Top 250 - West
BERMAN TABACCO
Nicole Lavallee in Berman Tabacco's San Francisco office is cheered by a client for her “communication, strategy and expertise in the field.” A peer notes, “I’m seeing her on more securities fraud cases, making motions for lead plaintiff.” Lavallee secured a settlement in an action that was brought on behalf of investors in Healthcare Services Group, a provider of housekeeping and laundry services to hospitals and other healthcare service organizations.
BLANK ROME
Resident the Los Angeles office, Linda Kornfeld is a member of Blank Rome's celebrated insurance recovery team. Peers in the practice refer to Kornfeld as "one of the best policyholder-side lawyers out there" who has "gained a lot of visibility for her high-dollar recoveries, which span a large and novel range of industries."
HUESTON HENNIGAN
Allison Libeu in the Los Angeles office of bi-coastal trial boutique Hueston Hennigan has quickly developed a high profile at a relatively young vintage. Libeu was part of a firm team that scored for energy drink entity Monster when a California jury awarded the client $293 million in a hotly contested Lanham Act, false advertising and trade secrets case with a rival.
HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH
Shannon Broome leads the environmental practice group of Hunton Andrews Kurth from the firm’s San Francisco and Washington DC offices.
As an authority on global climate change matters, she is often tapped to handle
enforcement, environmental incident responses, permits, and regulatory advocacy and defense.
Broome
has recently been engaged in climate change related environmental litigation on behalf of one of the leading oil and gas distributors. The mass tort litigation involves lawsuits
filed
across the US.
PAUL WEISS RIFKIND WHARTON & GARRISON
White-collar and securities star Melinda Haag has been a key component in the launch of Paul Weiss's West Coast presence, opening the firm's San Francisco office after joining in January 2021. Haag comes with unwavering peer support and "hardcore white-collar credentials"; she had previously done a five-year stint as the US Attorney for the Northern District of California, where she won acclaim for her impressive track record of prosecuting fraud and corruption claims.
SHOOK HARDY & BACON
Jessica Grant recently joined Shook Hardy & Bacon
in their San Francisco office, bringing over a long-running career of
trial work in
a number of areas, but with a particular emphasis on complex class actions in the areas of product liability and employment. She has previously handled cases PFAS related lawsuits on behalf of chemical manufacturers,
and actions
involving
copyright infringement, fraud, and tortious interference.
