Top Women - Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

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Supplement to the Los Angeles and San Francisco
May 10, 2007
Top
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Litigators
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Nancy Abell
Manuela Albuquerque
Los Angeles
Berkeley
Place of Birth: Los Angeles
Law School: UCLA School of Law
Law Firm: Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky & Walker
Practice Area: Management
employment litigation and advice
Years in Practice: 27
Place of Birth: New Delhi
Law School: Hastings College
of the Law
Law Firm: Berkeley city attorney
Practice Area: Municipal law
Nancy Abell cannot talk about her latest
big case, except to say she successfully won
dismissal of a wage-and-hour class action
against a retailer in which plaintiffs had
claimed employees were misclassified as
exempt.
Abell is no stranger to fighting class
actions. She learned the importance of
collaboration with colleagues who possess
incredible strategic and organizational skills while fighting off a massive $5 billion nationwide race-discrimination class action against Microsoft. The opposing counsel was a
dream team, one of whose members had just been profiled by “60 Minutes” for a recent
$500 million win.
She wasn’t intimidated then — the class certification was defeated — and she wasn’t
intimidated years earlier when she decided to leave a successful career in Los Angeles
Mayor Tom Bradley’s office with the task force on affirmative action. As part of that work,
she had heard Paul Hastings lawyers speak at conferences; they inspired her to enter law
school.
Her next big challenge is representing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in a class action by 1.5
million current and former female employees who claim they were victims of sexual
discrimination.
“I was actually making less at Paul Hastings three years after I left the mayor’s office
and just after law school,” she said. “But I knew I wanted to come to Paul Hastings even
before I went to law school, and I love what I do.”
Berkeley City Attorney Manuela Albuquerque scored an important victory last
year when the California Supreme Court
ruled that the city could deny support to
a scouting group that excludes homosexuals and atheists.
At issue in the landmark case was
whether the city was required to provide
a rent-free berth to the Sea Scouts, an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that
teaches young people to sail.
Albuquerque was sure she could win if she could persuade the court that the First
Amendment does not require the government to fund discriminatory groups.
“The argument they were making was absurd,” she said. “Once the court appreciated
that, they would never rule that way.”
Albuquerque worked as a legal-aid lawyer for six years before becoming city attorney
in 1985. Taking the job meant working for government, which for years had been an
opponent.
But Albuquerque found that the city shared her values and that she could make a difference by ensuring it followed the rules.
“I was able to have a much bigger impact in my work,” she said.
One of Albuquerque’s pending cases involves defending a police union’s challenge to
the city’s long-standing civilian review process.
— Amy Yarbrough
— Anne Marie Ruff
Angela Alioto
Gloria R. Allred
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: San Francisco
Law School: University of San
Francisco School of Law
Law Firm: Law Offices of Joseph L.
Alioto and Angela Alioto
Practice Area: Discrimination law
Place of Birth: Philadelphia
Law School: Loyola Law School
Law Firm: Allred, Maroko & Goldberg
Practice Area: Victims’ rights,
plaintiffs’ employment discrimination
This past fall, Angela Alioto won a $25.2
million verdict for employees of a nut-processing plant. A jury found that the workers
had been punished for blowing the whistle
on a fraudulent fire-insurance claim.
Some doubted that the jury, in a conservative district, would award big damages.
But Alioto had a feeling.
“I knew intuitively, as I do in all my cases,
that the jury would do what is right,” Alioto wrote in an e-mail while on a recent vacation
in Rome. “And they did.”
The daughter of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Angela Alioto served
on the city’s Board of Supervisors before opening her firm in 1997. During the past six
years, she has won 30 multimillion-dollar verdicts.
After leaving City Hall, Alioto wasn’t sure what type of law to practice. A man who saw
her deliver the eulogy at her father’s funeral asked her to sue a huge shipping company
on a racial-discrimination claim.
