unit” primarily reserved for criminals under “special administrative measures,” or SAMs, to prevent witness intimidation, or in cases involving national security threats.

SAM detainees are given severely limited contact with the outside world, but Avenatti’s lawyers believe that the Federal Bureau of Prisons never even placed him on special administrative measures—Avenatti’s 10 South neighbors included three suspected terrorists and a CIA officer accused of treason.

Andrew Dalack, one of Avenatti’s public defenders, who has represented several 10 South clients, told Politico, “I’m not personally familiar with any case in which a person was put on 10 South for a substantial period of time without SAMs or a high-risk security concern related to their communication.”

Soon after his arrival, Avenatti says, he asked the guards if he could have a book. They gave him a copy of Trump’s The Art of the Deal. According to Avenatti, a senior corrections official took him aside on his return from court and said, “You know why you’re here, right?”

The officer informed Avenatti that he was there at the direction of Barr, and that he should have his lawyers “look into it.”

At Avenatti’s sentencing in the Nike extortion case, Judge Paul G. Gardephe cited the “horrific conditions”

in 10 South as a reason for imposing a sentence of just 30 months. “It’s hard to believe they could occur in the United States of America,” Gardephe said.

Marti Licon-Vitale, the MCC warden at the time, claims that Avenatti was placed in 10 South out of “serious concerns” for his safety in the general population. Bureau of Prisons rep Donald Murphy says that inmates are held outside general population “as necessary” for safety reasons, but adds, “I don’t know of anyone else who went from a potential presidential candidate to El Chapo’s cell—I don’t quite see how it all comes together yet.”

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The Hotel Cheval Blanc Beverly Hills will take three years to build and occupy the entire south side of Little Santa Monica

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LVMH, which controls a royal flush of brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany, purchased the former Brooks Brothers store at 468 N. Rodeo in 2018 for a reported $245 million and the Beverly Drive lot of the former Paley Center, which closed in 2020, for $80 million.

Designed by New York starchitect Peter Marino, the completed hotel will carry a price tag north of a halfbillion dollars and have 115 rooms, restaurants, a private club, and multiple swimming pools, including one in the penthouse suite.

Marino, a preemient architect of luxury retail spaces, has thrown some shade at the state of our town’s hotel design: “[The aesthetics] of all hotels in L.A.,” he sniffed, “are just a little tired.”

The hotel’s owners say they will spurn profitable Hollywood ballroom events in favor of exclusivity. Whether that’s enough to keep the Cheval Blanc from becoming another Beverly Hills élephant blanc remains to be seen.

—MERLE GINSBERG

H O T E L D U C A P I TA L I S T

LVMH’s $500 million Cheval Blanc Beverly HIlls could tip the power balance among 90210’s high-end hotels.

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DECREASE IN VALUE OF A CAR DRIVEN FOR A RIDESHARING SERVICE, ACCORDING TO CONSUMER REPORTS. “USING A VEHICLE FOR RIDESHARING, EVEN ONCE, CAN TAKE THOUSANDS OFF A TRADE-IN IF THE V.I.N. TURNS UP AS AN UBER,” WARNS AUTOWEEK.

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CELEB ENGAGEMENT RINGS ARE JUST LIKE OURS, IF WAY MORE GOOGLED. HERE, THE MOST SEARCHED-FOR STONES

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Robert Downey Jr.

THE SMART MONEY IS ON IRON MAN A S K A N Y scientist what

they hate most about the job, and they’ll likely mention writing grant proposals. It’s a tedious process that’s oftentimes overly politicized.

Robert Downey Jr. and his Venice-based nonprofit are hoping to remedy that. Downey’s recently launched FootPrint Coalition Science Engine aims to fast-track seed funding that would support scientists who—like Iron Man, only IRL—are trying to save the world.

It works like this: scientists fill out an application extolling their planet-restoration idea on a platform called Experiment, which has built-in crowdfunding mechanisms. Ideas are then vetted by advisers, and initial funds are granted (the money is provided by FootPrint and matched by other nonprofits).

“Scientists are capable of making the rapid progress the planet needs—we saw it globally during the pandemic,” Downey says.

“This is about removing red tape and creating support systems for them.”

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Fiancé Sam Asghari had “LIONESS”—his pet name for Spears—engraved on the band of her fourcarat sparkler.

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Blake Shelton proposed with a classic solitaire in classy counterpoint to ex Gavin Rossdale’s diamond-flecked band.

3

Markle swapped out Harry’s self-designed ring using his mother’s diamonds for this pavébanded upgrade.

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Unlike her acting career, Lively’s marriage endures. Good thing: the pink diamond from Ryan Reynolds cost $2 million.

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The Grammy winner snagged this diamondand-pearl beauty from dancer-turned-realtor Dalton Gomez.

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Lovato broke her engagement to soap star Max Ehrich after just two months and returned this $1 million ring.

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On Johansson’s third trip down the aisle, she rocked an 11-carat, champagne rock from SNL’s Colin Jost.

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When Jay-Z put a ring on it back in ’08, the Lorraine Schwartz ice weighed in at a hefty 24 carats and $5 million.

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Unlike her Emily in Paris character, Collins spurns bling with a demure rose-cut diamond from fiancé Charlie McDowell.

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Prince Rainier bought this 10.48-carat Cartier to replace the fake diamond ring Kelly was supposed to wear in High Society.

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Ladies Who Launch FED UP WITH EVERYONE SHARING THEIR SUPPOSEDLY PERFECT LIVES ONLINE, THREE FRIENDS GOT REAL—AND REALLY RAUNCHY—AND STARTED THE LADYGANG PODCAST

BY SARAH HORNE GROSE

C

U E U P A N episode of the LadyGang

soon morphed into something more raw, silly, and off the podcast—which just marked its 500th cuff. Listeners seemed to really connect with the women’s episode and 100 million downloads sometimes absurd confessional outtakes. and counting—and it’s as if you’ve been In 2020, Tobin, Vanek, and Knight published their thrown into a word blender on high speed. book, Act Like a Lady: Questionable Advice, Ridiculous Together, actress Becca Tobin; fashion Opinions, and Humiliating Tales from Three Undignified and branding entrepreneur Jac Vanek; and entertainment Women. With meditations on how “what doesn’t kill you journalist Keltie Knight are happily, messily, well . . . A makes you weird at parties” as well as needlepoint-ready LOT. Knight, 38, an Entertainment Tonight host, recently adages like “You’re worthy of a big love. Don’t get dicknorenewed her vows to Roc Nation general manager Chris tized,” it became a New York Times best-seller. The ladies Knight. Tobin, 35, who stars in Disney+’s Turner & Hooch say that their mission is one of empowerment: to help remake, is married to entrepreneur Zach Martin. Vanek, women lead more authentic lives and to make each other 34, who made her name in slogan-driven loungewear and feel less alone by fessing up to their own foibles. Show jewelry, is newly engaged to the Maine’s lead guitarist Jared guests like Whitney Cummings and Chelsea Handler Monaco. Knight and Vanek are SoCal-based, while Tobin delve into their own struggles with mental health and has made the move to Austin, Texas.

L.A. artifice.

They are all more celebrity-adjacent There is now a burgeoning LadyGang than they are household names, and Facebook community with over 32,000 “ Every woman is their unapologetic push to crest the members, a plan for a 2022 crosswave to full-blown fame marks part country tour with live meetups, plus, waiting to express of the podcast’s appeal. While some of naturally, merch. If Gwyneth Paltrow’s herself in the their filter-happy peers might flock to Goop sells the heights of enlightened way that men have the Sunset Tower, Vanek, Tobin, and wellness to her poreless, crystal-clutchKnight profess their love for Chili’s, ing acolytes, the LadyGang is all about for centuries.” “hidden bacon” notwithstanding. undercutting the idea that perfection —Becca Tobin They take detours to riff on the lessis attainable and embraces tongue-inthan-ladylike and fess up to “stumbling cheek accessibility, more Kathie Lee through womanhood,” as Vanek puts it. and Hoda than Diane Sawyer. On their And although they are each impossibly toned, tanned, and site, they sell a notebook with a title that reads: “People I blond enough to embody a certain aspirational Hollywood Hate, Things I Regret, and Other Things I’d like to Forget,” ideal, they’re not above delving deep into their most honfor $12, and they push seasonal fashion lines geared to est thoughts on, say, Harry Styles’s sex appeal (into him) girls nights in. or pooping in box-store bathrooms (bleak and soul-crushWhile many women project a put-together, ultrasociaing). Eat your heart out, Ezra Klein. ble image out in the world, the reality is that “we’re all in The idea for the venture came about in 2015, when Tobin our three-week-old hoodie covered in ketchup stains, you and Knight, who had met years earlier as performers in know, crying in the bathroom,” says Knight.

New York (Knight was a Rockette; Tobin spent a spell in the She believes the podcast is ultimately so popular Broadway cast of Rock of Ages), linked up to commiserate because the hosts are frank about their struggles, even over their most recent career travails. They decided the if, she says, “we don’t have enough time in the day to only thing to do was to create their own platform, leaning say how many times I’ve regretted saying something on on Vanek for her branding expertise. the podcast.”

“There was this moment where we saw everything on If it gets a little crude, that’s part of the charm. Tobin, social media as just this curated, most perfect version of who was raised in Marietta, Georgia, adds, “When I was everyone’s life,” says Tobin, who starred as Kitty on Fox’s growing up, the message was ‘Be perfect, be polite, be Glee and who frequently delves into the nitty-gritty of trying beautiful.’ There is still a little girl in my head that will to get the next big part. With only a rough road map, they say, ‘This isn’t appropriate for the dinner table,’ but I think began to interview celeb friends who were on the make, that lack of a filter is liberating. Every woman is waiting dishing on pop culture matters of the day. But when Tobin to express herself in the way that men have for centuries. recounted that she left her used underwear out for her When you go there, people almost feel silly not going then-boyfriend to find as an act of foreplay, the endeavor there themselves.”

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From left: Becca Tobin, Keltie Knight, and Jac Vanek saw downloads of their LadyGang podcast increase 30 percent at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Carrie’s iconic crib on NYC’s Perry Street bumped prices in the hood a Mr. Big-sized $3.4 million.

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Rumors swirled last summer about the identity of the billionaire who dropped a cool $83 million on a 20,000-square-foot Pacific Palisades megamansion. The Vegas money, according to Dirt, was on a filthy-rich “mystery crypto” Bitcoin investor. Turns out the real buyer was indeed a billionaire, just a lot less crypto.

Austin Russell, the 26-year-old founder of autonomous-car startup Luminar, bought the house after the company went public and he cashiered $220 million in stock, Dirt reported. Case closed.

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We Got Game THE NFL CHAMPIONSHIP PROMISES TO DROP A WINDFALL WORTH HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS ON L.A. HERE ARE THE BIG WINNERS OFF THE FIELD

BY REBEKAH BRANDES

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O R T H E first time in

29 years, Los Angeles will host the Super Bowl. And some of the trickle-down economics associated with the game, which kicks off February 13 at the new $5 billion SoFi stadium in Inglewood, are predictably hyperbolic.

Barring a pandemic lockdown or a shift in venue to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (under consideration by the NFL if conditions in L.A. deteriorate), economists predict the game will generate around $477 million for Los Angeles County in tax revenue, hotel rooms, day spending, and other activities, while creating between 2,000 and 5,000 jobs across the region.

But it won’t all be good clean fun.

The American Gaming Association predicts that more than 23 million

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GRID IRONY

Snagging the Super Bowl enriches everybody from Pink’s to Puck.

Americans will place at least $4.3 billion in legal and illegal bets on the game this year and imbibe more than $2 billion worth of alcohol. A fiveyear study of Los Angeles highway data showed a 57 percent increase in alcohol-related car accidents on Super Bowl Sundays compared with a typical Sunday; analysts say a host city should expect an even steeper increase. Unsurprisingly, men between the ages of 21 and 34—the NFL’s majority demographic—are the most likely to drive drunk that night.

Super Bowls are breathlessly portrayed in the media as massive human-trafficking events, with as many as 100,000 prostitutes descending on the host city’s hotel bars each year. But many studies dispute that. Blair Hopkins of the Sex Worker Outreach Project insists the reverse is actually the case, because stepped-up police scrutiny during the weekend deters pros. “Anyone who is in the [sex] industry is going to take their work elsewhere,” Hopkins says.

And not many johns could afford to shell out for sex after scoring a ticket to this year’s game. Tickets purchased through On Location, the NFL’s official hospitality provider, range from $5,950 for seats in the nosebleeds to $17,940 on the sidelines. A $55,520 seat in the primo Section 110, closest to the field, yields free drinks and mingling on the field postgame with the winners.

Carrying no official price—in the if-you-have-to-ask-you-can’t-affordit tradition—is a postgame party catered by Wolfgang Puck, special

events featuring NFL Hall of Famers and Super Bowl champions Troy Aikman and Steve Atwater, and a seat at the NFL Honors Ceremony to watch the crowning of the 2021 MVP. For an egalitarian $249 ($1,100 VIP), Shaquille O’Neal’s Shaq’s Fun House party at the Shrine Auditorium on Super Bowl Friday offers Lil Wayne, Zedd, and Diplo, as well as comfort-food from Roscoe’s, Pink’s, and Diddy Riese. All of which is a far cry from the first-ever Super Bowl, held at L.A. Memorial Coliseum in 1967, when you could snag a decent seat for around $12.

Los Angeles–based NBCUniversal, which is airing this year’s game, announced before the season even started that it had nearly sold out its TV-commercial slots, with some 30-seccond spots going for $6.5 million and more. The estimated 106 million television viewers will have Jay-Z and his Roc Nation enterprise to thank for assembling a halftime show laden with West Coast rap legends Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar, as well as Mary J. Blige and Eminem.

Finally, no Super Bowl would be complete without tailgating, but while the Rams allow the tradition, the Super Bowl does not. For fans who just can’t cope without a watery Sea Breeze served from the back of a Land Rover, Tailgater Concierge will operate in the SoFi parking lot on game day, where, for $450, you can lounge outside on leather couches, drink cocktails, and eat as much as you can stand.

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Bryan Cranston stars in Power of Sail at Geffen Playhouse.

The play deals with woke culture. What are some lessons from the turmoil of the past few years? > We certainly don’t respect or understand other cultures as well as we thought.

Are you in favor of curtailing free speech? > [Yes.] That’s why they created amendments—to adapt the Constitution.

A point of prejudice or superiority of one group over another is cause enough to ban that group from having a platform to speak from.

Woke Show

IN A NEW PLAY, BRYAN CRANSTON IS AN AGING PROFESSOR WHO’S ALSO A FREE-SPEECH ABSOLUTIST. IN REAL LIFE, HIS MILLENNIAL DAUGHTER IS SCHOOLING HIM IN THE WAYS OF WOKEDOM

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M M Y A N D T O N Y Award–winning actor

Bryan Cranston doesn’t need to do theater, but when the material affords him a flawed character in a morally murky milieu, you can count him in.

Playwright Paul Grellong’s timely Power of Sail definitely fits the bill.

In it, Cranston plays a Harvard professor who invites a white nationalist to campus, supposedly in the name of free speech, but also to give his career a boost. Naturally, a firestorm ignites. The play will have its West Coast premiere at Geffen Playhouse on February 8 and run through March 13.

Costarring Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy), the show feels ripped from the headlines, addressing not only freespeech issues, but cancel culture, media culpability, and the fraying fabric of our society. Here, the 65-year-old Cranston talks about turbulent times and what role an aging white man can play in healing societal differences.

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Some writers are selfcensoring as a result of cancel culture for fear of compromising their career over a misplaced sentiment. What do you think of that? > With intellectual growth, like physical growth, you have growing pains. And we’re going through growing pains right now. What I hope society will do is accept true contrition when someone stumbles and says, “Oh, I didn’t mean that. I messed up.”

You considered joining the police when you were young. What do you think of the “defund the police” movement? > It has a tendency to imply you want to do without police—that’s not what it is.

It’s funding different aspects of policing. Domestic disturbance, suicide attempts . . . we should have trained social services to go with the police.

The police in a domestic dispute should be there just in case—otherwise, sit back.

Suicide attempt? Sit back, let a professional handle it. It’s a semi-military organization,

the police department, and it needs to be infused with a social-minded approach that embraces equity and tolerance and understanding Your daughter, actor Taylor Dearden, is 28 years old. Does she school you in wokeism? > She teaches me. She’s very involved in social justice and corrects me in my ways and my nomenclature—the words I’m using, how I use them. It’s sometimes awkward. But I’m starting to be more aware of it.

What do you think of woke millennials like the ones who demonize your character in the play? > I think they’re by and large more sophisticated and smarter, and they’re on target.

“With intellectual growth, like physical growth, you have growing pains.”

Our generation likes to say, ‘In my day . . . !’ It’s not your day anymore, old timer. It truly is time for the old white man to step aside and allow the younger generation and people of color to get something that’s way overdue.

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O N S I D E R T H I S A dispatch from alternate

histories of the Academy Awards. One is history as it actually happened. The other is history as it has unfolded in the Kingdom of Ericksonia, where His Wisest and Most Exalted Majesty (me) decrees the Oscars rather than leaving them to the philistines of the Motion Picture Academy.

See if you can guess which history is which. In one, classics like Vertigo, Some Like It Hot, and 2001: A Space Odyssey all won Best Picture. In the other, these movies weren’t even nominated, and Kevin Costner has won more Best Director Oscars than Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa, Howard Hawks, David Lynch, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino combined. That said, consider as well a recent convergence of these histories: The dirty little unhip secret of those of us who love mocking the Oscars is that they’ve gotten better, honoring movies like Nomadland, Parasite, Moonlight, and Birdman that, a couple of decades ago, wouldn’t have even been in the running.

So with grudging obeisance paid to the academy and its voting membership, here are the top categories along with this year’s Real World Predictions and Royal Choices alike:

> SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL AND ADAPTED: There

may be great movies somewhere sometime that didn’t have great scripts, but is it worth our time trying to think of one? These are the categories the academy most often gets wrong, a lamentable pattern of error it could easily correct

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C R I T I C ’S C H O I C E

Clockwise from top: Lada Gaga in House of Gucci for Best Actress; Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog for Best Actor; and for Best Screenplay, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe’s Drive My Car.

by giving me a call. Likely real-world winners are, respectively, Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza and Jane Campion for Power of the Dog, if for no other reason than that it gives Hollywood a chance to honor two of our best living filmmakers. But I’ll even rent a tux for the chance to bestow Oscars on Adam McKay for the love-it-or-hate-it Don’t Look Up, about the cosmic hazards of living in denial, and the team of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe for Drive My Car, a meditation on passion and the nature of inspiration, based on a story by Haruki Murakami. > CINEMATOGRAPHY: For all the focus on words and

the actors who say them, the movies are a visual medium.

In almost every great movie is an image we remember: a black monolith, a wandering cowboy framed in a doorway, an assassin’s head rising from the swamp of Vietnam. The odds-on prediction is that the towering science-fiction vistas of Dune will narrowly beat The Power of the Dog’s

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> SUPPORTING ACTOR & ACTRESS: Acting has gotten so good and these categories have gotten so competitive that the nominations are a free-for-all, and the final awards are almost always up for grabs. Despite bravura turns by Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza and Mark Rylance in Don’t Look Up, my choice here is supernal 25-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog, while the real-world pick is an upset by Belfast’s Ciarán Hinds. Dog’s frontier wife Kirsten Dunst is the favorite to edge out Aunjanue Ellis who, in the shadow of Will Smith’s showier performance, anchors King Richard as the matriarch of the family that will produce tennis titans Venus and Serena Williams. In the realm of Ericksonia, however, the award goes to Belfast’s Caitriona Balfe, embodying her story’s central conflict as another matriarch torn between her family and the troubled city she loves that won’t love her back.

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magical Western landscape where New Zealand stands in for Montana. Either is awardworthy, but the academy shouldn’t overlook The Tragedy of Macbeth’s shimmery, gorgeous black-and-white Scottish moors as rendered by French cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, who first caught audiences’ attention 20 years ago with Amélie.

> PICTURE & DIRECTOR: These two awards have always had a volatile relationship to each other, reinforcing competing schools of thought: Does it make sense that the year’s Best Picture is necessarily directed by the year’s Best Director, or do separate awards offer the opportunity to honor two good movies instead of one? The answer to both is yes. For the first decade of Oscar history, when movies were considered a producer’s medium, the awards went > ACTRESS & ACTOR: Of all the prospective winners, their separate ways more often than not; then for the next Kristen Stewart is the surest bet in your Oscar pool for 60 years, they were joined at the hip with only a handful her Princess Di in Spencer, more an interpretation than of exceptions. Barring an upset by West a portrayal. Ever since her megasucSide Story’s Steven Spielberg, Campion cessful Twilight run, Stewart has been quietly doing stellar, awardworthy (yet is this year’s front-runner, for The Power “If you’re unnominated) work in European pictures of the Dog, and if a Best Director Oscar playing the odds, like Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal would also be something of a lifetimeShopper—so no one can reasonably comachievement award for the New Zealand remember that plain when she wins. Nonetheless, this filmmaker (not to mention the academy the academy year Ericksonia is throwing its support trying to make up for lost time with the loves Brits like behind Team Lady Gaga, the gravitational third director award this century going to Power of the a woman), then why the hell not? center of Ridley Scott’s florid House of And if, as predicted above, The Power Gucci, where she schemes her way to the Dog’s Benedict of the Dog sweeps the director’s award, top of the fashion world and back down Cumberbatch.” the screenplay award, two or three acting again to the murderous bottom. Barring awards, the cinematography award and surges by Denzel Washington in Macbeth perhaps awards for editing and musical or Andrew Garfield in Tick, Tick . . . Boom!, score too, how can such a juggernaut not win Best Picture? the actor race is between King Richard’s Smith and The Well, because sometimes the whole is greater than the sum Power of the Dog’s Benedict Cumberbatch, whose raging of its parts, and this year, that whole is called Drive My Car, cattle rancher clinging to corrosive notions of masculinity a three-hour epic of ideas and emotions, highways of chance is the zenith of a spectacular and still young career. Smith and one-way streets that vanish into nights of the soul. With is the sentimental favorite, but if you’re playing the odds, nothing but respect for Campion, I’ll be riding Car in my remember that the academy loves Brits like Cumberbatch. mind for years to come, and if in the real world the Japanese Sentimental favorites Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, and Drive My Car has a better shot for Best International Film, Chadwick Boseman have routinely lost to English winners the humbled King of Ericksonia will settle for that.

Eddie Redmayne, Olivia Colman, and Anthony Hopkins.

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Julia Garner plays con artist Anna Delvey in Inventing Anna.

THE TO-DO LIST

YOUR FEBRUARY CULTURAL AGENDA

BY JOR DA N R I E F E

STREAM

› Shonda Rhimes’s latest for Netflix isn’t a titillating costume drama. Rather,

swindled Manhattan society by posing as a German heiress. Inspired by a New York Magazine article, the new show stars two-time Emmy winner Julia Garner (Ozark) as Delvey.

“The thing is, I’m not sorry,” Delvey, whose actual name is Anna Sorokin, told the New York Times after she was convicted of conning banks and luxury hotels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. “I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything.”

Sorokin served two years for theft and grand larceny before being released from jail in February 2021. Maybe after her time in the slammer and a Shonda show, she’s finally contrite.

Netflix, February 11.

LISTEN

› Five months and four

recording sessions— that’s how long it took Big Thief to cut, Dragon

SEE

› An unflinching look at

race, love, and sexuality, Slave Play was the buzziest show on prepandemic Broadway. It was the most-nominated production in Tony Award history and launched playwright Jeremy O. Harris (above) to stardom. Mark Taper Forum, February 9 to March 13.

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New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. Some

of the double LP’s 20 tracks, like “Certainty,” have already dropped, and the album itself is one of the year’s most anticipated, thanks to Adrianne Lenker’s beguiling vocals and the band’s unpredictable sonic range. Plan ahead if you want to catch the group in concert in May at the Wiltern. 4AD, February 11.

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› Best seen at a movie

theater serving alcohol, Marry Me tells the story of a pop star (Jennifer Lopez) who learns her famous husband-to-be is a philanderer. So she decides to marry a stranger in the crowd (Owen Wilson) at one of her concerts. Hilarity and believable chemistry may or may not ensue. In theaters February 11.

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release of the charttopping (and Grammycontroversy-generating) Star-Crossed, Kacey Musgraves (left) hits downtown L.A. The 33-yearold Texan’s heartbreaking country-pop songs have won six Grammys, and they’ll hit especially hard live. At Crypto.com Arena, February 20.

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› Sure to please crowds,

LACMA’s City of Cinema: 1850-1907 traces the art form’s emergence in the French capital.

Paintings, posters, sculpture, photography, and film illustrate how practitioners took a novelty attraction and nurtured what became the most influential medium of the twentieth century. After taking it all in, stop in at the exhibit’s delightfully old-timey Salle du Cinema for a refreshment. LACMA, February 20 to July 10.

J U L I A G A R N E R : A A R O N E P ST E I N / N E T F L I X ; J E R E M Y O. H A R R I S : B R U C E G L I K A S /G E T T Y I M AG E S ; K AC E Y M U S G R AV E S : G E T T Y I M AG E S FO R STAG E COAC H

Inventing Anna is the real-life story of Anna Delvey, a grifter who captivated and

FEB 11–12, 18–20

Esa-Pekka Salonen Returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall FEB 11–12

Strauss, Smith, and Salonen Los Angeles Philharmonic James McVinnie, organ

Esa-Pekka SALONEN Fog (U.S. premiere of orchestral version) Gabriella SMITH Organ Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission) STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

FEB 18–20

Salonen Leads Bartók, Bjarnason, and Sibelius Los Angeles Philharmonic Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Daníel BJARNASON Piano Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission) SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7

Get Your Tickets Today!

laphil.com/february | 323 850 2000 Groups (10+) 323 850 2050

Programs, artists, prices, and dates subject to change.

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It’s All About the Benjamin A 20-YEAR-OLD, EYE-CATCHING AUSSIE IS BEING HAILED AS THE NEXT JUSTIN BIEBER. BUT EDDIE BENJAMIN WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT HE’S VERY MUCH HIS OWN MAN B Y PA U L S C H R O D T

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D D I E B E N JA M I N L O O K S , at first, like the

ultimate Gen Z heartthrob musician awaiting the throne. The 20-year-old’s appearance— cheeky, gap-toothed smile; long, tousled, blond-highlighted hair; thin frame; and fashion-magazine cheekbones—makes fans and A&R executives alike swoon.

But Benjamin, a native of Sydney, wants you to know that he has an old, even conflicted, soul. He’s classically trained in jazz and grew up on, and counts among his biggest influences, Stevie Wonder and Prince. In fact, “Weatherman,” the first single off his debut studio album, out in early 2022, has the deeply yearning vocal texture of Innervisions Wonder himself. gushes about her beauty but also about her “incredible creNow based in L.A., Benjamin is surprisingly well-versed ative eye” both in front of and behind the camera. in the world that existed before broadband, TikTok, and Ziegler turned out to be essential to Benjamin’s rise. She NFTs. On a recent Zoom call, he wears a T-shirt bearing received a text one morning while she and Benjamin were the logo of ’70s hard-rockers AC/DC. He’s entertained to hanging out and he was practicing scales on his guitar. hear that Butt-Head, from Beavis and Butt-Head, rocked “Hey, Hailey just texted me. She wants your number,” she a similar style in the ’90s. “It’s my engineer’s told Benjamin. “Hailey who?” he asked. It favorite show!” he chirps, then notes that he’s was, of course, Hailey Bieber. Justin had seen more into South Park.

Benjamin on Ziegler’s Instagram and wanted “We’re at a Still, a certain Justin Bieber energy, circa to get in touch. cultural war, Purpose, shoots through his polished package, Now the rest of the world is calling. down to the of-the-moment music producBenjamin and his label, historic Epic Records, musically. I tion and boldly colored, Harry Styles-adjacent lofty expectations for his debut. And he’s hear a lot of the have wardrobe styling. not afraid to admit it. same stuff.”

He’s guesting on Bieber’s 2022 tour, with “I always try to remember that pressure appearances at the Forum on February 23 and makes diamonds,” Benjamin says as he nerdowntown’s recently rebranded Crypto.com vously paces around the semisecret Electric Arena on March 7 and 8. His electro-pop hit “Fuck My Garden studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a psychedelic, Friends” rides a tropical house synth groove and includes tunnel-shaped sister to the legendary Electric Lady studio the Weeknd-ish lyric “Lost my face and I lost my brain.” where Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and D’Angelo recorded.

In teen-movie fashion, Benjamin met his famous girlHe’s open about the severe anxiety he suffers. friend—actress and dancer Maddie Ziegler, known for “I kind of thrive in high-pressure situations. You Dance Moms, Sia’s music videos, and, most recently, her just start to learn to handle it, but sometimes you can’t. turn as Velma in West Side Story—at the mall. The Grove, Sometimes you break down and cry.” During panic attacks, specifically. They “got food” and “chilled” and sparked he has a “pattern” of crawling into bed with his bass. a friendship while she was still with another boyfriend, Still, Benjamin is mostly ready for fame. After coming who in an awkward twist was also friends with Benjamin. to the U.S. for a Berklee College of Music bass-program Sounding giddy, he remembers where they first hugged and audition at 15, he was signed by Mike Spitz’s management 3 4 L A M AG . C O M

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Benjamin’s dancer girlfriend, Maddie Ziegler (right and below, left), introduced him to musician Sia (below, center), who has become a mother figure of sorts to Benjamin.

Lesser-Known Greats We’ve all heard Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Lil Nas X burn up radio and streaming playlists in 2021, but what of the rest of the 64th Grammy Awards nominees?

Ahead of the ceremony, here’s our pick of deeper cuts

Brandi Carlile, “Right on Time” There’s no way it will beat out the big guns for Record/Song of the Year, but the way Carlile belts out her domestic drama here is stunning.

Japanese Breakfast, “Be Sweet” Michelle Zauner dropped her first album in 2016 but somehow got a Best New Artist nom. Who cares? This indie banger was one of 2021’s best.

Arlo Parks, “Hope” The soulful Londoner’s debut, Collapsed in Sunbeams, has a nod for Best Alternative Music Album, and this beauty is one of its top songs.

E D D I E B E N JA M I N P O R T R A I T: CO U R T E SY VO L I R E CO R D S ; M AG A Z I N E COV E R : H A R P E R S B A Z A A R .CO M . S G ; S I A : # S I A M U S I C ; P L AY L I ST: G E T T Y I M AG E S E XC E P T FO R A R O OJ A F TA B : B E N H O U D I J K /S H U T T E R STO C K .CO M

Deftones, “Genesis” Yep, the Sacramento mob is still at it—and it can still rip your face off, as this track (nominated for Best Metal Performance) undoubtedly shows.

company, Vol 1, which has a roster of in-demand up-andcoming talent, including Instagram and YouTube sensation AJ Mitchell.

Spitz had seen Benjamin’s Instagram videos covering songs like Sia’s “Chandelier.” Sia, a 46-year-old fellow Australian singer-songwriter is now among what Benjamin calls his “small circle.” She’s declared him a musical “savant” and considers him a kind of son that she aims to protect from fame, which she herself has had a rocky relationship with, as has Bieber.

But Benjamin insists that he’s not much like either of his high-profile friends, when it comes to his artistry. Yes, he and Bieber jam and play basketball together at the superstar’s home, but they’re only somewhat similar.

“We’re so musically different and enjoy different things.

As artists, we share so many different perspectives and different ways of expressing ourselves, but we can really relate to each other,” he says. If anything, Benjamin’s sound is more varied; his influences, more diverse. “I love all styles of music. I can flip my perspective.”

Benjamin loves a “mixture” of the old and the new. The sound of his debut album is pitched somewhere between Elton John and the Kid Laroi, but despite its myriad influences, he insists the sound is fresh, not derivative.

“I’m specific . . . I hope people [understand] the shift that me and this new generation are trying to bring. It’s time for a change,” he declares. “I think we’re at a cultural war, musically. I hear a lot of the same stuff.”

Jazmine Sullivan, “Pick Up Your Feelings” The introspective R&B of Sullivan’s Heaux Tales was nothing short of a revelation, and this standout ensured a Best R & B Perfomance.

Vicente Fernández, “El Caballo de Mi Padre” Fernández’s death in December hit the world of Mexican ranchera music hard. He was in fine form until nearly the end of his 81 years. His final record, A Mis 80’s, got a nod for Best Regional Mexican Music Album.

Giveon, “Heartbreak Anniversary” Giveon’s buttery voice netted several noms— he assisted on Bieber’s acclaimed summer jam “Peaches”—but this tune of his own also got a nod.

Hiatus Kaiyote, “And We Go Gentle” The late Prince loved Hiatus Kaiyote, whose third album, Mood Valiant, featuring this track, is up in the Best Progressive R & B Album category.

Baby Keem, “Family Ties,” with Kendrick Lamar This barnstorming single is nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song, and the 21-year-old Baby Keem is up for Best New Artist.

Arooj Aftab, “Mohabbat” The Brooklyn-based Pakistani vocalist takes Sufi, folk, and jazz and melds them into a beguiling mix that can take your breath away.

No wonder this track is nominated for Best Global Music Performance.

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THE FIRST BLACK CEO OF THE RECORDING ACADEMY WANTS TO REINVENT THE GRAMMYS

BY H E I DI S I E GM U N D C U DA

What influenced you to accept the role as the academy’s CEO? > My motivation for doing it is the creative community and the people that we represent.

Those are my peers. A lot of organizations might have somebody in the CEO role who came from the legal department or some other offshoot of what the business does. So when I put on my CEO hat, I’m looking at things through the lens of our community and how I can best represent music people.

You’re the academy’s first Black CEO. Has that affected your agenda for the organization? > I think it’s imperative to be inclusive and to get the perspectives of all people. I was fortunate enough to get Valeisha Butterfield Jones to come work with us as our first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, and she has made such a difference. So I’m hopeful.

I’m also acknowledging that there’s still a long way to go, both inside our organization and within the industry at large.

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What’s changed since you took over? > The leadership structure of the academy looks very different now. We really wanted to be able to move with a new sense of urgency and speed.

A lot of times in the past, the

“The academy has been very reactive—we are moving with a bias for action.” academy has been very reactive. We’ve taken years to get some things to change that might have been in the best interests of the academy or the industry. And I’m proud of the new organization and the

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Cardi B performs at the 63rd Grammy Awards in March, 2021.

entire staff at the academy because we are moving with a bias for action.

What’s the one thing that people don’t know about the academy? > A lot of people don’t understand that we do all the work we do to put on a Grammy show, right? We get paid by Viacom and CBS, and all the money that we make goes directly back into music, community advocacy, education, the [Grammy] museum, or MusiCares, our safety net for musicians.

The pandemic is a reminder that hard times often inspire great music. > I know the power that music has, especially in times of crisis, to bring people together and raise awareness.

With MusiCares, we gave away almost $30 million in 2021 to music people who needed help.

Who in the industry most influenced your career? > Quincy Jones was a big influence for me. I always admired

how he had a long career and gets such respect, and was able to work across genre lines. That’s something I aspired to do. And, of course, my father, Harvey Mason Sr. What was it like working with legends like Aretha Franklin and Elton John? > Growing up listening to so many amazing artists, and then getting the chance to walk into a studio and see them on a microphone, all these people that I just idolized—I used to have a lot of hair, and it all got blown off by those experiences.

What’s on deck for the academy in 2022? > I hope that by the 65th [Grammys] you’ll see improvements to the mechanisms that we use to select our nominees, and continued outreach to the artist community. I also think we’ll see an opportunity for the academy to enter into partnerships to do more good with music and more good for music people.

That’s our goal.

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H A RV E Y M A S O N J R .’ S L I F E I S JA Z Z : free-form, inventive, cool. He wrote his first recorded song, for Grover Washington Jr., at the age of eight and grew up hanging in L.A.’s recording studios with his drummer father. As a producer, he’s worked with Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, and Elton John. Now, Mason, 53, is charged with rebooting the Grammy Awards, which this year have been beset this year by the controversial nominations of Louis CK and Marilyn Manson, which Mason defended. The 64th Grammys, on January 31, will include performances by nominees from Silk Sonic to Olivia Rodrigo, and serve as a preview of Mason’s long-term plans to remake the ceremony into a more diverse endeavor.

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AFTER A DECADE ONLINE—AND ALMOST AS LONG IN PRINT—THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS HAS PROVEN ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT THIS CITY CAN READ

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T T H E T I M E , it must have in L.A.”). Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner sounded like a crazy idea: a literis on its board of directors, as is documenary magazine for a town where tary producer Bill Benenson, entertainment the dominant reading matter is lawyers Tamerlin Godley and Matt Galsor, the 120-page screenplay. and L.A. poet laureate Lynne Thompson.

But in 2011, at the height of the Great Donors include James Ellroy, Tim Disney, Recession, Tom Lutz, a creative writing proLori Milken, and New York Times executive fessor at UC Riverside, got together with a editor Dean Baquet. businessman pal, Albert Litewka, and started Granted, LARB’s website isn’t exactly racktraveling around Los Angeles to drum up suping up Kardashian-sized numbers, but it’s port for the launch of what they envisioned been doing gangbuster business for a literary as an erudite journal of cultural criticism to journal, with half-a-million clicks a month. A rival the New York Review of Books or even the quarterly print edition sells several thousand London Review of Books.

“Why shouldn’t copies as well, while LARB has also expanded Not surprisingly, their initial pitch meetwith a show on public radio, a podcast, live this city have an events, and a book- and magazine-publishings didn’t go so great. At one event at a aesthetic journal ing course for college grads modeled after prospective donor’s home, chairs were pulled into a circle as they went through their spiel. the well-known Columbia Publishing Course of its own?”

“L.A. is as culturally and intellectually rich (but at half the tuition of Columbia’s and with and diverse as any city in the world,” Litewka an emphasis on diversity) that has given rise told them. “With the Getty Museum, its own opera, and a to nearly a dozen small publishers and magazines in the city. burgeoning art-gallery scene, why shouldn’t this city have “We’re trying to serve all levels of our audience,’” Litewka an aesthetic journal of its own?” When Lutz and Litewka tells Los Angeles. “Readers in their twenties and thirties verfinished, one of the attendees—the owner of a local booksus readers in their sixties and seventies, who are onto other store—asked the question everyone in the room must have songs and aware of other things.” been thinking. “Who needs this thing?”

These days, there aren’t many LARB skeptics left. At Turns out, quite a lot of people. Today, as it celebrates its the journal’s tenth anniversary party, held virtually in tenth anniversary, the Los Angeles Review of Books—or LARB, December, Litewka recalled how he’d recently run into a pronounced like the Thai salad—has proven to be, in the parwell-known author. lance of the town, a boffo hit. Tom Hanks is a big fan (he’s “Albert, I have to hand it to you, guys,” the writer told him. donated vintage typewriters from his collection for fundrais“When I first started hearing about this thing, I thought to ers). So is Cameron Diaz (she’s called LARB “a hub for culture myself, ‘That’s a great idea. But it will never happen.’ ”

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USC professor Jody Armour with author Walter Mosely at a 2020 LARB event; James Ellroy, flanked

by Litewka and Lutz in 2019: LARB fan Diaz signs her best-seller, The Body Book, in 2014.

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Frieze Frame THE FRIEZE ART FAIR IS RETURNING WITH AN EXCITING NEW BEVERLY HILLS BASE AND A FOCUS ON LOCAL ARTISTS AND EVOLVING PERSPECTIVES

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This year’s festival will highlight a diverse array of local talent.

Opposite page, from far left: Heidi Korsavong and Benjamin Critton from Marta gallery; Frieze Los Angeles director Christine Messineo; and exhibiting artists Troy Lamarr Chew II, A History of Frogs (the duo comprising Chase Biado and Antonia Pinter), and Melvino Garretti.

This page, from far left: Exhibiting artist Sarah Rosalena Brady; Neidy Lizbet Godinez, Ethan R. Tate, and Alex Perliter from In Lieu gallery; Keke Jones from Stanley’s gallery; Alex Nazari from Gattopardo gallery; exhibiting artist Amia Yokoyama; and Zachary Korol-Gold and Britte Geijer from Garden gallery.

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fresh perspectives. “[It’s] about privileging brown, Black, indigenous, and queer voices and narratives that I want people to learn from,” says Focus L.A. curator Amanda Hunt of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. “We’ll show what we have in L.A. that you’re not seeing in other markets or parts of the world.”

February 17 to 20, 9900 Wilshire Blvd. Tickets ($102 for adults and $38 for students) at frieze.com.

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ACCLAIMED TASTING-MENU SPOT KATO HAS BEEN REBORN AND REIMAGINED DOWNTOWN B Y A N D Y WA N G

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earned a Michelin star and became one of the city’s most lauded young chefs by serving Taiwanese American tasting menus in a cramped West L.A. strip-mall space with no liquor license.

Now L.A. gets to see what the 30-year-old can do with more—4,500square-feet, a wood-burning oven and hearth, a wine list—when he moves Kato to Row DTLA this month.

The new Kato will have $195, seafood-focused tasting menus with about 13 courses. Dishes might include a hot version of the chilled three-cup California abalone Yao served at the original space. The menu will showcase ingredients like Astrea caviar, but there won’t be supplemental charges for such luxuries.

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777 S. Alameda St., downtown, katorestaurant.com.

SIGN OF G OOD T H I NGS TO COM E

Bar Lis at the Thompson Hollywood is great for a drink and a bite. And, soon, the hotel will have a full restaurant in Mes Amis.

GRANDMASTER RECORDERS Aussie chefs Monty and Jaci Koludrovic are serving Italianish fare—insalata di pesce ($38, above), sourdough cavatelli with lamb ($34)—in a space that was once a renowned recording studio.

1518 N. Cahuenga Blvd., 323-963-7800, grandmasterrecorders.com.

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“One of the big things Jon and I have had conversations about is when you go to a restaurant and they supplement you to death,” says partner and wine director Ryan Bailey, 34. “Guests feel insecure and guilttripped into buying more.”

Given that Kato will serve seafood and umami-rich sauces, Bailey will pair dishes with “lighter, more high-toned, and acidic” red wines, like pinot noir, and slightly oxidative whites, like vin jaune from the Jura in France.

Yao and his partners want to preserve Kato’s scrappy, independent spirit. They’ve removed tables from the sprawling space that was previously home to M. Georgina, so that the dining room seats just 52 people.

Previously, Yao said that he wants three Michelin stars, but he now believes that upholding his own ideals is what’s most important.

“It would be great if we got those Michelin stars, but what’s even a better goal is having this tangible, unmovable standard that’s set in front of everyone and that everyone has to strive for,” he says. “If we can achieve this on our own terms, that would make me extremely happy.”

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From left: Kato partners Jon Yao, Nikki Reginaldo, and Ryan Bailey are excited about their new digs.

Hollywood and Dine

THE CITY’S MOST FAMOUS NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOW HOME TO A FEW NEW STARS

BY HAILEY EBER

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O L LY W O O D I S K N O W N for many things, but

in recent years, great restaurants haven’t been among them. That’s changing. On the heels of recent hits like Horses and Nancy Silverton’s the Barish, a number of exciting eateries have opened in the area, and more are on the way.

“We’re really excited to be part of it,” says Grant Smillie, the executive director of Botanical Hospitality Group, which debuted the 15,000-square-foot Grandmaster Recorders on Cahuenga Boulevard at the end of 2021. “Hollywood is going through a huge transformation.” Have a look.

BAR LIS AND MES AMIS The late Bon Temps’s Lincoln Carson is cooking again in L.A., with elegant drinking nibbles at the new Bar Lis in the Thompson Hollywood.

In the spring, he’ll open a hotly anticipated French restaurant called Mes Amis in the hotel.

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1541 Wilcox Ave., 323410-6210, barlisla.com.

K A’ T E E N Wes Avila made a name for himself downtown with Guerilla Tacos and Angry Egret Dinette. In December, he went Hollywood with this chic, Yucatán-inspired spot in the new Tommie hotel. Dishes include potato taquitos with avocado salsa ($10, above) and lamb neck barbacoa ($48).

6516 Selma Ave., 323-410-6360, kateenla.com.

TA C O S DON M A NOL ITO One of Mexico City’s biggest chains opened its first U.S. location in Hollywood in October. Its signature Campechano taco ($4.50, above) is meaty bliss, with chorizo, chicharrón, and cecina.

5553 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-366-2688, tacosdm.com.

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Evan Funke, known for Felix in Venice, has come east and just opened this 200-seat Roman trattoria. The expansive menu focuses on classic pastas such as cacio e pepe and carbonara.

Later this year, celebrity chef Michael Mina is set to unveil a 5,000-square-foot, health-focused spot in the buzzy new Heimat fitness club, which will sit on the edge of WeHo and Hollywood.

1545 Wilcox Ave., 323-410-6060, motherwolfla.com.

960 N. La Brea Ave., michaelmina.net.

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5 1. Milla Chocolates For design-forward treats, this Westside chocolatier is the go-to.

For Valentine’s Day, founder Christine Sarioz makes striking black, heart-shaped versions of her popular passion-fruit bonbons. They’re beautifully packaged in boxes of 18 or 36 pieces ($68 or $134). » 9414 Venice Blvd., Culver City, millachocolates.com.

3. LetterPress Chocolate David and Corey Menkes are known for their small-batch, thoughtfully sourced chocolate bars, and they offer them in the Ultimate Chocolate Box Set ($89), which comes with two gorgeous, cacao-scented candles.

Also on the menu in February: nextlevel strawberries coated in dark chocolate made from Ghanian cacao. » 2835 S. Robertson Blvd., letterpresschocolate.com.

2. Edelweiss Chocolates This boutique has been satisfying sweet tooths since 1942. The French truffle ($64.95 per/pound)—whipped dark-chocolate ganache dipped in dark chocolate—is a top seller. A few years ago, chocolatier Daniel Zahir discovered it had been Elizabeth Taylor’s favorite when he found her customer-profile card in the archives.

“One of the exciting peculiarities of being in business for nearly 80 years is that unique and fascinating relics turn up unexpectedly,” he says. » 444 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, and

225 26th St., Ste. 22, Santa Monica, edelweisschocolates.com.

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5. Valerie Confections

JKC’s chocolatey truffle-fudge treats are iconic. The caramel variety ($10.50 for two pieces), which is topped with a sprinkle of festive red Hawaiian Alaea sea salt, is especially great for Valentine’s Day. “The merging of all three flavors and textures creates an incredible taste sensation,” says cofounder Kelly Green. “It’s rich and awakens the sweet-savory parts of your brain’s taste center.”

Valerie Gordon offers her très popular Pour Homme box ($40) in January and early February only. It features bittersweet-chocolate hearts filled with house-made liquid caramel. “It’s a dark-amber, superbuttery, vanilla- and salt-hinted caramel,” says Gordon. “You get a ton of liquid when you bite into one.

They truly do explode in your mouth.”

» Multiple locations, johnkellychocolates.com.

» 3364 W. 1st St., Rampart Village, and 1665 Echo Park Ave., Echo Park, valerieconfections.com.

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Operated by the same family for three generations, this shop’s top sweet is the Mignon Heaven, which features a 58 percent dark-chocolate shell encasing 62 percent dark-chocolate ganache.

In 2019, brothers Phil and Marc Covitz reimagined and renamed their mother’s Beverly Hills chocolate shop, which she’d opened as Teuscher in 1983. For the holiday, they offer various boxes, but the stars are these gorgeous, faceted, three-inch-wide pink hearts ($25). “The inspiration is always to do something that feels modern and relevant . . . avoiding the usual fare of a red box with a silk ribbon,” says Phil. “We want people to get excited and be surprised.”

» 936 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, mignonchocolate.com.

» 9548 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, and-sons.com.

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meats likely originated within the Ottoman Empire and proliferated to surrounding regions, incorporating local flavors and taking on names like döner kebab (in Turkey), gyros (Greece), and shawarma (Israel, Lebanon, Armenia, and elsewhere).

Shawarma has long been prevalent in L.A., but a growing number of new, pandemic-friendly trucks and stands have opened in Glendale and the San Fernando Valley in recent years. Whether the carnivorous goodness is served on lavash, fluffy bread, or a plate, it’s always a delight. Here are five vendors to check out.

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> The Kirakosyan family truck parks in front of the Royal Fresh Super Market. Pork has a spicy kick from fenugreek and three types of pepper. Curry powder enlivens the chicken.

12811 Sherman Way, North Hollywood, @armenianlunchtruck.

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> Eyad Kawak and mama Krstein Kantarji survived Syrian civil war and now serve Arabic-style shawarma, in which the lavash wrap is griddled and sliced into sections. Luscious chicken breast gets a boost from garlic sauce and pickles, while filet mignon benefits from tart sumac.

1416 E. Colorado St., Glendale, @mamas.shawarma.

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> Artur Virabyan and Maksim Sulltaliev are longtime friends from Stavropol, Russia. Just before the pandemic hit, they launched a truck. Chicken and pork wraps come on a custom lavash/flour tortilla hybrid and are served “Russian style” with cabbage and a creamy sauce made with ketchup, mustard, and mayo.

> In addition to excellent pork shawarma with delightfully crispy edges, this Armenian sidewalk stand also offers smoky, charcoal-grilled kebabs.

> This braggadocious chicken specialist bills its product as “N1 in Los Angeles,” and its truck sports colorful stripes matching Armenia’s flag. Meat comes atop a bed of nicely seasoned fries.

1717 W. Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale, @nonameshawarma.

12727 Sherman Way, North Hollywood, @proshyanbest.

331 N. Glendale Ave., Glendale, @shawarmatimee.

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O S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A N S , the images of radiant grain bowls, lush watermelon-radishtopped salads, and shimmeringly fresh ceviches that populate the Cali Sisters Instagram feed are very familiar sights. But the sisters behind the account and their two restaurants aren’t based in Silver Lake or Venice.

They’re in Paris.

While the style of French bistros—distressed mirrors, marble two-tops, red leather booths— has been exported and imitated around the world, two Parisian natives have imported the style of Southern Californian eateries to the City of Light.

Capucine Frerejean, 35, and Juliette Fossorier, 32, first fell in love with Los Angeles while poring over pictures from their parents’ 1980s California honeymoon.

“We spent our childhood looking dreamily at their photo albums,” says Frerejean.

The duo opened their first restaurant, Cali Sisters, in the 2nd Arrondissement in June 2020 on the heels of France’s first COVID-19 lockdown orders. They debuted a second location, Cali Uptown, in May 2021, and published a French-language cookbook last September called Polpo, Shakshuka, Tacos, Ceviche, Cookies, Meat Balls.

