California

Firm overview

Husch Blackwell’s litigators are active coast to coast, asserting and defending client interests in virtually all types of litigation. We feature more than 400 litigators across more than 20 offices across the United States and are capable of taking on the most complex matters, ranging from bet-the-company cases to large portfolios of litigation spread across multiple jurisdictions. Clients around the world trust us to understand their businesses, their objectives, and their unique ways of working and to develop solutions that are practical, efficient and comprehensive in scope.

The efficiency and effectiveness of our case management capabilities are well attested. Both in 2017, 2018, and 2022, our firm’s Litigation Department was honored by the Association of Corporate Counsel with its prestigious Value Champion award, an accolade that recognizes collaborations that delivered substantial value to client organizations by cutting spending, improving predictability and achieving better legal results. Again in 2020, Husch Blackwell was recognized for its litigation teams’ innovation and design excellence in legal operations by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), which chose the firm as a showcase firm for the 2020 Legal Innovation in Operations (LIO) Project designees. Husch Blackwell received the recognition on the basis of its management of a large portfolio of asbestos-related litigation for a client. In the ten months our team handled the portfolio, we posted results that vastly outperformed the client’s prior efforts, including over a 30 percent reduction in legal costs.

Area of practice:

• Antitrust & Competition
• Appellate
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Class Action Defense
• Commercial Contracting
• Construction
• Consumer Financial Services
• Corporate
• Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
• Education
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Environmental
• ERISA & Employee Benefits
• Food Systems
• Government Contracts
• Healthcare Regulatory
• Insolvency & Commercial Bankruptcy
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade & Supply Chain 
• Labor & Employment 
• Life Sciences 
• Mergers & Acquisitions 
• Political Ethics & Election Law 
• Private Equity 
• Product Liability & Toxic Torts 
• Real Estate & Development 
• Securities & Corporate Governance 
• Tax 
• Tax Credits 
• Trusts & Estates 
• White Collar, Internal Investigations & Compliance 

Other offices: 

• Austin, TX
• Boston
• Chattanooga, TN
• Chicago
• Dallas
• Denver
• Houston
• Jefferson City, MO
• Los Angeles
• Madison, WI
• Milwaukee
• Minneapolis
• Oakland, CA
• Nashville, TN
• Omaha, NE
• Phoenix
• Providence, RI
• St. Louis
• The Link Virtual Office
• Washington, D.C.

Updated Sep 2024

Firm overview

Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP is one of the largest firms in the world specializing in the prosecution of complex litigation on a contingent basis. We are routinely at the forefront of global efforts to hold powerful corporations accountable. Representing over 350 institutional investors worldwide—whose assets total approximately $8 trillion—we partner with some of the most influential stakeholders in the world in securities and shareholder litigation.

In addition, our Consumer Protection & Antitrust Department represents states, counties, municipalities, quasi-governmental entities, as well as private companies and consumers in high stakes litigation. With offices in Radnor, Pennsylvania (Headquarters) and San Francisco, California, we have
proudly recovered billions of dollars on behalf of our clients.

Litigation Practice Areas:

• Securities
• Corporate Governance & M+A
• Global Shareholder Litigation
• Direct & Opt-Out
• Banking & Financial Services
• Consumer Protection
• Data Privacy & Cyber Security
• Antitrust
• Whistleblower
• Arbitration
  
  

Updated Oct 2025

Firm overview

Firm overview

Alto Litigation is a powerhouse litigation boutique based in San Francisco representing some of Silicon Valley’s most coveted companies and entrepreneurs in high-stakes litigation and regulatory matters, ranging from securities litigation, investment disputes, and SEC investigations to trade secrets and general commercial disputes.

Alto’s lead attorneys received degrees from the nation’s most elite law schools (Harvard, Yale), and have successfully represented Fortune 500 companies over the last two decades. The firm represents technology companies, entrepreneurs, officers, directors, employees and shareholders in Silicon Valley and beyond in high-stakes litigation.

Alto prides itself on being lean and efficient, with the close team of litigators achieving positive results for top executives and companies. Alto’s size allows it to offer clients alternative rate structures, including flat fee or contingency arrangements when appropriate. The results speak for themselves. On the plaintiffs’ side, the firm has achieved millions in judgments and settlements. On the defense side, the firm has achieved dismissals, arbitration wins, and early settlements.

These results have not gone unnoticed. In 2021, Benchmark Litigation ranked Alto as a Tier 1 Firm in San Francisco for Dispute Resolution and a Recommended Firm in California. Alto was also nominated for San Francisco Firm of the Year, California Securities Litigation Firm of the Year, and California White Collar Crime Litigation Firm of the Year. In 2022, Benchmark Litigation again ranked Alto Litigation as a Tier 1 Firm in San Francisco for Dispute Resolution and a Recommended Firm in California, and it added Alto as a Tier 2 Firm in California for Securities Litigation. Alto has also been recognized as a “Top Boutique” law firm by the Daily Journal.

Updated Oct 2025