“From that day, I have practiced discrimination law, instead of the family tradition of
antitrust — a serious leap of faith for the only daughter of Joe Alioto,” she wrote.
Alioto represents more than 70 clients in group race, disability, and gender- and
sexual-harassment cases.
— Amy Yarbrough
PAGE 10  THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007
After nearly a decade of wrangling,
Gloria Allred succeeded in convincing Italian authorities to press criminal charges
against a man accused of murdering his
wife after he had been convicted of kidnapping their child and fleeing to Italy.
She called the whole case, which she
took pro bono, a leap of faith.
But Allred is accustomed to taking
risks.
In her early 20s, she packed a suitcase and came with her small daughter to California, without knowing where they would live or how she would support them.
After working as a schoolteacher for several years, Allred headed to law school,
where she befriended two fellow students. She took a leap of faith by asking them to go
into partnership with her; they took a chance by agreeing.
The rest is history: The trio remains together 32 years later.
Allred’s next fight is against state officials overseeing a juvenile-correction facility
in San Bernardino. She is representing eight female plaintiffs who claim they suffered
sexual harassment by male juveniles and retaliation by their superiors when they complained about it.
“I took a leap of faith when I decided to go into my own practice, which I knew nothing about,” Allred said. “If I had really known what that involved, I might have been too
afraid to do it.”
TOP WOMEN LITIGATORS
— Anne Marie Ruff
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Cristina Arguedas
Elena R. Baca
Berkeley
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Evanston, Ill.
Law School: Rutgers School of Law
Law Firm: Arguedas, Cassman
& Headley
Practice Area: Criminal defense,
white-collar crime
Place of Birth: Santa Monica
Law School: Notre Dame Law School
Janofsky & Walker
Practice Area: Labor and employment
Cristina Arguedas said she never likes
to discuss her victories, because the best
things she does, no one ever hears about.
For example, she persuades the prosecution not to file a charge.
“It’s never good for a client to see his
name in the paper associated with a
crime,” she said.
Despite this low-profile approach to her
practice, Arguedas is considered one of the
Bay Area’s pre-eminent defense attorneys, specializing in white-collar crime.
In a recent high-profile case, in which she declined to name the defendant or his company, Arguedas won probation for her client after five years of negotiations with federal
prosecutors.
Initially, she wanted to become a women’s rights attorney and joined a civil class-action matter. She was put in a room with 100 boxes of discovery that she had to review.
In another room, there was a case where witnesses had to be interviewed.
“I said, ‘I want to do that one,’” she recalled. “I want to talk to people. … To me, this
all about being in court.”
Her next big case will be in U.S. District Court in New York later this year, where she
is defending an employee of KPMG, a major tax and auditing firm.
Elena R. Baca represented the Los Angeles Unified School District this year against
charges of racial and gender discrimination by an employee. The arbitrator, in a
written award, found insufficient evidence
of discrimination and denied the claims.
The claimant appeared with business
calendars that hadn’t been produced in
discovery.
“People always surprise you at trial,”
Baca said.
The new documents didn’t sway the arbitrator, though.
Years ago Baca was an associate at Kindel & Anderson as it was dissolving. She chose
to go her own way, to Paul Hastings, rather than join another firm with a group.
Some of her family and friends worried, she said, that she would struggle as a Hispanic woman at a largely white, male dominated firm. But Baca was more concerned
about being judged as an individual. Four years later, she was a partner.
Baca just began retrying a disability case while serving as chair of Paul Hastings’ Los
Angeles office.
“You get to tell a story that is very human,” she said, “and the challenge at times is to
have a juror really understand that you’ve got individuals on both sides.”