“We wanted to create in Paris what we believe L.A. restaurants do best: healthy-ish food in spectacular yet comforting decor, in a vibrant atmosphere with a great, friendly, and P H O T O G R A P H E D BY GA E L L E L E B O U L I CAU T

efficient team,” says Frerejean, who also honeymooned in L.A. after getting married in 2013. In the years that followed, she and her sister regularly visited and fell in love with restaurants like Gjelina, Sqirl, Rustic Canyon, Botanica, and the Butcher’s Daughter.

The Butcher’s Daughter made such a strong impression on them that they turned to founder Heather Tierney to help design Cali Sisters and achieve the same airy, plant-festooned, Venice Beach aesthetic.

Cali Uptown has a more Palm Springs vibe, thanks to another SoCal design powerhouse, duo Greg Bleier and Terri Robison of Studio UNLTD, the firm behind local faves Bestia, the Rose Venice, and Bavel. With a dusty color palette punctuated with pops of bright, midcentury infused yellows and turquoise, the cafe’s look nods to desert landscapes and retro diner culture.

Thus far, both cafes are doing quite well, though certain cultural barriers remain. “Allday dining is super mainstream in the U.S. and in California,” Frerejean says. In Paris, not so much, “though it’s beginning to pick up.” Heartier menu items like multigrain pancakes and ricotta and spinach gnudi have been more popular than lighter fare like avocado toast. But that comes as a relief: sourcing avocados in Paris isn’t easy. thecalisisters.com, @thecalisisters.

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They’ll light up your face even more than JLo’s bronzer and make the dullest day seem sunny.

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Dr. David Agus at the Ellison Institute in Los Angeles.

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DAVID AGUS IS THE WORLD’S MOST CONNECTED DOCTOR—PHYSICIAN TO THE LATE STEVE JOBS, PAL TO ELON MUSK AND HOWARD STERN, COUNSELOR TO BOTH TRUMP AND BIDEN. HE’S EVEN MARRIED TO MAURY POVICH’S DAUGHTER. HE USED HIS CLOUT TO BUILD A MASSIVE ONCOLOGY COMPLEX FOR CEDAR-SINAI, BUT CAN HE CHANGE THE COURSE OF CANCER TREATMENT IN AMERICA? 5 2 L A M AG . C O M

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that archetype that Malcolm Gladwell described in his 1999 New Yorker essay. They know everyone because they go out every night, throw parties, raise money for causes, and tell new friends they must absolutely meet someone they know. ¶ Dr. David Agus doesn’t do any of those things. He doesn’t go out to dinner. He eats at home with his family. Lunches at the office. ¶ Agus is not a connector. He’s an attractor. He’s genius Forrest Gump, a soft-spoken and menschy cancer researcher and doctor who can always be found at the P H O T O G R A P H E D BY L E N K A U L R I C H OVA

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CBS Mornings since 2013, and appears on Howard Stern so regularly, he has his own theme song (his name sung to the tune of “Rock Me Amadeus”).

He has, improbably, turned himself into a brand. He was taught by Jobs, who insisted he wear the same nondescript, serious-but-nonthreatening outfit every time he appeared in public. So Agus has found a way to make a thin, black V-neck sweater over a white button-down shirt look iconic.

“If I wear a gray or white sweater, people don’t recognize me. It’s an amazing thing to be able to turn on and turn off,” he says.

Agus’s talent for communicating with the public didn’t come naturally.

He was a studious kid from a studious family. His grandfather, Jacob Agus, was a writer and rabbi with a Ph.D. from Harvard. “We would read Charles Darwin. He would teach me Arabic and Latin and Greek. Most kids are out playing baseball, so I didn’t really appreciate it,” he says.

At 10 or 11, Agus left his Philadelphia home to spend the summer at a science program at the University of Florida. By high school, he had designed an experiment with rodents that went on the Space Shuttle. (It didn’t go well. The mice died.) Though his father was a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Agus preferred the molecular biology program at Princeton. He paid for part of school by cofounding a company called the Munchie Agency, which delivered soda and snacks to college kids too stoned to leave the dorm.

Agus did eventually end up at the University of Pennsylvania for medical

school, and then John Hopkins for his residency. Though he was a cancer researcher, he took a job as a doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to learn firsthand from patients.

That’s when the attracting began. He was working in a lab at Sloan Kettering when someone knocked on his door.

“I look up, and it was the Time Man of the Year, Andy Grove. I was like, ‘Holy shit!” Agus recalls.

The Intel CEO had prostate cancer and was getting a tour of the hospital’s labs. After they talked, Grove decided that Agus was a genius but sucked at conversation. Over the next year, Grove took it upon himself to teach Agus how to present his ideas, setting up more than 150 presentations to force him to improve. Then Grove decided Agus needed to move to California.

“He said, ‘You stay on the East Coast, you hit singles. You go to the West Coast, you swing for the fences.

If you strike out, you start again.”

Agus got a job at Cedars-Sinai, with Grove acting as his unofficial agent.

“You know what a hospital is like when Andy Grove is negotiating your contract? They thought I was psychotic. They couldn’t understand who or what I was,” Agus says.

One of the reasons Agus attracts tech moguls and other industry titans is that he specializes in prostate cancer, which is a disease that attacks older men. This affords more access to powerful people than treating cleft palates.

Among his famous patients: Lance Armstrong, Ted Kennedy, Neil Young, Sumner Redstone, Eli Broad, Dennis Hopper, Johnny Ramone, and former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Shera.

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most cutting-edge places. So when powerful people get cancer, he’s the doctor they often come see.

Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder and one of the ten richest people in the world, encountered Agus twice early on. Once when his nephew needed treatment and, later, when his best friend, Steve Jobs, came under his care. After that, Agus, a professor of medicine and engineering at USC, was having breakfast at Ellison’s house, when Ellison asked how much it would cost to build Agus’s dream research facility. Agus did some quick math and made up a number: $200 million. Which was fine with Ellison.

What you get for $200 million is the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, which looks nothing like the place you picture cancer might be cured. The new, 79,000-square-foot building in West L.A., designed by the architecture firm RIOS, looks less like a lab and more like a Sedona spa. It’s an airy glass-and-wood building with both a sculpture garden and a raked-gravel Zen garden. Yes, there are scientists in white coats with beakers, but they do their work in labs behind big glass windows, like EPCOT attractions. It’s far more “namaste” than “eureka.”

It is definitely the only cancer research center to throw an opening party where Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were interviewed by Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet while Judd Apatow and Eric Garcetti stood nearby. It’s also the only one that will soon host a pop-up restaurant from Copenhagen’s Noma.

“This is a lot nicer and more grand than what we pictured,” says Agus, sitting in an office under a Picasso painting, not far from sculptures by Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei, and Robert Indiana. “When Larry does things, he gets intimately involved. So the color white on the wall? Larry chose that.

It’s much more relaxing to the human brain than other shades of white.”

(In case you’re wondering, it’s DunnEdwards Suprema Eggshell, and it’s a damn nice white.)

Agus, 56, is perhaps the only top research doctor who is also something of a pop-culture bon vivant—imagine if Dr. Phil had written Civilization and Its Discontents. He’s penned bestselling books (such as A Short Guide to a Long Life), has been a contributor to

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For six years, Agus took care of Paramount CEO Brad Grey, who, despite Grove’s boot camp, thought Agus could still use some help on talk shows. Grey got two focus groups to watch Agus’s presentations as if they were TV pilots. One thing Agus learned from them was that most people were actually turned off by his long list of celebrity patients, assuming that the doctor treated only VIPs, not folks like them. “So now I’m very conscious to say, ‘Everything I say is achievable by everybody,” Agus notes.

“This is not just care for the rich.’” He adds that most patients at the clinic pay via Medicare.

Agus also includes a phone number on his Twitter account where just about anybody can text medical questions. He pulls out his phone to show me about 100 messages waiting for his reply, including one from a woman asking Agus to make a video announcing to her fiancé that she’s pregnant.

“Sure,” he says.

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E V E N A G U S ’ S house is an attractor. A 1959 midcentury modern in Beverly Hills, it was first owned by Armand Deutsch, the grandson of the CEO of Sears. Frank Sinatra used to sing in Deutch’s living room, and Ronald Reagan threw his L.A. presidential inauguration party there when he owned it.

“When we bought it, I was taking care of Merv Griffin,” Agus tells me in his backyard. “So Merv told Nancy Reagan, and she goes, ‘The house is going to fall down. Don’t tell your doctor.’ Griffin told Agus anyway. “And literally, as I got this note from Merv,

I saw a squirrel go right through the roof.” Agus put a tin roof on the house because he was house poor and tin roofs were cheap. A few weeks later, a fire burned down both of the other houses at the top of his driveway. The tin roof saved his home.

Until two years ago, when she died at 101, his next-door neighbor was Sinatra’s former wife, Nancy, who acted as an extra grandmother to Agus’s two kids with his wife, Amy Povich, Maury Povich’s daughter.

Being an attractor has its challenges in politically polarized times.

Agus has worked with both Joe Biden, when he was vice president, and Donald Trump, when he was president, doubling his chances of pissing people off. Like some other doctors in March 2020, Agus publicly expressed interest in hydroxychloroquine. It was subsequently proven ineffective.

And a month before that, he guessed on TV that COVID-19 wouldn’t be a major problem for America—which Trump later edited into an anti-media video he showed at a press briefing.

“It got really scary,” Agus remembers.

“I mean, the president of the United States put a video of a cancer doc with five words of a long sentence taken out of context.” Still, despite the video and the criticism it understandably generated, Agus continued advising the Trump administration. “It’s hard to swallow. But my job is to help.

You rise above that. We work with all kinds of governments.”

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Clockwise from right: Agus with Joan Collins in 2013; Bill Clinton with Agus at the TIME 100 Health Summit, 2019; Agus with Larry Ellison at the Transformative Medicine of USC: Rebels with a Cause gala, 2019.

the globe. Some fly in with their docview of patients so they can ask each tors, and we give them a plan for the other questions. The halls are also year,” Agus says. The program filled walked by people with no connection up before it officially opened. to cancer: an astrophysicist, an artist, Because he deals with both a statistician. That’s Agus’s big idea— patients and scientists and because to cross-pollinate brains from wildly he ran the Munchie Agency, Agus different fields—which he came up focuses as much on implementation with after Nobel Prize-winning physias discovery. And that’s an approach cist Murray Gell-Mann suggested that he and his team believe will he study rougher-grain data to find spread to other treatment centers the big theories that cancer research in L.A. lacks. Ellison recently bought five “I think L.A. is the next big biohouses nearby to put up visiting technology hub. It’s really fertile,” says experts from fields other than cancer Dr. Anna Barker, the former prinresearch. “You call a mathematician ciple deputy director of the National from Ukraine and say, ‘Listen, I’m Cancer Institute and now the Ellison going to give you three months in Institute’s chief strategy officer.

L.A. and a car. And they’re here,’ ” “We’re on our way to bringing all Agus says. And, yes, that car will be these disciplines together and rewrita Tesla. Because Agus knows Elon ing how medicine should be done Musk through Ellison. and how patients should be viewed as “We haven’t cured this disease at whole organisms.” all. So by definition, my people—cancer docs—have failed. That’s why we need to bring in other people,” Agus A G U S H A S B E E N an L.A. prossays. “We brought in a cryptographer, elytizer since Grove first sent him and he gets all these crazy ideas of here. He seems fully immersed in how to look at the data differently it even if he never goes out. Sitting and compress it into an algorithm. It in his yard, the world’s calmest dog was this gold mine of a conversation.” greets him. Povich comes outside Because the institute is built with with a wood tray of cappuccino she’s Silicon Valley money, all of that made with a new machine from Café interaction gets tracked. LocationLux, which provides coffee at the tagged badges tell the institute who Ellison Institute. An old Porsche constopped to talk to whom, vertible and a Vespa sit allowing Agus to deterin the driveway. mine if everyone is being “Here, the elite are Imagine if interdisciplinary enough. the artists, the actors, the But it’s also purwriters,” he says. “They Dr. Phil posely un-Silicon Valley. creativity in a scihad written value A permanent display on entist. In New York, it’s Civilization bankers. We just didn’t fit the fourth-floor walls was built to show visiting high in as well as we do here.” and Its schoolers the history of Inside their house, Discontents. cancer treatments through which is decorated with the ages. In another room, an impressive photograhuge wood doors part to phy collection, he shows reveal a collection of John Hopkins me his latest acquisition. Salesforce Medical School cofounder William CEO Marc Benioff sent him five of Osler’s old medical books, his origiphysicist Murray Gell-Mann’s medals, nal wood stethoscopes, and a tin of though not his Nobel, which Benioff cocaine candies he liked to suck on. stopped bidding on after it more than “I want to say we’re standing on doubled its Sotheby estimate amount the shoulders of giants,” Agus says and sold for $625,000. of the mini cancer museum. “The Benioff FaceTimed last night Silicon Valley attitude of ‘We’re reinand asked why Agus wasn’t wearventing the future’? We’re not that.” ing Gell-Mann’s engraved 1993 In addition to treating patients, the Lindbergh Award Longines Hour building has a wellness component Angle watch. “He said, ‘It’s meant on the fifth floor, complete with an to inspire you when you’re having a outdoor deck with amazing views of bad day,’ ” Agus says. the city. “We have people from across It’s still in its case.

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early December, dozens of guests were milling about the backyard of a $5 million Spanish revival home perched high above the sloping chaparral of Temescal Canyon. It was a holiday event for a financial firm, but despite the flowing booze and endless trays of appetizers, a pall hung over the festivities.

Throughout the fall and into the winter, a wave of inexplicable violence and mayhem seemed to have descended on the city, and it appeared to be getting worse. That very morning, news broke of yet another sensational crime: Jacqueline Avant, a beloved philanthropist, wife of music icon Clarence Avant, and mother-in-law to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos—one of the most powerful men in Hollywood—had been fatally shot in her Trousdale Estates Beverly Hills home, the latest in a series of random home invasions that had terrorized the Westside. Her alleged killer was arrested a few hours later after accidentally shooting himself during another home invasion in Hollywood. But his capture did little to soothe frayed nerves. As waiters bustled about, word of Avant’s slaying passed from one shocked guest to another. Many noted that the 81-year-old hadn’t been alone when she was murdered—a 24-hour private security guard had been on duty during her assault.

If it could happen to her, in Beverly Hills of all places, who could feel safe anymore?

Sadly, at this particular moment in L.A., the answer to that question is apparently nobody, not even guests at a party above Temescal Canyon in Pacific Palisades, one of the safest, wealthiest neighborhoods in the city. Because even as these partygoers mingled and gossiped in that backyard, sharing stories of the city’s spreading crime surge, two masked and hooded invaders had managed to slip past the caterers in the kitchen and into the house. The gunmen ambushed two women as they were retrieving their coats before leaving the fete, according to reports. Against the din of the party, they instructed the guests to stare at the ground as they relieved them of their belongings.

It wasn’t a particularly lucrative haul: some jewelry, a wallet, iPhones, a smart watch, and a Lakers championship paperweight that one of the gunman had snagged from the house. But it was good enough. Security footage shows the two gunmen brazenly walking out the front door with their loot.

To put it mildly, these are scary times in Los Angeles. Since November, there have been dozens of dramatic smash-andgrab heists at Nordstrom, Louis Vuitton, Saks Fifth Avenue,

and other high-end stores. The Grove, victim of several such “smash mob” attacks, started installing barbed-wire-like fencing around its property every night to deter invaders, while the tony boutiques of Rodeo Drive have added dozens of security guards to patrol their floors. From South L.A. (where a CVS was ransacked by a mob of looters) to Studio City (where a man was attacked while taking out the garbage from his house, then tied up along with his disabled son and forced to watch while his home was plundered) to Hancock Park (where a mother pushing a baby in a stroller was robbed in her driveway), you can all but smell the fear on the streets. Even in zip codes where violent crime was once unheard of, residents are starting to sweat.

“I have to get an armed driver to go out at night, and I’m constantly checking my rearview to make sure I’m not being followed,” complains the wife of a prominent Bel-Air financier.

“I don’t dare wear jewelry or nice bags when I go out. It’s no fun in this town anymore. If this continues much longer, I’m moving to Palm Beach.”

“There’s a lot of paranoia out there, that’s for sure,” says Dean Cryer, vice president of operations for the L.A.-based firm Panic Room Builders, who build custom safe rooms equipped with emergency phone lines and independent water supplies that can cost from the low six figures to millions of dollars. Cryer’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing, with business up more than 1,000 percent in just the past 30 days.

“People aren’t even questioning it now. Folks would usually say, ‘We’ll think about it and get back to you next month.’ Now, they’re saying, ‘I want it, and I want it now.’”

Nor is the paranoia confined to the privileged. Gang violence has increased dramatically in the past six months. Gun shops across the city, in every neighborhood, are reporting record sales, with lines now regularly stretching around the block. The Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department reports that applications for concealed-weapons licenses have been soaring, a development that has been encouraged by the sheriff himself, who after contemplating the closure of gun shops during the worst of the pandemic, reversed himself and allowed them to stay open as “critical infrastructure.”

I D O N ’ T DA RE W EA R J E W E LRY O R N I CE BAG S W H E N I G O O U T .

IT’S NO FUN IN THIS TOWN A N Y M O RE . I F T H I S C O N T I N U ES M U C H LO N G E R , I ’ M M OV I N G TO PA L M B EAC H . ”

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S T I L L , F O R A L L T H E F R E N Z Y over rising crime rates, it’s

not entirely accurate to say that Los Angeles is turning into Gotham City—at least not if you look at the numbers. Murders are way up, that’s true (by 50.1 percent over the last two years), but robberies are actually down (12.7 percent since 2019, although there was a 5 percent uptick just in 2021), and L.A.’s crime problem is no greater than many other major American metropolises. (In fact, cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, and

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Houston are seeing even larger spikes.) Despite the dramatic increase in violent offenses, L.A.’s overall crime rate remains far lower than it was, say, 40 years ago, when gang warfare and the crack epidemic wreaked havoc on our streets. In 1992, there were 2,589 homicides in Los Angeles, six times more than there were in 2021.

Still, something is going on because it certainly feels as if the Joker has ridden into town. And that perception not only has Angelenos scared, it has them looking for someone to blame.

To some, it’s the homeless crisis and the widening national wealth gap, nowhere more gaping than in L.A., that explains the current crime wave. To others, it’s social media apps like Citizen and Nextdoor, with their unrelenting notifications about knife-wielding maniacs and stolen vehicles on every block, that are fueling the mood of fear and insecurity. Still others point to what they see as the city’s deep political dysfunction, with Mayor Eric Garcetti, once a vocal supporter of the Defund the Police movement, packing his bags and preparing for his new post as ambassador to India, while L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón battles a revolt among his own prosecutors for his supposedly “soft on crime” criminal justice reforms.

But even if the crime wave everyone is talking about turns out to be wildly exaggerated—a mass psychological overreaction to a few sensational but rare criminal outbreaks—it’s still changing the way people are thinking and feeling and living. And maybe even voting. Otherwise solidly blue liberals, card-carrying NPR listeners who once marched in the BLM protests, have lately been overheard whispering about the need to refund the police and put criminals behind bars. If it goes on like this for much longer, L.A.’s political future could conceivably take a turn for the once-unimaginable.

“This crime wave feels different,” says Grove owner and probable 2022 mayoral candidate Rick Caruso (the Republican turned Independent claims he hasn’t yet decided if he’ll be throwing his hat in the ring). “There’s a brazenness to the criminals. And I think that, coupled with a lack of competence in the leadership of the city to get this under control, is causing new levels of fear. It’s happening in every corner of the city and not in just one isolated part. That’s scary.”

Tate-LaBianca murders scrambled California’s image of itself as a bastion of bohemian counterculture, harshing the buzz of innocence and safety that was pervasive across much of the West. For the first time, people who lived in upscale neighborhoods in L.A. started locking their doors. Most haven’t unlocked them since.

There were the Watts riots of 1965, and the Rodney King riots of 1992 (when a phalanx of police officers was deployed around the borders of Beverly Hills). Serial slayer scares—like the Golden State Killer, the Night Stalker, and the Grim Sleeper—also kept L.A. from sleeping at various times over the decades. In a lot of ways, crime has been as much a part of the backdrop of this city as palm trees, juice bars, and porn stars.

What’s different this time is the climate. These days, Americans—including Angelenos—are so polarized, we can’t even agree on what crime is anymore. One man’s riot and looting is another’s legitimate protest against the corrupt, racist law enforcement establishment. One woman’s bloody insurrection is another’s patriotic protest against a rigged election. The very definition of crime, like everything else in America right

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FENCING

Smash-and-grab robberies in Beverly Hills and L.A. have led to the appearance of razor wire and other menacing deterrents. The Grove installed high coil fencing at entrances, following $338,000 in losses citywide. Residents are demanding “more security fences and barbed wire for commercial property,” says Los Angeles Fence Builders.

SA F E RO O M S

Home-invasion robberies have wealthy homeowners scrambling to add armored safe rooms at costs from $150,000 to well over $1 million. “It’s been huge,” says Dean Cryer of L.A.-based Panic Room Builders. “Website visits and calls are up 1,000 percent.”

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now, has been politicized. So how is it remotely possible to marshal an effective response to a crime wave when people can’t even decide if one is going on?

On the one hand, there’s the Los Angeles Times, which argued in a December 15 story that the supposed crime wave, specifically, reports of a rash of retail invasions, was being overblown. The paper then doubled down with an editorial arguing that the supposed crime wave was fake, designed to thwart DA Gascón’s criminal justice reforms. “A higher level of thinking is in order,” it concluded.

On the other hand, there are folks like Marc Debbaudt, former president of the L.A. Association of Deputy District Attorneys, who after reading the Times’s editorial, went on Facebook to declare it “bullshit.” Or L.A. Police Chief Michel Moore, who in December told the L.A. police commission that there was a “surge” in criminal violence that was “expanding” and that the LAPD needed to “draw particular focus and laser attention” to what he clearly saw as a crisis. Or Jamie McBride, director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, who made national news this fall when he warned tourists not to come to L.A. during Christmas, comparing the city to The Purge movies, in which citizens get one day a year to kill one another without consequences. Granted, McBride, a vocal Trump supporter with an alarming on-duty shooting record and a daughter—also a cop— who is under investigation for shooting an unarmed motorist (six times) in 2020, kind of fits the description of the right-wing fake-news spreader the Times was referring to. But still.

W EA PO N S

At Beverly Hills Guns, shotgun and pistol sales are spiking for a clientele ranging from celebrities to grandmothers who ask, “Do you have something small and concealable?”

At Gun World in Burbank, the most popular is the Glock 9mm (about $600), but gaudier armament, like the Wilson Combat 1911 pistol, about $3,000, is selling too.

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Beverly Hills security firm Omega International Group is “20 times busier than normal,” says CEO David Perez, who is definitely hiring. COVID-19 has thinned the ranks of qualified guards, he says. “I’m calling a lot of people that I haven’t talked to in years.”

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Where’s My Car? VEHICLE THEFTS ARE SURGING IN LOS ANGELES.

IT’S NOT SURPRISING THAT, IN 2021, PEOPLE WANTED TO KILL SOMEONE OR GRAB A CAR AND GO

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anxious. But are we more at risk of being victimized than we were prepandemic? It depends. Violent crime did rise in 2021, but for all the media hype, in some important ways L.A. is safer than it has been in years. There were 2,000 fewer robberies in 2021 than in 2017, and the approximately 12,250 burglaries last year was the lowest annual total since at least 2010. We partnered with the data-driven L.A. news site Crosstown to put some of the crime data in context and see how certain communities are faring.

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to score cheap political points. Fox News, for instance, has for months been portraying Los Angeles as a lawless badlands by airing reports on the supposed disintegration of civilization around the 405, conveniently ignoring the fact that New York, where Fox News broadcasts from, has a nearly identical violent-crime rate.

Before he entered public service—becoming an aide to former county supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky—Joel Bellman covered crime at KBIG-FM and then at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner in the 1980s. His well-informed take on the fear that is choking L.A. at the moment? People need to get a grip.

“We’ve been spoiled for so long with declining crime rates that people are going nuts because they don’t know what a real crime wave looks like anymore,” he says.

Bellman laments the loss of seasoned newsroom editors who were around back during his Examiner days and who could have helped keep these current events in perspective.

“L.A. in the 1980s felt like New York in the 1970s,” he says.

“But people are being whipped into this frenzy even though the crime rates are nowhere near what they were. It feels different because we’re out of practice.”

“ W H AT D O Y O U C A L L a Republican in a big city?” asks

Antonio Villaraigosa. “A Democrat that’s been mugged.”

It’s Christmas Eve and the former mayor is driving around downtown L.A. trying to find a cup of coffee before he heads to a nearby mission to feed the homeless. It’s been nine years since Villaraigosa exited City Hall, leaving behind a mixed legacy. He was known during his two terms as L.A’.s “pop star mayor” because of his love of schmoozing with Hollywood (CO N T I N U E D O N PAG E 70 )

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Somewhere in the middle of these two extremes is Frank Zimring, a law professor and criminologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He reviewed some recent L.A. statistics and arrived at a much more nuanced conclusion. Yes, there’s been an uptick in some criminal activity, but it hasn’t been nearly as explosive as people have been assuming. And it certainly doesn’t match the crime sprees of the 1980s and early 1990s.

“These short-term trends we’re seeing aren’t cheerful, but they’re not terrifying,” Zimring says. “If the annual increases of the last two years continue for another two or three years, it will be a major concern, but there’s no reason to expect that to happen. We should keep watch, but the current situation justifies quiet concern not alarm bells.”

And yet . . . those alarm bells continue to ring—a lot of the time, on people’s phones.

As in many American cities, L.A.’s local news ecosystem has been decimated over the past 20 years as newsroom budgets have been slashed, and that has left an information vacuum.

Social media has, for better or for worse, filled it. Apps like Nextdoor and Citizen—where residents post their own reports of trash fires, stolen bicycles, and vandalized automobiles—have been feeding residents hyperlocal amateur bulletins 24/7, accompanied by Pavlovian alert tones that can wreak havoc on one’s peace of mind.

Mostly, these apps were intended as benign spaces for neighbors to share tips. But there are other more extreme online feeds that obviously have an agenda, which is to portray L.A. as a dystopian hellscape. Spend a few minutes browsing Streets of Los Angeles on Instagram—a caught-on-camera clearinghouse of burning RVs, police shootings, vandalism, muggings, and robberies—and you’ll never want to open your door again. The site has nearly 222,000 followers.

Nor is it just social media that’s been stoking fear and loathing: Some old media players have been dumping on L.A.

G O O D C O P, BA D C O P WHAT COULD MORTAL ENEMIES ALEX VILLANUEVA AND GEORGE GASCÓN POSSIBLY HAVE IN COMMON? HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING. (AND NOTHING.) BY JAS O N M CG A H A N

O N T H E S U R FAC E , they couldn’t be more different. One wears business suits; the other sports a cowboy hat and a badge. One is an indigo-blue progressive; the other has been called “the Donald Trump of L.A.” One says he wants to reform a corrupt and racist criminal justice system; the other claims to be bringing justice to the streets.

But it turns out these two political polar opposites—Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, 67, and Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, 58—have so much in common, they’re practically identical cousins. They don’t laugh alike or walk alike and at no time do they ever talk alike, but they are a crazy pair—the Patty Duke Show of L.A. politics, sharing strikingly parallel personal histories and career trajectories, even as they disagree about virtually everything.

At the moment, both are on paths to the ballot box. Gascón, who beat back a fizzled recall effort in 2021, may well find himself battling another one this year. He was first elected to a four-year term as DA in 2020, riding a wave of anti-law-enforcement resentment into the highest law enforcement office in the county. Hours after he was sworn in, he issued a controversial set of edicts to his prosecutors: From now on, they’d be prohibited from seeking the death penalty, even in the most horrific murder cases, and from charging people younger than 18 as adults no matter what crimes they committed. He also banned cash bail, which he saw as unfairly onerous for lower-income suspects.

At the time, in the wake of the George Floyd slaying and nationwide BLM marches, these sorts of progressive reforms obviously appealed to many in his base and beyond. But how voters I L LU S T R AT E D BY R O B E RT CA RT E R

feel about them now, in 2022, in the midst of an epic crime wave, is something of an open question.

Villanueva, meanwhile, will be up for his second four-year term as sheriff in November. Interestingly, when he ran for the first time in 2018, he too was a progressive, supported by the left wing of the Democratic Party, espousing reforms like body cams on county officers and opposing crackdowns on undocumented immigrants.

But six months after taking office, he was already alarming the liberal coalition that had helped elect him, as he seemed to focus more on the rights of his deputies (for instance, he deactivated several misconduct investigations) than on the new era of police transparency he had promised while campaigning.

Then, last June, Villanueva took an even sharper turn rightward.

He donned a cowboy hat and deployed his deputies to the Venice boardwalk to sweep up the encampments that had been proliferating on the beach. He’s now betting his career that his new hard line on the homeless will be a winning message in 2022, even as it cost him the endorsement of his own party. “Nothing will change your political view more than seeing a homeless person defecate on your front lawn,” he told me last September, as he toured a homeless encampment in Brentwood. “That will alter your entire universe.”

Even though neither of these politicians will be running against each other, they nevertheless present Los Angeles with as stark a choice as any head-to-head matchup in any election. How voters choose, even if it’s not directly between them, will in large measure determine which way L.A. goes on what’s shaping up to be the most critical issue of the day: crime and punishment. Will Angelenos continue to embrace a progressive DA who wants to L A M AG . C O M 6 7

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empty the city’s overcrowded jails and prisons? Will they give another term to a tough-talking sheriff whose zero-tolerance policies toward street crime and homelessness will surely fill them right back up? Or will they split the difference and keep—or reject— them both? All those questions will eventually be answered at the polls. But what will remain a mystery, no matter who wins or loses, is how such shockingly similar men with such remarkably similar biographies ended up on such different sides of the political divide. Just like Patty and Cathy, they’re two of a kind, one pair of matching bookends, different as night and day. And they can definitely make you lose your mind.

L E T ’ S B E G I N W I T H the obvious parallels: Both men grew up on Caribbean islands. Gascón was born in Cuba before immigrating to California; Villanueva was born in Chicago before his family moved to Puerto Rico. In young adulthood, they both joined the U.S. military— Gascón, the Army; Villanueva, the Air Force. Eventually, they both started careers in law enforcement in L.A., Gascón as a beat cop in the L.A. Police Department and Villanueva as a deputy in the sheriff ’s department. Early on, they both patrolled L.A.’s East Side.

Gascón’s rise through the department was methodical. He was promoted from patrol officer to sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and, finally, to commander, earning a law degree from Western State College along the way. In 2000, then-chief Bernard Parks, an old-school law enforcement fixture, gave Gascón command of the LAPD training unit. This was just before the infamous Rampart scandal—in which Los Angeles’s elite anti-gang unit was exposed as a bunch of evidence-planting, narcotics-dealing, suspect-beating thugs—pushed Parks out of office.

Gascón applied to be Parks’s replacement but was passed

over. Instead, LAPD’s new chief, in 2003, would be William Bratton, New York City’s former top cop who, under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, administered the so-called broken windows policing policy, in which even the most minor offenses were punished as harshly as the law would allow. Bratton made Gascón assistant chief of police in charge of operations, effectively the No. 2 job in the department, gushingly describing Gascón as his “crime fighter” and comparing him to General Patton (presumably to Bratton’s Eisenhower).

In 2006, Gascón left the LAPD when he was hired as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona, where he found himself frequently clashing with the Maricopa County sheriff—that would be future Trump supporter and pardon recipient Joe Arpaio—over Arpaio’s immigration sweeps of Latino neighborhoods.

But Gascón didn’t stay in Arizona long.

In 2009, he returned to California to become San Francisco’s chief of police.

Then, in 2011, he was appointed the city’s district attorney by outgoing mayor Gavin Newsom (who’d just been elected governor), replacing outgoing District Attorney Kamala Harris (who’d just been elected a U.S. senator). Gascón’s reign in San Francisco was, in many ways, a preview of his tenure in LA. He advocated for abolishing cash bail and for more lenient drug laws. (In fact, he retroactively overturned every marijuana conviction in the city since 1975.) He also coauthored statewide Proposition 47, the now super-controversial provision that downgraded theft of under $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor. Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, property crime in San Francisco skyrocketed 37 percent during his tenure.

In any other election year, Gascón might not have stood a chance to become L.A.’s district attorney. But 2020 was a perfect opportunity for a liberal firebrand, and Gascón’s reputation as a law enforcement reformer made him an attractive candidate during the racial and social reckoning that inspired the Defund the Police movement after George Floyd’s murder. Backed by big-dollar donations from liberal supporters (including Fox News bogeyman George Soros), Gascón handily defeated incumbent Jackie Lacey. And he wasted not a second in implementing his new reformist agenda. Literally as he was being sworn in—his wife, Univision anchor Fabiola Kramsky, held the copy of the Constitution—an email was being sent to Gascón’s 400 prosecutors announcing his intention to scrap enforcement of scores of laws, from special circumstances for murder to the three-strikes rule to extra penalties for gang crimes. A sizable number of his staffers—and the city’s citizens—were shocked by the swiftness of his actions. Some tried to sue him.

“I believe our footprint should be reduced,” he says, explaining his law enforcement philosophy. “I mean, even under my directives, we still prosecute many cases that should never see the inside of a courtroom. We arrest people who should never be arrested.”

Not surprisingly, there was blowback. Along with the suit brought against him by some of his colleagues, Gascón’s critics

L . A . LAW M A N GEORGE GASCÓN’S REP AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT REFORMER MADE HIM AN ATTRACTIVE CANDIDATE AFTER GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER IN 2020.

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launched a recall. Luckily for the new DA, though, that recall turned out to be a circus. It quickly splintered into competing groups, with infighting between breakaway factions sucking up all the energy.

The movement did draw a few big-name sponsors, including a very enthusiastic supporter named Alex Villanueva, who even attended a press conference launching the effort. But it ultimately failed to gather the 580,000 signatures needed to set a recall in motion. In fact, it barely squeezed out 200,000.

A second recall movement is in the works, however, and with crime now the No. 1 issue for a growing number of Angelenos, this one may well find more traction. “There is a new movement afoot,” says Villanueva, who still supports the Recall Gascón effort.

“There’s been new, more-efficient fundraising. A much better effort than the first time. The pros are taking over. I think it will work this time around.”

I F G A S CÓ N STA R T E D H I S political career as Bratton’s Patton and ended up becoming something more like L.A.’s Gandhi, then Villanueva began as Gandhi only to end up as something more like Patton.

Villanueva spent his early years in the sheriff’s department, which patrols where the LAPD does not—unincorporated county land and some 40 contract cities—in a variety of roles, including drill instructing at the Sheriff’s Academy, supervising at the women’s jail in Lynwood, and serving as a watch commander at the Pico Rivera Station. He also spent some time at California State University in Long Beach as an adjunct professor of criminal justice. Among his most notable accomplishments as a young deputy: spearheading a 1988 drive to ban smoking in the Los Angeles County jail system.

But just as the Rampart police scandal lit the fuse on Gascón’s ambition, a scandal at the sheriff’s department set in motion Villanueva’s rise. In 2014, thensheriff Lee Baca and numerous other department officials were indicted on federal corruption charges and sentenced to prison. Former Long Beach police chief Jim McDonnell—who, in the early 2000s, happened to be Gascón’s predecessor as LAPD’s chief of operations—was elected to clean house as the new sheriff.

Villanueva, though, thought McDonnell was a disappointment and saw himself as a better fit to broom out corruption. He challenged McDonnell in the 2018 election and, for the first time in a century, an incumbent L.A. sheriff was defeated.

At first, Villanueva did indeed look like a genuine reformer.

He got $35 million in funding to put body cameras on deputies across the county, and he kicked federal ICE agents out of county jails and courts, where they’d been trawling for undocumented immigrants. But there’s been plenty to criticize as well. Reports of excessive force continue to plague the department—they prompted the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to call for Villanueva’s resignation in 2020 (after the sheriff refused to appear before the board) and triggered a 2021 investigation by California’s then-attorney general, Xavier Becerra. Villanueva’s

U RBA N COW BOY “NOTHING WILL CHANGE YOUR POLITICAL VIEW MORE THAN SEEING A HOMELESS PERSON DEFECATE ON YOUR FRONT LAWN,” SAYS SHERIFF ALEX VILLENUEVA.

handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has also raised some eyebrows. The same health nut who once banned smoking from county jails has for some reason been unwilling to enforce statemandated vaccine requirements in his department.

Still, the notion that he’s the “Donald Trump of L.A.”—that he’s changed his stripes since he ran as a reformist in 2018, before he started sweeping Venice of homeless people—clearly makes him bristle.

“That’s an invention of the far left to try to cast aspersions on me,” he says of the nickname. “But I’m not going to be pigeonholed. I’ve got death threats from the left and from the right, which tells me I’m right where I need to be.”

Villanueva—who faces a crowded field of candidates in his upcoming race for reelection, including the spectacularly named Cecil Rhambo, currently LAX Airport police chief and Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna—insists he hasn’t left the Democratic Party, that it’s the Democratic Party that’s left him.

“Remember,” he says, “a progressive in 2018 is not a progressive in 2021.

Somewhere along the way, they drank the woke Kool-Aid after the George Floyd thing, and they became ‘Let’s defund law enforcement’ and all this weird stuff. That’s that crop today.”

Not at all surprisingly, his identical cousin has an altogether different take on which way the political winds are blowing.

“When people get offended about defunding the police,” Gascón says, “my comeback is always, ‘Nobody was offended when we defunded public education. We defunded public health, we defunded mental health. Nobody was offended by it. So I am not offended by the term.”

What a wild duet, indeed. Villanueva has seen the sights a sheriff can see from La Habra Heights. Gascón has been most everywhere, from Eagle Rock to Pershing Square. And between them, Los Angeles’s future may well hang in the balance.

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progressives (like DA Gascón) to office in 2020, had been an abject failure. Equally unsurprisingly, Breed’s base—or at least what used to be her base—were infuriated by her reversal.

“London Breed is deploying police in high-end areas, near a Louis Vuitton store, which is intended to make white people feel safe,” says Melina Abdullah, professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and a cofounder of the L.A. chapter of Black Lives Matter. ”I came of age in the 1990s when my friends were getting killed every week. I remember those crime waves, and that’s not what we’re seeing or feeling despite the narrative being put forth by the pro-police forces. What’s different now is the police have become more skilled at constructing narratives.”

But here’s the point: If even the super-progressive mayor of deep-blue San Francisco is sensing a change in the political winds when it comes to law-enforcement policy, then the same can certainly happen in L.A. In fact, to some degree, it already has. After calling for LAPD budget cuts in the past

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celebrities and his high-profile romantic entanglements. (For what it’s worth, he also boosted public transit and revitalized downtown.) Given the state of things today, he’s feeling better about the shape he left the city in. He’s recently been advising Congresswoman Karen Bass on her mayoral campaign, and he’s aware that the city’s homeless crisis and spike in crime will be central to the race.

Of course, L.A. isn’t the only city where crime is having an impact on politics. New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, a former cop, spent his first 48 hours in office reiterating his campaign pledges of bringing safety back to the streets of New York, which experienced a spike in shootings and homicides last year. Next year’s race for California attorney general—the state’s top cop—will also likely center on these issues. Anne Marie Schubert, the district attorney of Sacramento County and one of the prosecutors who helped convict the Golden State Killer, is already hammering incumbent Rob Bonta, an appointee of Governor Gavin Newsom, for being too soft on crime. That race could end up being a close one.

Perhaps the most stunning political turnaround came in December, when San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Black progressive in arguably the most liberal city in America, made an abrupt about-face. After pledging last February to divert $120 million that had been earmarked for law enforcement to helping the city’s Black communities with social workers and other nonpolice services, Breed changed her mind. In a fiery, expletive-laden press conference, she endorsed an extraordinary emergency police intervention in the drug- and crime-riddled Tenderloin neighborhood. San Francisco, Breed said, needed to be “less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”

Naturally, Fox News seized on her comments as proof that the Defund the Police movement, which had sprung up in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and carried a number of

A DEEP DIVE INTO THE LAPD

B E H I N D T H E BA D G E W H E N C R I M E H A P P E N S in L.A., the Los Angeles Police Department is usually the first

to respond. But a long history of racial and corruption scandals has left the LAPD under constant scrutiny. Ever since the George Floyd protests in 2020, activists have mounted a campaign calling on city leaders to defund the police, arguing that the force unfairly targets low-income people of color. But an equally vocal group of Angelenos insists that a larger force is needed to protect us against a rising tide of violence. How diverse is the police force, how trigger-happy are its officers, and how does it measure up against law enforcement in other major cities? Jon Regardie dug through the latest data to find out.

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$1.76 billion

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The department operates out of four geographic bureaus

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Salaries: $1.66 billion (sworn and civilian staff)

2020-21 Moore is a 40-year veteran of the department. He was tapped

by Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2018 to be the LAPD’s 57th chief. He could be appointed to a second five-year term in 2023 . . . if the next mayor wants him.

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Thirty-six LAPD employees made more than $100,000 just in overtime last year. That includes an unidentified officer who supplemented his or her nearly $142,000 base salary with $152,000 in overtime.

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That includes 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was killed by a ricocheting bullet in a North Hollywood Burlington dressing room as police shot at an assailant who had attacked people with a bicycle lock. The 39 incidents are up from 27 in 2020, during which 14 people were hit by gunfire and eight died.

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few years, several city council members, including Paul Koretz and Paul Krekorian, used their own district’s funds to pay for increased police presence and will soon be voting on a proposal for a 12 percent bump to the LAPD’s budget. Newsom has also pledged $300 million statewide to help combat retail theft. But the real measure of how much crime has impacted L.A. politics will obviously come in November, when the city will choose its next mayor. Currently, Bass, a popular six-term congresswoman, is the front-runner in that race, but if conditions don’t improve, that could leave plenty of room for more law-and-order candidates to take the lead—like council member Joe Buscaino, a former cop who has promised to boost the LAPD force to 11,000 members if elected. And that guy who installed barbed wire around the Grove could also prove a formidable candidate, if he actually decides to run.

“You had the city council and the mayor embracing the defunding of cops, which sent the wrong message,” says Caruso, sounding like he’s testdriving a stump speech. “We have a DA’s office that has delayed criminal hearings and eliminated bail and many other crimes. The mayor and city council need to take a big dose of responsibility for not doing much to correct it.”

On his way to feed the homeless at the soup kitchen, Villaraigosa warns his future successor, whomever it may be, that there may be no other issue at all when people start casting their votes this fall. “People had the luxury of beating me up about it because the city was safe,” he says. “But when it’s not safe, it’s the only thing people think about. You can’t have chaos and that’s what we have.”

A RECE N T V I R A L V I D EO , SH OT AT A R I T E A I D I N V E N I CE , SH OWS A WO M A N W I E L D I N G A PICKAX AS SHE DRAGS HER SHOPPING CART AROUND THE STORE.”

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but according to the latest crime stats from the LAPD, thieves are less interested in your wallet than your wheels. While most robberies have dipped over the past two years, car thefts have exploded: 24,000 cars went missing last year—a 50 percent increase over 2019.

The spike began during the pandemic, when locked-down Angelenos left their vehicles sitting idle in the street. But even as the economy reopened and people began driving again, car thefts, uh, accelerated. According to an analysis of LAPD data, the wave of auto thefts reached its apex last October, when 2,379 autos were stolen from city streets. The pre-virus high in the last decade was in January

2017, when 1,797 vehicles went missing.

What cars are most coveted by auto thieves? Not the ones you think. Latemodel Beemers and Teslas come equipped with high-tech anti-theft systems that deter all but the most committed criminals. Instead, says LAPD Chief Michel Moore, the most vulnerable cars in the city are Kias from the 1980s, Hyundais from the late 1990s, and especially Hondas from the early aughts. The ignition system on these aging imports makes them easy marks (adding unfortunate new meaning to the Honda’s old “We Make it Simple” ad campaign). As Moore told the police commission recently, “Those three makes are easily defeated with what’s known as a shaved key, or a shank.”

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A R E C E N T V I R A L video, taken at a Rite Aid in Venice Beach in December, shows a woman wielding a pickax as she drags her shopping cart around the store. As she shouts a series of expletives, customers can be seen entering and exiting the pharmacy, barely giving her a glance. Other customers can be seen browsing the aisles or standing in the checkout line, seemingly unperturbed by a woman with a deadly weapon shouting at the top of her lungs.

Around the same time, a CVS in Hollywood was ransacked

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by over 100 looters, who fled the scene as quickly as they came. Witnesses describe a similarly banal tableau. A custodian gently swept up the mess outside, as pharmacy workers waited for the police to arrive (it took 30 minutes). Shoppers didn’t wait; they were already back inside, browsing the aisles. Nobody seemed particularly surprised, or even disturbed, by what had happened.

This is where we are in L.A. right now—scared, confused, upset, but also shockingly inured to what’s become of our city. And not just our city, but the whole of America, where even those sworn to uphold the law (and the Constitution) sometimes seem to have nothing but contempt for it. No big deal, nothing to see here.

If you happen to own one of these brands, we suggest you steer clear of downtown. That neighborhood reported more car thefts—973—than any other.

Koreatown, Westlake, Van Nuys, and Hollywood followed close behind. But the city’s undisputed car-theft capital remains Boyle Heights, which experienced more car thefts in the past decade than any place in the city.

People steal cars for a variety of reasons—some are shipped to Mexico or flipped to unsuspecting buyers; others are stripped for parts. But according to Moore, most of L.A.’s car thieves are driven by more pedestrian concerns—they just need a free ride across town. “We’re seeing repeated arrests of individuals who

“People have lost faith in institutions, whether it’s the government, universities, or law enforcement,” notes Meghan Daum, a former columnist at the L.A. Times and author of the book The Problem with Everything: My Journey Though the New Culture Wars.

It’s not just crime that has worn down American resolve: The U.S. is expected to blow past 900,000 COVID-related deaths in the coming months, and yet there are still debates over vaccines and masking. The net worth of a handful of billionaires grew by more than $3.6 trillion in the last year, and yet 100 million people across the globe fell into extreme poverty. The world can seem cold and indifferent and spectacularly unfair, and it’s precisely that sort of environment, perhaps more than anything else, that breeds crime.

“It’s a mix of people’s survival instinct and the ‘I want to get mine’ moment that we’re in,” Daum says. “People are trying to protect themselves by buying crypto or buying a gun or hoarding canned goods. It does seem like we’re in a ‘choose your own reality’ moment.”

And it’s impacting everyone, from janitors at Rite Aid to the planet’s biggest celebrity. “The world is upside down,” Oprah Winfrey tweeted when she heard the news about her friend Jacqueline being murdered in her home in Beverly Hills.

Back in Pacific Palisades, residents are all too aware of the brazen stickup at that holiday party that occurred in their neighborhood. But they’ve chosen not to comment on it, at least not for publication. Maybe it’s to avoid embarrassing the hosts and exacerbating an already uncomfortable situation. Or perhaps, like those shoppers at Rite Aid and CVS, they have simply grown habituated to the scary world we now live in. Or maybe they are simply trying to will it away, as if it never happened, because in this highly privileged enclave, events like that are never supposed to happen.

Except, for now, they clearly do.

are in a similar-type vehicle, and using these vehicles essentially for transportation,” Moore told L.A.’s police commission, adding that many of the city’s stolen vehicles were recovered soon after they went missing.

Not all cars, incidentally, are stolen by breaking into the steering column.

Instead, Moore said, Angelenos who leave their key fobs in their cupholders are a gift to robbers. That makes food delivery drivers an exceptionally tempting target, adds LAPD Assistant Chief Beatrice Grimala, since many vehicle thefts occur when delivery drivers leave their car running on the corner as they drop off your burritos.

California reports more car thefts than any state in the union, with 187,094

vehicles stolen in 2020. Texas, with 93,521, comes in a distant second.

But when measured on a per-capita basis, Los Angeles is not the nation’s top spot for stolen vehicles. That honor belongs to Bakersfield (home of House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy). According to the latest report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, Bakersfield has led the state in car thefts for two consecutive years, with a car theft rate of about 905 per 100,000 residents.

That NICB report lumps Los Angeles in with Long Beach and Anaheim and reports a 2020 theft rate of about 482 per 100,000 residents, which puts the L.A. area at 21st in the country when it comes to finding your ride gone in the morning.

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xposition Park is located at the northern end of South L.A., the point when the city starts to be carved up into block-by-block fiefdoms. Wander a few miles in any direction, and you might encroach on turf claimed by Bloods, Crips, Treces, Hoover Criminals, MS-13, or one of the deputy gangs of the L.A. County Sheriff ’s Department, currently under investigation by the state of California.

On the cold Saturday evening of December 18, the 160-acre urban park hosts a one-day music festival called Once Upon A Time in L.A. Tens of thousands pay $160 each (plus surcharges) to hear the last 50 years of Southern California soundtracks blended together: vintage lowrider soul, ’90s G-funk, new millennium rap, and the next-generation of artists creatively indebted to the West Coast’s most original stylist in a quarter century, Drakeo the Ruler.

It had been a little over a year since the 28-year-old South L.A. rapper, born Darrell Caldwell, walked free from the Compton courthouse, swapping a black jail jumpsuit for designer clothes, dazzling jewelry, and a stack of blue-face hundreds, having beaten first-degree murder charges that carried a possible life sentence. We first became close during his nearly threeyear incarceration. At first, Drakeo kept calling in the hopes that I would tell the world about his wrongful persecution. But, eventually, over hundreds of hours on the phone, the working relationship evolved into a deep friendship, and journalistic considerations became secondary to human ones.

The festival is slated to mark his second official performance in L.A. since leaving Men’s Central Jail, a dream ritually imagined during those endless carceral midnights of the soul: a hometown show, a $50,000 payday, and the chance to prove that he is the best rapper in his city. Toward the end of Al Green’s set, I head to the artists’ area, a village of trailers behind the main stage, to meet Drakeo and his crew, the Stinc Team. Compared to the teeming festival grounds, all-access is sleepy. Most acts are in their forties or beyond, which means that they’re here for the paycheck, not the party.

There are two ways to get backstage. The first entrance is through the festival, behind a flimsy chain-link fence manned by a lone security guard. The other is through a checkpoint off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, where the organizers have created a production road and parking lot exclusively for the artists.

It’s maybe 8:30 p.m. when Drakeo’s friend and producer Joog SZN tells me that it’s time to meet Drakeo and his younger brother, Ralfy the Plug, an innovative rapper in his own right.

A half dozen of us, including Joog and his cousin, Ron-Ron the Producer, walk toward Drakeo’s midnight-colored $400,000 Rolls-Royce Dawn.

Lanky poles splash pools of sodium light onto our heads, but large stretches of the grounds remain unlit. You can see what’s right in front of you, but beyond is all gleaming metal and lurking shadows. In retrospect, the lapses of organizational judgment seem flagrant. But you don’t expect to witness a murder after hearing Al Green croon “Tired of Being Alone.”

On this night, Drakeo is accompanied by half a dozen friends.

Glowing through a designer balaclava, his eyes reveal genuine excitement. A half million in ice clinks around his neck. We exchange greetings and take a few steps toward the main stage.

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les of late. It may not be the ’90s, when the county regularly eclipsed 1,500 murders a year, but homicide rates are up over 50 percent since 2019. In 2021, nearly 400 people were killed, a 15-year high. Hip-hop is hardly immune. In February 2020, the 20-year-old King of New York, Pop Smoke, was murdered in a home-invasion robbery at a Hollywood Hills Airbnb, allegedly by five Hoover Criminals including a 15-year-old.

A year prior, Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in front of his Marathon clothing store at Crenshaw and Slauson. Over the last several months, the rappers Nfant and Slim 400, both artists of civic renown, were shot dead in separate incidents. No arrests have been made in the killings.

Over the last three decades, gangsta rap has become an integral part of the city’s sonic fabric. Drakeo grew up steeped in this tradition, but self-consciously apart. Like Wu-Tang, E-40, and MF Doom, he’d conceived an entirely new rap language, at once flamboyantly absurd and sniper precise, what he called “lingo bingo.” He might have rapped about guns, drugs, and violence, but he did so with whimsical absurdity and literary flair. Drakeo renamed the extended clips on his rifles after Martin characters with long hair extensions, and called his rivals “Shirleys” (after Shirley Temple). Christening himself “the foreign whip crasher,” he alternated between Simpsons jokes, Neiman Marcus shopping sprees, and tales of his lucrative day job as king of the flockers (local slang for breaking and entering).

His cadences and flow were transformative. Drakeo oozed like mud across a codeine river, scraping counterclockwise against sinister percussion. He called it “nervous music,” later describing it to me as a soundtrack for driving around South L. A. in a $100,000 sedan trailed by enemies. Crossover success eluded him, but he was already a people’s champ to teenagers and twentysomethings south of Pico. A quarter century earlier, Snoop Dogg liberated the West from the classical

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strictures and foundational rhythms of East Coast rap. Now, Drakeo had emerged to liberate the West Coast from the West itself.

A new, widely imitated strain of California noir had arrived.

I first met him in the crumbling county jail just southeast of Chinatown. Shortly after publishing a rave review about his music, I’d received an invite to visit him as he awaited trial on firearms-possession charges. It was late January 2017. A few weeks earlier, the sheriff ’s department had raided his rented condo near LAX, hoping to find the murder weapons used in a December 2016 shooting in Carson. No dirty guns were found, but they turned up plenty of clean ones and arrested everyone on the premises, including Drakeo’s mother and teenage sister.

Over the years, our conversations ranged from outrage about what the judge deemed admissible to his appreciation of FX’s The People v. O. J. Simpson. For all the lyrical violence and larceny, the toughness inherent to his musical persona, there was a fundamental sweetness to him. He could be goofy and shy, rolling his eyes and raising his eyebrows like a silentfilm comic. For an artist so outspoken in his work, he could be oddly sheepish and reticent in person. That is, unless you caught him hysterically ranting about the things he hated: clones imitating his sartorial or rap style; the homicide detectives tormenting him; how the lobster pizza at Berri’s didn’t actually contain real lobster.

Drakeo was introspective, sensitive, and imaginative. He read the encyclopedia as a child, borrowing his alias not from Drake or the semiautomatic Draco pistol, but from the seventh-century Athenian lawgiver known for handing down a set of unusually harsh, draconian, dictates. Drakeo was especially amused by the legislator’s reported demise: showered with cloaks and hats by an adoring throng, he suffocated to death.

the fight seems over. Except for a couple of bruises, nobody appears hurt. Then, out of nowhere, the half dozen antago-

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and Ralfy bound toward the challengers. Six guys wearing ski masks and crimson hoodies square up in a fighter’s stance. A brawl begins.

Instinctively, I figure it’s about to turn into a shootout.

After all, the first song Drakeo recorded after his release was “Fights Don’t Matter,” which had a hook about firing 33 shots instead of throwing hands. Even if his prior felonies barred him from possessing guns, the risks that came with being a flashy L.A. street rapper meant he preferred to be tried by 12 than carried by six. What I didn’t know is that he and his entourage—including his licensed and bonded security guard—had been meticulously searched and stripped of weapons before entering.

Ducking out of the presumptive line of fire, I watch the mayhem from roughly 20 feet away, up on a ridge near a line of tour buses. Flurries of punches are thrown.

It seems to be a fair fight. But several minutes elapse, and festival security is nowhere.

I’ve seen hundreds of police officers tonight, but they’re invisible now. Then, as quickly as it starts, the squabble ends. Drakeo and the Stinc Team start to head toward the stage. For a moment, things seem to be relatively calm.

nists are joined by helter-skelter battalions of 20, almost entirely in red, almost entirely ski-masked, letting loose banshee shrieks of “Whoop” and “Suu Whoop.” It’s hard not to wonder whether that initial confrontation had been a decoy, a Trojan horse to convince Drakeo and the Stinc Team that their rivals would be willing to fight fair. Instead, a mob of 100 swarms them, sprinting nearly up to the spot where Snoop Dogg is supposed to be going on right now. The attack seems planned, strategic, as though reinforcements were waiting in the wings for this moment.

By now, maybe ten full minutes have passed since the first punch. Security and police remain entirely absent from view.

Drakeo and several friends drown in a red riptide of bodies.

A private investigator who later volunteers his services to Drakeo’s family tells them that after reviewing the footage of the melee, he counts 113 taking on seven.

Directly before me, I watch an attacker leap up on a ledge, rip off his mask, beat his chest, and screech with demonic glee.

As if on cue, they all remove their red hoodies, throw them on the ground, and scatter. Seconds later, security and law enforcement arrive, much too late. So do a team of medics, who rush up to a body writhing on the asphalt. It is Drakeo: mask off, blood pouring all over his face and neck. His throat seems partly slit. In the distance, I hear sirens.

Cops form a line separating Drakeo’s entourage from the rest of the all-access area. From what I can see, there is no attempt to secure the backstage to prevent the assailants’ escape. No arrests are made. No one else has been stabbed, although one or two are treated for minor injuries. None of us are questioned as to what we’ve just witnessed.

The panic mounts. “Where is the ambulance? Get him to the hospital!” I watch medics huddled over him, giving him CPR, then electrical cardioversion shocks. The ambulance is taking forever. Everyone is speechless, stunned, enraged, eyes like glowing embers. Finally, the ambulance arrives, and they load Drakeo onto a stretcher and carry him into the red truck—lights flashing, siren on—and off into the night.

My phone has started to blow up.

Someone has tweeted that Drakeo was stabbed in the neck backstage. Twitter is aflame. About 15 feet behind my head, a DJ remains onstage, running through the Southern California songbook to appease the crowd wondering why Snoop still hasn’t gone on. Sublime’s “Santeria” plays like a primitive curse.

My brain feels obliterated: a wobbly trauma reel of stained horror.

Nothing was simple. At 12, he was arrested for shoplifting a dollar from a tip jar in Pasadena. He was shot for the first time at 15, still a freshman at Washington High, walking home from a party near his house, the victim of a random drive-by. Police never caught the shooters. Drakeo started packing after that.

Stints at youth detention camps followed, often related to burglary or gun possession. Police harassment was constant.

At 16, he received a felony strike for shoplifting a bottle of liquor from Ralphs. At 19, he was riding in a friend’s car when sheriff ’s deputies pulled them over and discovered Xanax on the floor. A public defender convinced him to plead guilty to felony sales to avoid serving time.

Rapping predictably offered an escape. His gift became more evident with each freestyle. A 2015 single, “Mr. Get Dough,” found its way to DJ Mustard, then the city’s reigning Midas, whose “remix” and co-sign was all a 21-year-old Drakeo needed to become a sensation. His stellar 2015 debut, I Am Mr. Mosley, led many to view Drakeo as a new-andimproved replacement for Mustard’s established collaborator, YG, a Compton Blood. But then Mustard and Drakeo had a falling-out after the rapper declined to sign to the producer’s label, displaying an independent streak that would mark his career. Numerous million-dollar deals from record labels followed, but he remained wary of the exploitative and phony nature of the industry.

No local prototypes existed for what Drakeo was attempting to do. Rapping about street life in L.A. has historically meant being gang-affiliated. But he adamantly refused to join the Bloods or the Crips, once going so far as to assert that “gangbanging is for losers.” Admittedly, he grew up around Crips and made no secret about where his sympathies lay. But one of the chief rules of gangbanging is that you can choose only one. Drakeo may have worn the occasional blue bandanna, but he would never formally be a part of anything he hadn’t built himself.

As Drakeo’s stature grew, he became a target. Sometimes it seemed his genius was matched only by his stubborn pride.

He neither suffered fools nor tolerated slights, a stance that left him susceptible to petty beefs that should’ve been beneath him.

His sense of loyalty left no middle ground. He was your best friend or your worst enemy, constantly enraged by the fraudulence and inauthenticity that he saw everywhere.

In the summer and fall of 2016, numerous Blood sets declared war on Drakeo and the Stinc Team. Their cars were shot up.

Failed robbery attempts ensued.

Drakeo’s mother’s house was sprayed with bullets. The tension came to a head with the December 2016 shooting of Davion “Red Bull” Gregory, a member of the Inglewood Family Bloods, at an adult pajama party in Carson. No one accused Drakeo of actually pulling the trigger, but given his growing celebrity and the ongoing hostilities, the presence of his brand-new Mercedes SUV at the crime scene made him the prime target for law enforcement.

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In 2009, the 100s section of South L.A., officially called Westmont, had the highest unemployment rate in the county—23.6 percent. A half decade later, the unincorporated labyrinth of low-slung stucco homes, liquor stores, churches, and mortuaries boasted its highest homicide rate too. This is where Drakeo was raised. He barely knew his father. His mother, a warmhearted and devout woman named Darrylene Corniel, worked as a preschool teacher. He once told me that they were the poorest family on their block; old acquaintances remember a four-year-old Darrell telling anyone who would listen, “One day, I’m gonna be rich.”

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WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA This page: The entrance to the Century Plaza Hotel in 1966.

Opposite: The entrance in December 2021.

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For decades, the Century Plaza Hotel was where the famous celebrated: U.S. presidents, astronauts, and movie stars all took their bows there. But time had its way with the old hotel (as it did with many of its patrons), and it was nearly torn down. Now, though, after a $2.5 billion renovation, it’s back M O D E R N E N T R A N C E P H O T O G R A P H E D BY J O E S C H M E L Z E R

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H E N AC T R E S S Diane Keaton was fighting to save the Century Plaza Hotel from the wrecking ball back in the 2000s, she compared the hotel’s curvy shape, set amidst the rectilinear towers of Century City, to a “sexy woman surrounded by ogling men.” She said it was like “Sophia Loren in the 1960s.”

That graceful arc of the famed hotel escaped demolition and has returned this month as one of the most elegant spaces in the city—a 19-story, midcentury modern landmark remade as an international luxury destination. The golden crescent looks smaller now, set at the base of two new, identical 44-story condominium towers, where units will sell for as much as $50 million.

What was once the sprawling ranch of silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became the back lot of 20th Century Fox in 1925.

After that, the Alcoa Corporation, famous for aluminum beer

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cans and cooking foil, put up $43 million for 260 acres of rolling hills and rotting movie sets. Architect Welton Becket, known for the Capitol Records Building, Cinerama Dome, and the Music Center, laid out a new neighborhood of broad boulevards, open plazas, and plenty of aluminum.

Architect Minoru Yamasaki and his fanciful yet formal designs for the Seattle World’s Fair were on the cover of Time magazine in 1963, and the following year (as he began work on the World Trade Center in New York), his arcing hotel broke ground in Century City. Of course, the gold-anodized aluminum across the facade was supplied by Alcoa. The hotel’s curves were captured in movies from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to 9 to 5, Charlie’s Angels to Get Shorty.

Countless celebrities, dignitaries, and glamorous vacationers entered through a lobby full of baroque chandeliers, potted palms, and ruched draperies. Giant, orange, modernist umbrellas shaded visitors on a biomorphic island floating on an outdoor pond.

Themed restaurants—from the Spanish courtyard of the

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This page: The lobby of the Century Plaza Hotel in 1966. Opposite: In the lobby today, the hotel’s restoration architect, Leo Marmol (left), and general manager, Philip Barnes.

Inset photos, clockwise from top left: Actress Lucille Ball and her husband, Gary Morton, at the 1967 Emmy Awards; Betty White, George Burns, and Carol Channing at a United Jewish Fund gala in 1992; the Apollo 11 astronauts pose with President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1969 just before a lavish state dinner hosted at the hotel in the space crew’s honor.

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Granada Grill to the Hong Kong Bar, with its own dragon parade—stretched across a sunken plaza between the porte cochere and a massive fountain. Attendants in British beefeater costumes greeted guests at the doors.

At a benefit for what is now the American Cinematheque, a parade of celebrities, including Dionne Warwick, Diane von Furstenberg, and Henry Winkler at the height of Fonzie-mania, cruised down Avenue of the Stars along with a vintage hearse carrying a print of Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot, a white horse ridden by a George Washington impersonator (it was the nation’s bicentennial), the USC marching band, and Hitch himself arriving in an open-air Universal Studios tour bus.

Lucille Ball won her third Emmy in the ballroom. When the Apollo astronauts returned from the moon, President Nixon feted them in that same space. The hotel has hosted every president since opening in 1966.

Aretha Franklin was one of many singers to shake the walls of the hotel’s showroom. Lou Rawls and Sonny & Cher even M O D E R N L O B BY P H O T O G R A P H E D BY J O E S C H M E L Z E R

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Every U.S. president since Johnson has visited the Century Plaza. Above: Ronald Reagan, on his way, with wife Nancy, to the Presidential Suite, took to calling the hotel the “Western White House.” Right: George W. Bush held a 2003 fundraiser at the hotel that was protested with a pink banner hung from a balcony. Below: Supporters of Barack Obama cheered at an Election Night party in 2008.

Opposite, from top: The hotel manager’s office in 1975; the new California one-bedroom suite.

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recorded live albums there. Casablanca Records introduced the band KISS at the hotel, the day their first album went on sale.

The Century Plaza also became the place to protest, with activists hoping to catch the eye of visiting presidents. The ballrooms, which continue to be L.A.’s biggest, are named after neighborhoods from Hollywood to Pacific Palisades and became the hub of Westside social, political, and celebrity events for decades. A benefit for the Watts Writers Workshop had Tommy Smothers and L.A. Rams star Rosey Grier facing off in a billiards match. Vidal Sassoon, Bob Mackie, Maya Angelou, and Natalie Cole joined up to cook jamabalaya for the audience at a fundraiser. A Don Loper fashion show placed whistles on each table so men could cat call the models as they walked by.

Rat Packer Joey Bishop presided over the first Emmy Awards ceremony held at the hotel, with Frank Sinatra singing, Dick Van Dyke dancing, and Bob Hope telling jokes. At a Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for James Cagney, Sam Peckinpah shouted down presenter Jack Lemmon: “We came here to honor Cagney,” the reportedly inebriated director growled. “Get off the stage!”

Changing ownership, labor disputes, and the loss of cultural amenities—including the Shubert Theatre and ABC Entertainment Center, reached by underground tunnels— took some of the shine away from the hotel at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even with a $30 million renovation, one-star reviews complaining of “filthy carpeting” and “shoddy beds” began populating Yelp. “Times are tough now,” a manager told the New York Times in 2009. “We’re fighting hard to get every piece of business we can get.”

Real-estate mogul Michael Rosenfeld, who owned the Fairmont and Mark Hopkins hotels in San Francisco, had a view of the hotel from his Century City office. That might be one reason his company paid $366.5 million for the property in 2008, just as banks collapsed, markets crashed, and the subprime meltdown caused property values across the country to plummet. Soon, Rosenfeld became convinced that he could no longer rent out rooms in an aging hotel and began working on a plan to replace it with condo towers.

So, in 2009, Diane Keaton and the Los Angeles Conservancy, which had recently lost the battle to save the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, joined with the National Trust for Historic Preservation in an attempt to keep the building standing. The effort picked up steam when the National Trust named the building one of the “11 most endangered places in America” and the city declared the site a HistoricCultural Monument. Rosenfeld eventually agreed to restore the original hotel and incorporate it into a new development with two 44-story towers at a cost of $2.5 billion—more than the adjusted cost of the entire Century City development in the 1960s.

The new version of the Century Plaza includes 394 guest rooms and 63 residences in the original building, and 268 additional residences in the towers. The project, designed by the firms Pei Cobb Freed and Gensler, with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg, includes 100,000 square feet of high-end shopping and restaurants. The elaborate landscapes were overseen by Rios Clementi Hale.

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The restoration of the original building was overseen by Marmol Radziner of Sawtelle. The firm, known for its meticulous restoration of modern masterpieces by Richard Neutra and John Lautner, is also known for doing whatever it takes to bring buildings back to their original glamour.

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For the Kaufmann house in Palm Springs, the architects convinced the long-closed rock quarry that supplied the house’s original stone to let them mine matching pieces.

We’re very proud of the fact,” Leo Marmol told the Wall Street Journal, “that the building looks virtually exactly as it did when it was completed in 1966.”

Every room has floor-to-ceiling glass doors opening onto balconies with aluminum railings and transparent grilles with metal panels pressed to resemble classical egg-and-dart molding that form a crown along the roofline. The original ceiling domes at the elevators and above the lobby have been restored, as has the rooftop penthouse.

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“GUESTS AT THE HOTEL WILL ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO A PRIVATE VALET ENTRANCE, PERSONAL BUTLER SERVICE, AND AN ON-DEMAND MARTINI CART.”

The latest incarnation of the hotel, operated by Fairmont, includes more than three dozen original artworks, a 14,000-square-foot spa, a rooftop bar, and the French brasserie Lumière helmed by chef Ramon Bojorquez, formerly of Trois Mec and Bar Restaurant in Silver Lake. The neoclassical dining room is filled with French antiques. A wood-paneled private dining area is known as the Writer’s Room.

Guests at the reimagined hotel will also have access to what’s known as the “gold hotel” with a private valet entrance, personal butler service, and an on-demand martini cart available as part of turndown service. The concierge staff can arrange

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for helicopter transport and dinner at a winery in Malibu. Man’s best friend is also welcome at the hotel, which has appointed Laurel, a black Labrador, as director of pet relations.

The past, present, and future collide at the modernist landmark, which remembers its history with nods to famous guests over the decades.

Elevators to the pool are named after Sonny Bono; lifts to the spa have been given Cher’s name.

“I am so glad that everyone came together and found a way to preserve this architectural gem,” Keaton said when plans were announced to restore the hotel. “You see? It can be done. Development and preservation are not mutually exclusive.”

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Opposite page: The Granada Grill restaurant, 1966.

This page: the new Lumière Brasserie.

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Don’t miss the beautifully ferocious Devil Chicken curry, amped up by both fresh and dried bird’s eye chiles along with ghost peppers and accompanied by a saucer of habanero vinegar that magically cuts the heat and enhances it at the same time. 2104 Main St., cobis.la, or @cobis.la. Beer and wine.

❂ Colapasta

» Italian $ It’s equally pleasant to grab and go or eat at this quiet, affordable spot that features fresh pastas topped with farmers’ market fare. The colorful, poppy-seed-sprinkled beet ravioli is delicate and delicious, while the gramigna with pesto and ricotta is hearty and satisfying. 1241 5th St., 310-310-8336, or colapasta.com. Beer and wine.

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❂ Crudo e Nudo SANTA MONICA » Seafood $$

Brian Bornemann, the 31-year-old former executive chef at Michael’s Santa Monica, has gone his own way. He and his girlfriend, Leena Culhane, have launched a sustainable neighborhood joint that’s by turns a coffee shop, a seafood market, and a casual restaurant where you can nibble impeccably prepared crudo, tuna tartare toasts, and vegan Caesar salads on the patio while sipping a thoughtfully selected natural wine. Though the project began as a pandemic pop-up, it’s now an exciting brick-andmortar spot from one of the city’s most promising young toques. 2724 Main St., crudoenudo.com, or @crudo_e_nudo. Beer and wine.

❂ Dear John’s CULVER CITY » Steak House $$$

There’s still good times and great food to be had at this former Sinatra hang stylishly revamped

by Josiah Citrin and Hans Röckenwagner. Steakhouse classics—crab Louie, oysters Rockefeller, thick prime steaks—pay homage to the lounge’s Rat Pack past and can be enjoyed on a sunny new patio or to go. 11208 Culver Blvd., 310-881-9288, or dearjohnsbar.com. Full bar.

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❂ Etta

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» Italian $$$

With a sprawling patio, lengthy menu, and various party tricks (the restaurant calls them “moments”), Etta is primed for good times. You can go big and order a $120 short rib “picnic” with various accoutrements for the table or opt to have wine poured into your mouth from a large jug while a server snaps Polaroids. But you can also just pop in for a pizza or excellent pasta at the bar. For dessert, there are shots of tequila and coffee topped with rainbowsprinkled shortbread cookies. 8801 Washington Blvd., ettarestaurant.com, or @ettarestaurant. Full bar.

❂ Felix VENICE » Italian $$$

At Evan Funke’s clubby, floral-patterned trattoria, the rigorous dedication to tradition makes for superb focaccia and pastas. The rigatoni cacio e pepe—tubes of pasta adorned only with Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper—nods to Roman shepherds who used the spice to keep warm, while the rigatoni all’Amatriciana with cured pork cheek sings brilliantly alongside Italian country wines. 1023 Abbot Kinney Blvd., 424-387-8622, or felixla.com. Full bar.

✤ Matū

» Steak $$$ Prolific restaurateur Jerry Greenberg (Sugarfish, Nozawa Bar, KazuNori, Uovo, HiHo Cheeseburger) and his partners are convinced that they serve the world’s best beef, prepared in the most optimal way.

After trying their five-course, $78 Wagyu dinner featuring sustainably raised, 100 percent grass-fed beef from First Light Farms in New Zealand, you might see things their way. Magnificently marbled steaks are cooked to “warm red,” which is the color of rare and the temperature of medium rare. The result is meat that’s tender, luscious, and strikingly beefy. 239 S. Beverly Dr., matusteak.com. Full Bar.

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❂ Mírame

BEVERLY HILLS » Mexican $$$ Joshua Gil is cooking exciting, contemporary Mexican fare with market-driven ingredients and serving them on a stunning patio. Dishes are imaginative but not overly contrived—salmon-skin chicharrón with fermented garlic aioli; a divine slow-cooked Heritage Farms pork shoulder served with a black-lime gastrique, celtuce, and hearty, richly flavorful frijoles charros cooked with a pig’s head. The latter is available as part of Mírame’s to-go family meal, which includes house-made tortillas; a memorable riff on Caesar salad with pork chicharrón, roasted vegetables and goat cheese; chocolate flan; and an adorable little bottle of margaritas. At just $105 for two people, it’s an amazingly affordable way to sample Gil’s cooking. 419 N. Canon Dr., 310230-5035, mirame.la, or @mirame.la. Full bar.

❂ Ospi VENICE » Italian $$$

Jackson Kalb’s sprawling new Italian joint brings bustle and outdoor tables to a corner on an otherwise quiet stretch. Pastas, including a spicy rigatoni alla vodka and raschiatelli with a pork rib ragù, are sublime, and most travel remarkably well if you’re looking to takeout, which is the only option for lunch. Roman-style pizzas boast a uniquely crispy, cracker-thin crust; to get the full crunch, have a slice as you drive your takeout home. 2025 Pacific Ave., 424-443-5007, ospivenice.com, or @ospiveni. Full bar.

❂ Pasjoli

» French $$$$ Dave Beran’s à la carte spot bucks the trends and eschews bistro clichés in favor of old-fashioned thrills—an elaborate pressed duck prepared just as Escoffier would have and served with potatoes au gratin dauphinois—and modern French fare. The showy duck must be reserved in advance as only a limited number of birds are available each night. But there are plenty of other exciting dishes on the menu, such as the chicken liver in brioche and a complex lobster, mussel, and clam bisque with shaved fennel and tarragon. 2732 Main St., 424-330-0020, or pasjoli.com. Full bar.

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❂ Sant’olina BEVERLY HILLS » Mediterranean $$$

The buzzy h.wood Group has taken over the rooftop at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to launch this breezy pop-up that’s likely to become a permanent fixture.

Tables with views are topped with blue-and-white linens, and the menu is full of crowd-pleasing dishes: babka french toast for brunch, harissa-cured salmon, a lamb burger for dinner, or various Middle Eastern dips for any time of day. The culinary team includes h.wood’s Michael Teich and David Johns, along with Burt Bakman of the beloved barbecue joint Slab. 9876 Wilshire Blvd., 310-285-1260, santolinabh.com, or @santolinabh. Full bar.

DOWNTOWN ❂ Angry Egret Dinette CHINATOWN » Sandwiches $$

Wes Avila has left Guerrilla Tacos and is focusing on torta-esque sandwiches at this heartfelt new venture. Standouts include the Saguaro with tempura-fried squash blossoms, heirloom tomato, market greens, ricotta cheese, and salsa macha. It’s hearty and decadent but also wonderfully nuanced.

There’s ample outdoor seating, but sandwiches with fried ingredients miraculously manage to remain crispy and travel well. 970 N. Broadway, Ste. 114, 213278-0987, aedinette.com, or @angryegretdinette.

Badmaash

HISTORIC CORE » Indian $$ This Indian gastropub concept comes from the father-and-sons team of Pawan, Nakul, and Arjun Mahendro, who are all well versed in the culinary techniques of East and West. The menu features contemporary mash-ups, like a version of poutine smothered in chicken tikka, tandoori chicken wings, and a spicy lamb burger. If tradition’s your thing, you’ll be comforted by spice-stewed chickpeas, potato and pea samosas, and what they call Good Ol’ Saag Paneer. 108 W. 2nd St., 213-2217466, badmaashla.com, or @badmaashla. Beer and wine.

Also at 418 N. Fairfax Ave., 213-281-5185, Fairfax District.

✤❂ Caboco

ARTS DISTRICT » Brazilian $$ Rodrigo Oliveira and fellow chef/partner Victor Vasconcellos are here to show Los Angeles that there’s a lot more to Brazilian food than churrascarias, so they’re serving habit-forming fried tapioca cubes and a vegan stew (moqueca de caju) headlined by cashew fruit that’s startlingly complex. Wash it all down with refreshing caipirinhas—the bar makes no less than five different kinds. 1850 Industrial St., 213-405-1434, cabocola.com, or @caboco.la. Full bar.

✤❂ Caldo Verde ARTS DISTRICT » Portuguese $$$

Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne have opened a Portuguese cousin to their beloved Spanish-infused A.O.C. The restaurant loads up its namesake seafood stew with a generous amount of local rock crab, grilled linguica, mussels, kale, and potato. It’s a tremendous example of the rough-and-tumble food that Goin loves—dishes in which she deftly balances salt, fat, and bold flavors with California brightness. A starter of Iberico ham, anchovies, and olives is called “a small plate of salty favorites” because Goin understands that you visit restaurants to be jolted and enjoy food that’s a bit more intense than what you typically eat at home. 1100 S. Broadway, 213-806-1023, properhotel.com/downtownla, or @caldoverde_dtlap. Full bar.

❂ Cha Cha Chá ARTS DISTRICT » Mexican $$

The huge, lively, plant-filled rooftop and some mezcal would be enough for a good night out at this Mexico City import, but chef Alejandro Guzmán, an alum of Le Comptoir, has packed his menu with quiet thrills. Carnitas get taken up a level by an orange reduction that comes at the end of the long

cooking process. For dessert, the carrot flan is a small revelation, a surprising, exciting riff on carrot cake. The newly opened interior bar, La Barra, offers up unique mezcal cocktails. 812 E. 3rd St., 213548-8487, or chachacha.la. Full bar.

❂ Gamboge

LINCOLN HEIGHTS » Cambodian $ The Cambodian sandwiches known as numpang, which are somewhat similar to Vietnamese banh mi, are the speciality at this charming new deli. Crusty bolillo bread is a vessel for proteins like lemongrass-marinated pork shoulder or grilled trumpet mushrooms, along with condiments like Maggi mayo, chili jam, and carrot-and-papaya slaw. The menu is full of delights beyond sandwiches, including rice bowls; a great shredded chicken salad with cabbage, peanuts, and a citrus-and-fish-sauce dressing; and a memorable braised-sardines-and-tomato dish.

Order food to go, or enjoy it on the sunny, succulentdotted back patio. 1822 N. Broadway, 323-576-2073, gambogela.com, or @gambogela. Beer and wine.

❂ Girl & the Goat ARTS DISTRICT » Eclectic $$$

At long last, Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard has brought her hit Chicago restaurant to a light, airy space and pretty patio in downtown L.A. with seating for 200. The lengthy menu is full of international intrigue and the unexpected flavor combinations Izard is known for. Roasted beets mingle with blackberries and a yuzukosho vinaigrette. A salmon poke features chili crunch, avocado, and strawberry. Goat makes an appearance in both a liver mousse starter and a hearty curry main. 555-3 Mateo St., 213-799-4628, girlandthegoat.com, or @girlandthegoatla. Full bar.

CENTRAL ❂ Alta Adams WEST ADAMS » California Soul Food $$

Riffing on his grandmother’s recipes, Watts native Keith Corbin loads up his gumbo with market veggies and enlivens his collard greens with a smoked oil. Soul food in this city is too often associated with Styrofoam containers, but this verdant patio, is a lovely place to linger. Hot sauce splashed onto skillet-fried chicken is pure pleasure, enhanced by a bourbon drink the bar tints with roasted peanuts and huckleberries. Finish the night by taking on a heroic wedge of coconut cake. 5359 W. Adams Blvd., 323-571-4999, or altaadams.com. Full bar.

❂ A.O.C.

BEVERLY GROVE » California $$$ Unforced and driven by culinary excellence, A.O.C. is anchored by a courtyard with soft sunlight and laurel trees. Caroline Styne’s wine list doesn’t shy away from the ecology of vineyards, while Suzanne Goin’s cooking has become indispensable.

Carefully constructed salads showcase vegetables at their best, and the roasted chicken with panzanella is both an homage to San Francisco’s Zuni Café and a classic in and of itself. 8700 W. 3rd St., 310-859-9859, or aocwinebar.com. Full bar. Also at 11648 San Vicente Blvd.,310-806-6464, Brentwood.

✤ Bicyclette

» French $$$ Walter and Margarita Manzke’s delightful, delicious follow-up to République brings a bit of Paris to Pico Boulevard. The menu is stocked with exactingly executed bistro standards: onion soup with oozy cheese, hearty short rib bourguignon, and a luxurious bouillabaisse. Margarita's textbook baguettes and beautiful desserts are as great as ever. Resisting Bicyclette’s charms is futile. 9575 W. Pico Blvd., bicyclettela.com. Full bar.

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kitchens and top local restaurants like Providence, brings boundless imagination to his pies. They’re topped with premium ingredients—Jidori chicken, Sungold tomatoes, Spanish octopus—in exciting combinations. A curry-Dijonnaise dressing renders a side salad surprisingly memorable.

5881 Saturn St., Faircrest Heights, 323-306-4968, or brandoni-pepperoni.com. Wine to go.

❂ Gigi’s

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» French $$$

the bourbon bread pudding will leave you with a Sazerac-worthy buzz. 2920 W. Jefferson Blvd., 323-735-9023, or haroldandbelles.com. Full bar.

✤ Horses

With its sceney Sycamore Avenue location and gorgeous, illustration-lined interiors, Gigi’s could easily succeed with subpar fare. But chef Matt Bollinger’s bistro classics—like curry mussels, steak tartare, and roasted chicken—are done quite well, if priced rather high. The wine list from beverage director Kristin Olszewski, an Osteria Mozza alum, is surprisingly interesting, with various natural and biodynamic options on offer. 904. N. Sycamore Ave., gigis.la, or @gigis_la. Full bar.

❂ Hanchic KOREATOWN » Korean $$

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This new K-town spot infuses Korean dishes with Italian elements to create uniquely craveable dishes. Tagliatelle is tossed with kimchi and pork.

A decadent spin on mac ’n’ cheese features both Korean rice cakes and elbow pasta coated in tangy Mornay sauce that’s been infused with fermented soybean paste. 2500 W. 8th St., Ste. 103, hanchic.co, or @hanchic.la.

Harold & Belle’s JEFFERSON PARK » Southern Creole $$

HOLLYWOOD » Eclectic $$$ Versatile power-couple chefs Liz Johnson (who earned extensive national acclaim at Freedman’s) and Will Aghajanian (formerly the chef de cuisine at Vespertine) have created a lively California bistro that feels both old-school and of the moment.

Located in the red-boothed space that was home to Ye Coach & Horses, the restaurant exudes vintage Hollywood glamour. The mostly European-inspired menu is rooted in both classic technique and freespirited cooking. A sobrassada panino with white American cheese and a drizzle of honey is thin, crispy, sweet, savory, creamy, and spicy: an extremely pleasing little bite. Lumache pasta with vodka sauce gets an unexpected and delightful kick from ’nduja.

7617 Sunset Blvd., horsesla.com, @horsesonsunset. Full bar.

For Creole-style food—a mélange of French, African, and Native American flavors—Harold & Belle’s is as close to the Dirty Coast as you’ll come on the West Coast. The crawfish étouffée in spicy gravy will have you humming zydeco, while

» Ethiopian $-$$ The strip of Fairfax known as Little Ethiopia has long been dominated by the same handful of restaurants. Chef-owner Tenagne Belachew worked in a few of them before opening her own sophisticated haven, which invites with the swirling aromas of berbere and burning sage. Stretchy disks of injera—the sour, teff-flour pancake that doubles as a utensil for scooping up food by hand—arrive piled with uniquely pungent delights. There are wots, or stews, made with chicken or spiced legumes or lamb sautéed in a creamy sauce. 1025 S. Fairfax Ave., 323-965-1025, or lalibelala.com. Beer and wine.

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Luv2Eat Thai Bistro HOLLYWOOD » Thai $$

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favorite from two Phuket natives. The crab curry, with a whole crustacean swimming in a creamy pool of deliciousness, is not to be missed (it travels surprisingly well), but the expansive menu is full of winners, from the massaman curry to the Thai fried chicken with sticky rice and sweet pepper sauce.

6660 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-498-5835, luv2eatthai.com, or @luv2eat.thaibistro.

❂ Ronan

FAIRFAX DISTRICT » Cal-Italian $$ At Daniel and Caitlin Cutler’s chic pizzeria, the pies—especially the How ‘Nduja Like It? with spicy sausage, gorgonzola crema, green onion, and celery—are the clear stars, but it’s a big mistake not to explore the entire menu. It’s filled with delicious delights, from cacio e pepe risotto to a sea bass served with an ever-changing assortment of banchan. 7315 Melrose Ave., 323-917-5100, ronanla.com, or @ronan_la. Full bar.

❂ Son of a Gun BEVERLY GROVE » Seafood $$

Florida-raised chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo deliver a certain brand of sun-drenched seashore nostalgia. Dropping into the nautically themed dining room for chilled peel-and-eat shrimp and a hurricane feels as effortless as dipping your toes in the sand. There are buttery lobster rolls and fried-chicken sandwiches alongside artfully plated crudos. 8370 W. 3rd St., 323-782-9033, or sonofagunrestaurant.com. Full bar.

❂ Soulmate

» Mediterranean $$$ It’s lovely outside, and there’s a stunning new WeHo spot with a patio that can hold 75 attractive people, plus hours that go to midnight on Friday and Saturdays. Starters include various jamones and spicy paella bites. Further down the menu, there’s

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EAST ✤ ❂ Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery PASADENA » Eclectic $$

This low-key charmer—the work of two alums of acclaimed San Francisco Italian joint Flour + Water—deftly mixes midwestern hospitality and European technique. The casual lunch is all about cheese and charcuterie boards and sandwiches. At dinner, excellent pastas, smartly prepared proteins, thoughtfully selected wines, and great cocktails join the party on the spacious patio. 40 W. Green St., 626-389-3839, agnesla.com, or @agnes_pasadena.

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❂ All Day Baby SILVER LAKE » Eclectic $$

Jonathan Whitener’s Here’s Looking At You is, sadly, closed, but his thrilling cooking continues on a bustling Eastside corner. Whether you opt for smoked spare ribs, a hot catfish sandwich, or a breakfast sandwich on pastry chef Thessa Diadem’s sublime biscuits, it’s all great. 3200 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-741-0082, alldaybabyla.com, or @alldaybabyla.

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❂ Bar Restaurant SILVER LAKE » French $$$

Chef Douglas Rankin, who worked under Ludo Lefebvre for years, struck out on his own with this charming “neo bistro” in the old Malo space in Sunset Junction. The menu features playful Gallic-ish fare, like curly fries and plump mussels Dijon atop milk toast; classic cocktails; and plenty of funky wines available by the glass. A large parking-lot seating area has huge plants, twinkling lights, and good vibes. Somehow it manages to feel both festive and safe. 4326 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-347-5557. Full bar.

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Daybird

» Fried Chicken $ This long-anticipated casual chicken concept from Top Chef winner and Nightshade toque Mei Lin is finally open, and it was worth the wait. Lin separates her hot poultry sandwich from the flock of others in the city, thanks to uniquely crispy fried chicken that’s dusted with a memorable, Sichuanpeppercorn- heavy spice blend. A spicy slaw and habanero ranch dipping sauce add to the fun.

240 N. Virgil Ave., Ste. 5, daybirdla.com, or @daybirdla.

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❂ Eszett

SILVER LAKE » Eclectic $$ This stylish, cozy wine bar brings warm hospitality to the strip-mall space formerly occupied by Trois Familia. Chef Spencer Bezaire’s menu deftly brings in flavors from around the globe without feeling overly contrived. Chicken wings are accompanied by salsa macha, grilled Broccolini is dusted with furikake. Don’t miss the big fries. 3510 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-522-6323, or eszettla.com. Beer and wine.

❂ Found Oyster EAST HOLLYWOOD » Seafood $$$

This tiny oyster bar was a pre-pandemic favorite, and chef Ari Kolender’s seafood dishes still thrill when taken to go or enjoyed on the restaurant’s “boat deck.” The scallop tostada with yuzu kosho and basil is a must-order, and a bisque sauce takes the basic lobster roll to new heights. Interesting, affordable wines add to the fun. 4880 Fountain Ave., 323-486-7920, foundoyster.com, or @foundoyster.

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❂ Hippo

HIGHLAND PARK » Cal-Italian $$ Hidden in a wood-trussed dining room behind Triple Beam Pizza, this Cal-Ital restaurant from Mozza vet Matt Molina balances casual and refined. Snappy wax beans are sluiced with vinaigrette for a picnic-worthy salad. Great pastas and juicy grilled chicken thighs deliver the unfussy pleasure found at the best neighborhood spots.

Eclectic regular specials like haute corn dogs add to the fun. 5916 ½ N. Figueroa St., 323-545-3536, or hipporestaurant.com. Full bar.

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The broth is made with pilsner, tomato, and preserved lemon. It's out of this world. $16, 1141 Aviation Blvd., Hermosa Beach, barshalife.com.

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Chawanmushi TSUBAKI

The Japanese egg pudding known as chawanmushi is made just perfectly here, as is everything on the menu.

It's silky and warm and features fresh Dungeness crab. $12, 1356 Allison Ave., Echo Park, tsubakila.com.

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✤ KinKan

VIRGIL VILLAGE » Japanese-Thai $$$$ Nan Yimcharoen became an underground sensation during the pandemic, selling jewel box–like chirashi sushi over Instagram. Now she's got a brick-and-mortar spot serving a Japanese-Thai tasting menu with exquisite courses like slices of bluefin tuna larb gorgeously assembled in the shape of a rose, and a resplendent crab curry with blue butterfly-pea-flower noodles and a sauce powered by innards and roe.

771 N. Virgil Ave. or @kinkan_la. Sake.

✤❂ Moo's Craft Barbecue LINCOLN HEIGHTS » Barbecue $

Some of the best Texas barbecue is actually in L.A. Andrew and Michelle Muñoz’s brisket and beef ribs are meaty bliss that would be taken seriously in Austin. But Moo’s is very much a vital L.A. spot; the Muñozes weave in their Mexican-Angeleno roots with dishes like a cheese-and-poblanofilled pork verde sausage. 2118 N. Broadway, mooscraftbarbecue.com, @mooscraftbarbecue.

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Northern Thai Food Club EAST HOLLYWOOD » Thai $

Offering specialty dishes unique to northern Thailand, this family-run favorite doesn’t skimp on flavor, spice, or authenticity. Tasty takeout meals include the khao soi gai (curry egg noodle with chicken), laab moo kua (minced pork), tam kha noon ( jackfruit salad), and pla salid tod (fried gourami fish). For those unfamiliar with the region’s distinct cuisine, the illustrious sticky rice is still a reliable bet. Need incentive? Everything on the menu is less than $10. 5301 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-4747212, or amphainorthernthaifood.com.

❂ Playita

» Mexican $ The team behind the beloved local chainlet Guisados has taken over an old seafood taco stand on a busy Eastside stretch. The results, as you might

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expect, are delicious and delightful. Playita has a fresh, beachy blue-and-white aesthetic and a tight menu of well-done ceviches, seafood cocktails, and fish tacos. 3143 W. Sunset Blvd., playitamariscos.com, or @playitamariscos.

✤❂ Saso

PASADENA » Spanish $$$ The arrival of this splashy new spot suggests that the good times might soon be here again.

It shares a charming, sprawling courtyard with the Pasadena Playhouse, and the seafood-heavy menu from chef Dominique Crisp, who previously worked at L&E Oyster Bar, begs for reuniting with friends on nice summer nights. Orange zest enlivens jamon iberico crudite, while miso butter takes grilled oysters to new heights. 37 S. El Molino Ave., 626-808-4976, sasobistro.com, or @sasobistro.

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❂ Sōgo Roll Bar LOS FELIZ » Sushi $$

So¯go is hardly the only concept in town devoted to rolls, but it has mastered the form. Rice is cooked with the same careful consideration and seasoning that sushi master Kiminobu Saito uses at the high-end Sushi Note, and it manages to maintain a great temperature and texture, even when being delivered. Fish is not just fresh but also flavorful, each type thoughtfully paired with ideal accompaniments, from a tangy yuzu-pepper sauce that makes salmon sing to brandy-soaked albacore with garlicginger ponzu and crispy onions. 4634 Hollywood Blvd., 323-741-0088, sogorollbar.com, or @sogorollbar.

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❂ Spoon & Pork SILVER LAKE » Filipino $$

The go-to for Filipino comfort food offers a variety of dishes, all featuring one shared ingredient: deliciousness. Spoon & Pork puts an innovative spin on some Filipino favorites—just try its adobo pork belly, pork belly banh mi, or lechón kawali.

The dishes, which can be ordered at the counter to enjoy on the patio or for takeout and delivery, elegantly mix decadence with some authentic soul.

3131 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-922-6061, spoonandpork.com, or @spoonandporkla. Beer and wine.

❂ Sunset Sushi SILVER LAKE » Japanese $$$

With omakase boxes priced from $30 to $85, this new sushi place in the old Ma’am Sir space strikes the sweet spot between affordable and indulgent and is another exciting addition to the Eastside’s growing number of quality sushi options.

It’s a sister spot to Highland Park’s Ichijiku, but with a more luxe vibe and a larger menu, tailormade for takeout. 4330 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-741-8371, sunsetsushila.com, or @sunsetsushi. Beer and sake to go.

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Some nights it seems as if half the Valley is here, enjoying the colorful patio. Top Chef graduate Antonia Lofaso’s Italian chops are visible in the buxom ricotta gnudi with brown butter and pistachios. The deep-fried fluffernutter sandwich is a reminder that food, like life, should not be taken too seriously. 11915 Ventura Blvd., 818-446-2533, or blackmarketliquorbar.com. Full bar.

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There was a moment in the spring when U Street’s vodka pepperoni pie was a shining star of Instagram, and rightfully so. The why-haven’t-Ihad-this-before combination of pepperoni and creamy vodka sauce is an easy win. Vegetable dishes, notably a Japanese eggplant with Calabrian chili agrodolce, are more than afterthoughts. Note that while the vodka pepperoni pie travels well, the clam pie is best enjoyed in-house. 33 E. Union St., 626-605-0430, ustreetpizza.com, or @ustreetpizza.

This hidden gem, reinvigorated when chef Mark Okuda took the helm in 2018, is worth traveling for. The excellent omakase is available in the restaurant, on the patio or to go. You can also order à la carte or get non-sushi items like soy-glazed grilled chicken. 21418 Ventura Blvd., 818-456-4509, thebrotherssushi.com, or @thebrotherssushila. Beer, sake, and wine.

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» Bagels $ The L.A. bagel revolution continues at this stylish spot in the Valley that serves up carefully constructed sandwiches. Tomato, aioli, and

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cheese, while a classic salmon-and-lox construction has thoughtful touches like salted cucumbers and pickled onions. Grab a tub of Hank’s “angry” spread—a spicy, slightly sweet concoction—to have in your fridge. 4315 Riverside Dr., 818-588-3693, hanksbagels.com, or @hanksbagels. Also at 13545 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks.

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Tel Aviv Authentic Chef Kitchen » Middle Eastern $

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Deeply comforting Israeli beef stews and merguez come with a colorful and tasty array of salads showcasing produce like red cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, and pumpkin.

The spicy sauces that come on the side work well with any- and everything. 17630 Ventura Blvd., 747-444-7001 or telavivkoshergrill.com.

SOUTH ❂ Ali’i Fish Company EL SEGUNDO » Seafood $$

This small, unassuming spot shames all of the glossy poke purveyors popping up around town to serve mediocre versions of the Hawaiian dish.

Glistening cubes of tuna, flown in fresh from the islands daily, remind you how great poke can be.

The smoked-ahi dip with house-made potato chips is not to be missed. Perfect for picking up a beach picnic. 409 E. Grand Ave., 310-616-3484, or aliifishco.com.

❂ Fishing With Dynamite MANHATTAN BEACH » Seafood $$$

A premium raw bar near the beach shouldn’t be unusual, but it is. The same goes for velvety clam chowder. Here, it achieves smoky richness—you can thank the Nueske’s bacon for that—without any of the floury glop. 1148 Manhattan Ave., 310-8936299, or eatfwd.com. Full bar.

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Clockwise from top: L.A. Works co-founders Donna Bojarsky and Bob L. Johnson; L.A. Works board members Matthew Allnatt and Erika Nuno; L.A. Works staff and board members celebrate at Jonathan Club

L.A. Works’ 30th Anniversary Thursday, December 2, 2021 At their 30th Anniversary Celebration on December 2, 2021, L.A. Works honored cofounders Bob L. Johnson and Donna Bojarsky. Hosted by Jonathan Club, the evening was emceed by 947The Wave’s Pat Prescott and featured guest speakers Michele Havens and CA Chief Service Officer, Josh Fryday. Sponsors include Accenture, Jonathan Club, KCET, Los Angeles magazine, Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board, Netflix, and Stellar Agency.

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With her hot chicken joint, Kim Prince is doing her family’s legacy justice—she’s the niece of André Prince Jeffries, owner of Nashville legend Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, where hot fried chicken is said to have originated. Prince adds spice at every step in the cooking process to produce a complex, layered flavor. Sides, like mac and cheese, are also winners. 4070 Marlton Ave., 323-792-4835,or hotvillechicken.com. No alcohol.

That most amazing slice of pizza you had that one very drunken, late night in your early twenties in New York lives on . . . in Long Beach.

The crust, made with dough cold-fermented for 48 to 72 hours, is carby perfection: tangy, crispy, thin but with a healthy puff. The concise menu doesn’t offer any revelations about what should be atop pizza, but instead perfects the usual suspects. 2118 E. 4th St., 562-434-2009; littlecoyotelbc.com, or @littlecoyotelbc. Also at 3500 Los Coyotes Diagonal, 562-352-1555.

❂ Tamales Elena Y Antojitos BELL GARDENS » Afro-Mexican $

This small spot, with counter service, a drivethrough window, and a patio purports to be the only Afro-Mexican restaurant in the area. It focuses on a distinct cuisine from a part of Guerrero to which former slaves fled.

Pozoles are rich and slightly thick, and the memorable pork tamales with red sauce are wrapped in fire-tinged banana leaves that impart a hint of smoke. 81801 Garfield Ave., 562-0674-3043, ordertamaleselenayantojitos.com, or @tamaleselenayantojitos.

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❂ Little Coyote LONG BEACH » Pizza $

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Front Row L to R: Sophia Liu, Sahar Maknouni, Susan Chan, Rhoneil Pascual, Elizabeth Yang*, Miyuki Nishimura, Matthew Trejo, Kenneth Leong Back Row L to R: Jerry Yang, Hannah Cheng, Camilo Gonzalez, Pan Zhang, Jennel Calica, Evan Zemlin-Kisor, Mike Liao, Jason Lonas, Jason Chen, Vicki Wei, Kayu Bridwell, Evelyn Banuelos *Selected to Super Lawyers

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MONTEREY PARK / LOS ANGELES / BEVERLY HILLS / IRVINE Serving clients throughout Southern California, the attorneys at Yang Law Offices handle clients’ cases as if they were their own. They bring expertise and empathy to their work in family law, estate planning, intellectual property and business law. Founder Elizabeth Yang and her team of 11 lawyers represent clients with proficiency in six languages.

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The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel. We limit the lawyer ratings to those who can be hired and retained by the public, i.e., lawyers in private practice and Legal Aid attorneys.

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Diverse list of the top attorneys nominated by their own peers

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COMPASSION. EXPERTISE. FORESIGHT. One of LA’s leading family law firms, we at ZFLG know that no two clients are alike and we understand that the choices you make today can last a lifetime. Whether you are negotiating the division of a complex asset portfolio or seeking to modify custody in an ever-changing world, we will leverage our expertise and wisdom to ensure your optimum future well-being.

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Diana P. Zitser

Left to Right Top: Diana P. Zitser*, Tera D. Lee, Anat Aronowicz, Peter Y. Chang, Carly Timm-Bijold, Left to Right Bottom: Tori Hernandez, Roza Crawford, David Abrams, Merlin Rubin *Super Lawyers Honoree

1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90067 | PH: 310.948.6461 | zflgteam@zitserlaw.com | zitserlaw.com

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TOP 100 AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF THE LAWYERS WHO RANKED TOP OF THE LIST IN THE 2022 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUPER LAWYERS NOMINATION, RESEARCH AND BLUE RIBBON REVIEW PROCESS.