— Emma Dewald
— Dennis Opatrny
Vicky Barker
Patricia H. Benson
Los Angeles
Century City
Place of Birth: Inglewood
Law School: UC Davis School of Law
Law Firm: California Women’s
Law Center
Practice Area: Title IX, sex
discrimination
Place of Birth: Santa Monica
Law School: USC Gould School of Law
Law Firm: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
Practice Area: Litigation, intellectual
property and technology
In what is believed to be the first-ever Title
IX class-action settlement targeting highschool athletics in California, Vicky Barker
recently got the Alhambra school district to
agree to build state-of-the-art facilities for
girls’ sports teams and overhaul policies to
ensure equitable funding and facilities use.
“We were not going to settle for anything
less than total compliance in this case,”
Barker said.
It was a leap of faith to go for broke, because most settlements involve a bit of “you give me this and I’ll give you that,” she said.
Barker became interested in equality in athletics during law school when she attended
the men’s water polo competition at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She had cut her own
water polo career short because it was not an Olympic sport.
After passing the Bar Exam, Barker worked for years representing workers and their
unions in employment litigation. Barker became the California Women’s Law Center’s
legal director in 2002.
She said the experience of being forced to sit out the Olympics helped motivate her to
leap into the legal field.
Barker said she will continue the push to enforce Title IX, even if it means bringing
lawsuits throughout the state.
“Although this is the 35th anniversary of Title IX, it has not been vigorously enforced at
the high-school level,” Barker said.
Athletic programs “cannot continue to get away with that,” she said.
Patricia Benson’s greatest challenge in
2006 was keeping a judge focused on the
facts in the case of Arista Records Inc. v.
Flea World Inc.
“The defendants kept throwing up every
obstacle they could to obfuscate the issues,” she said.
Benson argued that Flea World let
merchants sell pirated and illegal CDs
and DVDs and should be held liable for
copyright infringement.
The judge eventually agreed with the Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp partner, effectively enabling California-based companies to combat counterfeiting throughout the
nation.
The far-reaching victory would have been hard to imagine at the outset of Benson’s
legal career. She attended law school because she didn’t believe she could write the
great American novel and didn’t want to be a psychologist.
The law “sounded interesting,” she said; she quickly discovered a passion for it in her
first year.
After interning for a summer with the Los Angeles public defender’s office, Benson
took a summer internship at Mitchell Silberberg, and hasn’t left since.
— Jason Song
— Max Follmer
Melinda Bird
Virginia M. Blumenthal
Los Angeles
Riverside
Place of Birth: Sacramento
Law School: Rutgers School of Law
Law Firm: American Civil Liberties
Union of Southern California
Practice Area: Civil rights and
civil liberties
Place of Birth: St. Albans, N.Y.
Law School: California Southern
Law School
Law Firm: Blumenthal Law Offices
Practice Area: Criminal defense
As a result of Melinda Bird’s work as lead
counsel in a children’s mental health case,
the state created and now funds an intensive,
community-based mental health program
for needy children at an annual cost of $40
million.
Since the federal court ordered the state to
begin the program in 2001, 14,000 children
have been able to remain in the community,
avoiding placement in costly mental hospitals
and group homes.
“Last year, the judge who has wrestled
with this for more than six years asked me if the new mental health services really made
a difference,” she said. “The leap of faith was to answer from my heart, that they literally
saved children’s lives.”
When the judge asked her to provide evidence to back that claim, Bird said she was relieved to find countless moving stories from mental health professionals about children who
were once considered hopeless and are now leading healthy, functional lives.
In October 2006, the 9th Circuit affirmed the earlier judgment.
Bird joined the ACLU last year, after 11 years as managing attorney of the Los Angeles Office of Protection and Advocacy Inc., a disability-rights law firm, and 15 years at the Western
Center on Law and Poverty.
Her most recent leap? “Coming here to the ACLU to work on a 30-year-old lawsuit challenging conditions in the largest jail [system] in the nation, when I have never handled
prison or jail cases before.”
Bird recently won a court order in the federal suit, limiting overcrowding in Los Angeles
County jails.
In October, Virginia Blumenthal persuaded a Riverside jury to find her client,
Mario Cervantes Castro, not guilty of assaulting and attempting to murder a police
officer.
The key moment in the trial, Blumenthal
said, came when the judge let her reopen
evidence in the middle of the prosecutor’s
closing argument. She said she showed
that Castro was in a “drunken stupor” and
wasn’t trying to kill the officer.
Blumenthal has practiced criminal defense since 1975.
She said her career leap of faith came in a 1986 trial in which her client, a teacher, was
charged with touching students inappropriately. She said she let the man talk to her own
third-grade son, unrehearsed, in front of the jury.
The interaction helped show that “people had put words in the mouths” of her client’s
accusers, she said.
She also said the experience helped define her career by teaching her to “think outside the box” during trial.
Her upcoming trials include a murder case against a 17-year-old charged with participating in a gang killing.
— Jason W. Armstrong
— Anat Rubin
Susan Brandt-Hawley
Jamie Broder
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Tacoma, Wash.
Law Firm: Brandt-Hawley Law Group
Practice Area: Environment,
historic preservation
Place of Birth: Oakland
Law School: New York University
School of Law
Janofsky & Walker
Practice Area: Class actions,
copyright, health care, trade secrets
Susan Brandt-Hawley recently won a
state appellate-court decision that protected
a pre-Silicon Valley building known as the
birthplace of IBM’s breakthroughs in early
computer technology.
In virtually all of her cases, she said, the
first leap is one of faith that she can win.
That’s important because, often, the only
way she gets paid is to prevail, then seek
fees under California’s “private attorney
general” law.
“This was such a great case there was no
leap required,” she said. “I wanted to litigate this one and felt it was very important.”
Since the 1980s, Brandt-Hawley has maintained a twin focus on public-interest law and
enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act. Almost all of her cases now
involve preservation of historic buildings and other cultural resources. Many have raised
unique issues for the appellate courts.
The decision to launch her law practice in the small Sonoma County town of Glen Ellen,
where she and her husband own a winery, marked a pivotal point in her professional and
personal life.
“The first law-career leap of faith I made was in 1979 when, in a supreme burst of blind
overconfidence, I simply hung out a solo shingle in Glen Ellen,” she says. “My husband
and I had bought some remote acreage, and he was building our house and planting a
vineyard, and our first son was still a baby.”
Among her upcoming cases is one she recently filed to block demolition of the oldest
house in Palo Alto.
Last year, Jamie Broder successfully
defended Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center against breach-of-contract allegations by a physician working with the
hospital’s sleep-disorder center.
In 1987, the hospital had offered resident
doctors a billing contract, which expired
in 2001. Shortly thereafter, the doctor
claimed that the hospital had billed patients improperly for his work.
Broder made a motion to bifurcate the trial and argued a statute-of-limitations defense. The jury found in favor of her client, barring the plaintiff’s claims.
After 30 years representing a wide range of clients, from entertainment companies to
hospitals, Broder looks back fondly on her decision to depart New York for Los Angeles
in 1977. At that time, Broder joined Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and began establishing herself as a litigator in a young Los Angeles market.
Broder says a dearth of female role models in litigation forced her to develop her own
style.
“When I went to law school, it was not to practice,” she said. “I wanted to teach at the
college level — constitutional law or civil-liberties classes. I saw myself in the academic
world. It wasn’t until I was in my third year of law school, doing externships and working with attorneys and legal aid, that I started to think it might be more fun to practice
law.”
— Dennis Pfaff
— Alexa Hyland
Juanita Brooks
Elizabeth A. Burns
San Diego
San Francisco
Place of Birth: Merced
Law School: Yale Law School
Law Firm: Fish & Richardson
Practice Area: Patent litigation
Place of Birth: Burbank
Law School: Santa Clara University
School of Law
Law Firm: Gordon & Rees
Practice Area: Health care
On the eve of trial in February, Juanita
Brooks scored a “very successful” confi dential settlement in a Minnesota case
she fi led four years earlier on behalf of
3M Corp. In the suit, 3M said Dupont
Dow Elastomers infringed on its patent
for a plastics additive.