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Djang, Caroline R., Best Best & Krieger, Irvine

Neumann, Martin A., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles

Dordick, Gary A., Dordick, Beverly Hills

Olan, David R., Olan Law, Santa Monica

Ebelhar, Melinda, Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills

Pachulski, Richard M., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Ellis, Andrew, Ellis Law, El Segundo Esner, Stuart B., Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena

Panish, Brian J., Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi, Los Angeles

Ezra, David B., Berger Kahn, Irvine

ALEXANDER, III, J. BERNARD Alexander Morrison + Fehr, Los Angeles BIDART, MICHAEL J. Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Claremont CHU, MORGAN • Ranked Number Three • Irell & Manella, Los Angeles

Pasich, Kirk, Pasich, Los Angeles Feinberg, Irwin B., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles

Phillips, Stacy D., Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Fraigun, Marina Kats, Fraigun Law Group, Sherman Oaks

Pine, Norman, Pine Tillett Pine, Sherman Oaks

Friedman, Andrew H., Helmer Friedman, Beverly Hills

Pocrass, James L., Pocrass & De Los Reyes, Los Angeles

Friedman, Lester J., Law Offices of Lester Friedman, Beverly Hills

Popovich, Jerry C., Selman Breitman, Santa Ana Quigley, Mark T., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo

Garcia, D. Bryan, Kiesel Law, Beverly Hills

HARRISON, GENIE Genie Harrison Law Firm, Los Angeles HOMAMPOUR, ARASH The Homampour Law Firm, Sherman Oaks

Glaser, Patricia L., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Gluck, Benjamin N., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles Gorin, Dmitry, Eisner Gorin, Los Angeles

KELLER, JENNIFER L. • Ranked Number Two • Keller/Anderle, Irvine

Gubner, Steven T., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills

Rahn, Scott E., RMO, Los Angeles Ravipudi, Rahul, Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi, Los Angeles Reeder, Christopher S., CSReeder, Los Angeles Reisner, Jeffrey M., Steptoe & Johnson, Los Angeles

Harrison, Genie, Genie Harrison Law Firm, Los Angeles

Rickert, Kelly Chang, Law and Mediation Office of Kelly Chang, Pasadena

Heimberg, Steven A., Heimberg Barr, Los Angeles

Ring, David M., Taylor & Ring, Manhattan Beach

PANISH, BRIAN J. • Ranked Number One • Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi, Los Angeles

Hodes, Daniel Martin, Hodes Milman Ikuta, Irvine

Robinson, Jr., Mark P., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach

Homampour, Arash, The Homampour Law Firm, Sherman Oaks

Rothschild, Kristi D., Rothschild & Alwill, Santa Barbara

PHILLIPS, STACY D. Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Hueston, John C., Hueston Hennigan, Newport Beach

Rozansky, Nicholas A., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills

Insul, Alan, Law Office of Alan M. Insul, Westlake Village

Russ, Larry C., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles

Iser, Lawrence Y., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

Ruttenberg, Kenneth G., The Ruttenberg Law Firm, Los Angeles

MINDEL, STEVEN A. Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles

ROBINSON, JR., MARK P. Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach

Johnson, Neville L., Johnson & Johnson, Beverly Hills

Aarons, Martin I., The Aarons Law Firm, Calabasas Abell, Nancy L., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles Akbari, A. Ilyas, Wilshire Law Firm, Los Angeles Alder, Michael, AlderLaw, Los Angeles

Kabateck, Brian S., Kabateck, Los Angeles

Savitt, Linda Miller, Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino

Kazerounian, Abbas, Kazerouni Law Group, Costa Mesa

Serlin, Gerald M., Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills

Keller, Jennifer L., Keller/Anderle, Irvine

Shapiro, William D., Law Offices of William D. Shapiro, San Bernardino

Kiesel, Paul R., Kiesel Law, Beverly Hills Kiley, Anne C., Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles

Shegerian, Carney, Shegerian & Associates, Los Angeles Shore, Sussan H., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles

Klein, Gerald A., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach

Simon, Craig S., Berger Kahn, Irvine

Bentley, Gregory L., Bentley & More, Newport Beach

Kobulnick, Jeffrey, Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills

Simon, Robert T., The Simon Law Group, Hermosa Beach

Bidart, Michael J., Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Claremont

Kossoff, Kenneth, Panitz & Kossoff, Westlake Village

Spagnoli, Christine D., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo

Boyer, Holly N., Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena

Lallande, M. Lawrence, Lallande Law, Long Beach

Boyle, Kevin R., Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi, Los Angeles

Lange, Joseph, Lange, El Segundo

Alexander, III, J. Bernard, Alexander Morrison + Fehr, Los Angeles

Brandt, Robert C., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles Broillet, Bruce A., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo Brutzkus, Mark D., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Burkhalter, Alton G., Burkhalter Kessler Clement & George, Irvine Carico, Christopher D., Carico Macdonald Kil & Benz, El Segundo Chu, Morgan, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles deRubertis, David M., The deRubertis Law Firm, Beverly Hills DeSimone, V. James, V. James DeSimone Law, Marina del Rey

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Lee, Irene Y., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Tuchin, Michael L., KTBS Law, Los Angeles Lester, Mark A., Jones Lester Schuck Becker & Dehesa, Camarillo Lodise, Margaret G., Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise, Los Angeles

Tuttle, Thomas W., Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine Waller, Marshall, Feinberg & Waller, Calabasas Walzer, Peter M., Walzer Melcher, Woodland Hills

MacIsaac, Suann C., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Masry, Louanne, Masry Law Firm, Westlake Village Matthai, Edith R., Robie & Matthai, Los Angeles Milman, Jeffrey A., Hodes Milman Ikuta, Irvine

Wasser, Laura A., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles Weber, Corey R., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Wells, Geoffrey S., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo

Mindel, Steven A., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles

Wilson, Mark B., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach

Minyard, Mark E., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach

Wright, Lauriann, Wright Kim Douglas, Glendale

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Rickert, Kelly Chang, Law and Mediation Office of Kelly Chang, Pasadena

Abell, Nancy L., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles

Keller, Jennifer L., Keller/Anderle, Irvine

Askarieh, Sarvey, Yevras Law Group, Los Angeles

Kiley, Anne C., Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles

Rothschild, Kristi D., Rothschild & Alwill, Santa Barbara

Lee, Irene Y., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles

Savitt, Linda Miller, Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino

Babrick, Jessica G., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Bawden, Elizabeth A., Withers Bergman, Century City Bishop, Leah M., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Boyer, Holly N., Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena Brecht, Celeste M., Jones Day, Los Angeles Brill, Laura W., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles

Levine, Janet I., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles Lodise, Margaret G., Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise, Los Angeles Ly, Geraldine, Law Office of Geraldine Ly, Santa Ana

Sedrish, Laura Frank, Jacoby & Meyers, Los Angeles Shear, Leslie Ellen, Law Office of Leslie Ellen Shear, Encino Shore, Sussan H., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Smith, Jill L., Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo, Los Angeles

Bryan, Sharon A., Law Office of Sharon A. Bryan, Torrance

MacIsaac, Suann C., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

Cox, Cynthia R., Cox Law Group, Torrance

Masry, Louanne, Masry Law Firm, Westlake Village

Djang, Caroline R., Best Best & Krieger, Irvine

Matthai, Edith R., Robie & Matthai, Los Angeles

Ebelhar, Melinda, Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills

McGaughey, Erin, McGaughey & Spirito, Redondo Beach

Fraigun, Marina Kats, Fraigun Law Group, Sherman Oaks

Meyer, Lisa Helfend, Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles

Wasser, Laura A., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles

Mizrahi, Ramit, Mizrahi Law, Pasadena

West, Michelle M., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach

Perrochet, Lisa, Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Whyte, Nicole, Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, Newport Beach

Fresch, Elaine K., Selman Breitman, Los Angeles Glaser, Patricia L., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Gonzalez, Jamie N., Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino

Phillips, Stacy D., Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Harrison, Genie, Genie Harrison Law Firm, Los Angeles

Ramey, Christa Haggai, Ramey Law, Los Angeles

Holley, Shawn, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

Reddock-Wright, Angela J., The Reddock Law Group, Los Angeles

Spagnoli, Christine D., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo Teren, Pam, Teren Law, Redondo Beach Teukolsky, Lauren, Teukolsky Law, Pasadena Valentine, Kimberly, Valentine Law Group, Mission Viejo

Wright, Lauriann, Wright Kim Douglas, Glendale Zitser, Diana P., Zitser Family Law Group, Los Angeles

ROMBRO & MANLEY LLP

MANHATTAN BEACH

We Help Families Through Difficult Times The lawyers at Rombro & Manley LLP are compassionate and understand the emotional stress involved in family law matters. The firm handles cases including divorce, child custody and parenting time, debt and division of property, child support, spousal support, and domestic violence. Each case is unique and presents its own set of challenges. The attorneys are equipped to handle these challenges with the most effective legal approaches for their clients.

One of the firm’s founders, Roger Rombro, is included on this year’s Super Lawyers list. His inspiration to practice family law started early in his career during his own child custody battle.

He understands the difficulties and stress that surrounds family law disputes. Through his personal experience, he is able to make the complex process more manageable for his clients.

The boutique-style firm offers personalized attention to each case and serves clients in the Los Angeles area and throughout the South Bay.

STANDING L-R: Priscila McCarthy, Heather Bunduka, Edwin Hernandez, Juree Fainwalker SEATED L-R: Melinda A. Manley, S. Roger Rombro*, Rebekah A. Catron S. Roger Rombro

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Irwin B. Feinberg Robert C. Brandt

Steven A. Mindel Robert C. Brandt Irwin B. Feinberg Ronald W. Anteau Thomas L. Simpson

Wallace S. Fingerett Jeremy B. Kline

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Aitken, Darren, Aitken • Aitken • Cohn, Santa Ana

Hodes, Daniel Martin, Hodes Milman Ikuta, Irvine

Popovich, Jerry C., Selman Breitman, Santa Ana

Bentley, Gregory L., Bentley & More, Newport Beach

Hollander, Garrick A., Winthrop Golubow Hollander, Newport Beach

Roberts, Jeffrey, Roberts | Jeandron Law, Newport Beach

Briggs, Steven E., Attorney at Law, Newport Beach Hueston, John C., Hueston Hennigan, Newport Beach Brown, Matt, Brown & Streza, Irvine Johnson, Casey R., Aitken • Aitken • Cohn, Santa Ana Brown, Jr., William J., Brown Wegner, Irvine Burke, Sean M., Burke | Argos, Irvine Burkhalter, Alton G., Burkhalter Kessler Clement & George, Irvine Corrigan, Kate, Corrigan Welbourn Stokke, Newport Beach Dillion, Gregory L., Newmeyer Dillion, Newport Beach Djang, Caroline R., Best Best & Krieger, Irvine

Robinson, Daniel S., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach Robinson, Jr., Mark P., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach Seastrom, Brian, Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine

Kazerounian, Abbas, Kazerouni Law Group, Costa Mesa

Seastrom, Philip G., Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine

Keller, Jennifer L., Keller/Anderle, Irvine

Simon, Craig S., Berger Kahn, Irvine

Kessler, Daniel J., Burkhalter Kessler Clement & George, Irvine

Sugden, David, Call & Jensen, Newport Beach Susolik, Edward, Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana

Klein, Gerald A., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach Theodora, Todd C., Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa Ly, Geraldine, Law Office of Geraldine Ly, Santa Ana

Tuttle, Thomas W., Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine

Ezra, David B., Berger Kahn, Irvine

Milman, Jeffrey A., Hodes Milman Ikuta, Irvine

Friedland, Todd G., Stephens Friedland, Costa Mesa

Minyard, Mark E., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach

Garner, Scott B., Umberg Zipser, Irvine

More, Keith P., Bentley & More, Newport Beach

West, Michelle M., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach

Gibson, Robert B., Gibson & Hughes, Santa Ana

Morris, Michael A., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach

Golden, Jeffrey I., Weiland Golden Goodrich, Costa Mesa

Parke, James R., Holstrom Block & Parke, Newport Beach

Whyte, Nicole, Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, Newport Beach

Golubow, Richard H., Winthrop Golubow Hollander, Newport Beach

Penn, Michael A., Aitken • Aitken • Cohn, Santa Ana

Valentine, Kimberly, Valentine Law Group, Mission Viejo Wesierski, Christopher P., Wesierski & Zurek, Lake Forest

Wilson, Mark B., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach

Gross, Wayne R., Greenberg Gross, Costa Mesa

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Administrative Law ........................................S-12 Alternative Dispute Resolution .....................S-12 Animal Law.....................................................S-14 Antitrust Litigation .........................................S-14 Appellate ........................................................S-14 Aviation and Aerospace .................................S-15 Banking...........................................................S-15 Bankruptcy: Business .....................................S-15 Bankruptcy: Consumer...................................S-17 Business Litigation .........................................S-17 Business/Corporate .......................................S-21 Cannabis Law ................................................ S-22 Civil Litigation: Defense ................................ S-22 Civil Litigation: Plaintiff ................................. S-22 Civil Rights ..................................................... S-23 Class Action/Mass Torts ............................... S-23 Closely Held Business ...................................S-24 Constitutional Law ........................................S-24 Construction Litigation .................................S-24 Consumer Law...............................................S-24 Creditor Debtor Rights ..................................S-24 Criminal Defense ...........................................S-24 Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI..........................S-26 Criminal Defense: White Collar ....................S-26 Elder Law .......................................................S-26 Eminent Domain ...........................................S-26 Employee Benefits......................................... S-27 Employment & Labor .................................... S-27 Employment Litigation: Defense ..................S-29 Employment Litigation: Plaintiff ..................S-30 Energy & Natural Resources ..........................S-31 Entertainment & Sports .................................S-31 Environmental ............................................... S-32 Environmental Litigation .............................. S-32 Estate & Trust Litigation ............................... S-33 Estate Planning & Probate ........................... S-33 Family Law..................................................... S-35 Franchise/Dealership ................................... S-38 General Litigation.......................................... S-38 Government Finance ..................................... S-38 Government Relations .................................. S-38 Health Care.................................................... S-38 Immigration ................................................... S-39 Insurance Coverage.......................................S-40 Intellectual Property ......................................S-41 Intellectual Property Litigation......................S-41 International ..................................................S-42 Land Use/Zoning ..........................................S-42 Legal Aid/Pro Bono....................................... S-43 Legislative & Governmental Affairs .............. S-43 Media and Advertising .................................. S-43 Mergers & Acquisitions ................................. S-43 Nonprofit Organizations .............................. S-43 Personal Injury General: Defense ................. S-43 Personal Injury General: Plaintiff..................S-44 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense .......................................................S-46 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff ....................................................... S-47 Personal Injury Products: Defense ............... S-47 Personal Injury Products: Plaintiff ................ S-47 Professional Liability: Defense ..................... S-47 Professional Liability: Plaintiff ......................S-48 Real Estate ....................................................S-48 Schools & Education .....................................S-49 Securities & Corporate Finance ....................S-49 Securities Litigation.......................................S-49 Social Security Disability ...............................S-50 State, Local & Municipal ...............................S-50 Surety .............................................................S-50 Tax..................................................................S-50 Technology Transactions ..............................S-50 Transportation/Maritime ..............................S-50 Workers’ Compensation.................................S-51

THE ANNUAL LIST

BY PRIMARY AREA OF PRACTICE The list was finalized as of June 14, 2021. Only attorneys who data verified with Super Lawyers for the current year are included on the list that follows. All current selections and any updates to the list (e.g., status changes or disqualifying events) will be reflected on superlawyers.com.

Names and page numbers in RED indicate a profile on the specified page. Phone numbers are included only for attorneys with paid Super Lawyers or Rising Stars print advertisements.

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Kichaven, Jeff, Commercial Mediation, Los Angeles Klerman, Lisa, Mediation Office of Lisa Klerman, Palos Verdes Peninsula Knight, Kelly A., Mediation, Los Angeles Kramer, Mark, Kramer & Kramer, Santa Monica Kramer, Wendy W., ADR Services, Los Angeles Krivis, Jeffrey, Mediation, Encino Kuhn, Steven, Judicate West, San Juan Capistrano Kyriacou, Gig, Kyriacou Mediation, Burbank

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Harris, Scott J., S J Harris Law, Beverly Hills Kollar, Linda Randlett, Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles Osinoff, Peter R., Bonne Bridges Mueller O’Keefe & Nichols, Los Angeles Saltsman, Ralph B., Solomon Saltsman & Jamieson, Los Angeles Talmo, Ronald, Law Office of Ronald Talmo, Santa Ana

LaBelle, Lance, ADR Services, Irvine LaMothe, Louise A., Louise A. LaMothe, Santa Barbara Lawler, Jean M., Lawler ADR Services, El Segundo Levene, David W., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-892-7462 Pg. S-3 Levy, Leonard, ADR Services, Los Angeles Logan, Robert H., Logan Mediation, Palos Verdes Peninsula Madigan, Denise, MadiganADR, Los Angeles Marcus, Michael D., ADR Services, Los Angeles

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Marks, Leslie Steven, Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles

Akasaka, Ron, SMART ADR, Los Angeles

Mehta, Steven G., Mediation Offices of Steven G. Mehta, Stevenson Ranch

Baer, Mark, Mark B. Baer Inc., Pasadena

Moorhead, Michael D., Judicate West, Los Angeles

Barr, Eleanor, Barr Mediation, Sherman Oaks

Page, Christine, Page Dispute Resolution, Los Angeles

Bassis, Lynne Susan, ADR Services, Los Angeles Corcoran, Tim, Redlands Arbitration and Mediation Services, Redlands Coviello, Robert D., ADR Services, Irvine Derin, Greg David, Signature Resolution, Los Angeles Even, Randolph, ADR Services, Los Angeles

Pearl, Steven G., Mediation, Tarzana Pistone, Thomas A., Pistone Law Group, Newport Beach Rabin, Byron, Judicate West, Santa Ana Ratinoff, Marisa, Ratinoff Dispute Resolution, Encino

Fairbank, Robert H., Fairbank ADR, Los Angeles

Reddock-Wright, Angela J., The Reddock Law Group, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Friedman, Alan, Friedman Dispute Resolution (FDR), Marina del Rey

Reinglass, Michelle A., ADR Office of Michelle A. Reinglass and Judicate West, Aliso Viejo

Friedman, Bruce A., JAMS, Los Angeles

Rios, Delilah Knox, Attorney at Law, Diamond Bar

Gibbs, Kenneth C., JAMS, Los Angeles

Rosenberg, George, ADR Services, Los Angeles

Glick, Gail A., Mediation & Employment Law, Los Angeles, 310-625-7577

Rothman, Deborah J., Mediator Arbitrator and Arbitration Consultant, Los Angeles

Gray, Geoffrey, Gray Mediation, Laguna Niguel

Sankary, Myer J., Myer J. Sankary, Studio City

Grossman, Joel M., JAMS, Los Angeles

Saxe, Deborah C., JAMS, Los Angeles

Gumport, Leonard L., Gumport Law Firm, Pasadena

Schau, Jan Frankel, ADR Services, Los Angeles

Hemminger, Pamela L., Law Offices of Pamela L. Hemminger, La Cañada Flintridge Horowitz, Fredric R., Arbitrator, Santa Monica Hosp, F. Phillip, Hosp Mediation Services, Pasadena Isaacs, Bruce A., Signature Resolution, Los Angeles Johnson, Lars C., Signature Resolution, Los Angeles Judge, Sean E., Judge Mediation, Woodland Hills Kamine, Bernard S., Kamine Law, Los Angeles

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Kessler, Joan B., JAMS, Los Angeles

Schulner, Keith, Neutral4Hire.com, Oxnard Scott, Tara, The Law and Mediation Offices of Tara Scott, Beverly Hills Solomon, Amy Fisch, Judicate West, Los Angeles Sotomayor, Rande S., Sotomayor Law, La Cañada Flintridge Tessier, Robert, Judicate West, Los Angeles Vincent, Caroline, ADR Services, Los Angeles Wagner, Eve H., Signature Resolution, Los Angeles CONTINUED ON PAGE S-14

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Bennett, Catherine E., Klein DeNatale Goldner, Bakersfield

Lascher, Wendy Cole, Ferguson Case Orr Paterson, Ventura

Wagner, John Leo, Judicate West, Santa Ana

Bochner, Dean A., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Levy, Barry R., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Weiss, Andrew R., Andrew R. Weiss Law Corp., Pismo Beach

Boutrous, Jr., Theodore J., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Lewis, Jeffrey, Jeff Lewis Law, Rolling Hills Estates

Williams III, Ralph O., ADR Services, Los Angeles

Bove, Brooke, Bove Law Group, Santa Ana

Wolfram, Michael L., Wolfram Workplace Law, Camarillo

Boyer, Holly N., Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena Pg. S-6, S-8

Young, Michael D., Judicate West, Los Angeles

Bray, Karen M., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Norris, Stephen E., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Brill, Laura W., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Olson, Robert A., Greines Martin Stein & Richland, Los Angeles

Casparian, Thomas W., Cozen O’Connor, Santa Monica

Orr, Cheryl A., Musick Peeler & Garrett, Los Angeles

Chamberlain, II, Harry W.R., Buchalter, Los Angeles

Pauley, Bradley S., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Clark, Meghan B., Clark*Everson, Westlake Village

Pedroza, Kenneth R., Cole Pedroza, San Marino

Cogan, Efrat, Buchalter, Los Angeles

Perrochet, Lisa, Horvitz & Levy, Burbank Pg. S-8

Cohen, Frederic D., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Peters, Gerald Philip, Law Office of Gerald Philip Peters, Thousand Oaks

ANIMAL LAW Montevideo, John Michael, Montevideo Law dba Dog Bite Law Group, Irvine

ANTITRUST LITIGATION Brantly, Amy T., Kesselman Brantly Stockinger, Manhattan Beach Caseria, Leo, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Cohen, Gary J., Gary J. Cohen, Los Angeles

Litt, Jason R., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank Mazzella, Anastasia, Kabateck, Los Angeles Nakamura Jr., Richard H., Clark Hill, Los Angeles

Collodel, Douglas J., Clyde & Co, Los Angeles

Pierce, T. Peter, Richards Watson & Gershon, Los Angeles

Dakak, Majed, Kesselman Brantly Stockinger, Manhattan Beach

Cushman, Dawn, Bradley Gmelich + Wellerstein, Glendale, 818-243-5200

Pine, Beverly, Pine Tillett Pine, Sherman Oaks

Gates, Sean P., Charis Lex, Pasadena

Cutting, Curt C., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Kesselman, David W., Kesselman Brantly Stockinger, Manhattan Beach

Dato, Robert M., Buchalter, Irvine

Pine, Norman, Pine Tillett Pine, Sherman Oaks Pg. S-6

Pearson, Clifford H., Pearson Simon & Warshaw, Sherman Oaks Pepperman, Donald R., Waymaker, Los Angeles Purdy, Andrew M., Attorney at Law, Irvine Reichline, Cindy, BRS, Los Angeles Rosenzweig, Yonaton, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles Sergi, Gregory M., Keller/Anderle, Irvine, 949-476-8700 Stockinger, Trevor, Kesselman Brantly Stockinger, Manhattan Beach Strange, Brian R., Strange, Los Angeles Swanson, Daniel G., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Teruya, Kevin, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles

APPELLATE

Derrick, John, The Law Office of John Derrick, Santa Barbara Dodd, John L., John L. Dodd and Associates, Tustin Dunn, Jr., E. Thomas, Law Offices of E. Thomas Dunn Jr., Tustin Ebelhar, Melinda, Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6, S-8 Ellis, Gregory, Law Offices of Gregory R. Ellis, Pasadena

Posner, Judith, Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills Poster, Marc J., Greines Martin Stein & Richland, Los Angeles Querio, John F., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank Ribet, Claudia, California Appellate Law Group, Los Angeles Richland, Kent L., Greines Martin Stein & Richland, Los Angeles

Esner, Stuart B., Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena Pg. S-6

Rosen, Jeremy B., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Ettinger, David S., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Rotter, Alana Hoffman, Greines Martin Stein & Richland, Los Angeles

Evanson, Blaine H., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Irvine Fischer, Dennis A., Law Offices of Dennis A. Fischer, Santa Monica Fleischman, Steven S., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank Freeman, Thomas R., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Adams, Alison Minet, Attorney at Law, Studio City

Fuller, Marjorie G., Law Offices of Marjorie G. Fuller, Santa Ana

Adelstein, Bruce, Law Offices of Bruce Adelstein, Encino

Gerstein, Robert S., Law Office of Robert S. Gerstein, Santa Monica

Adlai, Tarik S., Law Office of Tarik S. Adlai, Pasadena

Gonzalez, Daniel J., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Albers, Wendy S., Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills

Poon, Julian W., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Grignon, Margaret, Grignon Law Firm, Long Beach

Saylin, Brian G., The Law Offices of Saylin & Swisher, Newport Beach Schaeffer, Mark, Nemecek & Cole, Encino Serlin, Gerald M., Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6 Shafir, Felix, Horvitz & Levy, Burbank Smith, Gregory R., Lowenstein & Weatherwax, Los Angeles Stevens, Steven B., Law Offices of Michels & Lew, Los Angeles Tabatabai, Farzad, Tabatabai & Miyamoto, Los Angeles

Hart, Mark A., Attorney at Law, Northridge

Tardiff, Neil S., Appellate Advocacy Group, San Luis Obispo

Azadian, James S., Dykema Gossett, Los Angeles

Heinke, Rex, California Appellate Law Group, Los Angeles

Taylor, Jr., John A., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Bahar, Sarvenaz, Bahar Law Office, Los Angeles

Hobbs, Rachel E., Selman Breitman, Los Angeles

Tilner, Mitchell C., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Barer, Daniel, Pollak Vida & Barer, Los Angeles

Horwitz, Kelly, Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills

Watson, H. Thomas, Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Barrow, Brian P., Bartlett Barrow, Pasadena

Kraut, Nate G., Law Offices of Nate G. Kraut, Sherman Oaks

Wright, Robert H., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Axelrad, David M., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Benedon, Douglas G., Benedon & Serlin, Woodland Hills

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Kressel, Mark A., Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Xanders, Edward (Ted), Greines Martin Stein & Richland, Los Angeles

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Camhi, Howard I., Michelman & Robinson, Los Angeles

BANKRUPTCY: BUSINESS

Akbari, A. Ilyas, Wilshire Law Firm, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Andrassy, Kyra E., Smiley Wang-Ekvall, Costa Mesa

Cantor, Linda F., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Aubert, Garth W., Fitzpatrick & Hunt Pagano Aubert, Los Angeles

Arnold, Todd M., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Casey, Thomas, The Law Offices of Thomas H. Casey, Rancho Santa Margarita

Bailey, Patrick E., Bailey & Partners, Los Angeles

Avery, Wesley H., Law Offices of Wesley H. Avery, Pasadena

Chenetz, Sara L., Perkins Coie, Los Angeles

Fraenkel, Stuart, Nelson & Fraenkel, Los Angeles Goldman, Ronald L.M., Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, Los Angeles Griffith, Doug, Victor Rane, Beverly Hills

Barbarosh, Craig A., Katten Muchin Rosenman, Irvine

Cho, Shirley S., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles Cohen, Jerome S., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Bello, Reem, Weiland Golden Goodrich, Costa Mesa

Cohen, Leslie A., Leslie Cohen Law, Santa Monica Davidoff, Brian L., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Hofer, Stephen R., Aerlex Law Group, Los Angeles

Bender, Ron, Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Loranger, Timothy, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, Los Angeles

Biegenzahn, Stephen, The Law Offices of Stephen F. Biegenzahn, Los Angeles

Davidson, Jeffrey H., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Pascotto, Alvaro, Law Offices of Alvaro Pascotto, Los Angeles

Blumenfeld, Ori, Margulies Faith, Encino

de Leest, Aaron, Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff, Los Angeles

Terhar, Michael J., Cunningham Swaim, Pasadena

Brady, Erin N., Hogan Lovells, Los Angeles

Diamond, Richard K., Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff, Los Angeles

Brill, Martin J., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Djang, Caroline R., Best Best & Krieger, Irvine Pg. S-6, S-8, S-10

Brunette, Jr., Richard W., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Dulberg, Jeffrey W., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Burd, William, Ringstad & Sanders, Newport Beach

Durrer, II, Van C., Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles

Bussel, Daniel J., KTBS Law, Los Angeles

Ehrenberg, Howard M., SulmeyerKupetz, Los Angeles

BANKING Jung, Curtis C., Jung & Yuen, Pasadena, 213-689-8880 Kaminski, David J., Carlson & Messer, Los Angeles Sanchez, David, Sanchez & Amador, Los Angeles Wolfe, Stuart B., Wolfe & Wyman, Irvine

Bovitz, J. Scott, Bovitz & Spitzer, Los Angeles

Caine, Andrew W., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

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Kohanski, Joseph A., Bush Gottlieb, Glendale

Faith, Jeremy W., Margulies Faith, Encino

Krause, Jeffrey C., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Fidler, David A., KTBS Law, Los Angeles

Raanan, Uzzi, Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff, Los Angeles Rafatjoo, Hamid R., Raines Feldman, Los Angeles

Krieger, Jeffrey A., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Ramlo, Kurt, Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Forsythe, Marc C., Goe Forsythe & Hodges, Irvine, 949-798-2460 Pg. S-15

Kupetz, David S., SulmeyerKupetz, Los Angeles

Ramsaur, Brett, Ramsaur Law Office, Laguna Hills

Landsberg, Ian S., Sklar Kirsh, Los Angeles

Fritz, John-Patrick M., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Lesnick, Matthew A., Lesnick Prince & Pappas, Los Angeles

Reisner, Jeffrey M., Steptoe & Johnson, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Fromme, Eric J., Pacheco & Neach, Irvine

Lev, Daniel A., SulmeyerKupetz, Los Angeles

Reiss, Daniel H., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Garza, Oscar, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Irvine

Lianides, Peter W., Winthrop Golubow Hollander, Newport Beach

Ringstad, Todd, Ringstad & Sanders, Newport Beach

Lobel, William N., Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa

Sanders, Nanette D., Ringstad & Sanders, Newport Beach

Flahaut, M. Douglas, Arent Fox, Los Angeles

Gaschen, Beth E., Weiland Golden Goodrich, Costa Mesa Geher, Thomas M., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles Glaser, Barry S., Salvato Boufadel, Los Angeles Glassman, Paul R., Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Los Angeles Glazer, Gabriel, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles Golden, Jeffrey I., Weiland Golden Goodrich, Costa Mesa Pg. S-10

Lubic, Michael B., K&L Gates, Los Angeles Maizel, Samuel R., Dentons, Los Angeles

Saunders, Robert, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Malo, Aaron J., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Costa Mesa

Schlecter, Daren M., Law Offices of Daren M. Schlecter, Los Angeles

Margulies, Craig G., Margulies Faith, Encino

Seflin, Susan K., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills

Marticello, Robert S., Smiley Wang-Ekvall, Costa Mesa Mastan, Peter J., Dinsmore & Shohl, Los Angeles

Golubchik, David B., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

McCarthy, Daniel J., Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles

Golubow, Richard H., Winthrop Golubow Hollander, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Merola, Frank A., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Los Angeles

Goodman, Andrew, Goodman Law Offices, Westlake Village

Miller, Elissa D., SulmeyerKupetz, Los Angeles

Goodrich, David M., Weiland Golden Goodrich, Costa Mesa Gottfried, Michael I., Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles Gubner, Steven T., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6 Guess, David M., Greenberg Traurig, Irvine Haberbush, David, Haberbush, Long Beach Haes, Chad V., Marshack Hays, Irvine

Nahmias, Alan I., Mirman Bubman & Nahmias, Woodland Hills Nassiri, Jennifer L., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Neale, David L., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3 Oh, Juliet Y., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3 O’Keefe, Sean A., O’Keefe & Associates Law Corp., Irvine

Hami, Asa S., SulmeyerKupetz, Los Angeles

Opera, Robert E., Winthrop Golubow Hollander, Newport Beach

Hollander, Garrick A., Winthrop Golubow Hollander, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Ordubegian, Aram, Arent Fox, Los Angeles

Israel, Eric P., Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff, Los Angeles Itkin, Robbin L., Sklar Kirsh, Los Angeles Jazayeri, Peter F., Jaz, Los Angeles

Pachulski, Isaac M., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles Pachulski, Richard M., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Seror, David, Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Shaffer, K. John, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles Sharf, Mark, Sharf Law Firm, Los Angeles Shechtman, Zev, Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff, Los Angeles Shemano, David B., ShemanoLaw, Los Angeles Shenson, Jonathan, Shenson Law Group, Los Angeles Shinbrot, Jeffrey, The Shinbrot Firm, Beverly Hills Shinderman, Mark, Milbank, Los Angeles Simons, Larry D., Law Offices of Larry D. Simons, Mission Hills Sokol, Robyn B., Leech Tishman, Pasadena Stang, James I., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles Stern, David M., KTBS Law, Los Angeles Terzian, Tamar, Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Tiggs, Marcus G., Bayer Wishman & Leotta, Los Angeles Tuchin, Michael L., KTBS Law, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Jurich, Lance N., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Pagay, Carmela T., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Kapur, Teddy M., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Pagay, Malhar S., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Wallach, Jason, Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, Los Angeles

Karasik, Eve H., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Patterson, Thomas E., KTBS Law, Los Angeles

Wang Ekvall, Lei Lei, Smiley Wang-Ekvall, Costa Mesa

Katz, Ira Benjamin, Law Offices of Ira Benjamin Katz, Los Angeles Katzman, Steven J., Bienert Katzman Littrell Williams, Los Angeles

Perry Isaacson, Misty A., Pagter and Perry Isaacson, Santa Ana Phelps, Kathy Bazoian, Raines Feldman, Los Angeles

Wall, William J., Wall & Son, Aliso Viejo

Weber, Corey R., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6 Weg, Howard J., HJW Advisor, Los Angeles

Pomerantz, Jason, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Weintraub, Daniel J., Weintraub & Selth, Los Angeles

Pomerantz, Jeffrey N., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Weiss, Sharon Z., Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Santa Monica

Klee, Kenneth N., KTBS Law, Los Angeles

Prince, Christopher E., Lesnick Prince & Pappas, Los Angeles

Welsh, Leonard, Law Offices of Leonard K. Welsh, Bakersfield

Klyman, Robert, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Pringle, John P., Roquemore Pringle & Moore, Los Angeles

Winfield, William E., Nelson Comis Kettle & Kinney, Ventura

Kharasch, Ira D., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles Klausner, Gary E., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

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Raichelson, Michael H., Law Offices of Michael H. Raichelson, Calabasas

Wolkowitz, Edward M., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Selth, James, Weintraub & Selth, Los Angeles

Wood, David A., Marshack Hays, Irvine

Young, Beth Ann R., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

BANKRUPTCY: CONSUMER Borowitz, Barry E., Borowitz & Clark, West Covina Clark, M. Erik, Borowitz & Clark, West Covina

Baker, Scott L., Baker & Associates, Los Angeles

Tenina, Alla, Tenina Law, Sherman Oaks

Barilich, Susan, Susan Barilich, Glendale, 818-500-0377

Wishman, Jeffrey N., Bayer Wishman & Leotta, Los Angeles

Battaglia, David A., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Wynne, Richard L., Hogan Lovells, Los Angeles Yoo, Timothy J., Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Ardebili, Hajir, Skiermont Derby, Los Angeles

Bauducco, Paul C., Lewitt Hackman, Encino

BUSINESS LITIGATION

Beaudoin, Wayne E., Beaudoin & Krause-Leemon, Sherman Oaks

Abdollahi, Panteha, Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa

Behrendt, Scott, Theodora Oringher, Los Angeles

Abel, Joshua, Abel Law Offices, Irvine

Beitchman, David, Beitchman & Zekian, Encino

Adli, Kavon, The Internet Law Group, Beverly Hills

Belcher, John, Law Offices of John A. Belcher, Pasadena

Affeld, David W., Affeld Grivakes, Los Angeles, 310-979-8700

Ben-Shahar Mayer, Sharon, Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Dishbak, Donna R., Dishbak Law Firm, Tarzana

Ainsworth, Cheryl Priest, Theodora Oringher, Los Angeles

Frealy, Todd, Levene Neale Bender Yoo & Golubchik, Los Angeles, 310-229-1234 Pg. S-3

Aitken, Darren, Aitken • Aitken • Cohn, Santa Ana Pg. S-10

Bertram, Christy L., Johnson & Bertram, Mission Viejo

Ghanooni, Eliza, Ghanooni Law Firm, Los Angeles

Akrotirianakis, Joseph N., King & Spalding, Los Angeles

Blank, Christopher, Attorney at Law, Newport Beach, 949-250-4600

Aljian, Reed, Daily Aljian, Newport Beach

Bonavida, Alain, Law Offices of Alain V. Bonavida, Beverly Hills

Hagen, Jeffrey J, Hagen & Hagen, Woodland Hills Havkin, Stella, Havkin & Shrago, Woodland Hills Mottahedeh, Kian, SM Law Group, Encino Oved, Shai, The Law Offices of Shai Oved, Canoga Park Pena, Leonard, Pena & Soma, Pasadena

Alverson, David S., Lesnick Prince & Pappas, Los Angeles Amir, Michael M., Doll Amir & Eley, Los Angeles Anderle, Kay, Keller/Anderle, Irvine, 949-476-8700

Booth, Jason M., Booth, Los Angeles Bowerbank, John E., Garcia Rainey Blank & Bowerbank, Costa Mesa CONTINUED ON PAGE S-18

THE BUSINESS OF SUCCESS Handling trade secret and business litigation with ingenuity and integrity is the hallmark of this business litigator who has secured millions for his clients. “Success comes from the relentless pursuit of improvement,” says Super Lawyers honoree John R. Walton, who often sits in the courtroom audience to study other lawyers’ closing arguments. “I also read constantly, both about my own subject areas and trial advocacy in general.” Transforming the complex fields of business litigation and intellectual property law into a form that is simple yet still accurate for juries is another skill handled deftly by this litigator who was named among the top-rated lawyers in Southern California by The American Lawyer magazine and recognized for excellence in trial advocacy by the Mayor of Lancaster, California. The Eagle Scout, with degrees from Stanford, Michigan Law School, and Kyoto University, is also fluent in Japanese and frequently represents Japanese clients in California state and federal courts.

John R. Walton WALTON LAW GROUP, P.C. 35 N. Lake Ave., Suite 700, Pasadena, CA 91101 PH: (626) 578-6000 | waltonlawgroup.com

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Boxer, Joel E., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles Bradley, Barry A., Bradley Gmelich + Wellerstein, Glendale, 818-243-5200 Brecht, Celeste M., Jones Day, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Daily, Justin E. D., Daily Aljian, Newport Beach D’Arcy, Patrick J., Patrick J. D’Arcy, Irvine Darnell, David J., Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana, 714-241-4444 Daucher, Brian M., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Costa Mesa

Friedland, Todd G., Stephens Friedland, Costa Mesa Pg. S-10 Fugate, Jeanne A., King & Spalding, Los Angeles Gale, Paul L., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Irvine Gardner, Steven, Steven H. Gardner, Beverly Hills

David, Henry S., The David Firm(R), Los Angeles

Geffner, Randi, Esensten Law, Los Angeles

Bremer, Keith G., Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara, Newport Beach, 949-221-1000

Dean, Kristi, Stone | Dean, Woodland Hills

Geibelson, Michael A., Robins Kaplan, Los Angeles

Bright, James S., Bright and Brown, Glendale

Derby, Paul B., Skiermont Derby, Los Angeles

George, Eric M., Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles

Brown, Gregory G., Brown & Charbonneau, Irvine

Dillion, Gregory L., Newmeyer Dillion, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Gerber, Jonathan L., Miller Miller Gerber, Irvine

Buffington, Roger, Buffington Law Firm, Fountain Valley Burgess, James M., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Burkhalter, Alton G., Burkhalter Kessler Clement & George, Irvine, 949-975-7500 Pg. S-6, S-10 Buus, William L., Schiffer Buus, Costa Mesa Cafferata, Diane L., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles Caldwell, Christopher G., Caldwell Hammer, Los Angeles Call, Wayne W., Call & Jensen, Newport Beach

Delman, Dana, Delman Vukmanovic, Los Angeles

Dillman, Kirk D., McKool Smith Hennigan, Los Angeles Doll, Gregory L., Doll Amir & Eley, Los Angeles Dresie, Lee A., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Drooks, Mark T., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles Early, Eric P., Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles Edelman, Scott A., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Edmiston, W. Allan, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Cameron, Parry G., Isaacs | Friedberg, Los Angeles

Edmonson, Will, Law Office of Will Edmonson, West Hollywood

Cappello, A. Barry, Cappello & Noël, Santa Barbara

Eisenhut, Mark L., Call & Jensen, Newport Beach

Carr, Scott H., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo, 310-340-6505 Pg. S-7 Case, Michael, Ferguson Case Orr Paterson, Ventura Caslin, Brent, Jenner & Block, Los Angeles

Ellis, Dennis S., Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles Enenstein, Darren, Enenstein Pham & Glass, Los Angeles Esensten, Robert, Esensten Law, Los Angeles

Chairez, Joseph L., Baker & Hostetler, Costa Mesa

Evangelis, Theane, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Chan, Paul S., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Eyerly, Dawn B., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles

Chang, Cheryl S., Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Ezra, Robert, Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles

Chang, Cyndie, Duane Morris, Los Angeles Chapman, William, MBK Chapman, Aliso Viejo

Falzetta, Frank, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Chu, Morgan, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Farano, Charles, Attorney at Law, Placentia

Chung, Kenneth W., Kring & Chung, Irvine

Fayer, Gregory, Fayer Gipson, Los Angeles

Coelho, Monisha, AlvaradoSmith, Los Angeles

Feenberg, Michael W., Nemecek & Cole, Encino

Cohen, Amy M., Cohen Law, Valencia

Feinberg, Irwin B., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-6, S-9

Cohen, Marc S., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Gersh, Jeffrey F., Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks Gessin, Jesse, Jesse Gessin, San Clemente Gilbert, James M., Wolf Wallenstein, Los Angeles Gizer, Scott E., Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles Glaser, Patricia L., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8 Gold, Geoffrey M., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills Goldberg, Alan N., Stern & Goldberg, Encino Gonzalez, Henry H., Andrade Gonzalez, Los Angeles Gooch, III, Frank, Cozen O’Connor, Santa Monica Goodstein, Gary J., Alleguez Newman Goodstein, Woodland Hills Gottesman, Donald S., Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware, Sherman Oaks Graham, Steven T., Snell & Wilmer, Costa Mesa Grant, Adam D.H., Alpert Barr & Grant, Sherman Oaks Grant, David C., Grant Genovese & Baratta, Irvine, 949-660-1600 Greenberg, Alan A., Greenberg Gross, Los Angeles Gross, Wayne R., Greenberg Gross, Costa Mesa Pg. S-10 Grossman, Brian, Tesser | Grossman, Los Angeles, 310-207-4558 Gwynn, Jeffrey T., Verve Law Group, Riverside Hall, Howard D., Hall Griffin, Santa Ana Harder, Charles J., Harder, Beverly Hills Hawxhurst, Gerald E., Hawxhurst Harris, Los Angeles

Coleman, Jeffrey A., The Coleman Firm, Newport Beach

Felton, James R., G & B Law, Encino Finch, Brent M., Finch Tetzlaff, Calabasas

Herron, Vincent H., Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg, Los Angeles

Connor, Edmond M., Connor Fletcher & Hedenkamp, Irvine

Fine, Paul R., Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits, Los Angeles

Hershman, Brian, Jones Day, Los Angeles

Cook, Philip E., The Cook Law Firm, Los Angeles

Firestein, Michael A., Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles

Herzog, Eric A., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles

Correll, Michelle J., Correll Law, Los Angeles

Fletcher, Matthew J., Connor Fletcher & Hedenkamp, Irvine

Ho, Edward C., Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, Cerritos

Ford, Brendan M., Ford & Diulio, Costa Mesa

Hodel, Matthew A., Hodel Wilks, Irvine

Forman, Dan M., CDF Labor Law, Los Angeles

Hodges, Ronald S., Goe Forsythe & Hodges, Irvine, 949-798-2460 Pg. S-15

Costa, Penny M., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles Coyne, Jr., Joseph F., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Cramer, Mark T., Buchalter, Los Angeles

Freedman, Jerry, Freedman Fazio, Westlake Village

Cumming, William, Cumming & Associates, Costa Mesa

Friedberg, Jerome H., Isaacs | Friedberg, Los Angeles

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Horn, Steven J., Law Offices of Steven J. Horn, Encino Huben, Brian D., Ballard Spahr, Los Angeles

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Hueston, John C., Hueston Hennigan, Newport Beach Pg. S-6, S-10 Huron, Jeffrey, Dykema Gossett, Los Angeles

Kim, Andrew F., Kim Riley Law, Northridge

Lawrence, Amy B., Lawrence & Associates, Burbank

Kim, John W., Brower Law Group, Laguna Hills

Lawrence, Robert Scott, Lawrence Bartels, Irvine, 949-346-4646

Isaacs, Jeffrey B., Isaacs | Friedberg, Los Angeles

King, Howard E., King Holmes Paterno & Soriano, Los Angeles

Jannol, Henry, Law Offices of Henry Jannol, Los Angeles

Kinsella, Dale F., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

LeBoff, Michael S., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach

Jenkins, Shannon M., Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Irvine

Klein, Gerald A., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach Pg. S-6, S-10

Leff, Randall S., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

Jimenez, James M., Pacific Business Law Group, Woodland Hills

Kneafsey, Sean M., The Kneafsey Firm, Los Angeles

Levin, Daniel B., Munger Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles

Johnson, Beverly A., Johnson & Bertram, Mission Viejo

Kornfeld, Alan J., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

Libeu, Allison L., Hueston Hennigan, Newport Beach

Johnson, Neville L., Johnson & Johnson, Beverly Hills, 310-870-0047 Pg. S-6, S-11

Kozberg, Joel, Kozberg & Bodell, Los Angeles

Libman, David E., Law Office of David E. Libman, Santa Ana

Kabat, Jules L., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Kaplan, Phillip R., Umberg Zipser, Irvine Kasendorf, Alexander S., Alpert Barr & Grant, Sherman Oaks

Kraft, Karla J., Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach Krakowsky, Steven P., Law Offices of Steven P. Krakowsky, Los Angeles Krause-Leemon, David, Beaudoin & KrauseLeemon, Sherman Oaks

Lee, Richard, Salisian | Lee, Los Angeles

Lieberman, Scott B., Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt & Lilly, Irvine Lilly, Matthew E., Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt & Lilly, Irvine

Kashfian, Robert A., Kashfian & Kashfian, Century City

Krongold, Steven L., Krongold Law Corp., Irvine

Lin, David S., Law Offices of David S. Lin, Pasadena, 626-792-9688 Pg. S-54

Kazemi, Nahal, Keller/Anderle, Irvine, 949-476-8700

Kuo, Hubert H., Ardent Law Group, Newport Beach

Lindahl, George M., Lindahl Beck, Los Angeles

Keller, Jennifer L., Keller/Anderle, Irvine, 949-476-8700 Pg. S-6, S-8, S-10

Lapidus, Daniel C., Lapidus & Lapidus, Beverly Hills

Kessler, Daniel J., Burkhalter Kessler Clement & George, Irvine, 949-975-7500 Pg. S-10 Kibler, Michael D., Kibler Fowler & Cave, Los Angeles

Lapidus, Ryan, Lapidus & Lapidus, Beverly Hills Larson, Stephen G., Larson, Los Angeles Lau, Sophia S., Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles

Linzer, Kenneth A., Linzer Law Group, Los Angeles Litvak, William, Dapeer Rosenbilt & Litvak, Los Angeles Livingston, Daniel M., Payne & Fears, Irvine Loh, Paul J., Willenken, Los Angeles CONTINUED ON PAGE S-20

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Newell, Jr., Felton T., Sanders Roberts, Los Angeles

Lovell, Tre, The Lovell Firm, Los Angeles

Newhouse, II, Michael R., Newhouse Law Group, Los Angeles

Luczon, Diane Myint, Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles Ma, Stephen, Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles Macellaro, Theresa J., The Macellaro Firm, Los Angeles

Newman, Carol L., Alleguez Newman Goodstein, Woodland Hills Nicholson, Guy C., Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles Nix, Benjamin A., Payne & Fears, Irvine

Madnick, H. Mark, Kramar Madnick, Los Angeles

Noël, Leila J., Cappello & Noël, Santa Barbara

Maloney, Patrick M., The Maloney Firm, El Segundo

Novian, Farhad, Novian & Novian, Los Angeles

Mancini, Michael V., Mancini Shenk, Los Angeles Mangels, Robert E., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles Marenberg, Steven, Paul Hastings, Los Angeles

Novicoff, Michael L., Pryor Cashman, Los Angeles O’Connor, Michael J., Venable, Los Angeles Odson, Robert, Shumener Odson & Oh, Los Angeles Oh, Henry H., Shumener Odson & Oh, Los Angeles

Richmond, Rick, Larson, Los Angeles Ritt, D. Jay, Ritt Tai Thvedt & Hodges, Pasadena Robb, Neal Scott, Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach Robinson, Gregory, Robinson & Robinson, Irvine Robinson, Jeffrey A., Robinson & Robinson, Irvine Rohatiner, Marc E., Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles Roosevelt, T. Kevin, Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt & Lilly, Irvine Rosen, David E., Murphy Rosen, Santa Monica Rosen, James R., Rosen Saba, El Segundo, 310-285-1727 Rosen, Kevin S., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Marquart, Jaime W., Waymaker, Los Angeles

O’Hare, William S., Snell & Wilmer, Costa Mesa

Rosenbaum, Mark J., Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles

Martinez, David, Robins Kaplan, Los Angeles

O’Neill, William, Ross Wolcott Teinert & Prout, Costa Mesa

Rozansky, Daniel A., Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks

Osher, Jeremy, Boren Osher & Luftman, El Segundo

Rozansky, Nicholas A., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6

Owens, Rob, Owens & Gach Ray, Beverly Hills

Rudolph, George Cooper, George C. Rudolph, Irvine

Mashal, Robin, Century City Law Group, Los Angeles Mason, Peter H., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles McCreary, Duncan J., McCreary, Beverly Hills McFee, Linda C., AIM Law Group, Foothill Ranch

Owens, Stephen T., Alvarez-Glasman & Colvin, City of Industry

McGonigle, Timothy D., Timothy D. McGonigle, Los Angeles

Palmer, E. Scott, Palmer Hunter & Hall, Los Angeles

McNicholas, John P., McNicholas & McNicholas, Los Angeles

Pappas, Michael E., Lesnick Prince & Pappas, Los Angeles

McRae, Marcellus, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Pettis, James C., Pettis Law Firm, Hermosa Beach Phan, Luan K., PB Law Group, Los Angeles

Sachs, Michael J., Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana, 714-241-4444

Medel, Eric John, Medel Law Group, Irvine

Piper, David D., Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach

Salisian, Neal S., Salisian | Lee, Los Angeles

Pitha, Martin L., Lillis Pitha, Newport Beach

Salvato, Gregory M., Salvato Boufadel, Los Angeles

Menton, Jr., James P., Robins Kaplan, Los Angeles Miliband, Joel S., Brown Rudnick, Irvine Miller, Louis R. “Skip”, Miller Barondess, Los Angeles Millett, Patricia A., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Mitilian, Armen G., Mitilian Law Group, Los Angeles Monitz, Ronald, Monitz & Walker, Thousand Oaks Morgenthaler, Alisa M., Morgenthaler Law Group, Los Angeles Morrison, Jr., Edward F., The Morrison Law Group, Palm Desert Mortenson, Michael D., Mortenson Taggart, Irvine

Platt, Daniel A., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Pomerance, Drew E., Roxborough Pomerance Nye & Adreani, Woodland Hills Prenovost, Thomas, Prenovost Normandin Dawe & Rocha, Santa Ana Price, William C., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles Puritsky, Courtney L., Grodsky Olecki & Puritsky, Los Angeles

Mouradian, Mhare, Husch Blackwell, Los Angeles

Reeder, Christopher S., CSReeder, Los Angeles, 310-861-2470 Pg. S-6

Nelson, Andrew Ryan, Fortis, Costa Mesa Nemecek, Frank W., Nemecek & Cole, Encino

Schimmel, Alan I., Schimmel & Parks, Sherman Oaks Schmalz, Kurt L., Lurie Zepeda Schmalz Hogan & Martin, Los Angeles

Seltzer, Marc M., Susman Godfrey, Los Angeles Selvin, Peter S., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills Shechet, Aaron, Chandler & Shechet, Beverly Hills Sheik, Shahrokh, Weinberg Gonser, Los Angeles

Reuben, Timothy D., Reuben Raucher & Blum, Los Angeles

Sklaver, Steven G., Susman Godfrey, Los Angeles

Rhow, Ekwan E., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Nevers, Gary W., Nevers Palazzo Packard Wildermuth & Wynner, Westlake Village

Richman, David S., Law Office of David S. Richman, Encino

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Schare, Allan L., Theodora Oringher, Los Angeles

Siddiqui, Omar A., Siddiqui Law, Costa Mesa, 714-384-6650 Pg. S-56

Ribakoff, David Z., Ribakoff Law Firm, Los Angeles

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Sauer, Gerald, Sauer & Wagner, Los Angeles

Reichert, Thomas V., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Neubauer, Mark A., Carlton Fields, Los Angeles

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Sanders, Justin H., Sanders Roberts, Los Angeles

Scoular, Robert, Dentons, Los Angeles

Reagan, Carole E., Umberg Zipser, Irvine

Murtagh, Paul G., Isaacs | Friedberg, Los Angeles

Saba, Ryan D., Rosen Saba, El Segundo, 310-285-1727

Quintana, Andres, Quintana Law Group, Calabasas

Most, Peter J., Mancini Shenk, Los Angeles

Murphy, Paul D., Murphy Rosen, Santa Monica

Ryu, Francis, Ryu Law Firm, Los Angeles

Schwimer, Michael, Schwimer Weinstein, Santa Monica

Raucher, Stephen L., Reuben Raucher & Blum, Los Angeles

Murphy, Laurie, Valensi Rose, Los Angeles

Russell, L. David, Russell Law, Manhattan Beach

Puritsky, Eric A., Newfield Puritsky, Los Angeles

Moscarino, John M., Valle Makoff, Los Angeles

Mower, Jon R., Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa

Ruga, Dylan, Stalwart Law Group, Los Angeles

Sletten, Steven E., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Soibelman, Adam J., R2 Law Group, Calabasas Sopori, Priya, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Spach, Jr., Madison S., Spach Capaldi & Waggaman, Newport Beach, 949-852-0710

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Williams, Marc S., Cohen Williams, Los Angeles

Alexander, Benjamin, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Spillane, Jay, Spillane Law Group, Beverly Hills

Williams, Michael R., Bienert Katzman Littrell Williams, San Clemente

Spitzer, Daniel, Law Offices of Daniel B. Spitzer, Encino

Wilson, Jason H., Willenken, Los Angeles

Stein, Michael D., Tisdale & Nicholson, Los Angeles

Wippler, Michael, Dykema Gossett, Los Angeles

Steinbrecher, Alan K., Steinbrecher & Span, Los Angeles

Wolf, Ellen Kaufman, Wolf Wallenstein, Los Angeles

Stephens, John B., Stephens Friedland, Costa Mesa

Wong, Fred A., Wong & Mak, Pasadena

Askarieh, Sarvey, Yevras Law Group, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Woods, Daniel J., Musick Peeler & Garrett, Los Angeles

Averbach, Zane S., Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Sugden, David, Call & Jensen, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Wilson, Scot D., Knight Law Group, Los Angeles

Yebri, Sam S., Merino Yebri, Los Angeles

Swartz, Michael, Winston & Strawn, Los Angeles

Yocca, Mark W., The Yocca Law Firm, Irvine

Taitelman, Michael A., Freedman + Taitelman, Los Angeles

Yu, Jason T., Snell & Wilmer, Los Angeles

Tantalo, Joel M., Tantalo & Adler, Los Angeles

Zeldin, Kim, Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles

Taschner, Dana, Taschner Law Firm, Los Angeles

Zipser, Dean J., Umberg Zipser, Irvine Pg. S-10

Tesser, Brandon M., Tesser | Grossman, Los Angeles, 310-207-4558 Theodora, Todd C., Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa Pg. S-10 Thibodo, Todd D., Law Offices of Todd D. Thibodo, Encino, 818-907-5769 Thurmond, Karl S., Law Office of Karl S. Thurmond, Los Angeles, 310-476-3116 Tippie, Alan G., SulmeyerKupetz, Los Angeles Toffer, Jared M., Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt & Lilly, Irvine

Alleguez, Tina M., Alleguez Newman Goodstein, Woodland Hills Alvarez, Justin, The Alvarez Firm, Calabasas, 818-224-7077 Amezcua-Moll, Rosemary, Amezcua-Moll & Associates, Orange

Babaian, Ara, Encore Law Group, Los Angeles Barr, Gary, Alpert Barr & Grant, Sherman Oaks Blaine, Stephen E., Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana, 714-241-4444 Borrego, Tony, Spring Street Business Law, Los Angeles Bruno, Alex, Bruno Group, Glendale Calderon, David R., BarthCalderon, Orange

BUSINESS/CORPORATE Adams, Addison K., Adams Corporate Law, Villa Park, 714-415-2297

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Chilingirian, Neal N., Chilingirian Law Group, Los Angeles Curtis, Linda, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Dermer, Jeffrey, Dermer Behrendt, Los Angeles Dewey, Naomi R., Trusted Legal, Santa Barbara CONTINUED ON PAGE S-22

Turken, James H., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles Umberg, Thomas J., Umberg Zipser, Irvine Van Oordt, Javier H., Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana, 714-241-4444 Vincent, Thomas L., Payne & Fears, Irvine Vora, Nilay U., The Vora Law Firm, Santa Monica Wagenseller, Laine T., Wagenseller Law Firm, Los Angeles Waldron, Gary A., Weintraub Tobin, Newport Beach Walton, John R., Walton Law Group, Pasadena, 626-578-6000 Pg. S-17 Wang, S. Albert, Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg, Los Angeles Wegner, Matthew K., Brown Wegner, Irvine Weiner, Joel R., Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles Weingarten, Alex M., Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Los Angeles Weinsten, Michael E., Lavely & Singer, Los Angeles Weisskopf, Stephen D., LevatoLaw, Los Angeles Werlin, Leslie M., Law Office of Leslie M. Werlin, Beverly Hills White, Darrell P., Kimura London & White, Irvine Wildermuth, Michael S., Nevers Palazzo Packard Wildermuth & Wynner, Westlake Village Williams, Bart H., Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles Williams, J. Craig, WLC | The Williams Law Corp., Irvine

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Wolf, Michael, Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles

Kamanski, James, Law Offices of James B. Kamanski, Playa Vista

Eghbali, Doron F., Law Advocate Group, Beverly Hills

Wynner, Robert E., Nevers Palazzo Packard Wildermuth & Wynner, Westlake Village

Kjar, James J., Kjar McKenna & Stockalper, El Segundo

Eisman, David C., Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles

Zimmet, Keith T., Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Law, Yuk K., Law + Brandmeyer, Pasadena

Epstein, Alan J., Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Los Angeles

Lear, Edward O., Century Law Group, Los Angeles

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Geraci, Anthony F., Geraci, Irvine

Shevin, Eric D., Shevin Law Group, Sherman Oaks

Gipson, Robert E., Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, Los Angeles, 310-556-4660 Pg. S-53

Welch, David R., DR Welch, Los Angeles

Glassman, Jeffrey R., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills Gold, Michael A., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

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Levitt, John S., Soltman Levitt Flaherty & Wattles, Thousand Oaks Long, Jayme C., DLA Piper (US), Los Angeles Madruga, Thomas M., Olivarez Madruga Lemieux & O’Neill, Los Angeles Mandell, Barbara J., Mandell Damon & Associates, Encino, 818-564-4023

Abraham, Stephen E., Law Offices of Stephen E. Abraham, Newport Beach

Granato, Stephanie, Granato Law Office, Los Angeles

McKenzie, Shane Heather, Horvitz & Levy, Burbank

Ames, Dennis K., LaFollette Johnson DeHaas Fesler & Ames, Santa Ana

Hong, Nina L., Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, Los Angeles

McNamara, Ryan M., Call & Jensen, Newport Beach

Armstrong, II, Robert W., Demler Armstrong & Rowland, Long Beach

Horwitz, Martin, Martin L. Horwitz, Los Angeles

Morgenstern, Robert A., Morganstern Law Group, Woodland Hills

Ashworth, Mark, Ashworth & Ashworth, Newport Beach

Nahra, John P., Baker Keener & Nahra, Los Angeles

Ingber, Kenneth S., Ingber & Associates, Agoura Hills Khalili, Arash, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Kim, John Y., Verve Law Group, La Palma Kim, Stuart Y., Stuart Kim Law, Pasadena

Baker, Phillip A., Baker Keener & Nahra, Los Angeles

Natelborg, Kenneth, Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa

Brown, Raymond, The Aguilera Law Group, Laguna Hills

Osborn, Patrick J., Clifford & Brown, Bakersfield

Carobini, Daniel, Engle Carobini, Ventura

Rhee, Jean Y., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles

Kurtz, Steven N., Levinson Arshonsky & Kurtz, Sherman Oaks, 818-382-3434

Cavanaugh, Todd A., Yukevich | Cavanaugh, Los Angeles

Sabaitis, Frank T., Miller Law Associates, Los Angeles

Lambirth, Timothy A., Lambirth Law, Valencia

Cleeland, Bruce, Haight Brown & Bonesteel, Irvine

Safarian, Harry A., The Safarian Firm, Glendale

Lanin, Ari, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Lensky, Arthur, Lensky Law Firm, Los Angeles

DeGrave, Douglas M., Poliquin & DeGrave, Laguna Hills

Schonbuch, Michael, Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits, Los Angeles

Levin, Emily S., Levin Corporate Law Group, Los Angeles

Donovan, Jr., William P., McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles

Scolnick, Chase A., Keller/Anderle, Irvine, 949-476-8700

Locher, William D., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Los Angeles

Douglas, Joel B., Bonne Bridges Mueller O’Keefe & Nichols, Los Angeles

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Slaughter, William M., Slaughter Reagan & Cole, Ventura, 805-658-7800

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Fiola, N. Asir, Selman Breitman, Santa Ana

Soter, Gary S., Law Offices of Gary S. Soter, Calabasas

Prietto, Jr., Miguel P., Prietto Law, Irvine

Fuchs, Douglas, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Spitz, Sherman M., Berger Kahn, Irvine

Rautiola, Beth K., Palmieri Tyler Wiener Wilhelm & Waldron, Irvine

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Palazzo, Donald J., Nevers Palazzo Packard Wildermuth & Wynner, Westlake Village

Rosenblatt, Ira, R2 Law Group, Calabasas Rosner, Michael, Sklar Kirsh, Los Angeles

Hagan, Christopher J., Hagan Denison, Bakersfield

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Sklar, Jeffrey A., Sklar Kirsh, Los Angeles

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Mallow, Michael L., Shook Hardy & Bacon, Los Angeles

Andrews, Celene Chan, LippSmith, Los Angeles Arias, Mike, Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos, Los Angeles

Marder, Neal R., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles

Barba, Luis A., CMBG3 Law, Irvine

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Bradley, Marcus J., Bradley/Grombacher, Westlake Village

Nathan, Reuben, Nathan & Associates, Newport Beach

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CIVIL RIGHTS Battles, Lindsay, McLane Bednarski & Litt, Pasadena Bloom, Lisa, The Bloom Firm, Calabasas Burton, John, The Law Offices of John Burton, Pasadena Campbell, Frances M., Campbell & Farahani, Agoura Hills

O’Neill, Megan, DTO Law, Los Angeles

Chorba, Christopher, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

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Renick, Randy R., Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, Pasadena

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Carr, Peter L., PLC Law Group, Los Angeles

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Farahani, Nima, Campbell & Farahani, Agoura Hills

Frank, Jason M., Frank Sims & Stolper, Irvine

Robertson, IV, Alexander, Robertson & Associates, Westlake Village

Galipo, Dale K., Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo, Woodland Hills, 818-347-3333

Goodwin, Justin T., DTO Law, Los Angeles

Robinson, Daniel S., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach, 949-720-1288 Pg. S-10

Grombacher, Kiley L., Bradley/Grombacher, Westlake Village

Robinson, Jr., Mark P., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach, 949-720-1288 Pg. S-6, S-10

Herrington, Robert J., Greenberg Traurig, Los Angeles

Rothrock, Frank C., Shook Hardy & Bacon, Irvine

Harper, Caree, The Law Offices of Caree Harper, Santa Monica Hoffman, Paul L., Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, Hermosa Beach Orange, Olu K., Orange Law Offices, Los Angeles Palmer, Justin A., Filer Palmer, Long Beach

Germain, Daniel, Rosman & Germain, Encino

Saltzman, Stanley D., Marlin & Saltzman, Agoura Hills

Humphrey, Christina, Christina Humphrey Law, Santa Barbara, 805-618-2924 Pg. S-53

Scott, Jeff E., Greenberg Traurig, Los Angeles

Panuco, Cindy, Public Counsel, Los Angeles

Karasik, Gregory N., Karasik Law Firm, Los Angeles

Parks, Shawna, Law Office of Shawna L. Parks, Los Angeles

Karavatos, Karen L., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach, 949-720-1288

Paz, R. Samuel, Law Office of R. Samuel Paz, Culver City

Kellner, Richard L., Kellner Law Group, Los Angeles

Roberts, Daniel S., Cole Huber, Ontario

Kelly, Michael Louis, Kirtland & Packard, Redondo Beach

Tagvoryan, Anahit (Ana), Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Rosenbaum, Mark D., Public Counsel, Los Angeles

Silberfeld, Roman M., Robins Kaplan, Los Angeles Sims, Scott H., Frank Sims & Stolper, Irvine Stahle, Mikael H., Matern Law Group, Manhattan Beach, 310-531-1900 Pg. S-13 Stephenson, Daniel J., K&L Gates, Los Angeles

Koes, Daniel J., Shenoi Koes, Pasadena

Tellis, Roland K., Baron & Budd, Encino

Sobel, Carol A., Law Office of Carol A. Sobel, Santa Monica

Koncius, Jeffrey, Kiesel Law, Beverly Hills, 310-854-4444

Torrijos, Alfredo, Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos, Los Angeles

Uzeta, Maria Michelle, Law Office of Michelle Uzeta, Monrovia

Lander, Gregg, Law Offices of Kevin T. Barnes, Los Angeles

Wade, Gillian, Milstein Jackson Fairchild & Wade, Los Angeles

Williamson, Peter, Martinian & Associates, Los Angeles

Levin, Jason, Steptoe & Johnson, Los Angeles

Wang, Arnold C., Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos, Los Angeles

CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS Adolph, Launa, Matern Law Group, Manhattan Beach, 310-531-1900 Pg. S-13 Ahern, Eileen M., Willenken, Los Angeles Aiwazian, Edwin, Lawyers for Justice, Glendale

LippSmith, Graham B., LippSmith, Los Angeles LippSmith, Marybeth, LippSmith, Los Angeles

Warshaw, Daniel L., Pearson Simon & Warshaw, Sherman Oaks

Loewy, Robert G., Law Offices of Robert G. Loewy, Aliso Viejo

Westerman, Jeff S., Westerman Law Corp., Encino

Madeksho, Christopher L., Madeksho Law Firm, Woodland Hills Mahoney, Kevin, Mahoney Law Group, Long Beach

Wolfson, Tina, Ahdoot & Wolfson, Burbank Yeremian, David, David Yeremian & Associates, Glendale CONTINUED ON PAGE S-24

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Kasdan, Kenneth S., Kasdan LippSmith Weber Turner, Irvine, 949-851-9000

Wittbrodt, Richard J., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Los Angeles

Karp, Jonathan A., Thompson Coburn, Los Angeles

Kavcioglu, Aren, Pierce Kavcioglu Espinosa & Cesar, Encino

Zvonicek, Philip C., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Irvine

Lappen, Timothy, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Koeller, Keith D., JAMS, Irvine

CONSUMER LAW

May, Lawrence E., Lawrence E. May, Los Angeles

Kornblatt, Sara H., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Los Angeles

Streza, Richard E., Brown & Streza, Irvine

Kring, Kyle D., Kring & Chung, Irvine

Anvar, Jessica, The Lemon Law Experts, Los Angeles

Loewenthal, David A., Loewenthal Hillshafer & Carter, Woodland Hills

Barker, John D., Krohn & Moss, Hermosa Beach

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Fox, Deborah, Meyers Nave, Los Angeles Strugar, Matthew, Law Office of Matthew Strugar, Los Angeles

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION Adams, Jason M., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Westlake Village Baghdassarian, Alex R., Peckar & Abramson, Los Angeles Bailey, Terry R., Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo, Encino Barker, T. Darren, LaFollette Johnson DeHaas Fesler & Ames, Santa Ana

Lovett, Steven R., Law Office of Steven R. Lovett, Woodland Hills

Beck, Benjeman, The Lemon Law Experts, Los Angeles

Lubka, Laurence P., Hunt Ortmann, Pasadena

Bhujwala, Shehnaz, Boucher, Woodland Hills, 818-340-5400

MacNaughton, Barry J., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

Brennan, Robert F., Law Offices of Robert F. Brennan, Montrose

Mah, Richard, Hunt Ortmann, Pasadena

Friedman, Todd M., Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman, Woodland Hills

Malanga, Gerald B., LML, Los Angeles Miller, Thomas E., The Miller Law Firm, Newport Beach, 800-403-3332

THOMAS E. MILLER THE MILLER LAW FIRM Newport Beach • 800-403-3332

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Imber, Daniel S., Imber Law Group, Beverly Hills Kasparian, Lucy, California Lemon Law Center, Glendale Kaufman, Joseph A., Joseph Kaufman & Associates, Pasadena Kazerounian, Abbas, Kazerouni Law Group, Costa Mesa Pg. S-6, S-10

Buck, Richard E., Cooksey Toolen Gage Duffy & Woog, Costa Mesa

Ng, Christopher Eric, Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Westlake Village

Martin, III, G. Thomas, Martin & Bontrager, North Hollywood

Campbell, Nick, Builders Law Group, Burbank

Nieves, Omel A., Hunt Ortmann, Pasadena

Mizrahi, Guy, Journey Law Group, Los Angeles

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Orland, James J., Orland Law Group, El Segundo

Naderi, Ray, Naderi Law Group, El Segundo

Ortmann, Dale A., Hunt Ortmann, Pasadena

Parks, Michael, Schimmel & Parks, Sherman Oaks

Pierce, David H., David H. Pierce & Associates, Sherman Oaks, 818-826-5480 Pg. S-55

Starr, Robert L., The Law Office of Robert L. Starr, Calabasas

Darling, John, Hunt Ortmann, Pasadena Dorse, Kevin A., Theodora Oringher, Costa Mesa Feldman, Mark A., Feldman & Associates, Los Angeles Fresch, Elaine K., Selman Breitman, Los Angeles Pg. S-8 Ghassemian, Mahyar, Ghassemian Law Group, Mission Viejo Glucksman, Richard H., Chapman Glucksman Dean & Roeb, Los Angeles Golding, Jonathan F., Golding + Lamothe, Los Angeles Gropman, Ted R., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Los Angeles Grossbart, Kenneth, Abdulaziz Grossbart & Rudman, North Hollywood Hack, Marion T., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Los Angeles Hamrick, III, A. Raymond, Hamrick & Evans, Burbank Henning, Stephen J., Wood Smith Henning & Berman, Los Angeles

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Friedman, Joshua, Joshua P. Friedman & Associates, Calabasas

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Goldberg, Marshall, Glass & Goldberg, Woodland Hills

Senet, Theodore L., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Los Angeles

Goldman, Martin F., Law Office of Martin F. Goldman, Tarzana

Sire, Jr., David J., Feldman & Associates, Los Angeles

Jen, Jerry J., Jen Law Firm, Los Angeles

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Horowitz, Jeffrey D., The Horowitz Law Firm, Sherman Oaks

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Taylor, Norman F., Norman Taylor & Associates, Glendale

Moldo, Byron Z., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills Slates, Ronald, Ronald P. Slates, Los Angeles Weinberg, Robert, Law Offices of Robert A. Weinberg, Encino

CRIMINAL DEFENSE Aizman, Diana Weiss, Aizman Law Firm, Encino Aquilina, John, Attorney at Law, Rancho Santa Margarita Arfa, Fay, Fay Arfa, Los Angeles

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Artan, Michael H., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Grech, Jr., Paul, Grech & Packer, Riverside

Arzili, Anthony A., Attorney at Law, Whittier

Gunsberg, Jerod, Law Offices of Jerod Gunsberg, Los Angeles

Aval, Simon, Law Offices of Simon Aval, Pasadena Azari, Sara, Law Office of Sara Azari, Los Angeles Bednarski, Marilyn, McLane Bednarski & Litt, Pasadena Berk, Blair, Tarlow & Berk, Los Angeles

Haig, Jerome J., Law Office of Jerome J. Haig, Torrance Hammond, Donald R., Criminal Defense Heroes, Torrance

Powell, Sarah E., Bullard & Powell, San Bernardino Pullara, Anthony, Law Office of Anthony J. Pullara, Torrance Ridley, Douglas H., Ridley Defense, Ventura, 805-208-1866 Rubin, Dale, Law Office of Dale Rubin, San Marino

Berlin, Peter, Law Offices of Peter Berlin, Tarzana

Harley, Jr., Robison D., Law Office of Robison D. Harley Jr., Santa Ana

Blanco, Meghan A., Law Offices of Meghan Blanco, Laguna Niguel

Harris, Eugene P. (Pat), Law Offices of Pat Harris, Beverly Hills

Blumenthal, Virginia, Blumenthal Law Offices, Riverside

Hashemi, Arash, Law Offices of Arash Hashemi, Los Angeles

Braun, Adam, Braun & Braun, Los Angeles

Helfend, Robert M., Attorney at Law, Malibu

Braun, Harland W., Braun & Braun, Los Angeles

Hill, Greg T., Greg Hill & Associates, Torrance

Salerno, Anthony V., Anthony V. Salerno & Associates, Marina del Rey

Brenner, Gregory D., Law Office of Gregory D. Brenner, Los Angeles

Holley, Shawn, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Pg. S-8

Santwier, Rickard, Law Office of Rickard Santwier, Pasadena

Byrne, Mark A., Byrne & Nixon, Los Angeles

Hong, Janet E., The Hong Firm, Los Angeles

Saros, Alison, Saros Law, Manhattan Beach

Chambers, Dan E., Chambers Law Firm, Santa Ana

Houlé, Lisa, Houlé Law, Torrance

Chaney, Christopher, Law Offices of Christopher C. Chaney, Pasadena Cohen, Philip Kent, Philip Kent Cohen, Santa Monica

Sala, Heberto A., Attorney at Law, Bakersfield, 661-322-1708

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Huish, Dyke, Law Office of Dyke E. Huish, Mission Viejo Israels, Philip D., Cron Israels & Stark, Los Angeles Israels, Sam J., Cron Israels & Stark, Los Angeles

Shapiro, Louis J., Law Offices of Louis J. Shapiro, Los Angeles Sherman, Victor, Victor Sherman, Los Angeles, 213-268-3401

Cordova, Ron, Attorney at Law, Irvine, 949-748-3600

Jackson, Alan J., Werksman Jackson & Quinn, Los Angeles

Cron, Steven M., Cron Israels & Stark, Santa Monica

Jonas, Glen T., Jonas & Driscoll, Torrance

Sicat, Jocelyn H., Sicat Law, Covina, 626-888-3529 Pg. S-56

Kahn, Stephen R., Law Offices of Stephen R. Kahn, Beverly Hills

Sitkoff, Stephen D., Takakjian & Sitkoff, Los Angeles

Kaloyanides, David, David J.P. Kaloyanides, Chino

Solis, Anthony M., Law Offices of Anthony M. Solis, Calabasas

Devore, Mark S., Law Offices of Mark S. Devore, Calabasas Diamond, David, Diamond & Associates, Burbank Donath, Graham D., The Law Offices of Graham Donath, Riverside

Kaplan, Richard D., Kaplan Marino, Los Angeles Kent, Jeffrey, The Kent Law Firm, Fullerton

Dunkle, Stephen K., Sanger Swysen & Dunkle, Santa Barbara

Kestenbaum, David S., Kestenbaum Law Group, Van Nuys

Earley, Jack M., Law Offices of Jack M. Earley, Irvine

Krause, Andrew P., Law Office of Krause & Hirschhorn, Ventura

Eisner, Alan, Eisner Gorin, Los Angeles

LaBarbera, Vincent, Law Offices of Vincent J. LaBarbera Jr., Newport Beach

Ernenwein, Robert S., Ernenwein & Mathes, Torrance Falangetti, Anthony J., West Coast Defense, Long Beach Ferrentino, Correen W., Ferrentino & Associates, Newport Beach Feyzjou, Kiarash, Kia Law Firm, Riverside Fisch, Stephen J., Shevin Law Group, Sherman Oaks Fredrick, Mark, Law Offices of Mark W. Fredrick, Newport Beach Friedman, Stanley L., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Thomas, Scott C., Law Office of Scott C. Thomas, Santa Ana Thompson, Jared M., Brehmer, Bakersfield

McBroom, Katherine (Kacey), Kaedian, Beverly Hills

Torres, David A., Torres | Torres-Stallings and Associates, Bakersfield

McKesson, Winston K., Law Offices of Winston Kevin McKesson, Los Angeles

Unger, Charles J. “Charlie”, Law Offices of Charlie Unger, Pasadena, 626-567-0770

McLane, David S., McLane Bednarski & Litt, Pasadena

CHARLES J. “CHARLIE” UNGER

Megerditchian, Silva L., SLM Law, Woodland Hills

Morrissey, Marcia A., Law Office of Marcia A. Morrissey, Los Angeles

Gorin, Dmitry, Eisner Gorin, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Thiagarajah, Fred, Right Choice Law, Newport Beach

Marks, Donald B., Marks & Brooklier, Los Angeles

Geragos, Mark, Geragos & Geragos, Los Angeles

Goldstein, Karen L., Law Offices of Karen L. Goldstein, Los Angeles, 888-445-6313 Pg. S-53

Taylor, Scott A., Taylor Defense Firm, San Luis Obispo

Levine, Stephen, Milligan Beswick Levine & Knox, Redlands, 909-798-3300 Pg. S-54

Meyer, Paul S., Law Offices of Paul S. Meyer, Costa Mesa

Goldstein, Elana, Goldstein Legal Office, Los Angeles

Stokke, Allan H., Corrigan Welbourn Stokke, Newport Beach Swanson, David E., Law Office of David Swanson, Newport Beach

Lessem, Jeremy, Lessem Newstat & Tooson, Los Angeles

Geller, Paul S., Law Offices of Paul S. Geller, Pasadena Glucksman, Jacob, Law Offices of Jacob Glucksman, Encino

Stambler, Errol H., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Walsh, Joseph F., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles Welbourn, T. Edward, Corrigan Welbourn Stokke, Newport Beach White, Debra S., Law Offices of Debra S. White, Los Angeles

Murphy, David M., Law Offices of David M. Murphy, Los Angeles Newman, Brian, Law Office of Brian A. Newman, Torrance Podberesky, Vicki I., Andrues / Podberesky, Los Angeles

LAW OFFICES OF CHARLIE UNGER Pasadena • 626-567-0770

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Handzlik, Jan Lawrence, Jan Lawrence Handzlik, Los Angeles

Steingard, Richard, Law Offices of Richard M. Steingard, Los Angeles

Yamamoto, Mia Frances, Law Office of Mia Yamamoto, Los Angeles

Hanusz, John, Hanusz Law, Los Angeles

Sun, Brian A., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles

Yeretsian, Lara, Yeretsian Law, Glendale

Harris, William S., Law Offices of William S. Harris, South Pasadena

Umhofer, Matthew D., Spertus Landes & Umhofer, Los Angeles

Hochman, Nathan J., Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles Holscher, Mark C., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

Van Dyk, Nicole Rodriguez, Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Hache, Philip D., Law Office of Philip D. Hache, Sherman Oaks

Jenness, Evan A., Law Offices of Evan A. Jenness, Los Angeles

Vandevelde, Eric D., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Kade, Michael, Law Offices of Michael Kade, Los Angeles

Josephs, Samuel A., Spertus Landes & Umhofer, Los Angeles

Vaughn, David, Law Offices of David Vaughn, Los Angeles

Landry, Virginia L., Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry, Laguna Hills

Kaufman, Gary Jay, The Kaufman Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-286-2202

Villarreal, Alicia, Villarreal Law, Hermosa Beach

Middlebrook, Richard O., Middlebrook & Associates, Bakersfield

Klein, Brian, Waymaker, Los Angeles

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: DUI/DWI

Parker Harris, Kellee, Parker Law Center, Huntington Beach Rosenfeld, Mark, Law Office of Mark Rosenfeld, Beverly Hills Simons, Barry T., Law Offices of Barry T. Simons, Laguna Beach Taylor, Christopher, Law Offices of Taylor & Taylor, Huntington Beach

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR

Kreindler, Charles L., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Wiechert, David W., Wiechert Munk & Goldstein, San Juan Capistrano Wilke, Craig, Law Office of Craig Wilke, Fullerton

Krieger, Eliot F., SKT Law, Huntington Beach

Willingham, David K., King & Spalding, Los Angeles

Levine, Janet I., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Zweiback, Michael, Zweiback Fiset & Coleman, Los Angeles, 213-266-5171

Levine, Joel, Joel Levine, Costa Mesa Lincenberg, Gary S., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

ELDER LAW

Littrell, John, Bienert Katzman Littrell Williams, San Clemente

Artigliere, William, Garcia & Artigliere, Long Beach

Machala, Angela, Winston & Strawn, Los Angeles

Bell, Melinda, Law Office of Melinda S. Bell, Dana Point

Adams, Christine, The Adams Law Group, Los Angeles

Marella, Vincent J., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Alon, Edward E., Alon, Woodland Hills

Marino, Nina, Kaplan Marino, Los Angeles

Athey, Joel M., Holmes Taylor Athey Cowan Mermelstein & Jones, Los Angeles

May, Aaron M., Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg, Los Angeles

Bass, Diane, Law Office of Diane C. Bass, Irvine

Medrano, Manny, Zuber Lawler, Los Angeles

Beck, Mark E., Beck Law, Pasadena

Miller, Kenneth, Law Office of Kenneth M. Miller, San Clemente

Kane, Gerald, Law Offices of Gerald L. Kane, Encino

Neuman, Ariel A., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Malis, Julianna M., Santa Barbara Estate Planning & Elder Law, Santa Barbara

Newhouse, Jr., George B., Richards Carrington, Los Angeles

Moran, Michael F., Moran Law, Santa Ana

Bell, Koren L., Larson, Los Angeles Bienert, Jr., Thomas H., Bienert Katzman Littrell Williams, San Clemente Bird, Terry W., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles Buehler, George W., Buehler & Kassabian, Pasadena Chou, Vicki, Hueston Hennigan, Los Angeles

O’Brien, Thomas P., Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles Pacheco, Anthony, Vedder Price, Los Angeles

Cohen, Reuven L., Cohen Williams, Los Angeles

Pelham, Christopher K., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles

Corrigan, Kate, Corrigan Welbourn Stokke, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Re, Donald M., Law Offices of Donald Re, Los Angeles

Daly, Bryan D., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Resnik, Jennifer, Cohen Williams, Los Angeles

de Bretteville, Jason, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach Dyer, Aaron S., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Los Angeles Farhang, Michael, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Fiset, Rachel L., Zweiback Fiset & Coleman, Los Angeles, 213-266-5171 Gluck, Benjamin N., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles Pg. S-6 Goldsobel, Steven M., Law Offices of Steven Goldsobel, Los Angeles

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Riddet, James, Bienert Katzman Littrell Williams, San Clemente Rodriguez, Mario, Law Office of Mario Rodriguez, Indio Roker, Brandon J., McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles Rutherford, Jeffrey H., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles Schafler, Michael V, Cohen Williams, Los Angeles Shapiro, Robert, Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Sinek, Jeffrey S., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles Spertus, James W., Spertus Landes & Umhofer, Los Angeles

Blix, Fay, Law Office of Fay Blix, Laguna Hills Garcia, Stephen M., Garcia & Artigliere, Long Beach Jensen, Tamila, Law Offices of Tamila C. Jensen, Granada Hills

Nielsen, Caren R., Rodnunsky & Associates, Woodland Hills Peters, Carol A., Law Office of Carol A. Peters, Pasadena Siegel, Travis K., Siegel Law, Tustin Valentine, Kimberly, Valentine Law Group, Mission Viejo Pg. S-8, S-10 Zimring, Stuart D., Law Office of Stuart D. Zimring, Encino

EMINENT DOMAIN Banker, Anish J., Palmieri Hennessey & Leifer, Irvine Bergman, Brian J., BDG Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-470-6110 Bergman, Gregory M., BDG Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-470-6110 Block, Glenn L., California Eminent Domain Law Group, Glendale Blum, Steven A., Blum Collins, Los Angeles Brogan, Kevin H., Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Evertz, Douglas J., Murphy & Evertz, Costa Mesa, 714-277-1700 Pg. S-53

DOUGLAS J. EVERTZ MURPHY & EVERTZ, LLP Costa Mesa • 714-277-1700

www.murphyevertz.com Hazarabedian, Arthur J., California Eminent Domain Law Group, Glendale Hennessey, Patrick A., Palmieri Hennessey & Leifer, Irvine Krolikowski, Charles S., Newmeyer Dillion, Newport Beach Kuhn, Bradford B., Nossaman, Irvine Leifer, Michael H., Palmieri Hennessey & Leifer, Irvine Murphy, John C., Murphy & Evertz, Costa Mesa, 714-277-1700 Pg. S-55

JOHN C. MURPHY MURPHY & EVERTZ, LLP Costa Mesa • 714-277-1700

www.murphyevertz.com Peterson, John S., Peterson Law Group, Los Angeles, 213-236-9720 Pg. S-55

JOHN S. PETERSON PETERSON LAW GROUP PC Los Angeles • 213-236-9720

www.petersonlawgroup.com Weisberg, Gary C., Woodruff Spradlin & Smart, Costa Mesa

Appleton, Heather, Appleton Law Group, El Segundo

Cohen, Robert W., Law Offices of Robert W. Cohen, Los Angeles

Atkinson, Steven D., Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, Cerritos

Cole, William L., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Babaian, Raymond, Valiant Law, Ontario

Conway, Catherine A., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Barnes, Kevin T., Law Offices of Kevin T. Barnes, Los Angeles

Crosby, William M., Law Office of William M. Crosby, Tustin

Baruch, Joel, Law Offices of Joel W. Baruch, Irvine Becerra, Joseph R., Becerra Law Firm, Long Beach Bendavid, Sue M., Lewitt Hackman, Encino Birndorf Zeiler, Deborah, Birndorf Law Offices, Los Angeles, 310-914-8400 Pg. S-52 Bornn, Nancy, Nancy Bornn, Playa del Rey

Cvitan, Alexander B., Reich Adell & Cvitan, Los Angeles Davis, Heather, Protection Law Group, El Segundo, 844-294-3095 Pg. S-27 Davis, Roxanne A., Davis*Gavsie & Hakim, Santa Monica

Brand, Ron, Kahana & Feld, Irvine

De Castro, David M., De Castro & Morrow, Woodland Hills

Brooks, Scott A., Matern Law Group, Manhattan Beach, 310-531-1900 Pg. S-13

Dieguez, Marcelo A., Diefer Law Group, Irvine

Brown, Jeffrey K., Payne & Fears, Irvine Bush, Robert A., Bush Gottlieb, Glendale Cagney, Lawrence R., Krieger & Krieger, Long Beach Caryl, Jesse M., Bent Caryl & Kroll, Los Angeles Chami, Pouya B., Chami Law, Los Angeles Charles, Mark, Mark Charles Law, Pasadena Choi, Edward, Law Offices of Choi & Associates, Los Angeles

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Donahoo, Richard E., Donahoo & Associates, Tustin, 714-953-1010 Drapkin, Larry C., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles Elihu, Kaveh S., Employee Justice Legal Group, Los Angeles Elkins, Cynthia, Elkins Employment Law, Woodland Hills Erskine, Kathleen M., Cohen Williams, Los Angeles CONTINUED ON PAGE S-28

HEATHER DAVIS

Boutwell, Sherrie, Boutwell Fay, Irvine

Selected to Super Lawyers

Chandler, Corinne, Kantor & Kantor, Northridge Dean, Ronald, Law Office of Ronald Dean, Pacific Palisades

PROTECTION LAW GROUP, LLP

Kantor, Glenn R., Kantor & Kantor, Northridge

237 California Street El Segundo, CA 90245 PH: (844) 294-3095 Ext. 103 heather@protectionlawgroup.com

Kantor, Lisa S., Kantor & Kantor, Northridge

protectionlawgroup.com

Faucher, Joseph C., Trucker Huss, Encino Harris, Stephen H., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles

Kassan, Alan E., Kantor & Kantor, Northridge Paller Jr., Joseph L., Gilbert & Sackman, Los Angeles Simpson, Roland G., Roland G. Simpson, Los Angeles

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR Abrams, Lauren, Law Offices of Lauren Abrams, Beverly Hills Adreani, Michael B., Roxborough Pomerance Nye & Adreani, Woodland Hills Albright, Clifton W., Albright Yee & Schmit, Los Angeles Alexander, III, J. Bernard, Alexander Morrison + Fehr, Los Angeles, 310-394-0888 Pg. S-6, S-29 Alexis, Andrew L., Alexis Law Firm, Long Beach

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR A standout among other employment attorneys, Heather Davis represents employees in obtaining compensation for violations of wage and hour laws suffered at the hands of their employers. During Ms. Davis’ career solely dedicated to representing employees, she has obtained more than $75 million in settlements for her clients. Although this success confirms Ms. Davis as one of the preeminent wage and hour attorneys in California, her experience as a former defense attorney for the largest employers in the country for more than a decade sets her apart from the rest. Ms. Davis, as one of the founding partners of Protection Law Group, LLP, uses her experience as a former defense attorney to the advantage of her clients.

Antonelli, Giuseppe Joseph, Law Office of Joseph Antonelli, Chino Hills SUPER LAWYERS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022

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Johnson, Kenneth E., Theodora Oringher, Los Angeles

McGuigan, Kathryn T., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles

Eskridge, Gayle L., Eskridge Law, Torrance

Kading, Theresa A., Kading Briggs, Irvine

Fakhimi, Houman, Fakhimi & Associates, Newport Beach, 877-529-4545

Kahn, Brennan S., Perona Langer Beck Serbin and Harrison, Long Beach, 562-426-6155

McNicholas, Matthew S., McNicholas & McNicholas, Los Angeles

Farber, Laura V., Hahn & Hahn, Pasadena

Kamm, Nicole, Fisher & Phillips, Los Angeles

Fears, Daniel F., Payne & Fears, Irvine

Kantor, Eli, Law Offices of Eli M. Kantor, Beverly Hills

Fehr, Tracy L., Alexander Morrison + Fehr, Los Angeles, 310-394-0888 Pg. S-29

Mehtani, Aanand, Mehtani Law Offices, Los Angeles Messiha, Dominic J., Empower Law, Los Angeles Miller, Jon G., Littler Mendelson, Irvine

Feldman, Carla, CAF Law Group, Beverly Hills

Kaplan, Steven J., Law Offices of Steven J. Kaplan, Los Angeles

Mittman, Jeremy, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Fernandez, Marta M., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Kaufman, Thomas R., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Moisa, Irma Rodriguez, Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, Cerritos

Fisch, Gregg A., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Kemple, Mark D., Greenberg Traurig, Los Angeles

Moon, Kane, Moon & Yang, Los Angeles

Kennedy, Tracey, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Muller, Kirstin E., Hirschfeld Kraemer, Santa Monica

Kienle, Jenifer L., Kienle Law, San Juan Capistrano

Myers, Thomas, Smith & Myers, Los Angeles

Kim, Tae, CollinsKim, Los Angeles

Narayan, Santosh, Narayan Law, Pasadena

Kingsley, Eric B., Kingsley & Kingsley, Encino

Noy, Renee, WorkWise Law, Calabasas

Knepper, Dawn M., Knepper Law, Irvine

Ozhekim, Greg, Oz Law Group, Woodland Hills

Friedman, Andrew H., Helmer Friedman, Beverly Hills Pg. S-6

Koegle, Brian, Poole Shaffery & Koegle, Santa Clarita

Paris, Andrea W. S., Andrea Paris Law, Newport Beach

Fromholz, Ann H., The Fromholz Firm, Pasadena

Kowalski, Nate, Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, Cerritos

Payne, James L., Payne & Fears, Irvine

Gage, Bradley C., Goldberg & Gage, Woodland Hills

Kraemer, Glen E., Hirschfeld Kraemer, Santa Monica

Rastegar, Farzad, Rastegar Law Group, Torrance

Garbacz, Greg A., Klinedinst, Irvine

Krakow, Marvin E., Alexander Morrison + Fehr, Los Angeles, 310-394-0888 Pg. S-29

Fischer, Debra L., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles Fitzgerald, Barbara A., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles Flores, Michelle Lee, Michelle Lee Flores Esq., Los Angeles

Gabler, Karen L., LightGabler, Camarillo

Ghozland, Jennifer L., Ghozland Law Firm, Los Angeles, 213-334-4570 Pg. S-41 Gitt, Cynthia E., Brown Gitt Law Group, Pasadena, 626-993-6792 Pg. S-53 Goldsmith, Michele M., BDG Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-470-6110

Kramer, Jennifer, Hennig Kramer Ruiz & Singh, Los Angeles, 213-310-8301 Krieger, Linda Guthmann, Krieger & Krieger, Long Beach Kroll, Steven M., Bent Caryl & Kroll, Los Angeles

Posner, Michael P., Attorney at Law, Camarillo Rose, Joe, Rose Law, Westlake Village, 805-512-9510 Pg. S-55 Rosen, Howard Z., Rosen Marsili Rapp, Los Angeles Rosenberg, Richard S., Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino Ross, Gary, Ross & Morrison, Beverly Hills Rothner, Glenn, Rothner Segall & Greenstone, Pasadena

Golper, John B., Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino

La Mar, Michelle M., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Gottlieb, Ira L., Bush Gottlieb, Glendale

Lara, Linda Luna, Lara & Luna, La Mirada

Ryan, Timothy F., The Offices of Timothy F. Ryan, Manhattan Beach

Guterres, Tomas A., Collins + Collins, Pasadena

Lee, Thomas M., Lee Law Offices, Los Angeles

Ryu, Young W., LOYR, Los Angeles

Gutierrez, Alejandro P., Hathaway Perrett Webster Powers Chrisman & Gutierrez, Ventura

Levian, K. Kevin, Levian Law, Los Angeles

Sanders, Olivia, Law Office of Olivia Sanders, Los Angeles

Gutman Dickinson, Julie, Bush Gottlieb, Glendale

Levin, Adam, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Sargoy, Kenneth J., Sargoy Law, Los Angeles

Hameed, Sayema J., Cabada & Hameed, Pasadena

Levinson, Robert A., Levinson Arshonsky & Kurtz, Sherman Oaks, 818-382-3434

Schaper, Reed E., Hirschfeld Kraemer, Santa Monica

Handman, Daniel H., Hirschfeld Kraemer, Santa Monica

Lidman, Scott M., Lidman Law, El Segundo

Scherwin, Todd, Fisher & Phillips, Los Angeles

Lim, Preston, Lim Law Group, Gardena

Schroeder, Beth A., Raines Feldman, Los Angeles

Locklear, Tina, Law Offices of Tina Locklear, Irvine

Schwettmann, Eric C., Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino

Haque, Kashif, Aegis Law Firm, Irvine Harris, Wilmer J., Wilmer Harris Law, South Pasadena

Lane, Wendy E., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Love, Richard A., Love, Tarzana

Harrison, Genie, Genie Harrison Law Firm, Los Angeles, 213-805-5301 Pg. S-6, S-8

Magnanimo, Frank A., Magnanimo & Dean, Woodland Hills

Hayden, Robert C., Ezer Williamson Law, Torrance

Majarian, Sahag, Law Office of Sahag Majarian, Tarzana

Hilaire, Mika M., Equal Rights Law Group, Sherman Oaks Holzman, Daniel M., Caskey & Holzman, Calabasas

Malk, Michael, Malk Law Firm, Los Angeles Mallen, David, Employee Law Group, Torrance

Scott, Kelly O., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills Segall, Anthony R., Rothner Segall & Greenstone, Pasadena Seplow, Michael D., Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, Culver City Sessions, Don, Sessions & Kimball, Mission Viejo

Mankin, Brian J., Lauby Mankin & Lauby, Riverside

Sethness, Clifford D., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles

May, Bruce D., Stuart Kane, Newport Beach

Shahabi, S. Sean, JLG Lawyers, Glendale

Jaurigue, Michael J., JLG Lawyers, Glendale

McCaffrey, Jr., Timothy B., Chesler McCaffrey, Los Angeles

Shanberg, Ross E., Shanberg Stafford & Bartz, Newport Beach

Javanmardi, Peter A., Javanmardi Law, Los Angeles

McCortney, Ryan D., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Costa Mesa

Sheldon, Geoffrey S., Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Los Angeles

Jaramilla, Toni J., Toni Jaramilla, Los Angeles Jaramillo, Andrew J., Altus Law Firm, Irvine

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Sherman, Lisa G., Sherman, Beverly Hills Smith, Gregory W., Law Offices of Gregory W. Smith, Beverly Hills

Bonoli, Philip J., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Brophy, Jonathan L., Seyfarth Shaw, Los Angeles

Jones, David G., Lewitt Hackman, Encino Katunich, Lauren J., Raines Feldman, Los Angeles

Smith, Jay, Gilbert & Sackman, Los Angeles

Cohen, Ellen, Call & Jensen, Newport Beach

Kinaga, Patricia, Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, Los Angeles

Soleymani, Navid, Yadegar Minoofar & Soleymani, Los Angeles

Craigie, Alex, The Law Offices of Alex Craigie, Los Angeles

Knee, Howard M., Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Sottile, Timothy B., Sottile / Baltaxe, Agoura Hills

DiSante, Marie D., CDF Labor Law, Irvine

Landegger, Alfred J., Landegger Verano & Davis, Encino

Sugg, Wendy A., Sugg & Paracuellos, Laguna Beach

Eanet, Matthew L., Eanet, Los Angeles

Light, Jonathan Fraser, LightGabler, Camarillo

Sullivan, Mark, Law Office of Mark F. Sullivan, Westlake Village

Freudenberger, Timothy M., CDF Labor Law, Irvine

Miller, Lee A., Miller Law Partners, Woodland Hills

Swerdlow, Janet I., Swerdlow Florence Sanchez Swerdlow & Wimmer, Beverly Hills

Giddens, Brent M., CDF Labor Law, Los Angeles

Moss, Jr., James R., Payne & Fears, Irvine

Giovannone, John R., CDF Labor Law, Los Angeles

Oster, Matt, Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles

Glazer, Gregory, Hirschfeld Kraemer, Santa Monica

Patton, Amy R., Payne & Fears, Irvine

Hoffer, Daniel P., Venable, Los Angeles

Pazzani, Karen J., Young & Zinn, Los Angeles

Horton Thomas, Jeffrey S., Fox Rothschild, Los Angeles

Pearl, II, Carmine J. (CJ), Pearl Legal, Irvine

Tiedemann, J. Scott, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Los Angeles Toomey, Philip A., Leech Tishman, El Segundo Torabian-Bashardoust, Roxanne, Torabian Law, Thousand Oaks Von Eschen, Lisa, The Maloney Firm, El Segundo Walraven, Larry A., Walraven & Westerfeld, Aliso Viejo, 949-215-1991 Wesierski, Christopher P., Wesierski & Zurek, Lake Forest Pg. S-10 Whang, Arthur, Whang Law Firm, Woodland Hills Wimmer, David A., Swerdlow Florence Sanchez Swerdlow & Wimmer, Beverly Hills Wirth, Gabrielle M., Dorsey & Whitney, Costa Mesa

Emry, Cynthia J., Jackson Lewis, Los Angeles

House, Calvin R., Gutierrez Preciado & House, Pasadena Hurevitz, Linda B., Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino Irizarry, Dawn M., CDF Labor Law, Los Angeles Jamgotchian, Ronda D., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Jayakumar, Jehan N., Carlson & Jayakumar, Newport Beach, 949-222-2008

Marca, Richard D., Varner & Brandt, Riverside

Roberts, Jr, Reginald, Sanders Roberts, Los Angeles Rubiner, John, Freeman Mathis & Gary, Los Angeles Salinas, Raul F., AlvaradoSmith, Los Angeles Sandhu, Puneet K., Young & Zinn, Los Angeles Savitt, Linda Miller, Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, Encino Pg. S-6, S-8 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-30

Withrow, Laura, Withrow Employment Law, Thousand Oaks Wong, Gregory P., The Barkhordarian Law Firm, Culver City Wong, Samuel A., Aegis Law Firm, Irvine Yadidsion, Danny, Labor Law, Santa Monica Young-Agriesti, Summer, Klatte Budensiek & Young-Agriesti, Newport Beach Zafar, Saba, Bradley Gmelich + Wellerstein, Glendale, 818-243-5200 Zakson, Laurence S., Reich Adell & Cvitan, Los Angeles Zelenski, Abigail, Zelenski Law, Glendale Zinn, Harry A., Young & Zinn, Los Angeles

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE Abbott, Leslie L., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

TOP 10

Abell, Nancy L., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8 Angioni, Nannina, Kaedian, Beverly Hills

Bernard Alexander

Arias Young, Julie, Young & Zinn, Los Angeles Attal, Avi M., Kahana & Feld, Irvine Ayers, Lindsay A., CDF Labor Law, Irvine Barritt, Douglas A., Barritt Smith Miner, Irvine Beaumont, Jacqueline, Call & Jensen, Newport Beach Bent, Sergio, Bent Caryl & Kroll, Los Angeles Bishop, Daphne P., CDF Labor Law, Los Angeles SUPER LAWYERS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE CONT’D FROM PAGE S-29

Simmons, Richard J., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Sterman, Karina B., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Talley, Kimberly M., Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete, Los Angeles Tilles, Yaron M., Ecoff Campain Tilles & Kay, Beverly Hills, 310-887-1850 Trotter, Julie R., Call & Jensen, Newport Beach White, Leigh A., CDF Labor Law, Irvine Wortman, Jeffrey A., Seyfarth Shaw, Los Angeles Wulffson, Todd R., CDF Labor Law, Irvine

Brock, D. Aaron, Brock & Gonzales, Los Angeles

Franck, Lee, Cummings & Franck, Gardena

Browne, Gina, Feldman Browne, Santa Monica

Freiman, Lawrence, Freiman Legal, Santa Monica

Buchsbaum, Brent S., Buchsbaum & Haag, Long Beach, 562-733-2498

Gallagher, Maryann, Law Offices of Maryann Gallagher, Los Angeles

BRENT S. BUCHSBAUM BUCHSBAUM & HAAG, LLP Long Beach • 562-733-2498

www.buchsbaumhaag.com Burrows, Christopher L., Burrows Law Firm, Beverly Hills Byrnes, Craig, The Law Office of Craig T. Byrnes, Manhattan Beach Campbell, Darren J., Aitken Campbell Heikaus Weaver, Irvine Chen, Kelly Y., Law Office of Kelly Y. Chen, City of Industry

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF Aarons, Martin I., The Aarons Law Firm, Calabasas Pg. S-6 Abrams, Courtney, Courtney Abrams, Manhattan Beach Akopyan, Ani M., Akopyan Law Firm, Burbank Akopyan, Michael, Akopyan Law Firm, Burbank Alivandivafa, Alireza, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Los Angeles Allred, Gloria, Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles Almon, Samuel, Makarem & Associates, Los Angeles

Chiang, Kevin W., Equity Legal Group, Pasadena Clark, Tyler F., Clark Employment Law, Encino Cleaver, G. Samuel, Law Offices of G. Samuel Cleaver, Los Angeles Clingo, Jennifer A., Clingo Law Group, Los Angeles Coble, Catherine J., Gunn Coble, Los Angeles Coleman, Christina M., Law Offices of Christina M. Coleman, Los Angeles, 323-592-3605 Pg. S-52 Collins, Dawn T., CollinsKim, Los Angeles Cordes, James H., James H. Cordes and Associates, Santa Barbara Cowan, Jeffrey W., The Cowan Law Firm, Beverly Hills Cummings, Scott, Cummings & Franck, Gardena

Appell, Barry M., Appell Shapiro, Sherman Oaks

D’Abusco, Matthew, Ares Law Group, Newport Beach

Avrahamy, Joseph, Law Offices of Joseph Avrahamy, Encino Azadian, George S., Azadian Law Group, Pasadena Bakhtiar, Ebby S., Ebby S. Bakhtiar, Los Angeles Baltaxe, Michael F., Sottile / Baltaxe, Agoura Hills Banerjee, Arnab, Banner Law Group, Los Angeles

Gillam, Carol, The Gillam Law Firm, Los Angeles Glyer, Leslie J., Leslie Glyer Law, Newport Beach Golan, Jeremy M., Golan Law, Los Angeles Goldberg, Nathan, Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles Gonzales, Timothy, Brock & Gonzales, Los Angeles Gunn, Beth, Gunn Coble, Los Angeles Haag, Laurel N., Buchsbaum & Haag, Long Beach, 562-733-2498

Chesler, Natasha, Chesler McCaffrey, Los Angeles

Ames, Scott, Law Offices of Scott R. Ames, Los Angeles Avila, Mark S., Avila & Shaddow, Woodland Hills

George, Victor L., Law Offices of Victor L. George, Torrance, 310-870-0371

De Sario, James A., The Nourmand Law Firm, Beverly Hills Dean, Lauren A., Magnanimo & Dean, Woodland Hills Delshad, Jonathan J., Law Offices of Jonathan J. Delshad, Los Angeles deRubertis, David M., The deRubertis Law Firm, Beverly Hills, 818-761-2322 Pg. S-6, S-52

LAUREL N. HAAG BUCHSBAUM & HAAG, LLP Long Beach • 562-733-2498

www.buchsbaumhaag.com Harrison, Todd, Perona Langer Beck Serbin and Harrison, Long Beach, 562-426-6155 Pg. S-53 Hayes, Douglas B., Hurwitz Orihuela & Hayes, Los Angeles Hekmat, Joseph M., Hekmat Law Group, Beverly Hills Helmer, Gregory D., Helmer Friedman, Beverly Hills Hennig, Robert, Hennig Kramer Ruiz & Singh, Los Angeles, 213-310-8301 Ho, Daniel T., Daniel T. Ho & Associates, Burbank Horacek, Angel, Law Offices of Angel J. Horacek, Culver City Horton, Laura L., Horton Law Firm, Northridge Jacob, Michael, Kesluk Silverstein Jacob & Morrison, Los Angeles Justice, Michael L., Attorney at Law, Westlake Village, 818-991-4100 Kampf, William O., Law Office of William O. Kampf, Rolling Hills Estates Kim, Do, Law Offices of Do Kim, Los Angeles

DeSimone, V. James, V. James DeSimone Law, Marina del Rey Pg. S-6

Kimball, Stephen C., Sessions & Kimball, Mission Viejo

Díaz, María G., Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles

Kitson, Robert M., The Myers Law Group, Los Angeles

Duchrow, David J., Law Office of David J. Duchrow, Los Angeles

Kokozian, Bruce, Kokozian Law Firm, Beverly Hills

Beilke, Jared W., JML Law, Anaheim Bello, Jordan D., Lavi & Ebrahimian, Beverly Hills

Ebrahimian, Nick, Lavi & Ebrahimian, Beverly Hills

Kristy, James, The Kristy Law Firm, Long Beach

Berenji, Shadie, Berenji Law Firm, Beverly Hills, 310-855-3270 Pg. S-51

Elias, Imad, Law Offices of Mann & Elias, Beverly Hills

Kwik, Angeline (Angie), Mehr & Associates, Irvine

Blady, I. Benjamin, Blady Workforce Law Group, Los Angeles

Engelman, Britany M., Engelman Law, Beverly Hills

Bononi, Michael J., Bononi Law Group, Pasadena, 213-553-5503

Faber, Michael J., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Barrera, Patricio T. D., Barrera & Associates, El Segundo, 310-802-1500 Pg. S-51 Baumler, Nina J., Law Office of Nina Baumler, El Segundo

MICHAEL J. BONONI BONONI LAW GROUP, LLP Pasadena • 213-553-5503

www.bononilawgroup.com Boxer, Joshua D., Matern Law Group, Manhattan Beach, 310-531-1900 Pg. S-13

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Falvey, Thomas, Law Offices of Thomas W. Falvey, Glendale Feldman, Lee R., Feldman Browne, Santa Monica Foley, Shannon M., Foley Lyman Law Group, Manhattan Beach Fraigun, Marina Kats, Fraigun Law Group, Sherman Oaks Pg. S-6, S-8

Koron, Boris, Koron & Podolsky, Tarzana

Lavi, Joseph, Lavi & Ebrahimian, Beverly Hills Leal, Dolores Y., Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles Lee, Henry, Henry M. Lee Law Office, Los Angeles Licata, Tara J., Mancini & Associates, Sherman Oaks Lipinsky, Daren H., Rizio Lipinsky Law Firm, Chino Hills Lipski, Jennifer, JML Law, Woodland Hills Lovretovich, Joseph M., JML Law, Woodland Hills

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Lyon, Geoffrey C., Lyon Law, Long Beach Markson, Brett S., Markson Pico, Los Angeles Maroko, Michael, Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles Matern, Matthew J., Matern Law Group, Manhattan Beach, 310-531-1900 Pg. S-13 Mathews, Charles T., The Mathews Law Group, Arcadia

Sansanowicz, Leonard H., Sansanowicz Law Group, Los Angeles

Adler, Michael I., Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark, West Hollywood

Savarese, Melanie Rasic, Savarese Law Firm, Sierra Madre

Akselrud, Gregory, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks

Sayas, Jr., C. Joe, Law Offices of C. Joe Sayas Jr., Glendale

Alexander, L Wayne, Alexander Lawrence Frumes & Labowitz, Los Angeles

Schlehr, Sarah, The Schlehr Law Firm, Burbank

Annaguey, Maribeth, Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles

Shah, Sandeep J., Shah Law Group, Costa Mesa

Berger, Matthew, Matthew I. Berger Law Group, Santa Barbara

Mirroknian, Reza, The Mirroknian Law Firm, Sherman Oaks

Shegerian, Carney, Shegerian & Associates, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Mizrahi, Ramit, Mizrahi Law, Pasadena Pg. S-8

Shirazi, Emanuel, Shirazi Law Firm, Los Angeles

Berkowitz, Barbara L., Berkowitz & Associates, Beverly Hills

Mochkatel, Renee, Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles

Silverstein, Douglas N., Kesluk Silverstein Jacob & Morrison, Los Angeles

Bibicoff, Hillary S., Holmes Weinberg, Malibu

Moore, Bonita D., Moore Ruddell, Torrance, 310-792-7010 Pg. S-54

Somers, Margery N., Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles

Morasch, Annette, Law Office of Annette Morasch, Culver City

Spiegel, Marcus J., Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles

Moss, Dennis F., Moss Bollinger, Sherman Oaks

Spivak, David, The Spivak Law Firm, Encino

Brettler, Andrew B., Lavely & Singer, Los Angeles

Mozaffari, Afshin, Mozaffari Law, Santa Monica

Stevens, Margaret P., Stevens Law, Los Angeles

Briggs, II, William J., Venable, Los Angeles

Myer, Scott D., Myer Law Firm, Palm Springs

Stormer, Dan, Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, Pasadena

Brittenham, Harry M. (Skip), Ziffren Brittenham, Los Angeles

Taylor, Christopher Wren, Taylor Labor Law, Pasadena

Browning, Kenneth L., Browning & Browning, Beverly Hills

Teren, Pam, Teren Law, Redondo Beach, 310-543-2300 Pg. S-8, S-56

Burke, P. John, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles

Teukolsky, Lauren, Teukolsky Law, Pasadena Pg. S-8

Calabrese, Joseph A., Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles

Tibor, David F., The Tibor Law Firm, Calabasas

Carlo, Candace, Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo, Los Angeles

Nguyen, Nicole, Sessions & Kimball, Mission Viejo Norman, Ronald, Farnell and Norman, Irvine Nosrati, Omid, The Law Office of Omid Nosrati, Los Angeles Nourmand, Michael, The Nourmand Law Firm, Beverly Hills Olivares, Alicia, Olivares Law, Manhattan Beach Oliver, Jason, Law Offices of Jason L. Oliver, Pasadena

Tsarukyan, Andy, Remedy Law Group, Burbank

Ostertag, Jennifer, Genie Harrison Law Firm, Los Angeles, 213-805-5301

Van Etten, David B., Van Etten Sipprelle, Westlake Village

Palay, Daniel J., Palay Hefelfinger, Ventura

Wagner, Mark H., Wagner Legal Group, Santa Monica

Panitz, Eric A., Panitz Law Group, Cerritos Payab, David, The Law Office of Payab & Associates, Woodland Hills Pedersen, Neil, Pedersen Law, Westminster Quigley, Mark T., Greene Broillet & Wheeler, El Segundo, 310-573-8120 Pg. S-6, S-7 Rager, Jeffrey, The Rager Law Firm, El Segundo

Bierman, Ivy Kagan, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Blaha, Michael R., Law Offices of Michael R. Blaha, Santa Monica Branca, John G., Ziffren Brittenham, Los Angeles

Charnley, Richard L.B., Charnley Rian, Los Angeles Chatham, Christopher, Chatham Law Group, Los Angeles, 213-277-1800 Pg. S-52

Waldo, William S., Bononi Law Group, Pasadena, 213-553-5503

WILLIAM S. WALDO BONONI LAW GROUP, LLP Pasadena • 213-553-5503

www.bononilawgroup.com

Clark, Stephen P., Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark, West Hollywood Costa, Joseph P., CostaLaw, Pacific Palisades Coyoca, Lucia E., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles Crow, Alana, Law Offices of Alana Crow, Los Angeles

Watanabe-Peagler, Lisa, Rise Law Firm, Beverly Hills

Darwell, Robert A., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Reisner, Adam, Reisner & King, Sherman Oaks

West, John S., Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles

Donaldson, Michael, Donaldson Callif Perez, Culver City

Romero, Alan, Romero Law, Pasadena, 626-396-9900

White, Twila S., Law Office of Twila S. White, Hermosa Beach

Eskenazi, Bonnie E., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Roshanian, Neda, Roshanian Law Firm, Sherman Oaks

Yadegar, Navid, Yadegar Minoofar & Soleymani, Los Angeles

Field, Corey, Corey Field Law Group, Los Angeles

Rothschild, Kristi D., Rothschild & Alwill, Santa Barbara, 805-695-2827 Pg. S-6, S-8, S-55

Yasuda, Stephanie E., Yoon Law, Los Angeles

Ruiz, Brandon, Hennig Kramer Ruiz & Singh, Los Angeles, 213-310-8301

Yun, Edward H., Yun and Simonian, Los Angeles

Rehwald, Kevin, Chaleff Rehwald Peterson, Woodland Hills

Yoon, Kenneth H., Yoon Law, Los Angeles

Rumph, Randy, Law Office of Randy Rumph, Bakersfield

ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

Rushovich, Eliot, Rise Law Firm, Beverly Hills

Atkin, Jeffery R., Foley & Lardner, Los Angeles

Sani, Sam, Sani Law, Encino

Firemark, Gordon, Law Offices of Gordon P. Firemark, Los Angeles Fitzgerald, Chad R., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Fox, David M., Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light, Los Angeles Freed, Tracey L., Freed Law, Marina del Rey Freedman, Bryan J., Freedman + Taitelman, Los Angeles

Rutten, Howard, The Rutten Law Firm, Woodland Hills Ruttenberg, Kenneth G., The Ruttenberg Law Firm, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Fink, David E., Venable, Los Angeles

ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS Abrams, Alan, Law Office of Alan Abrams, Los Angeles

Freundlich, Kenneth David, Freundlich Law, Encino CONTINUED ON PAGE S-32

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Lucas, John J., One, Beverly Hills

Galsor, Matt, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Marks, Richard E., Richard Marks & Associates Entertainment Law, Los Angeles

Genow, Richard M., Goodman Genow Schenkman Smelkinson & Christopher, Beverly Hills

McPherson, Edwin F., McPherson, Los Angeles

Wodynski, Michelle L., MDS Premier, Hermosa Beach

Gipson, Elliot, Fayer Gipson, Los Angeles

McRae, Devin A., Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles

Youngblood, Juliette, Youngblood Group, Culver City

Meigs, Jr., John V., Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren Richman Rush Kaller & Gellman, Beverly Hills

Ziffren, Kenneth, Ziffren Brittenham, Los Angeles

Gladstone, Leon, Gladstone Weisberg, Culver City Greenspan, Eric, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light, Los Angeles Griffith, Marissa Román, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles

Moore, Schuyler M., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Wertheimer, Alan S., Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein, Los Angeles

ENVIRONMENTAL

Halberstadter, David, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles

Myman, Robert M., Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light, Los Angeles

Allen, John J., Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Los Angeles

Hazzard, Yakub, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Nessim, Ronald J., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Arnone, James L., Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles

Helmer, Kenneth, Law Office of Kenneth A. Helmer, Los Angeles

Pacitti, James D., Pacitti Law Firm, Beverly Hills

Hilvert, Aleksandra, Lowe & Associates, Beverly Hills Hobel, Michael S., Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles Hochberg, William, Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills Holtz, Michael D., The Holtz Firm, Woodland Hills Jacobs, Howard, Law Offices of Howard L. Jacobs, Westlake Village Johnson, Channing D., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Johnson, Matthew M., Ziffren Brittenham, Los Angeles Jonelis, Crystal Y., Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks Jonelis, David B., Lavely & Singer, Los Angeles Katz, Martin D., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Kaufman, Peter L., Kaufman Abdel-Aal, Santa Monica Kelly, Philip M., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles

Passin, Mark D., CSReeder, Los Angeles, 310-861-2470 Paterno, Peter T., King Holmes Paterno & Soriano, Los Angeles Perez, Dinah, Law Office of Dinah Perez, Los Angeles Pfeiffer, Jon, Pfeiffer Law Corp., Santa Monica Pierce, David Albert, Pierce Law Group, Beverly Hills, 310-274-9191 Pg. S-55

Angel, Frank P., Angel Law, Santa Monica

Bois, Thomas J., Bois Legal Counsel, Costa Mesa Bond, Lisa, Richards Watson & Gershon, Los Angeles Brooks, Preston W., Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles Carstens, Douglas P., Chatten-Brown Carstens & Minteer, Hermosa Beach Chen, Patricia J., PC Law Group, Irvine Cranston, David E., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Plonsker, Michael J., Plonsker Law, Santa Monica

De Felice, Diane C., Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Los Angeles

Ramer, Bruce M., Gang Tyre Ramer Brown & Passman, Beverly Hills

Dennis, Patrick W., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Ramo, Elsa, Ramo Law, Beverly Hills

Duchesneau, Peter R., Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Los Angeles

Rogal, Melissa A., Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark, West Hollywood Rosenberg, Joshua, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Rubin, Barbara M., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Saltz, Michael J., Jacobson Russell Saltz Nassim & de la Torre, Los Angeles

Ehrlich, Kenneth A., Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles Gordon, Nicole Hoeksma, The Sohagi Law Group, Los Angeles Hedgpeth, Tiffany R., Edgcomb Law Group, Burbank Holzer, Stephen T., Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Kleinberg, Kenneth A., Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo, Los Angeles

Smiley, Jr., Donald V., Law Offices of Donald V. Smiley, Marina del Rey

Kohn, Gary, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Smith, Jill L., Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Nanney, Donald C., Cozen O’Connor, Los Angeles

Sommerstein, Gary, Law Office of Gary I. Sommerstein, Los Angeles

Niemiec, Peter, Law Office of Peter Niemiec, San Pedro

Spicer, Christopher Staton, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles

Novak, Jennifer F., Law Office of Jennifer F. Novak, Rancho Palos Verdes

Lange, Robert M., Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo, Los Angeles

Spiegel, Evan N., Lavely & Singer, Los Angeles

Nyquist, Peter A., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Lesser, Rick, Lesser & Associates, Redondo Beach

Spitz, Jeffrey, Spitz Law Group, Los Angeles

O’Neill, Steven P., Olivarez Madruga Lemieux & O’Neill, Los Angeles

Lichter, Linda B., Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark, West Hollywood

Stankevich, Mark A., Stankevich Law, Pacific Palisades

Lindblom, Roderick, Law Offices of Roderick J. Lindblom, Los Angeles

Stein, Stanton “Larry”, Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles

Liskin, Aaron C., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

Stonerock, Ryan J., Harder, Beverly Hills

Kolodzi, Michael, Law Offices of Michael D. Kolodzi, Los Angeles Kulik, Glen L., Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware, Sherman Oaks

Litwak, Glenn T., Law Offices of Glenn Litwak, Santa Monica Litwak, Mark, Law Offices of Mark Litwak & Associates, Santa Monica Logan, Jeffrey K., Venable, Los Angeles Lowe, Steven, Lowe & Associates, Beverly Hills

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Langa, Brian, Demetriou Del Guercio Springer & Francis, Los Angeles

Pritsker, Keith W., Law Office of Keith W. Pritsker, Valencia Sadwick, David B., Tatro Tekosky Sadwick, Los Angeles Sommer, Scott A., Larson, Los Angeles

Sullivan, Bryan M., Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, Los Angeles Susman, Jordan, Nolan Heimann, Encino Taylor, Joseph R., Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Los Angeles Verbit, Larry E., Law Offices of Larry E. Verbit, Los Angeles

ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION Bright, Maureen J., Bright and Brown, Glendale Dintzer, Jeffrey D., Alston & Bird, Los Angeles Dupont, Norman A., Ring Bender, Costa Mesa

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Fellers, Denise G., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles

Glazier, Kenneth M., Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise, Los Angeles

Kulkarni, Amrit S., Meyers Nave, Los Angeles

Gokal, Abbas K., Gokal Law Group, Foothill Ranch

Oliver, Patricia K., Parris Law Firm, Lancaster

Gold, Justin, Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino

Rothman, Lisabeth, O’Connor Cochran, Los Angeles Silverstein, Robert P., The Silverstein Law Firm, Pasadena Sinclair, Murray, Murray M. Sinclair & Associates, Los Angeles Stiles, Michael J., StilesPomeroy, Pasadena Venskus, Sabrina, Venskus & Associates, Los Angeles Weaver, Elizabeth M., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles

Muntz, Sean D., RMO, Costa Mesa Nelson, David C., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Park, Diane Y., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles

Gonzalez, Jamie N., Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino Pg. S-8

Rahn, Scott E., RMO, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Gostanian, Amy L., Gostanian Law Group, Newport Beach

Rosen, Roger, Rosenberg Mendlin & Rosen, Santa Monica

Grosberg, A. Hillary, Law Offices of A. Hillary Grosberg, Encino

Roshan, Benazeer (Benny), Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Grossman, Scott M., The Grossman Law Firm, Riverside, 951-683-3704

Ross, Bruce S., Seyfarth Shaw, Los Angeles Rummel, Blake A., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles

SCOTT M. GROSSMAN

Russakow, Mark L., Trust Law Partners, Pasadena

THE GROSSMAN LAW FIRM, A.P.C. Riverside • 951-683-3704

Sacks, Robert N., Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise, Los Angeles

www.grossmanlaw.net

ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION Aikin, Thomas C., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles

Ozawa, Russell, Law Offices of Russell M. Ozawa, Pasadena

Higgins, Sean K., Law Office of Sean K. Higgins, Seal Beach

Sallus, Marc L., Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino

Hinojosa, Lynard C., Hinojosa & Forer, Los Angeles

Schindler, Trudi, Schindler Eyrich, Los Angeles

Babrick, Jessica G., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Pg. S-8

Hoffman, Nathan B., Hoffman Law Firm, Calabasas

Schomer, Scott P., Schomer Law Group, El Segundo

Barbaro, Jr., Philip, Barbaro Chinen Pitzer & Duke, Pasadena

Hogan, Steven L., Lurie Zepeda Schmalz Hogan & Martin, Los Angeles

Shapiro, David A., Law Office of David A. Shapiro, Los Angeles

Barry, Jared A., Barry Law Group, Encino, 818-789-9444

Ingham, Samuel, Law Offices of Samuel D. Ingham III, Ojai

Sherak, David, Vogt Resnick Sherak, Newport Beach

Bergman, Beti, Peninsula Law, Torrance, 310-694-8703 Pg. S-51

Kerendian, Shawn S., Keystone Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-598-3959

Stein, Matthew G., Law & Stein, Irvine

Bohm, James G., Bohm Wildish & Matsen, Costa Mesa

Kim, David, Wright Kim Douglas, Glendale

Sternberg, Terence M., Law Offices of Terence M. Sternberg, Woodland Hills

Brar, Vikram, Law Office of Vikram Brar, Glendale

Krasilovsky, Seth, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Bronshteyn, Yasha, Ginzburg & Bronshteyn, Los Angeles Brophy, Michael S., Withers Bergman, Los Angeles

Kim, Ernest J., Law Offices of Ernest J. Kim, Tustin

Chen, Jackson, Law Office of Jackson Chen, Beverly Hills

Lee, Rodney C., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Chung, Lynda I., Valensi Rose, Los Angeles

Lemmons, Phillip C., The Legacy Lawyers, Fountain Valley

Cohen, Paul F., Cohen Law Partners, Los Angeles Cohen, Robert A., Cohen Law, Valencia Cooley, Susan J., Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino Cosio, R. M. Anthony, Law Office of R. M. Anthony Cosio, Long Beach Cutler, Stefanie S., Ruttenberg Cutler Broomer, Los Angeles Depew, Brenda, Hinojosa & Forer, Los Angeles Devermont, Susan Barlevav, Hinojosa & Forer, Los Angeles Eroen, Robert, Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles Esquibias, David A., Law Office of David A. Esquibias, Westlake Village

Swan, Rebekah, Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles

Ladley, Candace K., Attorney at Law, Burbank Lebowsky, Lawrence M., Law Office of Lawrence M. Lebowsky, Los Angeles

Cohen, Jeffrey S., Seyfarth Shaw, Los Angeles

Streltzer, Adam, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Kwan, Verlan Y., Keystone Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-598-3959

Carico, Christopher D., Carico Macdonald Kil & Benz, El Segundo Pg. S-6

Streisand, Adam F., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Tan, Lisa, Trust Law Partners, Pasadena Taylor, Joshua D., Keystone Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-598-3959 Van Brunt, Nicholas J., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Vidal, Gabrielle A., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Lester, Mark A., Jones Lester Schuck Becker & Dehesa, Camarillo, 805-604-2655 Pg. S-6

Wickers, Rodney, Law Office of Rodney W. Wickers, Torrance

Lodise, Margaret G., Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8

Wolf, Kenneth S., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles

Lowe, Stephen M., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles Lumsdaine, Jennifer, Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Long Beach Lumsdaine, Joseph A., Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Long Beach

Wright, Lauriann, Wright Kim Douglas, Glendale Pg. S-6, S-8 Yamamoto, Eric R., Law Offices of Eric R. Yamamoto, Los Angeles Zuckerman, Michael J., Law Office of Michael J. Zuckerman, Glendale

Marvan, Jeff, MarvanLaw, Los Angeles Melnick, Cliff, Keystone Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-598-3959 Mendlin, Joyce S., Rosenberg Mendlin & Rosen, Santa Monica

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE Acosta, Megan S., Acosta Business & Estate Planning, Irvine

Forer, Jeffrey, Hinojosa & Forer, Los Angeles

Mermelstein, F. Edie, FEM Law Group, Huntington Beach

Franklin, Terrence M., Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise, Los Angeles

Miliband, Nikki Presley, Good Wildman, Irvine, 949-955-1100

Garb, Andrew S., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Moten, Keith J., Moten & Associates, Los Angeles

Agran, Michael C., Valensi Rose, Los Angeles Aikenhead, David S., Aikenhead Cipes & Supanich, Los Angeles CONTINUED ON PAGE S-34

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Eisen, Jeffrey K., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Levitch, Burt, Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills

Alexander, Lisa C., Jakle & Alexander, Santa Monica, 310-395-6555

Feinman, Abby, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles

Loeb, Jeffrey M., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

LISA C. ALEXANDER JAKLE & ALEXANDER, LLP Santa Monica • 310-395-6555

www.jaklelaw.com Ambrecht, John W., Ambrecht & Associates, Santa Barbara Asher, Afshin A., Asher Law Group, Los Angeles Baker, Brad N., Baker Burton & Lundy, Hermosa Beach, 310-376-9893 Barnett, Leslie A., Law Office of Leslie Barnett, Los Angeles Bawden, Elizabeth A., Withers Bergman, Century City Pg. S-8 Bazikyan, Arminé, Bazikyan Law Group, Glendale Bishop, Leah M., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Pg. S-8 Borofsky, Gary M., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Bradford, Christopher T., Scherer & Bradford, Los Angeles Braiker-Gordon, Bonnie, Gordon & BraikerGordon, Woodland Hills Brandlin, Brian R., Swatik & Brandlin, Torrance Brooke, Darrell G., The Brooke Law Group, Monrovia Brown, Matt, Brown & Streza, Irvine Pg. S-10 Brown, R. Christine, Law Offices of R. Christine Brown, Torrance Burns, James, The Law Office of James Burns, Aliso Viejo Bursk, Bonnie Marie, Savin Bursk, Granada Hills Byrne, John M., Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles Cahill, Jesse E., Ventura Coast Law, Thousand Oaks

Feldman, Yacoba Ann, Law Offices of Yacoba Ann Feldman, Woodland Hills Finestone, William, Blank Rome, Los Angeles Flaig, Donald W., The Flaig Law Firm, Westlake Village Forster, Jonathan S., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Frimmer, Paul N., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Fu, Jennifer C., Amity Law Group, Rosemead Gaulke, Paul, Hromadka & Gaulke, Los Angeles Geida, Jeffrey P., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Goel, Monica, Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Long Beach Grebe, Sibylle, The Probate House, Torrance Green, Norman H., Irsfeld Irsfeld & Younger, Glendale Guterman, Barry L., The Guterman Tax Law Firm, Los Angeles Hall, Jane Beaumont, Hall Doyon Law Group, Santa Monica Handy, Nelson J., Fiduciary Law Services, Woodland Hills Hartmann, Wendy E., Law Offices of Wendy E. Hartmann, Glendale Hartnell, Bryan, Hartnell Law Group, Redlands

Lurie, Jonathan C., Venable, Los Angeles Macdonald, Bruce M., Carico Macdonald Kil & Benz, El Segundo Magasinn, Michael L., Law Offices of Michael L. Magasinn, Westlake Village Magasinn, Vicki Fisher, Magasinn & Feldman, Culver City Magee, Scott R., Magee & Adler, Long Beach Marcus, Fred J., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles Martin, Agnes Ordubegian, Martin Law Group, Burbank Mashian, Fred, Law Offices of Fred F. Mashian, Los Angeles Masteller, Kira S., Lewitt Hackman, Encino Mc Jilton, Willow A., Willow Law Group Inc., Los Angeles Meyer, Charles D., Meyer & Felsen, Los Angeles Moore, Kevin J., Kevin J. Moore & Associates, Pasadena Morgan, Darlynn C., Morgan Law Group, Newport Beach Mulrooney, Michele M., Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Los Angeles Nassar, William M., Law Offices of William M. Nassar & Associates, Redlands

Hawekotte, Angela, Angela Hawekotte, Pasadena

Neumann, Martin A., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Heller, Lawrence H., Greenberg Traurig, Los Angeles

Noyes, Kristine M., Fiduciary Law Services, Woodland Hills

Hoffman, Paul Gordon, Hoffman Sabban & Watenmaker, Los Angeles

Nunan, Terence S., Parker Milliken, Los Angeles

Horspool, J. David, The Horspool Law Group, Redlands

Offenheiser, Michael J., Brown & Streza, Irvine Oldman, Marshal A., Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino

Catalino, Cynthia, Catalino Law, Los Angeles

Howard, Nancy E., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Chae, Chang H., Hoffman Sabban & Watenmaker, Los Angeles

Hymes, Larry S., Hymes Schreiber & Walden, Woodland Hills

Parker, Craig M., Law Office of Craig M. Parker, Redlands

Chou, Brian Y., BarthCalderon, Orange

Johnson, Christopher B., Law Office of Christopher B. Johnson, Glendora

Peebles, Jane, Karlin & Peebles, Los Angeles

Coleman, David, Oldman Cooley Sallus Birnberg Coleman & Gold, Encino Cox, Cynthia R., Cox Law Group, Torrance Pg. S-8 Crane, Kathleen D., Kathleen D. Crane, El Segundo Cutrow, Allan B., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles Daff, Leslie R., Estate Plan, Laguna Beach De Francisco, Jeffrey, Presidio, Pasadena

Orren, Lowell, Orren & Orren, Pasadena

Pelavin, Alyse N., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

Johnston, Carol A., Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles

Phillips, Mark J., Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Kabrins, Ronald M., Attorney at Law, Beverly Hills

Pitzer, Gloria S., Barbaro Chinen Pitzer & Duke, Pasadena

Kaiser, Curtis M., Kaiser Law Group, Long Beach Kanin, Paul R., Kanin Soffer, Beverly Hills Kass, Gail Diane, Law Office of Gail Diane Kass, Los Angeles Katzenstein, Andrew M., Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles

Port, Mitchell A., Law Office of Mitchell A. Port, Los Angeles Primuth, Jonathan D., Lagerlof, Pasadena Prouty, Erin L., Hoffman Sabban & Watenmaker, Los Angeles

Keesey, Deborah, Hansen Seto Keesey, Torrance

Rameson, III, Jack A., Law Offices of Jack A. Rameson III, Woodland Hills

Dominick, Thomas W., Fullerton Lemann Schaefer & Dominick, San Bernardino

Kil, Angela, Carico Macdonald Kil & Benz, El Segundo

Retz, Linda J., The Law Offices of Linda J. Retz, Torrance

Doyle, Mark C., Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Irvine

Kossoff, Kenneth, Panitz & Kossoff, Westlake Village Pg. S-6

Roehl, Cynthia, Roehl & Glowacki, Laguna Hills

Drucker, Joelle M., Drucker Law Offices, Beverly Hills

Kundani, Lalit, Bridge Law, Anaheim

Rogers, Jr., John T., Rogers Trust Law, Los Angeles

Leese, James K., Ferruzzo & Ferruzzo, Newport Beach, 949-608-6900

Salvo, Alice A., Law Offices of Alice A. Salvo, Woodland Hills

Devore, Kenneth E., Kenneth E. Devore & Associates, Westlake Village

Edsall, David, Edsall Law, Camarillo

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Sandoval, Dennis M., Sandoval Legacy Group A division of Holstrom Block & Parke, Riverside

Zabner, Jeffrey, Jeffrey M. Zabner, Westlake Village

Brot, Ronald F., Brot Gross Fishbein, Sherman Oaks

Sawday, Jennifer, Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Long Beach

Zwicker, Laura A., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Brown, Karen S., Law Office of Karen S. Brown, Los Angeles, 323-274-2697 Pg. S-52

Schaller, Gordon A., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Irvine Schroff, Rebecca L.T., Rebecca L.T. Schroff, Torrance Schwartz, David P., Schwartz & Shapiro, Los Angeles Shapiro, Samuel D., Schwartz & Shapiro, Los Angeles Shore, Sussan H., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8 Slater, Calvin A., Slater Cosme, Pasadena Smith, Paul K., Smith & Myers, Los Angeles Soffer, David, Kanin Soffer, Beverly Hills Solarz, Neil, Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Spiro, Randy M., Altshuler & Spiro, Beverly Hills Staker, Kevin G., StakerLaw, Camarillo, 805-482-2282

KEVIN G. STAKER STAKERLAW Camarillo • 805-482-2282

www.staker.com Standing, Brian H., Via Law, Agoura Hills Stern, Ellis R., Stern & Goldberg, Encino Stern, Marc M., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Strauss, Robert E., Weinstock Manion, Los Angeles Swatik, Mark, Swatik & Brandlin, Torrance Taaff, Barbara L., Kenneth E. Devore & Associates, Westlake Village Tague, Suzanne M., Ross Wolcott Teinert & Prout, Costa Mesa Tatiyants, Sona A., Lynk Law, Glendale Thyne, Rebecca J., Lagerlof, Pasadena Tisser, Doron M., Tisser Law Group, Encino Tobisman, Stuart P., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Torii, John S., Law Office of John S. Torii, Torrance VanConas, Kendall A., Arnold LaRochelle Mathews VanConas & Zirbel, Oxnard, 805-988-9886 Vollmer, Michael V., Law Office of Michael V. Vollmer, Irvine Waldman, Carl R., Carl R. Waldman, Westlake Village Watenmaker, Alan S., Hoffman Sabban & Watenmaker, Los Angeles Weiner, Christine C., Christine C. Weiner, Irvine Wells III, H. Neal, Slovak Baron Empey Murphy & Pinkney, Costa Mesa Wong, Wei C., Law Offices of Wei C. Wong, Alhambra

Bryan, Sharon A., Law Office of Sharon A. Bryan, Torrance, 310-540-8855 Pg. S-8, S-52

FAMILY LAW

Bui, Bichhanh (Hannah), H Bui Law Firm, Pasadena

Abernathy, Christopher R., Christopher R. Abernathy, Rancho Cucamonga

Burch, Robert, Burch Shepard Family Law Group, Newport Beach, 949-502-4400

Amen, Shani Braffman, Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles Andrews, Ashley A., Ashley A. Andrews, Arcadia

Burt, Nancy L., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-9

Anteau, Ronald W., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-9

Buttacavoli, Matthew S., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach, 949-724-1111

Atighechi, Maryam, Atighechi Law Group, Beverly Hills

Castillo, Gina M., Law Offices of Gina M. Castillo, Los Angeles

Bagby, Douglas A., Law Offices of Douglas A. Bagby, Los Angeles

Chason, John B., Chason Family Law, Beverly Hills Chinen, Richard L., Barbaro Chinen Pitzer & Duke, Pasadena

Balian, Andrea Fugate, Harris • Ginsberg, Los Angeles

Chroman, Steven, Law Offices of Steven B. Chroman, Valencia

Barnett, Stephanie M., Barnett Law Group, Los Angeles

Cogan, Ram F., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles

Barsegian, Ana, Law Office of Ana Barsegian, Glendale

Cooper, Avery M., Avery M. Cooper, Santa Monica

Bauer, Nina R., Law Office of Nina R. Bauer, Long Beach

Cooperman, Bruce E., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles

Baum, David H., The Law Offices of David H. Baum, Woodland Hills

Cowhig, John S., Law Offices of John S. Cowhig, Irvine

Bayati, Brian A., Bayati Law Group, Newport Beach, 949-798-5700

Cristiano, Eugene F., Attorney at Law, Covina Curtin, Judi A., Phillips Whisnant Gazin Gorczyca & Curtin, Newport Beach

Benavente, Robert A., Stegmeier Gelbart Schwartz & Benavente, Irvine Bennett, Leon F., Law Offices of Leon F. Bennett, Woodland Hills

Davisson, Daniel, Law Offices of Davisson & Davisson, Van Nuys DeBiase, Shannon M., Rodnunsky & Associates, Woodland Hills

Bennett, Roberta B., Bennett & Ginzburg, Beverly Hills

DeCarolis, Jr., Patrick, DeCarolis Family Law Group, Los Angeles

Berenji, Hossein F., Berenji & Associates, Beverly Hills

Dockstader, Janet, Dockstader Orliczky, Seal Beach, 562-799-5551 Pg. S-52

Block, Carrie, Holstrom Block & Parke, Newport Beach

Dolnick, Keith E., Law Offices of Keith E. Dolnick, Irvine

Blum, Stephanie I., Reuben Raucher & Blum, Los Angeles

Donahoe, Karen Phillips, Law Offices of Karen P. Donahoe, Los Angeles

Blunt, Steven A., Law Offices of Steven A. Blunt, Woodland Hills

Donnelly, Douglas R., Donnelly & Evans, Ventura

Bogosian, Matthew R., Holstrom Block & Parke, Newport Beach

Dresben, Fred C., Law Office of Fred C. Dresben, Sherman Oaks

Bohen, Mary Catherine M., Law Offices of Mary Catherine M. Bohen, Los Angeles

Driscoll, Ellen F., Law Office of Ellen F. Driscoll, Pasadena

Bollinger, Jeffrey, Moder Bollinger Melamed, Beverly Hills

Dujan, Sonia B., Law Offices of Sonia B. Dujan, Woodland Hills

Borsky, Robert, Law Office of Robert Borsky, Woodland Hills

Durant, James A., James A. Durant, Los Angeles

Brandon, Lisa E., Brandon Law Group, Seal Beach Brandt, Robert C., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-6, S-9

Edwards-Swift, Pamela, Edwards-Swift & Associates, Chino Hills Eisenberg, Donald S., The Law Office of Donald S. Eisenberg, Seal Beach

Yaroslow, Gerald M., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Bratton, William P., Bratton Razo & Lord, Riverside

Young, Christopher P., The Alvarez Firm, Camarillo, 805-246-7272

Breddan, Matthew A., The Reape-Rickett Law Firm, Calabasas

Yu, Jacqueline, The Law Office of Jacqueline D. Yu, Beverly Hills

Briggs, Steven E., Attorney at Law, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Eisfelder, Robert W., Law Offices of Robert W. Eisfelder, Los Angeles, 310-820-4500 Pg. S-52 Eliaser, James R., The Law Offices of James R. Eliaser, Los Angeles CONTINUED ON PAGE S-36

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Greenwald, Jeffrey L., Greenwald & Greenwald, Calabasas

Katz, Michelle, Law & Mediation Offices of Michelle Katz, Los Angeles

Epstein, Larry, The Reape-Rickett Law Firm, Valencia

Gross, Mark P., Brot Gross Fishbein, Sherman Oaks

Kaufman, Stephen, Kaufman Steinberg, Irvine

Espinoza Browne, Stella, Law Offices of Stella Espinoza Browne, Upland

Haapala, Michael J., Des Jardins & Haapala, Orange

Fingerett, Wallace S., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-9 Fishbein, Gary, Brot Gross Fishbein, Sherman Oaks Fisher, Michael A., Stegmeier Gelbart Schwartz & Benavente, Irvine Foley, John A., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles Forman, Judith R., Law Offices of Judith R. Forman, Manhattan Beach Frank, Debra S., Debra S. Frank, Los Angeles Freitas, Karen C., Parker Milliken, Los Angeles Friedlander, Michele Cobin, Law Offices of Michele Cobin Friedlander, Encino

Hagopian, Diana D., Hagopian & Associates, Encino

Kiley, Anne C., Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8 Kiriakidis, Lisa, Law Offices of Lisa E. Kiriakidis, Pasadena Klausner, Andrew, Klausner | Johnson, Irvine

Halaby, Noelle M., Law Office of Noelle M. Halaby, Glendale

Kleeman, Dena A., Kleeman • Kremen Family Lawyers, Beverly Hills, 310-247-0727 Pg. S-54

Hallett, James M., Law Office of James M. Hallett, Manhattan Beach

Klein, Samantha, Withers Bergman, Los Angeles

Hammers, Barbara, Hammers & Baltazar, Los Angeles Harris, Suzanne, Harris • Ginsberg, Los Angeles Hatherley, Douglas A., Stegmeier Gelbart Schwartz & Benavente, Irvine Hensel, Donald J., Bartell Hensel & Gressley, Riverside

Gantman, Robert, Law Offices of Robert Gantman, Sherman Oaks

Hernandez, Merlyn N., Law Office of Merlyn N. Hernandez, Los Angeles

Garikian, Ani M., Law Offices of Ani M. Garikian, Glendale

Herring, Gregory, Herring Law Group, Santa Barbara

Gelbart, Saul M., Stegmeier Gelbart Schwartz & Benavente, Irvine

Herzog, Wendy A., Wendy A. Herzog, Los Angeles

Kline, Jeremy B., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-9 Klopert, Scott M., Klopert & Ravden, Encino Koch, William A., Law Offices of William A. Koch, Lancaster Kutinsky, Laurence A., Law Offices of Laurence Kutinsky, Newport Beach Land, Joseph, Land Legal Group, Los Angeles Landesman, Laura, Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles Langlois, Joseph A., Langlois Family Law, Calabasas Laurent, Donna A., Nelson Comis Kettle & Kinney, Ventura

Gershenson, Mark, Attorney at Law, Palm Springs

Hittelman, Steven G., Hittelman Family Law Group, Newport Beach

Gillespie, Kate E., The Gillespie Law Firm, Santa Monica

Hoffer, Jeffrey, Law Offices of Jeffrey L. Hoffer, Agoura Hills

Lazarus, Steven W., The Fertility & Adoption Law Offices of Steven W. Lazarus, Marina del Rey

Gilligan, John J., Gilligan Frisco & Trutanich, Long Beach, 562-431-2000

Hoglin, Christopher L., Law Offices of Christopher L. Hoglin, San Marino, 626-309-9977 Pg. S-10

Lazor, John Adam, LazorLaw, Culver City

Ginsberg, Larry A., Harris • Ginsberg, Los Angeles Ginzburg, Alexander R., Ginzburg & Bronshteyn, Los Angeles Glass, David J., Enenstein Pham & Glass, Los Angeles Glavin, IV, William P., Law Offices of William P. Glavin, El Segundo Glucksman, William J., Glucksman Law Group, Beverly Hills Gold, Aimee H., Gold Family Law, Los Angeles Gold, Daniel R., Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Irvine Goldman, Laurence R., Brot Gross Fishbein, Sherman Oaks Goldwater, Douglas K., Ventura Coast Law, Thousand Oaks Goodman, Diane, Law & Mediation Office of Diane M. Goodman, Encino Grager, Alex, Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-9 Granowitz, Richard A., Granowitz White & Weber, San Bernardino

CHRISTOPHER L. HOGLIN LAW OFFICES OF CHRISTOPHER L. HOGLIN, P.C. San Marino • 626-309-9977

www.hoglinlaw.com Holmes, Robert K., Holmes & Holmes, Glendale Holstrom, Dayn A., Holstrom Block & Parke, Corona Hoover, Sarah J., Hoover Law, Los Angeles Howe, Lori A., Howe Engelbert, Los Angeles

Jacobson, Jeffery S., Jacobson Family Law and Mediation, El Segundo Jaffe, Daniel J., Jaffe Family Law Group, Los Angeles Jamra, Basel G., Jamra Jamra & Hanasab, Beverly Hills

Greene, Vicki J., Law Offices of Vicki J. Greene, Los Angeles, 310-282-8302

Jessner, Gregory W., Phillips Jessner, Los Angeles

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Lerner, Marc, Blank Rome, Los Angeles Levine, Marci R., Summers Levine & Kretzmer, Los Angeles Levy, Avi, Trabolsi | Levy | Gabbard, Los Angeles Loftin, A. Stephanie, Long Beach Law, Long Beach Loo, Lori A., Lori A. Loo, Los Angeles Lowy, Dana, Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2

Jeang, Evie P., Ideal Legal Group, Alhambra, 626-569-1882

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Leichter-Maroko, Ariel, Leichter Leichter-Maroko, Beverly Hills

Itzkowitz, Evan Craig, Harris • Ginsberg, Los Angeles

Green, Megan E., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-9

www.vgreenelaw.com

Leichter, Alexandra, Leichter Leichter-Maroko, Beverly Hills

Lord, Elisabeth A., Bratton Razo & Lord, Riverside

Jamra, Grace A., Jamra Jamra & Hanasab, Beverly Hills

VICKI J. GREENE

Lee, Sheldon E., Attorney at Law, San Bernardino

Hunter, Bret H., Bret H. Hunter Family Law & Mediation, Los Angeles

Graves, Demetria, The Graves Law Firm, Pasadena

LAW OFFICES OF VICKI J. GREENE, APLC Los Angeles • 310-282-8302

Lauzon, Peter A., Lauzon Paluch, Los Angeles

Kane, Paula, Law Offices of Paula Kane, Los Angeles, 310-550-9123 Kang, Jinna, Enenstein Pham & Glass, Los Angeles Kaplan, Janet, Kaplan | Wanger, Los Angeles

Luna, Fernando M., Law Office of Fernando M. Luna, Pasadena Malatesta, Ian, Law Offices of Ian C. Malatesta, Calabasas Mandles, Melanie D., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles Mansfield, Baden V., Law Offices of Baden V. Mansfield, Manhattan Beach Margolin, Elyse, Levin & Margolin, Beverly Hills Marticorena, Casey J., Schweitzer Law Partners, Pasadena Martinez, Diana L., Law & Mediation Office of Diana L. Martinez, Chino McGaughey, Erin, McGaughey & Spirito, Redondo Beach Pg. S-8 McNamara, Barbara, The Law Office of Barbara E. McNamara, Huntington Beach

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Medina, Randy W., Law Office of Randy W. Medina, Pasadena, 626-432-1975 Pg. S-54 Melcher, Christopher, Walzer Melcher, Woodland Hills Meyer, Lisa Helfend, Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2, S-8 Meyers, Felicia R., Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2 Mindel, Steven A., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Los Angeles, 310-447-8675 Pg. S-6, S-9 Minyard, Mark E., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach, 949-724-1111 Pg. S-6, S-10 Mioni, Lovette T., Mioni Family Law, Redondo Beach

Rale, Ronald A., Attorney at Law, Thousand Oaks Ratinoff, Joanne D., The Ratinoff Law Group, Los Angeles

Murphy, Ryan Patrick, Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine Murphy, Valerie L., Cullen & Murphy, Riverside

Simpson, Thomas L., Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein, Glendale, 818-500-0511 Pg. S-9

Rigdon, Patricia A., Law Office of Patricia A. Rigdon, Pasadena

Skarin, Matthew K., Skarin Law Group, Manhattan Beach

Rios, Christi D., Rios & Rios, Irvine

Slevin, Hillary, Law Offices of Hillary Slevin, Beverly Hills

Spector, Samantha F., Spector Law, Los Angeles Spiegel, Lance S., Young Spiegel Hillman & Hosp, Beverly Hills

Roxas, Sandy K., Roxas Law, Torrance

Spirito, Jr., Joseph P., McGaughey & Spirito, Redondo Beach

Royce, Kristina C., Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Stanley, Robert W., Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills

Ryden, William S., Jaffe Family Law Group, Los Angeles

Sale, Lisa A., Law Office of Lisa A. Sale, Westlake Village

Nellis, Vanessa Soto, Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Salick, Nicholas A., Salick Family Law Group, Beverly Hills

Nesburn, Judith C., Law Offices of Judith C. Nesburn, Los Angeles

Salinas, Sandra I., Feinberg & Waller, Calabasas

Nia, Firoozeh “Faye”, Nia Law Group, Encino

Santucci, Robyn C., Santucci Family Law, Los Angeles, 310-975-7560 Pg. S-43

Olson, Doreen Marie, Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2

Soodik, Lynn, Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Rosenberg, Charles, Law Offices of Charles Rosenberg, Los Angeles

Nathans, Michael H., Nathans Family Law, Los Angeles

Oakman, Karen, Clunen and Oakman Law, Newbury Park

Smurda, Matthew, Law Offices of Matthew Smurda, Los Angeles

Rombro, S. Roger, Rombro & Manley, Manhattan Beach, 310-545-1900 Pg. S-8

Saei, Atousa, Law Offices of Atousa Saei, Los Angeles, 310-855-3386

Norton, Cathleen E., Law Offices of Cathleen E. Norton, Beverly Hills

Slusser, Anne Nakornratana, Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2

Rogers, Dorie A., Law Offices of Dorie A. Rogers, Orange

Myers, Sterling E., SterlingMediation, Arcadia

Nelson, Paul, Nelson Kirkman, Newport Beach

Silver, Michael J., Silver & Arsht, Westlake Village

Rickert, Kelly Chang, Law and Mediation Office of Kelly Chang, Pasadena Pg. S-6, S-8

Moore, II, Paul F., Law Offices of Paul F. Moore II, Los Angeles

Murawski, Roberta L., Law Office of Roberta L. Murawski, Los Angeles

Silberfeld, Ashley M., Blank Rome, Los Angeles

Reitshtein, Ron, Youngman Reitshtein, Beverly Hills

Rogers, Candice K., Hahn & Hahn, Pasadena

Munoz, Janice, Attorney at Law, Redondo Beach

Shulman, Maya, Shulman Family Law Group, Calabasas

Reape, James P., The Reape-Rickett Law Firm, Valencia

Robinson, Emily F., Dion Law Group, Westlake Village

Moss, Chandra L., Holstrom Block & Parke, Corona

Shornick, Melanie, Law Office of Melanie Shornick, Beverly Hills

Ravden, Debra, Klopert & Ravden, Encino

Moder, Ann, Moder Bollinger Melamed, Beverly Hills

Morris, Michael A., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach, 949-724-1111 Pg. S-10

Stanton, Harold J., Stanton Law Corp., Woodland Hills, 818-501-4224 Pg. S-56 Stearns, Ryan, Stearns Kim Stearns & Ryan, Torrance Stegmeier, Eleanor A., Stegmeier Gelbart Schwartz & Benavente, Irvine Stein, Ellyn J., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles Steinberg, Jordon P., Kaufman Steinberg, Irvine

Salka, Fern Topas, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Stenzel, Anh N., Regal Law & Mediation, Torrance Stitch, Ronald K., Law Offices of Ronald K. Stitch, Westlake Village

Schanz, Adam N., Schanz, Manhattan Beach

Strunk, Kerri L., Strunk Loos, Newport Beach

Schibel, Robert L., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles

Sturman, Jeff M., The Sturman Law Group, Los Angeles

Schilling, John R., Attorney at Law, Newport Beach

Summers, Jon S., Summers Levine & Kretzmer, Los Angeles

Park, Ji, Park Family Law, Beverly Hills

Schwartz, Jason M., Stegmeier Gelbart Schwartz & Benavente, Irvine

Park, Susan S., Law Offices of Susan S. Park, Torrance

Schwartz, Link K., Link K. Schwartz & Associates, Los Angeles

Parke, James R., Holstrom Block & Parke, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Seastrom, Brian, Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine Pg. S-10

Pedersen, Craig S., Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2

Seastrom, Philip G., Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine Pg. S-10

Petkin, Lauren S., Lauren S. Petkin Family Law and Mediation, Beverly Hills

Seide, George N., Law Office of George N. Seide, Sherman Oaks

Phillips, Ben, Phillips Whisnant Gazin Gorczyca & Curtin, Newport Beach Pg. S-10

Seide, Lonnie K., Minyard Morris, Newport Beach, 949-724-1111

Phillips, Patricia, Phillips Jessner, Los Angeles

Shaffer, Christina, Law Office of Christina Shaffer, Thousand Oaks, 805-777-1112

Phillips, Stacy D., Blank Rome, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8

Sheridan, M. Lynda, Law Offices of Lynda Sheridan, Los Angeles, 310-286-7211

Takesh Hallin, Fahi, Harris • Ginsberg, Los Angeles Terrazas, III, Joseph R., Law Office of Joseph R. Terrazas III, Pasadena Thomas, Edward J., Law Office of Edward J. Thomas, Bakersfield Thomas, Kendra, Thomas Law Offices, Woodland Hills Thompson, Byron C., Thompson & Thompson, Claremont Torabi, Mitra, Law Offices of Mitra Torabi, Beverly Hills Torres, Yolanda V., Law Firm of Yolanda V. Torres, Santa Ana

Pines, Cari M., Pines Law Group, Encino

Shear, Leslie Ellen, Law Office of Leslie Ellen Shear, Encino Pg. S-8

Provinziano, Alphonse Francis, Provinziano & Associates, Beverly Hills

Shebby, David P., Shebby • Hirashima, Los Angeles

Quinley, Shanon, Law Offices of Shanon K. Quinley, Pasadena

Shepard, Courtney L., Burch Shepard Family Law Group, Newport Beach, 949-502-4400

Tovstein, Marc S., Tovstein & Kraetzer, Irvine Treusch, Bradford L., Law Offices of Bradford L. Treusch, Beverly Hills CONTINUED ON PAGE S-38

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Trope, Michael L., Trope Fein, Beverly Hills Tseselsky, Mark L., Law Office of Mark L. Tseselsky, Canoga Park Tuttle, Thomas W., Seastrom Tuttle & Murphy, Irvine Pg. S-6, S-10 Twining, Christine V., The Law Office of Christine V. Twining, Los Angeles Van Oorschot, Marlo, Van Oorschot Law Group, Los Angeles Velen, Rozanna M., Korol & Velen, Encino

Davey, Gerard, Davey Law Corp., Newport Beach Grinblat, Tal, Lewitt Hackman, Encino Grueneberg, Susan, Cozen O’Connor, Los Angeles Gurnick, David, Lewitt Hackman, Encino Kurtz, Barry, Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Wallis, Kerry L., Gray Law Corp., Hermosa Beach Walzer, Peter M., Walzer Melcher, Woodland Hills, 818-591-3700 Pg. S-6 Wasser, Dennis M., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles Wasser, Laura A., Wasser Cooperman & Mandles, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8 Webster, J. Michael, Webster Kaplan, Encino Wegner, Talitha, Davies Wegner, Los Angeles, 310-481-0300 Weiss, Steven L., The Reape-Rickett Law Firm, Calabasas Whisnant, Jacqueline A., Phillips Whisnant Gazin Gorczyca & Curtin, Newport Beach Whyte, Nicole, Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara, Newport Beach, 949-221-1000 Pg. S-8, S-10

Pauly, Andrew S., Shoreline, Santa Monica

Solish, Jonathan, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Santa Monica

Pfister, Robert J., KTBS Law, Los Angeles

Weldon, Elizabeth M., Snell & Wilmer, Costa Mesa

Segal, Lawrence, Segal Law Group, Beverly Hills, 310-550-4840

GENERAL LITIGATION

Baker, Robert P., Law Office of Robert P. Baker, Santa Monica

Thakur, Pamela Tahim, Thakur Law Firm, Fullerton

Bolstad, David C., Safarian Choi & Bolstad, Los Angeles, 213-481-6565

Thomas, Michael Paul, Law Office of Michael Paul Thomas, Laguna Niguel

Cahn, Reuben C., Keller/Anderle, Irvine, 949-476-8700

Wiener, Robert A., Wiener & Jackson, Sherman Oaks

Cestero, Ricardo P., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Wong Yang, Debra, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Chapman, Robert S., Sauer & Wagner, Los Angeles

Zohar, Daniel Y., Zohar Law Firm, Los Angeles

Wolf, Douglas J., Douglas J. Wolf, Woodland Hills

DeClercq, William B., Taylor English Duma, Los Angeles

Zitser, Diana P., Zitser Family Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-948-6461 Pg. S-4, S-8 Zolla, Deborah Elizabeth, Zolla Law, Los Angeles Zolla, Marshall S., Zolla Law, Los Angeles Zonder, Lisa, Zonder Family Law Group, Thousand Oaks

Fox, Gerard P., Gerard Fox Law, Los Angeles Frid, Alexander (Sasha), Miller Barondess, Los Angeles Garrell, Peter E., Fortis, Costa Mesa Holmes, Andrew B., Holmes Taylor Athey Cowan Mermelstein & Jones, Los Angeles

Adams, Kevin A., Mortenson Taggart, Irvine Cole, Brian H., Chase Law Group, Manhattan Beach

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GOVERNMENT FINANCE Hunt, Donald L., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Alpert, Lee Kanon, Alpert Barr & Grant, Sherman Oaks

HEALTH CARE Barta, Theresa, Barta Law, Newport Beach

Katz, Jared M., Mullen & Henzell, Santa Barbara

Bookman, Lloyd A., Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles

Keller, Kent R., Hinshaw & Culbertson, Los Angeles

Chang Weese, Esther, McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles

Kelly, Patrick M., ADR Services, Los Angeles

Cook, Emily J., McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles

Kendall, Richard B., Kendall Brill & Kelly, Los Angeles Kossoff, Alan R., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Lack, Walter J., Engstrom Lipscomb & Lack, Los Angeles Lazenby, Richard A., Victor Rane, Beverly Hills

FRANCHISE/DEALERSHIP

Sorrell, Todd M., Anglin Flewelling & Rasmussen, Pasadena

Berkes, Robert H., Berkes Crane Robinson & Seal, Los Angeles

Crowther, Robyn C., Steptoe & Johnson, Los Angeles

Zipperman, Barbara Irshay, The Law and Mediation Offices of Barbara Irshay Zipperman, Encino

Smith, Stephen S., Law Offices of Stephen S. Smith, Burbank

Stone, Gregory E., Stone | Dean, Woodland Hills

Witting, Susan, Law Offices of Susan H. Witting, Thousand Oaks

Ziff, Hali E., Attorney/Mediator, Manhattan Beach

Sergenian, David A., Sergenian Law, Los Angeles

Balaban, Daniel K., Balaban & Spielberger, Los Angeles

Crockett, Robert, Crockett & Associates, Santa Clarita

Zelinsky, Donald, Law Office of Donald Zelinsky, Woodland Hills

Ramey, John F., Ramey Law, Los Angeles

Siegel, Amnon Z., Miller Barondess, Los Angeles Abrishami, Emanuel, One Law Group, Beverly Hills

Wilkins, Michael, Law Offices of Michael D. Wilkins, Newport Beach, 949-333-3637

Young, Kenneth M., Young Spiegel Hillman & Hosp, Beverly Hills

Naini, Amir A., Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles

Mulcahy, James M., Mulcahy, Irvine

Cohen, Baruch, Law Office of Baruch Cohen, Los Angeles

Yoda, Steven K., Walzer Melcher, Woodland Hills

Melius, Amber, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

Parvaneh, Ali, Madison Law, Irvine

Wiesner, Susan, Susan E. Wiesner, Los Angeles

Yamamoto, David K., Law Offices of David K. Yamamoto, Torrance

McNeil, Malcolm, Arent Fox, Los Angeles

Mohajerian, Al, Mohajerian Law Corp., Los Angeles

Waller, Marshall, Feinberg & Waller, Calabasas Pg. S-6 Wallin, Taylor B., Meyer Olson Lowy & Meyers, Los Angeles, 310-277-9747 Pg. S-2

Marcus, David C., Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Los Angeles

Lytel, Diana P., Lytel & Lytel, Santa Barbara MacIsaac, Suann C., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Pg. S-6, S-8 Malzahn, Scott M., Waymaker, Los Angeles

Cowdrey, Sean D., Cowdrey Jenkins, Camarillo Dorros, Torin A., Dorros Law, Beverly Hills Fenton, Benjamin J., Fenton Law Group, Los Angeles Fenton, Henry, Fenton Law Group, Los Angeles Fuller, Robert, Nelson Hardiman, Los Angeles Garner, Craig B., Garner Health Law Corp., Marina del Rey Gertler, Gary B., McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Gordon, Eric B., McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles

Yood, Kenneth, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Bolour, Ally, Bolour / Carl Immigration Group, Los Angeles

Hapak, Christopher, Law Offices of Stephenson Acquisto & Colman, Burbank

Zill, Stacey L., Isaacs | Friedberg, Los Angeles

Curtis-Diop, Valerie J., The A.D.I.L.A. Law Group, Los Angeles

Hardiman, Mark, Nelson Hardiman, Los Angeles Hatch, David A., Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles Hellow, John R., Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles Henninger, David P., Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles

Darbinian, Anna, Immigration Law Firm of Asherson Klein & Darbinian, Beverly Hills, 310-247-6070 Pg. S-39

IMMIGRATION Arzani, Nassim, American Law Center, Riverside

Dayzad, Navid, Dayzad Law Offices, Los Angeles

Asherson, Neville, Immigration Law Firm of Asherson Klein & Darbinian, Beverly Hills, 310-247-6070 Pg. S-39

Diamante, Alan R., Diamante Law Group, Los Angeles CONTINUED ON PAGE S-40

Ayala, John, Cobos & Ayala, Burbank

Hersh, Sara E., Nelson Hardiman, Los Angeles Hooper, Patric, Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles Jurkowitz, Nicholas D., Fenton Law Group, Los Angeles Kadzielski, Mark A., Baker & Hostetler, Los Angeles Kase, Beth, Fenton Law Group, Los Angeles Kirkpatrick, Alexander W., Fenton Law Group, Los Angeles Klein, Eric A., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Lee, Tin Kin, Tin Kin Lee Law Offices, South Pasadena Lovich, Richard A., Law Offices of Stephenson Acquisto & Colman, Burbank Lundy, Jr., Robert W., Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles Marsden, Nina Adatia, Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles McMahon, Raymond J., Doyle Schafer McMahon, Irvine Miller, Jeremy N., Miller Health Law Group, Los Angeles

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Andrews, Joseph, Andrews & Hensleigh, Los Angeles

Israel, Mark, Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits, Los Angeles

Ehrenpreis, Jeffrey, Ehrenpreis Immigration Law, Los Angeles, 310-553-6600

Arnal, Kimberly R., The Aguilera Law Group, South Pasadena

Jones, Dennis Neil, Myers Widders Gibson Jones & Feingold, Ventura

Arnold, Larry, Cummins & White, Newport Beach

Kaneshiro, Wynn C., Weston & McElvain, El Segundo

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www.ralphehrenpreis.com Feder, Tiffany E., Law Offices of Tiffany Feder, Encino Haghighi, David M., Law Offices of David M. Haghighi, Los Angeles Haight, Catherine, Haight Law Group, Marina del Rey

Balice, Joseph G., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Bank, Jonathan, Locke Lord, Los Angeles Barbanel, Alan H., Barbanel & Treuer, Los Angeles Beck, Kelley K., Lindahl Beck, Los Angeles Bidart, Michael J., Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Claremont, 909-621-4935 Pg. S-5, S-6 Blau, David, Blau Keane Law Group, El Segundo

Keehn, Robert F., Law Office of Robert F. Keehn, Los Angeles Kent, Ronald D., Dentons, Newport Beach Kitsinian, Nareg S., Kitsinian Law Firm, Encino Kornfeld, Linda D., Blank Rome, Los Angeles Kosten, Ilya A., Barbanel & Treuer, Los Angeles Lehavi, Limor, Mokri Vanis & Jones, Newport Beach

Hanlon, Daniel P., Hanlon Law Group, Pasadena

Brower, Steven, Brower Law Group, Laguna Hills

Hazany, Leon, Law Firm of Leon Hazany & Associates, Los Angeles

Brown, Ethan J., Brown Neri Smith & Khan, Los Angeles

Hirson, David, David Hirson & Partners, Costa Mesa

Bruchey, Samuel, Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Beverly Hills, 310-246-0503 Pg. S-5

Huang, Daniel T., Haven Law Group, Monterey Park

Calkins, Mary Craig, Blank Rome, Los Angeles

McInnis, Terrence R., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Irvine

Ivener, Mark A., Mark A. Ivener, Los Angeles

Carmel, Rina, Anderson McPharlin & Conners, Los Angeles

McKennon, Robert J., McKennon Law Group, Newport Beach, 949-387-9595

Jacobs, Robert F., Robert F. Jacobs & Associates, Santa Fe Springs

Cohen, Adrienne D., Law Offices of Adrienne D. Cohen, Santa Ana

Menter, Timothy S., Menter & Witkin, Irvine

Khosravi, John Q., JQK Law Firm, Los Angeles

Cohen, Alexander, Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo, Encino

Lenhert, Amy, Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez, Los Angeles

Cohen, Michael L., Michael L. Cohen, Los Angeles

Miguel, Michael, McKool Smith Hennigan, Los Angeles

Lucas, Cynthia, Lucas & Barba, Los Angeles

Cohen, Nancy S., Lathrop GPM, Los Angeles

Morris, Timothy, Gianelli & Morris, Los Angeles

Nalbandian, Sassoun, Nalbandian Law, Glendale

Cohn, Stephan S., Berger Kahn, Irvine

Oken, David H., Law Offices of David H. Oken, Simi Valley

Nelson, John C., Nelson & Nunez, Newport Beach

Collins, Richard T., Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana, 714-241-4444

Padilla, Annaluisa, Padilla Global Law Group, La Habra Pierce, Curtis F., The Law Office of Curtis Pierce, Los Angeles Piscopo, Louis, Law Offices of Louis M. Piscopo, Santa Ana Poole, Heather L., Heather L. Poole, Pasadena Razi, Mike, Law Offices of Mike Razi, Los Angeles

Corby, Travis M., Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Beverly Hills, 310-246-0503 Pg. S-5

Leichenger, Sheryl W., Selman Breitman, Los Angeles Littlefield, Wayne B., Musick Peeler & Garrett, Los Angeles

Michail, Maureen M., Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits, Los Angeles

O’Neill, Michael J., The Miller Law Firm, Woodland Hills Pasich, Kirk, Pasich, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Crane, Steven M., Berkes Crane Robinson & Seal, Los Angeles

Puebla, Debra R., Sinnott Puebla Campagne & Curet, Los Angeles

Crittenden, Danica, Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Claremont, 909-621-4935 Pg. S-5

Remson, Kenneth A., Goldberg Segalla, Los Angeles

Crosner, Shaun H., Pasich, Manhattan Beach

Roxborough, Nick, Roxborough Pomerance Nye & Adreani, Woodland Hills

Darras, Frank N., DarrasLaw, Ontario De Jong, Jared, Payne & Fears, Irvine

Schack, David P., Barnes & Thornburg, Los Angeles

Silver, Darren, Darren Silver & Associates, Los Angeles

Echeverria, Ricardo, Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Claremont, 909-621-4935 Pg. S-5

Scheidemantle, David R., Scheidemantle Law Group, Pasadena

Stone, Lincoln L., Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez, Los Angeles

Eli, Daniel, Eli Law Firm, Sherman Oaks

Schrieffer, Paul K., P.K. Schrieffer, West Covina

Ellison, Michael W., Smith Ellison, Irvine

Scott, Robert K., Law Offices of Robert K. Scott, La Quinta

Shusterman, Carl, JR Immigration Law, Torrance

Tasoff, Richard, Tasoff and Tasoff, Encino Thomas, Gihan, Law Offices of Gihan Thomas, Los Angeles

Erigero, Stephen J., Ropers Majeski, Los Angeles Ezra, David B., Berger Kahn, Irvine Pg. S-6, S-10

Shaneyfelt, David A., The Alvarez Firm, Calabasas

Vashistha, Anish, Law Firm of Anish Vashistha, Los Angeles

Feeley, John E., Smith Smith & Feeley, Newport Beach

Shernoff, William M., Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, Beverly Hills, 310-246-0503 Pg. S-5

Wilner, Richard M., Wilner & O’Reilly, Orange

Ford, Caroline Hurtado, Haynes and Boone, Costa Mesa

Simon, Craig S., Berger Kahn, Irvine Pg. S-6, S-10

Wolfsdorf, Bernard P., Wolfsdorf Rosenthal, Santa Monica

Gauntlett, David A., Gauntlett & Associates, Irvine

Smith, Phillip E., Smith Smith & Feeley, Newport Beach

Gray, Gary S., Gray•Duffy, Encino

Smith, Stephen E., Smith Smith & Feeley, Newport Beach

Grossman, Evangeline F., Evangeline Fisher Grossman Law, Claremont

Susolik, Edward, Callahan & Blaine, Santa Ana, 714-241-4444 Pg. S-6, S-10

Abelson, Michael Bruce, Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg, Los Angeles

Hansen, Lisa Kralik, Cochran Davis & Associates, Palos Verdes Estates

Thayer, Sandra Smith, Pasich, Los Angeles

Abir, Danny, Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo, Encino

Henshall, James F., Selman Breitman, Santa Ana

Aguilera, A. Eric, The Aguilera Law Group, Laguna Hills

Horrow, Michael B., Donahue & Horrow, El Segundo

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Weinreb, Marnin, Weinreb Law Group, Los Angeles

Thompson, Ph.D., Sandra P., Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt & Lilly, Irvine, 949-759-3810

Bigman, Bennett A., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles

Weisberg, Gene A., Gladstone Weisberg, Culver City

Tsang, Mei, Umberg Zipser, Irvine

Birnholz, Richard M., Irell & Manella, Los Angeles

Wald, Jane Shay, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles

Bjorgum, A. Eric, Karish & Bjorgum, Pasadena

Weinberg, Steven M., Holmes Weinberg, Malibu Yang, David, Hawkinson Yang, Los Angeles

Bocchieri, Breton (Bret) August, Bocchieri & Lachuk Intellectual Law Group, Los Angeles

Yang, Elizabeth, Yang Law Offices, Monterey Park, 877-492-6452 Pg. S-1

Bonder, Todd W., Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills

Yoo, Timothy B., Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow, Los Angeles

Brennan, Sterling A., Maschoff Brennan, Irvine

Wollitz, Howard N., Williams & Wollitz, Los Angeles Woods, Pamela, Pasich, Los Angeles

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Abel, David B., Law Office of David B. Abel, Manhattan Beach Antoine, Heather A., Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks

Brooks, Sarah S., Venable, Los Angeles

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION

Barsky, Wayne, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Adler, Michael S., Tantalo & Adler, Los Angeles

Ben-Meir, David H., Norton Rose Fulbright, Los Angeles

Armond, Michelle, Armond Wilson, Newport Beach

Breyer, Amy A., Breyer Andrew, Pasadena Briggs, Jeffrey C., Briggs Law, Thousand Oaks Canady, Karen S., Canady + Lortz, Los Angeles Cislo, Daniel M., Cislo & Thomas, Los Angeles Daly, Thomas J., Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, Glendale

Brenner, Lee S., Venable, Los Angeles

Brown, Jr., William J., Brown Wegner, Irvine Pg. S-10 Brutzkus, Mark D., Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6 Burson, Laura M., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Aronoff, David, Fox Rothschild, Los Angeles Baker, Ryan G., Waymaker, Los Angeles

Capoccia, Rachel M., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Bandlow, Lincoln D., Law Offices of Lincoln Bandlow, Los Angeles

Carsten, Eric J., Carsten Law, Los Angeles

Barquist, Charles S., Maschoff Brennan, Los Angeles

Cohen, Evan S., Cohen Music Law, Los Angeles

Chen, Alan C., Rimon, Los Angeles

Berger, Dorian S., Berger & Hipskind, Beverly Hills

Demirjian, Sevag, Foundation Law Group, Los Angeles

Berman, Rod S., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Ellrod, Anthony J., Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester, Los Angeles

Berstein, David A., Berstein Law, Newport Beach

Cordrey, Gregory S., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Irvine Cotman, Daniel, Cotman IP Law Group, Pasadena CONTINUED ON PAGE S-42

Gabor, David R., Weintraub Tobin, Los Angeles Goldstein, Mark, SoCal IP Law Group, Westlake Village Grabell, J. Alison, MarkStarLaw, Los Angeles Grace, Michael K., Grace+Grace, Los Angeles Greaves, Deborah E., Withers Bergman, Los Angeles Hamideh, Bassil A., The Hamideh Firm, Los Angeles Hamilton, Jennifer, Avyno Law, Encino Hansen, Scott R., Viking IP Law, Irvine Hartmans, Eric Eagle, Hartmans Law, Manhattan Beach Heller, Susan L., Greenberg Traurig, Irvine Keshishian, Milord, Milord & Associates, Los Angeles Lindsey, Michael K., Steinbrecher & Span, Los Angeles Murphey, Matthew D., Murphey & Murphey, Aliso Viejo Perkowski, Peter E., Perkowski Legal, Los Angeles Pritikin, Lance M., Law Offices of Lance M. Pritikin, Los Angeles Raphael, Jordan, Byron Raphael, Los Angeles Renfro, Aaron L., Call & Jensen, Newport Beach Saivar, Jesse, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Schnider, David A., Nolan Heimann, Encino Shining, Carolin K., Shining Law Frm, Culver City Supnik, Paul D., Law Office of Paul D. Supnik, Beverly Hills, 310-859-0100 Pg. S-56 SUPER LAWYERS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022

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Ledahl, Brian D., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles

Cunningham, Kelly W., Cislo & Thomas, Los Angeles

Lee, Irene Y., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Pg. S-6, S-8

Tran, John D., Rhema Law Group, Irvine

Dauchot, Luke L., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

Lesowitz, Scott M., Lesowitz Gebelin, Beverly Hills

de Bodo, Richard, Munck Wilson Mandala, Los Angeles

Tripodi, II, Paul D., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Irvine

Lord, John, One, Beverly Hills

Thomas, Jeffrey T., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Irvine Torres, Diana, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

Turner, Ellisen S., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

de Gyarfas, Victor S., Foley & Lardner, Los Angeles

Lowenstein, Nathan N., Lowenstein & Weatherwax, Los Angeles

Vakil, Imran F., Nexio Law Firm, Irvine

Delgado, William A., DTO Law, Los Angeles

Lyon, III, Richard E., Dovel & Luner, Santa Monica

DeVries, Michael W., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

Van den Bosch, Carlo F., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Costa Mesa

Makous, David N., FisherBroyles, Beverly Hills

Dickerson, Jr., Robert W., Burke Williams & Sorensen, Los Angeles

Malmberg, Mieke K., Skiermont Derby, Los Angeles

Doniger, Stephen, Doniger / Burroughs, Venice

Marzano, Maryann R., Gradstein & Marzano, Los Angeles

Dowling, Alan, Law Offices of Alan G. Dowling, Santa Monica Fenster, Marc A., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Finkelstein, Mark A., Umberg Zipser, Irvine

Mayer, Marc E., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles McBride, Kevin G., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Irvine

Finn, Jeffrey A., Finn IP Law, Los Angeles

McFarland, Larry W., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Los Angeles

Frackman, Russell J., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

McPhie, David, Irell & Manella, Newport Beach

Franklin, Darren, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Melnik, Roman, Lowenstein & Weatherwax, Los Angeles

Frischling, Gary N., Milbank, Los Angeles

Miller, Scott R., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Gerber, Seth M., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles

Miller, Todd R., Vested Law, Pasadena

Veregge, Peter S., Cislo & Thomas, Westlake Village Vick, Kevin L., Jassy Vick Carolan, Los Angeles Vidal, Thomas H., Pryor Cashman, Los Angeles Viscounty, Perry J., Latham & Watkins, Costa Mesa Wang, Benjamin T., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Wesley, Keith, Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis, Los Angeles Wilson, Dennis L., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Los Angeles

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Fasel, Thomas A., Fasel Law, Newport Beach

Goldberg, Perry M., Progress, Los Angeles

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Raygor, Kent R., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Fogg, Andrew K., Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles

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Hoffman, Adam S., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Holmes, James J.S., Clyde & Co, Los Angeles Iser, Lawrence Y., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Pg. S-6 Johnson, Douglas L., Johnson & Johnson, Beverly Hills, 310-870-0047 Pg. S-11 Katz, Michael I., Buchalter, Irvine Kobulnick, Jeffrey, Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber, Woodland Hills Pg. S-6 Korn, Gregory P., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Kroeger, Paul A., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Kump, Michael J., Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica Lapple, Matthew, Lapple Ubell IP Law, Irvine, 949-756-4889

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Rome, Eugene, Rome & Associates, Los Angeles

Glushon, Robert L., Luna & Glushon, Encino

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Goldberg, David A., Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac, Los Angeles

Rotstein, Robert H., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles Rubin, Neil A., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Russ, Larry C., Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles Pg. S-6 Shaeffer, John J., Fox Rothschild, Los Angeles Srinivasan, Kalpana, Susman Godfrey, Los Angeles Steinsapir, Jonathan, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley, Santa Monica

Jamieson, Stephen A., Solomon Saltsman & Jamieson, Los Angeles Mamalakis, Damon P., Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac, Los Angeles Merewitz, Seth, Best Best & Krieger, Los Angeles Reznik, Benjamin M., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles Rosenthal, Deborah M., FitzGerald Yap Kreditor, Irvine

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Tepper, R. Bruce, R. Bruce Tepper, Los Angeles

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Thompson, Elizabeth M. (Ellia), Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills Truman, Kathleen O’Prey, Truman and Elliott, El Segundo

LEGAL AID/PRO BONO DeCarolis, Matthew E., Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Los Angeles Estuar, Paul J., Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles

LEGISLATIVE & GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Kaufman, Stephen J., Kaufman Legal Group, Los Angeles

MEDIA AND ADVERTISING Bostwick, Gary, BostwickLaw, Los Angeles Glassman, Anthony M., Bergeson, Beverly Hills Jassy, Jean-Paul, Jassy Vick Carolan, Los Angeles Niborski, Michael J., Pryor Cashman, Los Angeles Schumann, Kim, Schumann Rosenberg & Arevalo, Costa Mesa

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

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Gramling, Kevin J., Klinedinst, Irvine

Weinstein, Joel, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Harber, Stephen M., McCune & Harber, Los Angeles

Weirick, Bradford P., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Jamison, Kevin, Jamison Empting Cronin, Los Angeles

Woronoff, Michael A., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

Kaiser, Raymond, Kaiser & Swindells, Long Beach Mall III, William J., Law Office of William J. Mall III, Fullerton

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Cafferata, Reynolds T., Rodriguez Horii Choi & Cafferata, Los Angeles

Marlatt, Michael J., Thompson & Colegate, Riverside

Choi, William C., Rodriguez Horii Choi & Cafferata, Los Angeles

McClaugherty, Jay S., McClaugherty & Associates, Monrovia

Glick-Atalla, Heather, Glick Atalla, Sherman Oaks

Padilla, Arturo, Andrade Gonzalez, Los Angeles

Seton, Kent E., Seton & Associates, Beverly Hills

Popovich, Jerry C., Selman Breitman, Santa Ana Pg. S-6, S-10 Saroukhanioff, Ninos, Morganstern Law Group, Woodland Hills

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE Behar, Jeffrey S., Ford Walker Haggerty & Behar, Long Beach

Shaw, John W., Shaw Koepke & Satter, Redondo Beach

Bradley, Lindy F., Bradley Gmelich + Wellerstein, Glendale, 818-243-5200

Smith, Andrew O., Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin, Los Angeles

Braun, Jeff I., McNeil Tropp & Braun, Irvine

Sutton, Michael S., Sutton & Murphy, Mission Viejo

Chermela, Jason R., Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Los Angeles

Waterkotte, Grant D., Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin, Los Angeles

Everett, III, Seymour B., Everett Dorey, Irvine

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Apfelberg, Andrew M., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Berman, Joel J., Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside, Los Angeles Braun, Lawrence M., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Cohen, Jeffrey H., Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles Demetriou, Andrew J., Lamb & Kawakami, Los Angeles Duboff, Allan B., Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles Ivey, Christopher D., Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach Layne, Jonathan K., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Le Pore, III, Vincent J., Brown & Streza, Irvine Loss, James W., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Costa Mesa McCarthy, Brian J., Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles Sands, David H., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles Shaw, Kevin A., Nevers Palazzo Packard Wildermuth & Wynner, Westlake Village Shulman, Leonard M., Shulman Bastian Friedman & Bui, Irvine Skaist, Mark L., Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach Staley, William C., Law Office of William C. Staley, Woodland Hills Stemler, Robert, Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach SUPER LAWYERS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022

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Biren, Matthew B.F., Biren Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-476-3031

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Abron, Byron (B.J.), Abron Law, Los Angeles

Booth, Roger, Booth Law, Torrance

Adams, III, John C., Hunt & Adams, Santa Ana

Boyle, Kevin R., Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Ahdoot, Alan, Adamson Ahdoot, Los Angeles

Davis, Allan F., Robinson Calcagnie, Newport Beach, 949-720-1288 Davis, Steven D., Steven D. Davis Law Group, Culver City De Armas, Lourdes, Dolan Law Firm, Los Angeles De Los Reyes, Anthony, Pocrass & De Los Reyes, Los Angeles Deason, Edward J., Law Offices of Edward J. Deason, Torrance Dempsey, Thomas M., Law Offices of Thomas M. Dempsey, Los Angeles, 310-385-9600 Dervishian, Abraham, D & Z Law Group, Glendale

Brandt, Brian, Law Offices of Brian Brandt, Upland

Djivre, Alexis B., Law Office of Alexis Djivre, Glendale

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Dominguez, Juan J., The Dominguez Firm, Los Angeles

Brenner, Lauri, Law Offices of Robert A. Brenner, Woodland Hills

Dordick, Gary A., Dordick, Beverly Hills, 310-551-0949 Pg. S-6

Brenner, Robert A., Law Offices of Robert A. Brenner, Woodland Hills

Douglas, Carl E., Douglas / Hicks Law, Los Angeles

Alder, Michael, AlderLaw, Los Angeles Pg. S-6

Brockmeier, John A., Brockmeier Law Group, Irvine

Doyle, Conal, Doyle Law, Beverly Hills

Algorri, Mark, DeWitt Algorri & Algorri, Pasadena

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Drake, Benjamin, Drake Law Firm, Woodland Hills

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Bruno, Angela E., Bruno | Nalu, Irvine Bruno, Keith J., Bruno | Nalu, Irvine

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Bryman, Andrew C., Bryman & Apelian, Agoura Hills

Dunbar, Daniel W., Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi, Los Angeles

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Easton, Brian W., Easton & Easton, Costa Mesa, 714-850-4590

Caldwell, Brent W., Law Offices of Brent W. Caldwell, Huntington Beach Callahan, Kevin K., Thon Beck Vanni Callahan & Powell, Pasadena Carpenter, John C., Carpenter Zuckerman & Rowley, Beverly Hills Carr, James P., Yuhl Carr, Marina del Rey Carrazco, Jr., Angel, Carrazco Law, Tustin Casillas, Arnoldo, Casillas & Associates, Long Beach Chakmakis, George, Chakmakis Law, Beverly Hills

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Barrett, Joseph M., Affeld Grivakes, Los Angeles, 310-979-8700

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Carey, Stevens A., Pircher Nichols & Meeks, Los Angeles

Hensley, W. Michael, AlvaradoSmith, Santa Ana

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: PLAINTIFF Ackerman, Lee B., Law Offices of Lee B. Ackerman, Los Angeles Fields, Howard M., Howard M. Fields, Woodland Hills Furman, Joshua R., Joshua R. Furman, Encino Glickman, Steven, Glickman & Glickman, Sherman Oaks

Carlson, Mark C., Carlson Law Group, Woodland Hills, 818-996-7800 Pg. S-52 Case, Daniel A., Case Knowlson, Los Angeles Champion, Douglas M., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles Cody, Marnie Christine, Hamlin | Cody, Marina del Rey Cohen, Brett J., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Corfield, Michael, Corfield Feld, San Juan Capistrano

Gutierrez, Javier F., Stuart Kane, Newport Beach Hamlin, Richard, Hamlin | Cody, Marina del Rey

Herrman, Henry A., Herrman Law Firm, Santa Monica Hoefflin, Richard M., Richard M. Hoefflin, Westlake Village Howard, Roger H., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Hummer, Laurence L., Laurence L. Hummer, Los Angeles Iaffaldano, Frank W., Iaffaldano Shaw & Young, Los Angeles Insul, Alan, Law Office of Alan M. Insul, Westlake Village Pg. S-6 Irons, John H., Pircher Nichols & Meeks, Los Angeles

Joyce, Erin, Erin Joyce Law, Pasadena

Dargan, Christopher M., Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles

Makarem, Ron, Makarem & Associates, Los Angeles

Douglas, J. Andrew, Wright Kim Douglas, Glendale

Negrin, Matthew, Baer Negrin & Troff, Los Angeles

Dreyfus, Caroline W., Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles

Parker, David B., Parker Mills, Los Angeles

Ecoff, Lawrence C., Ecoff Campain Tilles & Kay, Beverly Hills, 310-887-1850

Jimenez, Roy J., Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle (TLD Law), Long Beach

Ehrhart, Kevin M., Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles

Johnson, Stuart, Kesselman Brantly Stockinger, Manhattan Beach

Stuart, Antony, Stuart Law Firm, Los Angeles Traut, James R., Traut Firm, Santa Ana, 714-835-7000 Wilson, Mark B., Klein & Wilson, Newport Beach Pg. S-6, S-10

REAL ESTATE Abram, Steven, Abram Roy, Los Angeles Ackerman, Michael S., Jones Ackerman & Corman, Los Angeles Adams, Adrian J., Adams | Stirling, Los Angeles

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Eisenberg, Mark S., Eisenberg & Associates, Los Angeles Ellman, Dennis B., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Jackson, III, William H., Pircher Nichols & Meeks, Los Angeles Jacobson, Lawrence H., Law Offices of Lawrence H. Jacobson, Beverly Hills Janecek, Jon J., Newmeyer Dillion, Newport Beach

Juha, Damon M., Freeman Freeman & Smiley, Los Angeles Jung, Karen, Jung Law, Los Angeles

Feder, Philip N., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles

Kang, Brian H., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Feldman, Lewis G., Feldman Law Group, Santa Monica

Kennerly, Nancy N., Kennerly Lamishaw & Rossi, Los Angeles

Feldman, Steven L., Lewitt Hackman, Encino

Kinnon, Kelly, Iaffaldano Shaw & Young, Los Angeles

Fields, Kenneth S., Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Klein, Michael S., Klein & Weisz, Los Angeles

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Koffman, Linda S., Smith Gambrell & Russell, Los Angeles

Ross, Barry A., Law Office of Barry A. Ross, Laguna Hills

Weissman, Seth, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Lamishaw, Matthew, Kennerly Lamishaw & Rossi, Los Angeles

Roth, Peter J., Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Los Angeles

Westhoff, Pamela L., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Lanson, Don E., Manfredi Levine Eccles Miller & Lanson, Westlake Village

Roy, Dennis S., Abram Roy, Los Angeles

Westreich, Benzion J., Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles

Lee, Gloria J., Rutan & Tucker, Irvine Lee, San San, Law Offices of San San Lee, South Pasadena Lesser, Trudi J., Law Offices of Trudi J. Lesser, El Segundo Levy, Matthew L., Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles Logue, Travis C., Rogers Sheffield & Campbell, Santa Barbara Lorman, Bruce, Law Office of Bruce Lorman, Santa Monica

Rutter, Paul S., Cozen O’Connor, Santa Monica Safarian, Chris K., Safarian Choi & Bolstad, Los Angeles, 213-481-6565

Williamson, Richard, Ezer Williamson Law, Torrance

Schorr, Zachary, Schorr Law, Los Angeles

Wolff, Steven G., Raines Feldman, Los Angeles

Sears, Jonathan, Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles

Yashar, Pantea, Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

Sfregola, Michael, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Young, Marc D., Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Los Angeles

Shafron, Shelly Jay, Shafron & Kammer, Calabasas

SCHOOLS & EDUCATION

Shapiro, Daniel C., Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles

Ludwig, Mitchell B., Knapp Petersen & Clarke, Glendale

Sharf, Jesse, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Holman, Brian L., Musick Peeler & Garrett, Los Angeles

Lurie, Steven, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles

Shiner, Andrew, Sutton Pakfar & Courtney, Beverly Hills

McCune, Dana John, McCune & Harber, Los Angeles

Shumener, Betty M., Shumener Odson & Oh, Los Angeles

Smith, Ruben A., AlvaradoSmith, Santa Ana

Mackay, Lee D., Nevers Palazzo Packard Wildermuth & Wynner, Westlake Village Maisnik, M. Guy, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Siegel, Leonard, Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware, Sherman Oaks

Masenga, Thomas J., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Silver, Scott, Silver Law Offices, Los Angeles

Mashian, Bryan, Mashian Law Group, Los Angeles

Simkin, Michael, Simkin & Associates, Los Angeles, 310-788-9089

McFadden, Michael E., Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Los Angeles McFarlin, Timothy, McFarlin, Irvine McKitterick, Gary S., Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Irvine Mendelson, Richard C., Seyfarth Shaw, Los Angeles Meyer, Michael E., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Miller, Ken, Gorman & Miller, Santa Monica

Tiffany, Marcy J.K., Tiffany Law Group, Palos Verdes Estates

SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE

Stamato, Juliana, Law Offices of Juliana Stamato, Calabasas Steckbauer, William W., Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles

Abdou, Mark Y., Libertas Law Group, Santa Monica Bellah Maguire, Jennifer, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Stroffe, Jennifer V., FSG, Irvine

Feuchter, Bruce, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach

Strohman, Jr, Joseph L., Ferguson Case Orr Paterson, Ventura

Noel, Gregg A., Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles

Stuart, Bruce C., Stuart Kane, Newport Beach

SECURITIES LITIGATION

Milman, Rachel S., Milman Law, Encino

Sudeck, David, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Minoofar, Pedram, Yadegar Minoofar & Soleymani, Los Angeles

Tabibian, David, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Aidikoff, Philip M., Aidikoff Uhl & Bakhtiari, Beverly Hills

Nicoletti, Mark, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Los Angeles

Tarango, Marcos M., DTO Law, Los Angeles

Bakhtiari, Ryan K., Aidikoff Uhl & Bakhtiari, Beverly Hills

Paradise, Kate, Paradise Law Group, Santa Monica Pircher, Leo J., Pircher Nichols & Meeks, Los Angeles Popowitz, Neil M., Relaw, Westlake Village Rabkin, Michael W., Wolf Rifkin Shapiro Schulman & Rabkin, Los Angeles Raphaely, Shahab, Davies Raphaely, Calabasas Rasmussen, Richard G., Anglin Flewelling & Rasmussen, Pasadena

Taylor, Corey, Law Office of Corey E. Taylor, San Clemente, 949-429-3481

Bartels, David T., Lawrence Bartels, Irvine, 949-346-4646

Treadwell, James, Cunningham Treadwell & Bartelstone, Woodland Hills

Buchwalter, Steve A., Law Office of Steve A. Buchwalter, Encino

Tullius, Jennifer R., Tullius Law Group, Los Angeles

Compton, Jeffrey K., Markun Zusman Freniere & Compton, Pacific Palisades

Udell, Michael, Udell Wang, Los Angeles

Durrant, John, The Durrant Law Firm, Los Angeles

Ulwelling, James K., Ulwelling Law, Costa Mesa

Edmiston, Michael S., Jonathan W. Evans & Associates, Studio City

Valencia, Albert C., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

Evans, Jonathan W., Jonathan W. Evans & Associates, Studio City

Ravid, Nadav, Ravid Law Group, Los Angeles

Velazquez, Joan B., Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

R’bibo, Alain, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, Los Angeles

Waldman, Ira J., Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles

Richardson, Kelly, Richardson | Ober | DeNichilo, Pasadena

Walker, Paul R., Winston & Strawn, Los Angeles

Garrett, Stacey M., Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach

Rollman, Fredric, Donfeld & Rollman, Los Angeles

Ware, II, Thomas M., Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware, Sherman Oaks

Girard II, Robert J., Girard Bengali, Los Angeles

Roseman, Steven A., Roseman Law, Woodland Hills

Weinhart, Brian S., Hill Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles

Rosenberg, Robert, Law Offices of Robert I. Rosenberg, Beverly Hills

Weissburg, Adam B., Cox Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles

Furgison, Jon C., Furgison Law Group, Hermosa Beach

Glennon, Brian T., Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles Gless, Michael M., Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach CONTINUED ON PAGE S-50

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 SECURITIES LITIGATION CONT’D FROM PAGE S-49

Hamilton, Joshua G., Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles Harrison, David, Law Offices of David Harrison, Beverly Hills Hennigan, J. Michael, McKool Smith Hennigan, Los Angeles Johnson, Michele D., Latham & Watkins, Costa Mesa Keesal, Jr., Samuel “Skip” A., Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach Kelley, Garland A., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles Kim, Helen B., K&L Gates, Los Angeles McGrath, Christopher H., Paul Hastings, Costa Mesa

STATE, LOCAL & MUNICIPAL Aleshire, David J., Aleshire & Wynder, Irvine

McGinnis, Patrick E., Attorney at Law, Beverly Hills

Gadbois, Barbara R., Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt, Los Angeles

Millar, Sanford I., MillarLaw, Los Angeles

Munoz, A. Patrick, Rutan & Tucker, Irvine Olivarez, Rick R., Olivarez Madruga Lemieux & O’Neill, Los Angeles Wiener, Laurence S., Richards Watson & Gershon, Los Angeles

Olivar, Jr., Harry A., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles Palmer, Pamela S., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Los Angeles

Niesley, Robert C., Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, Irvine

Ben-Cohen, Pedram, Ben-Cohen Law Firm, Los Angeles Bowen, Justin, Bowen Tax Law, Palos Verdes Estates

Reif, Brandon S., Reif Law Group, Los Angeles, 310-494-6500

Chung, Steven S., Attorney at Law, Cerritos

Stansbury, III, Bentley P., Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach

Dyess, Jr., Robert W., Good Wildman, Irvine, 949-955-1100 Fernhoff, Michael, Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles

Tu, Michael, Cooley, Santa Monica

Gaswirth, Mitchell M., Proskauer Rose, Los Angeles

Slavett, Gary M., Holtz Slavett & Drabkin, Beverly Hills Stein, Jacob, Aliant, Encino Stein, Laurence J., Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles Stein, Michel R., Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, Beverly Hills Stigile, Cory, Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, Beverly Hills Swaidan, Karl I., Hahn & Hahn, Pasadena Taylor, A. Lavar, Law Office of A. Lavar Taylor, Santa Ana

Wagner, Avi, The Wagner Firm, Los Angeles

Holtz, David C., Holtz Slavett & Drabkin, Beverly Hills

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY

Sczudlo, Paul A., Withers Bergman, Los Angeles

Givner, Bruce, KFB Rice, Los Angeles Habekovic, Vanja, Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

Young, Stephen, Keesal Young & Logan, Long Beach

Saulino, Mark A., Saulino Tax Counsel, Los Angeles

Gilden, Robin C., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Varnen, Craig, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles

Young, Meryl L., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Irvine

Salkin, Avram, Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, Beverly Hills

Shimoff, Paul M., Shimoff Law Corp., Redlands

Freier, Elliot, VLP Law Group, Marina del Rey

Weiner, Perrie M., Baker & McKenzie, Los Angeles

Robbins, Jr., Edward M., Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, Beverly Hills

Drabkin, Igor S., Holtz Slavett & Drabkin, Beverly Hills

Taggart, Craig A., Mortenson Taggart, Irvine

Weber, Robert D., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles

Newman, David Wheeler, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles

Shaff, Michael E., Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks

Fink, Barry E., Glaser Weil, Los Angeles

Vanyo, Bruce G., Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles

Nazarian, Mayer, Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills

Dakessian, Marty, Dakessian Law, Los Angeles

Sullivan, William F., Paul Hastings, Los Angeles

Tyukody, Jr., Daniel J., Greenberg Traurig, Los Angeles

Nardiello, Chad D., Nardiello Turanchik, Los Angeles

Rice, David Lee, KFB Rice, Torrance Barish, Ken, Kenneth M. Barish Esq., Los Angeles

Brager, Dennis N., Brager Tax Law Group, Los Angeles

Schneider, Marc J., Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach

Morris, Michael R., Valensi Rose, Los Angeles

Nitti, Thomas A., Law Office of Thomas A. Nitti, Santa Monica

TAX

Privette, Howard M., Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Irvine

Sacks, Robert A., Sullivan & Cromwell, Los Angeles

Mitchell, Burton A., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Nelson, Lisa O., Law Office of A. Lavar Taylor, Santa Ana

SURETY

Morris, Stanley, Corrigan & Morris, Los Angeles Morrison, Peter B., Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles

Mather, Steven R., Mather | Anderson, Los Angeles

Horii, Dwayne, Rodriguez Horii Choi & Cafferata, Los Angeles Husband, B. Paul, B. Paul Husband, Burbank, 818-955-8585 Pg. S-53

Turanchik, Lydia B., Nardiello Turanchik, Los Angeles Weiss, Michele F. L., Holtz Slavett & Drabkin, Beverly Hills Wilson, Joseph P., Wilson Tax Law Group, Newport Beach Zbylut, Gregory A., Breyer Andrew, Pasadena

B. PAUL HUSBAND B. PAUL HUSBAND, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION Burbank • 818-955-8585

www.husbandlaw.com

TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS Braun, Robert E., Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, Los Angeles

Aghai, Sima, Law Offices of Sima G. Aghai, Westminster

Kalinski, Jonathan, Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, Beverly Hills

DeBre, Kevin D., Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, Sherman Oaks

Rohlfing, Lawrence D., Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing, Santa Fe Springs, 562-868-5886

Karlin, Michael J., Karlin & Peebles, Los Angeles

Forsheit, Tanya, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles

LAWRENCE D. ROHLFING LAW OFFICES OF LAWRENCE D. ROHLFING Santa Fe Springs • 562-868-5886

www.californiasocialsecurityattorney.com

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Keligian, David L., Brown & Streza, Irvine Kessler, Warren (Skip), Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles Landis, Samuel, Segal Cohen & Landis, Beverly Hills

TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME Cammarano, Dennis A., Cammarano Law Group, Long Beach

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Chung, Jaion, Poole Shaffery & Koegle, Los Angeles Kehagiaras, Andrew, Roberts & Kehagiaras, Long Beach

Fernandez, Abel H., Diefer Law Group, Riverside Field, Greggory M., Field Law Group, Los Angeles

Odjaghian, Tina, Tina Odjaghian Law Group, Woodland Hills, 818-227-4848 Rossi, James A., Rossi Law Group, Simi Valley

Fields, Susan Eliasoff, Koszdin Fields Sherry & Katz, Van Nuys, 818-781-1503 Pg. S-53

Savin, Jr., George J., Savin Bursk, Granada Hills

Lerner, Neil S., Cox Wootton Lerner Griffin & Hansen, Los Angeles, 310-440-0020

Ford, Scott T., Ford & Wallach, Los Angeles

Sherman, Julie Locks, Straussner Sherman, Van Nuys

Naylor, Charles D., Law Offices of Charles D. Naylor, Long Beach

Friedman, Lester J., Law Offices of Lester Friedman, Beverly Hills Pg. S-6

Sherry, Mark J., Koszdin Fields Sherry & Katz, Van Nuys, 818-781-1503 Pg. S-56

Peacock, III, Albert E., Peacock Piper Tong + Voss, Long Beach

Ghitterman, Russell R., Ghitterman Ghitterman & Feld, Santa Barbara

Piper, Glen R., Peacock Piper Tong + Voss, Long Beach

Glauber, Russell L., Glauber Berenson Vego, Glendale

Sherwin, Robert J., Lewis Marenstein Wicke Sherwin & Lee, Woodland Hills, 818-703-6000 Pg. S-56

Shaffery, John H., Poole Shaffery & Koegle, Santa Clarita

Goldstein, David A., Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, Los Angeles

Swain, Michael L., Swain & DiPolito, Long Beach Tong, David A., Peacock Piper Tong + Voss, Long Beach

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION Barry, Steven M., Barry Law Group, Encino Beaton, Gifford G., Wheeler & Beaton, San Luis Obispo Berkowitz, Elliot S., Law Offices of Berkowitz & Cohen, Los Angeles Burgis, Michael, Michael Burgis & Associates, Sherman Oaks

Silver, Lawrence O., Goldschmid Silver & Spindel, Los Angeles Snitzer, Alan B., Law Offices of Alan B. Snitzer, Pasadena

Gonzalez, Jose, Bentley & More, Newport Beach, 949-870-3800

Stern, Lawrence, Mallery & Stern, Los Angeles Stoody, Amy Menkes, Stoody & Mills, Irvine, 949-223-9876

Goodchild, Jack, Goodchild & Duffy, Encino, 818-380-1600 Pg. S-53 Grant, Sherry E., Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, Los Angeles Gurvey, Alan Z., Law Firm of Rowen Gurvey & Win, Sherman Oaks Hinden, Barry Harris, Hinden & Breslavsky, Los Angeles

Davidson, Kimberly, Tobin Lucks, Woodland Hills Dombchik, Adam D., Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, Los Angeles

Lopez, A. Amos, Law Offices of A. Amos Lopez, Palm Springs

Feld, Benjamin, Ghitterman Ghitterman & Feld, Santa Barbara

Ly, Geraldine, Law Office of Geraldine Ly, Santa Ana, 714-442-9998 Pg. S-8, S-10

Felton, Richard, Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, Los Angeles

More, Keith P., Bentley & More, Newport Beach, 949-870-3800 Pg. S-6, S-10

STOODY & MILLS Irvine • 949-223-9876

www.smdcomp.com Straatsma, B. Derek, Goldman Magdalin & Krikes, Woodland Hills Straussner, Aaron W., Straussner Sherman, Van Nuys

Jacobson, Jerry A., Jacobson & Associates, Los Angeles, 213-383-0500 Pg. S-54 Kropach, William J., Kropach & Kropach, Encino

AMY MENKES STOODY

Thomas, Joanne M., Stander Reubens Thomas and Kinsey, Corona Vargas, Sean C., The Law Offices of Steven A. Meline, Santa Ana Vines, Robert I., Rose Klein & Marias, Ontario Wallach, Cheryl L., Ford & Wallach, Los Angeles Yoro, James, Chain | Cohn | Stiles, Bakersfield

SORTED ALPHABETICALLY

Selected to Super Lawyers

PATRICIO T. D. BARRERA

Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

SHADIE BERENJI

BETI BERGMAN

BERENJI LAW FIRM, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

PENINSULA LAW, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION

2298 East Maple Avenue El Segundo, CA 90245 Tel: 310-802-1500 Fax: 310-802-0500 www.baattorneys.com

8383 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 708 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Tel: 310-855-3270 Fax: 310-855-3751 berenji@employeejustice.law www.employeejustice.law

3220 Sepulveda Boulevard Suite 203 Torrance, CA 90505 Tel: 310-694-8703 Fax: 866-449-6181 bbergman@peninsula.law www.peninsula.law

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF BUSINESS LITIGATION CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF

ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE

Pat Barrera has been listed in Super Lawyers Magazine for 19 consecutive years. Just before COVID, Pat had won four jury trials for his plaintiff employee clients including three punitive damages verdicts. In 2018, Pat was recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as a Top Labor and Employment Specialist in California, and nominated for CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year. Between 2019 and September 2021, Barrera & Associates delivered over $25 million in settlements to clients. Pat is a member of The American Board of Trial Advocates, CELA, Best Attorneys of America, and The National Trial Lawyers Top 100.

Pat is AV-rated and licensed to practice in California and Texas.

Pat speaks English and Spanish. Barrera & Associates is a member of 1% for the Planet, supporting environmental causes.

Shadie Berenji focuses exclusively representing employees with employment law disputes. Ms. Berenji has an array of experience in employment law litigation, with a particular emphasis on wage-and-hour violations and sex/pregnancy discrimination. As a former employment law defense attorney, Ms. Berenji understands the strategies and tactics often used to sidestep employees’ claims and she uses this insight to obtain the best possible outcome for her clients. As a result, she has successfully obtained numerous six and seven figure settlements for employees in wage-and-hour class actions, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation and whistleblower lawsuits.

Beti Bergman is the founder and principal of Peninsula Law, an elite, boutique firm specializing in probate, trusts, estates, and conservatorships. Bergman, a former civil litigator and former deputy city attorney for the City of Los Angeles, created Peninsula Law with a laser focus on probate law and built Peninsula Law into a probate powerhouse. Peninsula Law represents fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and families in litigation, planning, and settling estates. Peninsula Law embraces resolution of conflict and goes to trial when necessary. Peninsula Law’s philosophy is to treat clients with judgment, courtesy, and diligence, and to build winning cases based on exceptional strategy, analysis, and persuasion. Bergman also mediates and is available via Zoom for dispute resolution conferences.

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2022 Selected to Super Lawyers

SORTED ALPHABETICALLY Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

KAREN S. BROWN

SHARON A. BRYAN

LAW OFFICE OF KAREN S. BROWN

LAW OFFICE OF SHARON A. BRYAN

10866 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel: 323-274-2697 Fax: 888-433-3968 karen@ksbfamlaw.com www.ksbfamlaw.com

21515 Hawthorne Boulevard Suite 490 Torrance, CA 90503 Tel: 310-540-8855 Fax: 310-316-1307 sharon@mbsllp.com www.mbsllp.com

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE

FAMILY LAW

FAMILY LAW

Debbie Birndorf Zeiler represents employers in all aspects of employment law, including defending wage and hour class actions, harassment and discrimination claims, individual wage claims, disability claims, and misappropriation of trade secrets. She also provides preventative counseling and advice, and drafts and reviews employment contracts, severance agreements, employee handbooks and personnel policies.

Ms. Birndorf earned her B.A. from UCLA, an MBA from NYU and her law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where she graduated top of her class. Licensed to practice in California and Illinois, she is a frequent speaker on a variety of employment law topics. Ms. Birndorf also teaches Legal Aspects of Employee Relations at UCLA Extension.

Attorney Karen Brown is sought after for representation of complex family law matters. For over 20 years of her 46 year career, she was a civil litigator and entertainment attorney. As such, she brings a wide breadth of knowledge and exposure to many fields of law. She services the general Southern California community from her West Los Angeles practice with the objective to resolve and settle cases economically. When necessary, she is also known as a tough, knowledgeable, and aggressive litigator. Ms. Brown has an extensive background representing clients in difficult family law matters, such as high conflict divorce, custody disputes and move-aways, domestic abuse, high-net-worth financial disputes, and pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

Sharon Bryan is rated by Super Lawyers as a Top 50 Women’s honoree in Southern California, and by Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent in legal ability and ethical standards. She is a Certified Family Law Specialist by State of California Board of Legal Specialization; USC Gould School of Law; UCLA professional designation in Personal Financial Planning; instructor at California State Bar, and judge pro tem in Los Angeles Superior Court. Served as president Association of Certified Family Law Specialists; editor ACFLS Newsletter; past president South Bay Women Lawyers; three years State Bar Family Law Executive Committee; editor of Family Law News; president American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, of SoCal Chapter; and International Academy of Family Lawyers.

DEBORAH BIRNDORF ZEILER BIRNDORF LAW OFFICES, APC 11845 West Olympic Boulevard Suite 735W Los Angeles, CA 90064 Tel: 310-914-8400 Fax: 310-914-8480 DBirndorf@BirndorfLaw.com www.BirndorfLaw.com

Selected to Super Lawyers

MARK C. CARLSON

Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

CHRISTOPHER CHATHAM

CHRISTINA M. COLEMAN

6300 Canoga Avenue Suite 1300 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Tel: 818-996-7800 Fax: 818-884-4285 mcc@carlsonlawgroup.com www.carlsonlawgroup.com

CHATHAM LAW GROUP

LAW OFFICES OF CHRISTINA M. COLEMAN, APC

REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE

ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS BUSINESS LITIGATION BUSINESS/CORPORATE

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF BUSINESS LITIGATION EMPLOYMENT & LABOR

Carlson Law Group, Inc. is a full-service real estate and civil litigation law firm. Founder Mark Carlson leads a team of skilled lawyers representing real estate professionals, property owners, contractors and business owners in both litigated matters and real estate transactions. Carlson is the preferred attorney for two of the largest real estate and mortgage broker E&O programs in California. He also provides risk management services throughout California and is a frequent speaker at training seminars. Carlson also advises clients and other lawyers on cyber security issues. No other law firm in California represents more real estate professionals than Carlson and his associates.

Carlson has tried nearly two dozen jury trials and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Chris Chatham has represented major stars, producers, directors, writers, financiers, independent production companies and major corporations. He acts as general counsel to prominent dealmakers in the motion picture and television industry and provides advice regarding production matters, investment and acquisitions, management strength, deal structuring and other strategic planning. His practice also includes litigating complex commercial and business disputes in California, Hawaii and Washington, D.C. He provides value and service to his clients by protecting their intellectual property rights; preparing and implementing proper partnership agreements, talent holding deals, negotiations with industry unions, licensing agreements and dissolution agreements; and advising on personnel matters.

Christina M. Coleman has over 23 years of experience representing consumers, employees businesses in enforcement and protection of their rights. Ms. Coleman is committed to achieving the best possible results for employees who experience problems in the workplace, for individuals whose civil rights are violated in their communities, and for businesses/ business people who are cheated by others in the business community. Ms. Coleman was a Finalist for Consumer Attorneys of California’s Consumer Attorney of the Year in 2008, and Streetfighter of the Year in 2010. She is also a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association and serves on the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles.

CARLSON LAW GROUP, INC.

Selected to Super Lawyers

2046 Hillhurst Avenue Suite 130 Los Angeles, CA 90027 Tel: 213-277-1800 chris@chathamfirm.com www.chathamfirm.com

Selected to Super Lawyers

5757 Wilshire Boulevard Penthouse 5 Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tel: 323-592-3605 Fax: 323-843-1715 christina@christinacolemanlaw.com www.christinacolemanlaw.com

Selected to Super Lawyers

DAVID M. DERUBERTIS

JANET DOCKSTADER

ROBERT W. EISFELDER

THE DERUBERTIS LAW FIRM, APC

DOCKSTADER ORLICZKY

LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT W. EISFELDER

8889 West Olympic Boulevard 2nd Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Tel: 818-761-2322 Fax: 818-761-2323 david@derubertislaw.com www.derubertislaw.com

3020 Old Ranch Parkway Suite 300 Seal Beach, CA 90740 Tel: 562-799-5551 Fax: 562-252-1117 janet@dockstaderlaw.com www.dockstaderlaw.com

2049 Century Park East Suite 850 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Tel: 310-820-4500 Fax: 310-861-1022 reisfelder@rwelawcorp.com www.rwelawcorp.com

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF BUSINESS LITIGATION CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS

FAMILY LAW

FAMILY LAW GENERAL LITIGATION INSURANCE COVERAGE

David M. deRubertis is the founder of The deRubertis Law Firm, APC, a trial boutique firm in Beverly Hills California.

DeRubertis has been honored as CAALA’s Trial Lawyer of the Year, a California Lawyer of the Year (Clay Award) recipient, Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” for Employment Law – Individuals – for Los Angeles and has been included on the Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers list every year since 2011.

A member of ABOTA and a seasoned trial lawyer who frequently serves as last-minute trial counsel, Mr. deRubertis handles all types of employment disputes, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death matters, insurance bad faith cases and contingency business litigation matters.

Janet E. Dockstader is a Certified Family Law Specialist and the managing partner of Dockstader Orliczky, a boutique law firm located in Seal Beach. Practicing family law since 2003, Ms. Dockstader has extensive experience litigating marital and domestic partnership dissolutions and domestic violence issues. In addition, Ms. Dockstader is well versed in negotiating Settlement Agreements that often consider the client’s unique needs. While proceeding through litigation or mediation, Ms. Dockstader listens carefully to her client’s objectives, strategizes with the client and relevant experts and assists the client in making the best choices possible for their particular circumstance. She routinely litigates matters in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Orange County.

Robert W. Eisfelder is often requested to become associate counsel in sophisticated civil and family law litigation; he is known as a “lawyers’ lawyer.” His family law practice focuses on the handling of cases that involve the value of a family business, child custody, child and spousal support, the enforceability of prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements, post-divorce modifications and domestic partnerships. He has extensive trial experience representing consumers in insurance and employment litigation and in disputes about the value of closely held businesses. He has achieved valuable verdicts and settlements in bad faith litigation and wrongful termination disputes. His unique experience in civil litigation allows him to be extremely effective as an advocate in family law litigation.

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DOUGLAS J. EVERTZ MURPHY & EVERTZ, LLP

Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

SUSAN ELIASOFF FIELDS

ROBERT E. GIPSON GIPSON HOFFMAN & PANCIONE

650 Town Center Drive Suite 550 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Tel: 714-277-1700 Fax: 714-277-1777 devertz@murphyevertz.com www.murphyevertz.com

KOSZDIN, FIELDS, SHERRY & KATZ

EMINENT DOMAIN LAND USE/ZONING

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

BUSINESS/CORPORATE SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Douglas J. Evertz has compiled a remarkable record of litigation successes. He specializes in complex real estate litigation matters including eminent domain, inverse condemnation, land use, CEQA, and water matters. Over his career, Mr. Evertz has represented a number of cities, counties, water districts and school districts in connection with major public agency acquisitions/public works projects. He also represents a number of commercial and industrial property owners in lawsuits throughout the state. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, major developers and high-net-worth individuals.

Susan Eliasoff Fields has been representing injured workers throughout Southern California in workers’ compensation matters since 1981, when she was admitted to the State Bar of California. She is the managing partner at the law firm of Koszdin, Fields, Sherry & Katz located in Van Nuys, where she has practiced for the past 40 years. Ms. Fields obtained her Certificate of Specialization in Workers’ Compensation Law in 1991 and has maintained it to date. She is a member of the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association and has served as a judge pro tem at the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.

She began as a law clerk with the firm in 1979 and celebrated her 40th year with the firm.

Robert (Reg) E. Gipson is a transactional lawyer who represents successful private companies, high-net-worth families and charitable entities. Reg works with his clients in buying, selling, creating and organizing business ventures of many kinds.

Reg graduated from Harvard College (1967) and Yale Law School (1973). He was elected managing editor of the Yale Law Journal, and served as such in 1972-1973. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. Reg has served on a variety of company boards, both private and public, business and charitable, and is experienced in corporate transactions, management transitions and organizational development issues. He lectures regularly.

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1901 Avenue of the Stars Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Tel: 310-556-4660 Fax: 310-556-8945 rgipson@ghplaw.com www.ghplaw.com

6151 Van Nuys Boulevard Van Nuys, CA 91401 Tel: 818-781-1503 Fax: 818-925-7090 susan@koszdin.com www.koszdin.com

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Selected to Super Lawyers

CYNTHIA E. GITT

KAREN L. GOLDSTEIN

JACK GOODCHILD

BROWN GITT LAW GROUP ALC

LAW OFFICES OF KAREN L. GOLDSTEIN

GOODCHILD & DUFFY

225 South Lake Avenue Suite 300 Pasadena, CA 91101 Tel: 626-993-6792 Fax: 626-229-1917 cgitt@browngitt.com www.browngitt.com

1645 North Vine Street Suite 306 Los Angeles, CA 90028 Tel: 888-445-6313 Fax: 323-467-7229 kgoldstein@klgcriminaldefense.com www.klgcriminaldefense.com

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION BUSINESS LITIGATION

CRIMINAL DEFENSE CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

Cynthia Gitt and her colleagues at Brown Gitt Law Group work with clients to prevent problems, but they are also tough and successful litigators and negotiators when needed. They are thorough and experienced workplace investigators. The firm represents primarily companies in all areas of employment law, and they have many years of experience that enables them to see the whole picture. Ms. Gitt is also an arbitrator for AAA, ARC and NAM, a mediator for ARC and NAM, and enjoys the opportunity to resolve cases quickly and fairly.

Ms. Goldstein is an experienced, aggressive trial lawyer practicing state and federal criminal defense since 2003. She fights hard to obtain victories for her clients accused of serious crimes ranging from murder, child molestation, and white-collar offenses to gang-related crimes, rape, child pornography, and RICO cases. She has a strong reputation in the community for fighting the most challenging of sex crimes cases and remaining undaunted in the face of overwhelming odds. Ms. Goldstein also represents indigent clients in both federal and state court as a member of the Central Justice Act (CJA) conflict panel and the Indigent Criminal Defense Appointment (ICDA) panel. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and magna cum laude from Georgetown University.

Jack Goodchild is an aggressive and compassionate practice only on behalf of the individual against all institutions and businesses. He is a California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization, Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation.

He also currently is the chair of Executive Committee of California Lawyers Association Workers’ Compensation Section.

Mr. Goodchild has been selected to Super Lawyers for 11 years and is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.

Selected to Super Lawyers

16133 Ventura Boulevard Suite 1250 Encino, CA 91436 Tel: 818-380-1600 Fax: 818-380-1616 jgoodchild@goodchildlaw.com www.goodchildduffy.com

Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

TODD HARRISON

CHRISTINA HUMPHREY

B. PAUL HUSBAND

PERONA, LANGER, BECK, SERBIN AND HARRISON

CHRISTINA HUMPHREY LAW, P.C.

300 East San Antonio Drive Long Beach, CA 90807 Tel: 562-426-6155 Fax: 562-490-9823 toddharrison@plblaw.com www.plbsh.com

1117 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Tel: 805-618-2924 Fax: 805-618-2939 christina@chumphreylaw.com www.chumphreylaw.com

B. PAUL HUSBAND, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF EMPLOYMENT & LABOR

CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS EMPLOYMENT & LABOR CONSUMER LAW

TAX ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS BUSINESS LITIGATION

Tough times call for tough lawyers. Todd H. Harrison is a plaintiffs’ employment lawyer who represents employees who have been wrongfully terminated, harassed, or discriminated against because of race, sex, pregnancy, disability, age, sexual orientation or religion. Todd also represents employees who have been denied overtime wages, minimum wage or meal and rest breaks. Todd is the managing partner of the employment law division at Perona, Langer, Beck, Serbin and Harrison.

Perona Langer has the staff and resources to take on any case.

Todd accepts employment cases at all stages of litigation, from the beginning through trial and appeal.

Christina A. Humphrey is the founder of Christina Humphrey Law, P.C., which focuses on the litigation of individual and class action employment and consumer disputes. Throughout her career, Ms. Humphrey has facilitated recovery of over $800 million on behalf of workers and consumers. She has been appointed lead counsel in at least 35 class actions and since 2016, has recovered over $25 million on behalf of workers and consumers. Ms. Humphrey is a fierce advocate for the underdog, and devotes all of her time representing victims, workers, and consumers who have been wronged.

Paul Husband practices equine, entertainment and tax law. He handles all phases of equine law, including Hobby Loss defense, racing and breeding syndicate formation and equine industry litigation. In entertainment law, he represents productions, production companies, producers, writers and drawing talent. Mr. Husband is a former American Horse Shows Association Registered Judge, a contributing editor to The American Horse Council Tax Bulletin and co-author of Craigo & Husband: Tax Planning For Horse Owners And Breeders (U.Ky Law). He also serves as General Counsel to ASIFA-Hollywood, the International Animated Film Society.

101 South First Street Suite 202 Burbank, CA 91502 Tel: 818-955-8585 Fax: 818-478-1641 paul.husband@husbandlaw.com www.husbandlaw.com

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JERRY A. JACOBSON

DENA A. KLEEMAN

STEPHEN LEVINE

JACOBSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

KLEEMAN • KREMEN FAMILY LAWYERS

MILLIGAN BESWICK LEVINE & KNOX

3580 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1600 Los Angeles, CA 90010 Tel: 213-383-0500 Fax: 213-380-0901 jacobsonlaw@prodigy.net www.jacobsoninjurylaw.com

499 North Canon Drive Suite 200 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Tel: 310-247-0727 Fax: 310-887-7012 dak@kleemanlaw.com www.kleemanlaw.com

1447 Ford Street Suite 201 Redlands, CA 92374 Tel: 909-798-3300 Fax: 909-798-3301 slevine@mblklaw.org www.mblklawfirm.com

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

FAMILY LAW

CRIMINAL DEFENSE FAMILY LAW

As managing attorney and president of Jacobson & Associates, P.C., Jerry A. Jacobson is a workers’ compensation and personal injury attorney handling all types of serious injury cases caused by work injuries as well as auto accidents, product liability and slip/trip and falls. With his 30th anniversary of practicing law approaching next year, Mr. Jacobson has successfully obtained more than $200 million in compensation and settlements for his injured clients. Mr. Jacobson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business from California State University at Northridge. He then went on to attend and graduate, with honors, from Whittier College School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree before completing his Master of Business Taxation degree from University of Southern California

Dena A. Kleeman has practiced family law since her 1983 graduation from Stanford Law School, becoming a California Certified Family Law Specialist in 1994. Ms. Kleeman handles complex divorce matters involving business valuation, divorce taxation, real property, and complex compensation, benefits, intellectual property and child custody issues. She prepares premarital agreements to structure her clients’ financial arrangements during marriage and prevent divorce-related problems that might otherwise ensue.

Ms. Kleeman aggressively represents her clients in litigation when called for. She teams with experts from other disciplines to assure that her clients receive the most knowledgeable, professional services for all facets of their family law case.

Stephen P. Levine has been practicing law in the State of California since 1977. He is a partner at the Redlands law firm of Milligan Beswick Levine & Knox, where he maintains a statewide practice focusing on criminal law and the defense of individuals charged with felonies and misdemeanors of all types, and on family law matters, including high conflict and high-net-worth divorce cases. Levine has substantial litigation experience with both of these areas of the law and is one of only five criminal defense attorneys in San Bernardino County to have been certified as a specialist in criminal law by the California Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Levine is an active member of several professional organizations, including the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice.

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Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

DAVID S. LIN

LAURENCE MANDELL

GERALD MARCUS

LAW OFFICES OF DAVID S. LIN

MANDELL TRIAL LAWYERS

THE LAW OFFICES OF GERALD L. MARCUS

80 South Lake Avenue Suite 512 Pasadena, CA 91101 Tel: 626-792-9688 Fax: 626-792-9116 dlinlaw@sbcglobal.net www.dlinlaw.com

5950 Canoga Avenue Suite 605 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Tel: 818-886-6600 Fax: 818-886-6680 larry@mandelltrial.com mandelltrial.com

24025 Park Sorrento Suite 430 Calabasas, CA 91302 Tel: 818-784-8544 Fax: 818-784-5970 geraldmarcuslaw@aol.com www.geraldmarcuslaw.com

BUSINESS LITIGATION INSURANCE COVERAGE BUSINESS/CORPORATE

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

Attorney David S. Lin has over 30 years of legal experience representing business clientele as well as individual plaintiffs in Southern California, and in foreign countries such as China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Lin has extensive legal experience, including numerous trials, which he has taken to successful verdicts and obtained significant monetary judgments on behalf of his clients. Lin is a graduate of Cornell University and Boston University School of Law. In today’s competitive business environment, the firm strives toward achieving the best possible results for its clients while maintaining the utmost integrity, confidentiality and professionalism.

Laurence H. Mandell is the founder and managing partner of the Mandell Trial Lawyers. Since 1978, he has championed the rights of injury victims. His expertise encompasses all aspects of personal injury matters including automobile collisions, motorcycle crashes, dog bites, premises liability, construction injuries, and product liability. For over 40 years he has concentrated on obtaining the highest recovery possible on behalf of his clients by way of settlement and jury verdicts.

He has taken on insurance companies and big business to ensure that his clients received the maximum recovery and full justice for their harms and losses. Larry’s compassion and trustworthiness are among his qualities that continue to bring repeat clients and referrals for his expertise.

The Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus were founded in 1987 on the belief that every single innocent injured victim is entitled to the best possible legal representation regardless of the size of their case. We fight for our clients aggressively and zealously and maintain that our job is to protect our clients’ interests and to prosecute their cases so that we can maximize their recovery.

Our firm has handled more than 15,000 cases since 1987 and our practice areas include all types of personal injury cases.

We have obtained settlements, awards, and verdicts totaling more than $250 million. Gerald L. Marcus has been a member of CAOC, CAALA, AAJ, and served as 2019 president of LATLC, LACBA, BHBA, SFVBA. He has been named to Super Lawyers nine years in a row and was a 2019 Top 100 list honoree.

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Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

PETER J. MCNULTY

RANDY W. MEDINA

BONITA D. MOORE

MCNULTY LAW FIRM

LAW OFFICE OF RANDY W. MEDINA, APLC

MOORE RUDDELL LLP

827 Moraga Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049 Tel: 310-471-2707 Fax: 310-472-7014 peter@mcnultylaw.com www.mcnultylaw.com

301 East Colorado Boulevard Suite 514 Pasadena, CA 91101 Tel: 626-432-1975 Fax: 626-628-3808 rwm@rwmedina.com www.rwmedina.com

21250 Hawthorne Boulevard Suite 500 Torrance, CA 90503 Tel: 310-792-7010 Fax: 323-530-1113 bmoore@mooreruddell.com www.mooreruddell.com

CIVIL LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF ELDER LAW CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS

FAMILY LAW LITIGATION MEDIATION

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF BUSINESS LITIGATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION

Peter McNulty graduated from the University of Vermont and Boston College Law School. He is admitted to the California and U.S. District California Courts; Court of Appeals, Ninth, Second and First Circuits; and the U.S. Supreme Court. His firm specializes in catastrophic personal injury and complicated commercial actions with a special emphasis on mass tort matters. His individual verdicts and settlements total in excess of $630 million. He has tried over 131 cases to verdict. Mr. McNulty has an AV Preeminent rating, is listed in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and has been selected as a top rated lawyer in Medical Malpractice Law. He has been selected to Southern California Super Lawyers since 2010.

Randy W. Medina is a California State Bar-Certified Family Law Specialist. He has been in practice for 23 years. He has devoted his career to providing knowledgeable, assertive, and attentive representation to his clients. He is a U.S. Army veteran and a former sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Mr. Medina graduated summa cum laude from USC and earned his law degree from the UCLA School of Law. His office is a full-service family law practice representing clients in a variety of family law matters including divorce, parentage, guardianship, child custody, child support, spousal support, property division, and cases involving interstate or international issues. He serves as a mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court and is active in various bar associations. Mr. Medina is fluent in Spanish.

Bonita (Bonnie) Moore is a talented litigator with substantial trial and arbitration experience gained at top-tier law firms.

Bonnie has broad experience at the trial and appellate levels in complex business disputes, employment litigation, and intellectual property matters. With substantial class action experience, Bonnie carries the distinction of being one of few attorneys to have successfully taken a wage and hour class action through trial to judgment, which was affirmed on appeal.

Bonnie has litigated on behalf of and counseled clients in matters involving discrimination and harassment, retaliation, defamation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour claims such as unpaid overtime or meal and rest break violations.

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JOHN C. MURPHY

SEAN M. NOVAK

ELLEN A. PANSKY

MURPHY & EVERTZ, LLP

THE NOVAK LAW FIRM, P.C.

650 Town Center Drive Suite 550 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Tel: 714-277-1700 Fax: 714-277-1777 jmurphy@murphyevertz.com www.murphyevertz.com

8383 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 634 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Tel: 323-424-4313 Fax: 323-424-4357 smn@novaklawfirm.com www.novaklawfirm.com

PANSKY MARKLE ATTORNEYS AT LAW

EMINENT DOMAIN LAND USE/ZONING REAL ESTATE

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF BUSINESS LITIGATION

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: PLAINTIFF

John C. Murphy, and Murphy & Evertz, LLP, have earned their clients eminent domain awards totaling well over $300 million over the past eight years. Mr. Murphy lectures and writes frequently on eminent domain trial tactics and is contributing author to both national (ABA) and state (CEB) legal practice guides. He has repeatedly been recognized in The Best Lawyers of America (16 consecutive years); named to the Super Lawyers list (16 years); earned recognition on the Orange County Top 50 list in Southern California Super Lawyers; and co-chairs the annual Southern California CLE International eminent domain conference. He represents many of the most prominent agencies, corporations and landowners in the state.

Mr. Novak is a founding partner of The Novak Law Firm, P.C. He was born on the great Canadian prairies in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He attended the University of North Dakota School of Law and graduated with academic honors.

Following graduation from law school, he hung up his hockey skates and moved to the gentler climate of California. Since 1998, Mr. Novak has based his practice of law in the Southern California area. However, he has actively litigated cases throughout the State of California and the U.S. Mr. Novak has established himself as a well-respected trial attorney in the region. His commitment to fighting for clients’ rights has led to recovery of numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts or settlements for clients over the past several years.

Ellen A. Pansky specializes in legal ethics and malpractice, State Bar disciplinary defense, and expert testimony. Extensive litigation and appellate court experience; argued more than 12 California Supreme Court cases. Author Legal ethics articles, Certified Legal Malpractice Specialist, State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Member/former trustee, Los Angeles County Bar Association; member/former chair, Ethics Committee. State Bar Certified MCLE provider; ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2012-2015); member of ABA Center for Professional Responsibility; former member, Editorial Board, Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct.

APRL (President 1996); NAWL (President 2003); WLALA; CWL; 2016 Kettlewell Legal Ethics Advisor Award recipient.

Selected to Super Lawyers

1010 Sycamore Avenue Suite 308 South Pasadena, CA 91030 Tel: 213-626-7300 Fax: 213-626-7330 epansky@panskymarkle.com www.panskymarkle.com

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Selected to Super Lawyers

JOHN S. PETERSON

DAVID ALBERT PIERCE

DAVID H. PIERCE

PETERSON LAW GROUP PC

PIERCE LAW GROUP LLP

633 West Fifth Street 26th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 Tel: 213-236-9720 Fax: 213-236-9724 jsp@petersonlawgroup.com www.petersonlawgroup.com

9100 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 225, East Tower Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Tel: 310-274-9191 Fax: 310-274-9151 david@piercellp.com www.piercellp.com

DAVID H. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES PC

EMINENT DOMAIN LAND USE/ZONING REAL ESTATE

ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION BUSINESS LITIGATION GENERAL LITIGATION

John S. Peterson and Peterson Law Group PC represent California real property and business owners in eminent domain, inverse condemnation, CEQA and land use litigation, and landslide and subsidence litigation. Clients range from local owners and businesses to publicly traded corporations.

Peterson has achieved numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements and embraces creativity and pragmatism in problem solving. Peterson is recognized in Super Lawyers Magazine and The Best Lawyers in America and named Best Lawyers 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” in Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law in Los Angeles. He is rated AV Preeminent

by Martindale-Hubbell. Also with offices at 19800 MacArthur Boulevard, Suite 290, Irvine, CA 92612. Tel: 949-955-0127.

David Albert Pierce is a transactional lawyer who also litigates.

He represents both producer and investors on sophisticated financing issues and pursues the rights of those who have been the victim of film finance fraud. His labor and employment practice and knowledge of OSHA safety laws led him to be one of the early leaders in shaping COVID-19 advice. He also successfully lobbied California legislature to obtain an exemption to the AB-5 employment classification law on behalf of stand-up comedians and other performers at live venues. He has submitted multiple amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the California Society of Entertainment Lawyers. He is a past chairman of the BHBA Entertainment Law Section and the BHBA Employment Law Section.

An AV Preeminent rated lawyer (highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards), founding member of David H. Pierce & Associates PC, and a founding partner and business owner for 11 years at Pierce & Weiss, LLP. Over a 30-year career of trial experience in civil matters handling more than 1,000 cases, taken and defended hundreds of depositions, including construction defect and disputes, real estate disclosure, business and employment, premises and auto, professional liability and other complex litigation matters.

A member of the ABOTA, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Association of Southern California Defense Counsel and admitted to practice in the Central and Eastern Federal Districts of California, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States.

Selected to Super Lawyers

15260 Ventura Boulevard Suite 730 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Tel: 818-826-5480 Fax: 818-826-5486 dpierce@dhpierce.com www.dhpierce.com

Selected to Super Lawyers

Selected to Super Lawyers

JAMES L. POCRASS

JOE ROSE

KRISTI D. ROTHSCHILD

POCRASS & DE LOS REYES LLP

ROSE LAW APC

ROTHSCHILD & ALWILL, APC

2625 Townsgate Road Suite 330 Westlake Village, CA 91361 Tel: 805-512-9510 Fax: 805-321-6700 joe@joeroselaw.com www.joeroselaw.com

817 Garden Street Suite 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Tel: 805-695-2827 Fax: 805-456-0132 kristi@ralegal.com www.ralegal.com

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: PLAINTIFF AVIATION AND AEROSPACE

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF

With offices in L.A. and Bakersfield, Jim Pocrass has spent more than 30 years fighting for the rights of people who have suffered catastrophic personal injuries or for families who lost a loved one due to a wrongful death. He often obtains multimillion-dollar results, including a $4.5 million helicopter accident verdict, $3.3 million construction accident verdict, $2.9 million car accident verdict, $2.5 million wrongful death settlement and $2.3 million-plus bike accident settlement. A leading bike and pedestrian accident attorney, Jim is a former member of the Board of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and a board member of L.A. Walks. Jim has been named to the list of Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers since 2014.

Joe Rose is an employment lawyer in California who started his legal career in 2001 after a successful public service career as a firefighter and paramedic. In 2004, he founded his own law practice and has represented literally thousands of laborers, trades and crafts workers, licensed professionals, labor organizations, and small business employers in all industries throughout California’s public and private sectors. Joe handles cases involving unpaid wages and overtime, unlawful discrimination or workplace harassment, wrongful termination, administrative defense of licensed professionals, trade secrets, employment and civil litigation, workplace investigations, and white-collar criminal cases. Joe has recovered millions for California workers, and successfully defended tough cases.

Kristi Rothschild is a leading employment lawyer representing employees in matters of discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, misclassification, and independent contractors, as well as in wage-and-hour class action lawsuits. Since its inception 10 years ago, Rothschild & Alwill has obtained more than $30 million for its clients.

The firm also provides counsel and solutions for employers regarding employee rights and legal compliance. Kristi is a member of the Santa Barbara Bar Association, the William L. Gordon Inns of Court, and the California Employment Lawyers Association. Rothschild & Alwill serves Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura and Kern counties.

1875 Century Park East Suite 2200 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Tel: 310-550-9050 Fax: 310-550-9051 info@pocrass.com www.pocrass.com

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MARK J. SHERRY

ROBERT J. SHERWIN

JOCELYN H. SICAT

KOSZDIN, FIELDS, SHERRY & KATZ

LEWIS, MARENSTEIN, WICKE, SHERWIN & LEE, LLP

SICAT LAW

6151 Van Nuys Boulevard Van Nuys, CA 91401 Tel: 818-781-1503 Fax: 818-925-7090 mark@koszdin.com www.koszdin.com

20750 Ventura Boulevard Suite 400 Woodland Hills, CA 91364 Tel: 818-703-6000 Fax: 818-703-0200 bob@lmwslaw.com www.lmwslaw.com

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

CRIMINAL DEFENSE CIVIL LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF

As a partner at Koszdin, Fields, Sherry & Katz, Mark J. Sherry is committed to representing clients in Van Nuys, California, Los Angeles County and throughout the San Fernando Valley. He has been in the workers’ compensation field since 1982 and named a Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law since 1995. He handles both workers’ compensation and permanent disability claims before the Social Security Administration. He has been with the firm since 1986 and became a partner in 1995. Mr. Sherry has been named a Southern California Super Lawyers honoree consistently since 2009.

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months, by which time Drakeo had served an 11-month sentence for felony gun possession (stemming from the sheriff ’s raid) and recorded his masterpiece, Cold Devil, now widely regarded as one of the best West Coast rap projects of the last decade. Offers and co-signs rolled in until yet another gun charge stalled his momentum. In January 2018, free for only a month, Drakeo was arrested for gun possession at a smoke shop at 108th and Western. Eventually convicted of this charge, he would insist that law enforcement had been targeting him.

During the next 60 days, the cops indicted almost every member of the Stinc Team on a range of charges, from stealing guns to credit-card fraud and felony graffiti (for spray painting a wall in a music video). All faced massive sentencing enhancements due to prosecutors’ insistence that the rap crew amounted to a gang under California law. In March 2018, the DA’s office indicted Drakeo for first-degree murder, along with more than a half dozen other charges. The death penalty was on the table.

Drakeo’s calls to me became more frequent. He didn’t seem to fully understand what he was being charged with. A sheriff ’s department homicide detective named Francis Hardiman had somehow concluded that Drakeo was the John Gotti of South Central.

According to his theory, which was eventually presented by lead prosecutor Shannon Cooley, the Gregory homicide was Drakeo’s fault. The state alleged that Drakeo had gone to the pajama party intending to murder a one-time rival, the rapper RJ. When RJ failed to appear, Cooley contended, two members of Drakeo’s entourage killed Red Bull instead. In the state’s fanciful rendering, Drakeo had created a dangerous environment and supplied the guns and was therefore culpable for all that followed.

There was no evidence that RJ ever

planned to attend the party (his name wasn’t on the flyer). In interviews, RJ readily dismissed the prosecution’s theories and insisted the event had never even crossed his radar. That didn’t prevent authorities from meting out punishment in their own way. Drakeo spent months in solitary and weeks without sunlight. Books were confiscated, and phone privileges frequently revoked. His mother lost her job with LAUSD after police sent her employer paperwork claiming that she was part of a gang investigation. At one point, Drakeo told me, corrections officers purposely placed him in a module filled with all Bloods so he would get “packed out.”

For many, the case came to embody the prosecutorial overreach that had become endemic in DA Jackie Lacey’s office. Cooley, now a judge, frequently sought to turn Drakeo’s rhymes against him, claiming that obtuse lyrical insults were evidence of a murder plot. From slang to hand signs, hip-hop and Black culture were demonized and used as prima facie evidence of gang membership. Several Black jurors were dismissed after expressing their incredulity at the prosecution’s case in open court (one kept calling Hardiman “Detective Fuhrman,” a reference to the racist O. J. Simpson investigator).

In July 2019, the jury found Drakeo not guilty on all murder and attemptedmurder charges, failing to reach a verdict on two counts: shooting from a murder vehicle (the vote was 10-2 for acquittal) and a rarely used gang-conspiracy law (7-5 to acquit). One of the alleged shooters was convicted. While most court observers assumed the case would end there, Lacey promptly brought in a new prosecutor—reputed to be one of the most aggressive—and gave it another try.

While retrial dates were set and postponed, Drakeo became something of a cause célèbre. The New Yorker described the prosecution’s case as “so nonsensical that the story could be read as satire.”

From jail, Drakeo dictated Twitter rants eviscerating the flimsiness of the DA’s claims and the corruption of the local criminal justice system. These efforts proved so effective that the prosecution successfully petitioned the court to slap Drakeo with a gag order.

COVID-19 swept through America during the first week of jury selection, postponing the case indefinitely. The judge once again refused to grant bail. Violating the gag order, Drakeo and Joog SZN recorded “Thank You for Using GTL,”

with the rapper spitting lyrics over the jailhouse phone as his collaborator rolled tape. Carefully blurring the boundaries between the truth and fiction, he indicted his enemies in the state and on the streets, those too one-dimensional to understand the difference: “If art imitates life, you should probably panic.”

Pitchfork hailed the release as a “remarkable feat: a stark rebuke of the justice system and an unparalleled achievement for a rapper and his producer.” The Atlantic and GQ ran features on the artistic triumph and the injustice of Drakeo’s plight. What Dylan did for Rubin Carter with “Hurricane,” Drakeo had done for himself.

He came home on November 4, 2020, the day after reformer George Gascón defeated Jackie Lacey in an underdog candidacy propelled by the Black Lives Matters protests. The prosecutors denied any political coincidence, but it was lost on no one that Drakeo was offered a plea deal for time served at the moment when Lacey’s loss became inevitable. His comeback single was out within days; a full mixtape, in a month.

In February, Drake and Drakeo released “Talk To Me,” which now has 33 million Spotify streams. In the 400 days that he was free, Drakeo dropped five excellent original albums. He was making $300,000 to $400,000 a month without a label or major distributor. He owned all of his masters and publishing. The deferred dreams of lavish clothes, jewelry, cars, and mansions swiftly became a reality—all on his own terms.

But hatred and jealousy remained a constant threat. Over the course of the last year, several different people with street ties told me that there was a bounty on Drakeo’s head. Once I asked someone which Blood sets wanted him dead; they just shook their head and said “the Bloods.”

When we discussed it, Drakeo told me that he’d tried to make peace but that his enemies had refused to accept a truce. Perhaps he had, but Drakeo was never one to back down. He had survived too much for too long, flourishing despite the adversity. If someone slighted him, he would verbally strike back. His most notable act of retribution was last August’s “IngleWEIRD,” one of the best rap disses of 2021. He eviscerates local allies-turned-rivals, accuses a whole neighborhood of condoning snitching, and vows a massacre on Rodeo Drive.

The morning after the song dropped, LAPD patrol cars stopped a black Uber SUV in which Drakeo was a passenger.

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In an encounter filmed on his IG Live, the officers decline to search the driver, focusing instead on Drakeo, who is riding in the back seat alongside his toddler son. Searching the vehicle, they discover a gun. Drakeo winds up once again charged with illegal possession of firearms by a felon, his court date scheduled for December 23. He wouldn’t make it.

People often ask why he didn’t just

leave L.A., or perhaps hire a phalanx of licensed goons to shadow his every step.

But that wasn’t his style. He wanted to be among the people, to be regular (but not normal). He didn’t want people to call him a sellout, or risk hearing that he was too weak to face the heat. Drakeo may have made nervous music, but he was never a coward; he embodied Caesar’s maxim that “it’s better to die once than to always be afraid of death.”

A small crowd gathers outside of the Dignity Health hospital on Grand. It’s shortly after midnight, early December 19, and no one knows anything. The Stinc Team huddle, anxiously smoking about a dozen feet from the entrance. On the other side, a line of sheriff ’s deputies stand glaring. Drakeo’s lawyer is here. His baby’s mother arrives. Finally, his mother appears, alerted late to the emergency.

Soon Drakeo’s aunt exits through the sliding glass doors. She says that doctors have intimated to her that he’s still alive.

She heads back in. For about 15 minutes, there is legitimate hope. Drakeo being dead seems too fantastical. He had squared up with Jackie Lacey, the sheriffs, the LAPD—and beat them all. He’d climbed out of poverty to get so rich that he drove a car that came with umbrellas. He had lost track of the times that enemies had tried to kill him.

Soon, the quiet is shattered. Drakeo’s aunt has returned, and this time she’s wailing, “He’s gone.” He’s gone. Bodies crumple, the mood darkens, tears are shed. The doctors had performed emergency surgery, she tells us, but then he’d flatlined. He was dead for three hours before they informed his family. His mother wants to give her baby one more hug, but that won’t be permitted. It’s an open homicide investigation.

A memorial for family and close friends occurs at Drakeo’s house two days later.

Roughly 60 of us stand outside holding blue and white candles, arranged to spell his name. By that Tuesday night, December 21, the internet is already reeling with 1 5 0 L A M AG . C O M

accusations of who did what and why.

Hip-hop websites and YouTube channels are publishing recounts of the IG Live of Drakeo’s friend, K7, who alleged that YG “set the whole shit” because “he knew Drakeo was gonna take his spot.”

According to K7, who was backstage at Once Upon a Time in L.A., YG had been allowed to bring in 70 people, nearly five times what Drakeo was permitted.

In a Rolling Stone interview, Drakeo’s mother intimates that YG—her son’s longtime rival—may have had something to do with his death. She points to a large influx of people she says arrived with YG and “swamped” her two boys that night. “They started trying to jump them.” She plans to sue the festival and Live Nation for gross negligence.

Few expect justice. The cops have already announced that they have hit a wall in the investigation, since all the witnesses to the crime refuse to talk. Most of his friends and family believe that it’s just a way for them to soften the blow for when his murder becomes another cold case.

Whoever bears responsibility for Drakeo’s murder did more than kill one man. They deprived hip-hop and pop culture of a rare, creative vanguard pushing sound forward in a landscape glutted with pastiche. They snatched away a living symbol, a singular artist who triumphed over incommensurable abuses dealt by the system.

To understand why it happened is to grapple with the most corrosive aspects of humanity: the need for revenge and hatred of the other; our capacity for rage, ego, and jealousy. It is the boomerang of racism, police corruption, and the worship of violence. Yet it is also a condition of the spiritual and material poverty that infects most aspects of modern American life. Only here, under a trance of nihilism, greed, and lust for fame, can all the codes and compasses that once governed us become meaningless. It makes perfect sense during an extended freefall in which everything has surrendered to anarchy.

After we light the candles, I’m invited into the house, a $13,000-a-month luxury rental in the hills near Runyon, a world away from the neighborhood where Drakeo grew up. In front of a ten-foot-tall Christmas tree, there is an eerily lifelike cardboard cutout of our would-be host.

This was supposed to be his first Christmas as a millionaire; he was supposed to be vacationing in St. Thomas right now, his first trip ever outside the country.

Drakeo had been living here only

since August, so the decorations remain unfinished. There is an unstocked wine cellar, adorned with Chinese glyphs; rooms full of designer clothes; walk-in closets stocked with barely worn Jordans. A security room reveals multicamera footage of practically every corner of the premises. His girlfriend, Noel, tells me that Drakeo loved to sit in here and just watch the cameras, “even though we never really had many guests.”

We ride the elevator up to the top floor, a master bedroom with an attached patio. Outside, the city view is imperial.

I immediately recognize the panorama: About a month ago, Drakeo had FaceTimed me from up here, beaming with pride. “Jeff,” he’d said, “You gotta see it . . . I live in a mansion now.”

There’s a hot tub too. Noel tells me that they got to use it only once, on his birthday, three weeks prior; they sipped champagne.

Before leaving, I stop to talk with a few of Drakeo’s friends who were backstage that night. They recall those final moments before the chaos began: A security guard who “whooped” when he recognized that Drakeo the Ruler had entered; coliseum workers in a different part of the grounds who were allegedly overheard using the phrase “on blood.”

Some of Drakeo's friends later show me footage of the parking lot as Drakeo enters; they point out a 17-car caravan, which they claim belonged to YG and his entourage. He, too, was scheduled to play on the main stage that night, right after Al Green and Snoop Dogg. But the concert was quickly shut down after the murder.

Thousands of people were ushered out.

Friends recall being with Drakeo in the back of his Rolls on that Saturday night, slowly crawling into the parking lot as it becomes clear that he’s surrounded by enemies on all sides. Someone described the scene as looking like a “level 4 yard lockdown,” a reference to a maximum-security section in prison where stabbings often occur.

Drakeo understood that he had only two options: either get out of the car and confront what was waiting for him or retreat and be subjected to the slander that says he’s a coward for not performing.

It was a trap, a dishonorable one, one that should never have been allowed to be set. But when Drakeo’s crew asks what the move is, he replies with a line from “Gorillas n Nuns,” one of the best songs on what would be his last mixtape: “Roll up the windows, if there’s smoke, I want all of it.”

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For decades, nightclubs catering to gangsters, prostitutes, and gay residents flourished in the unincorporated area just beyond the reach of the Los Angeles Police Department. L.A. County sheriffs were accused of turning a blind eye, and the state revoked the liquor license of Barney’s Beanery because of their gay patrons until the owner hung a “Fagots Stay Out” sign at the bar. Incensed homosexuals fought that for years. Those antidiscrimination activists formed a coalition with the Jewish, elderly, and low-income advocates of rent control, and WeHo finally won cityhood in 1984, electing the first majority-gay government. Though WeHo’s LGBTQ population has recently declined, with over 20 gay bars in 1.9 square miles, the city is still the gayest on earth.

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a Disneyland-sized hole, which is mostly buffer space to keep neighbors happy. Beside the research library, the “backstage” area also includes

Q: Was Glendale really a “sundown town”?

A: “An unspoken rule required that any Black people who were there be gone by sundown,” says former Glendale Historical Society president Arlene Vidor. “But like most cities, there was no written ordinance on the books.” Sundown Towns author James Loewen also identified Compton, Culver City, and Inglewood among more than 100 California cities that practiced this kind of discrimination.

Even Forest Lawn was restricted until Sam Cooke, Nat “King” Cole, and Dorothy Dandridge were buried there in the 1960s. In 2020, Glendale became the first city in the state to apologize and condemn the practice.

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staff residences, a research lab and seed bank, an apiary for bees, and a working orange grove (buy the marmalade at the gift shop). At night, a transient population of coyotes, bobcats, owls, and other creatures sip from the man-made lakes.

WeHo’s first mayor, Valerie Terrigno, removes a “Fagots Stay Out” sign from Barney’s Beanery in 1985.

Q: Is it true that only half of the Huntington Gardens are open to the public?

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CHRIS’S PICK

● Bob Baker found his calling at six when his mother took him to a downtown puppet show.

The boy was transfixed and spent decades creating a menagerie of marionettes and their home at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.

Generations of kids, from Shirley Temple to Lil Nas X, fell under the spell of his shows, which continue today at a venue in Highland Park. The theater’s story unfolds in a new book, Enchanted Strings, which takes fans behind the scenes of nearly a century of L.A. puppetry, from Baker’s creations to characters made for Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg.

We also meet the young artists keeping Baker’s legacy alive.

The people and puppets will gather to celebrate Bob Baker Day at L.A. State Historic Park on February 26.

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