The key moment in the case, she
said, was when she successfully argued
against Dupont’s challenge to 3M’s patent on the product.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office affi rmed and reissued 3M’s patent, she
said.
She said her career leap of faith came when she decided seven years ago to switch
from a white-collar criminal-defense focus to patent litigation.
In May, she’ll defend a client she would identify only as a “major software provider” in a patent-infringement suit in which the plaintiff is seeking $2 billion in
damages.
She said she chose patent law because of its complexity.
“I looked forward to a new challenge,” she said. “It’s a perfect fit for me.”
In December, Elizabeth Burns and
Gordon & Rees partner John L. Supple successfully defended a nursing home sued
for wrongful death, elder abuse and fraud.
The son and daughter of a 72-year-old man
diagnosed in the final stages of Parkinson’s
dementia had accused health-care providers of conspiring to deny their father treatment to maximize their benefits.
After 10 years of litigation, a Superior
Court jury returned a complete defense verdict in favor of Covenant Care.
Burns said it was a leap of faith to rely on witnesses — hospice employees, doctors and
family members — when there was no chance to prepare them or contact them before
the trial.
“We had no idea what was going to come out of different people’s mouths,” Burns said.
“It was exciting but nerve-racking.”
For Burns, though, the expression “leap of faith” most vividly calls to mind her decision to become a trial attorney, following in her father’s footsteps.
“You’re taking leaps of faith all the time,” she said. “It’s not like a brief, which you can
rewrite 10 times. When you’re in front of a jury or judge, if you didn’t say it perfectly the
first time, you don’t get a chance to edit.”
Of being a trial attorney, Burns adds, “It’s a leap of faith to believe in myself that I can
do it.”
— Amelia Hansen
Christine W.S. Byrd
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Law School: University of Virginia
School of Law
Law Firm: Irell & Manella
Practice Area: Litigation, ADR and
arbitration, intellectual property
litigation, white-collar defense
Law School: Boalt Hall
Law Firm: Lieff Cabraser
Heimann & Bernstein
Practice Area: Antitrust and
consumer law
Christine Byrd knew her trial was all but
over when several jury members stopped
taking notes. But she wasn’t sure who the
jurors would rule for in the patent dispute:
her client, TiVo Inc., or EchoStar Communications Corp.
“I had a positive feeling, but it’s very easy
to lose perspective on your case,” Byrd
said.
The jury found in favor of TiVo, awarding the company $73.9 million last April. That
figure has grown to $93.9 million with interest and supplemental damages.
The verdict was the latest in a long list of accomplishments for Byrd, including an $82
million jury verdict for Immersion Corp. in 2005. Quite an accomplishment for a woman
who started law school while still unsure she wanted to be an attorney.
“I went with great trepidation,” she said.
But, midway through her first year at University of Virginia law school, Byrd said she
knew she was destined for the courtroom.
“I loved it, and it’s worked out very well,” she said.
— Jason Song
Last year, one of Elizabeth Cabraser’s
key wins was a ruling in Sacramento
County Superior Court that allowed a
Ford Explorer rollover class action to go
to trial.
This year, a major challenge is that trial,
which at press time was set to begin April
23.
Cabraser does more than represent
plaintiffs: Her task as a veteran class counsel is to design and structure trials.
Cabraser is also juggling roles as class counsel in national litigation involving the
drug Vioxx, a tainted-peanut-butter case and other multidistrict class actions.
Her leap of faith moment came when she realized she was not going to get by on
charisma.
“I recognized early on that I didn’t have the stereotypical attributes of a good
lawyer,” Cabraser said. “I didn’t have a good voice, great bearing or an engaging
courtroom demeanor. I saw I was going to have to get along on sincerity and dedication to the case. Hard work and tenacity would have to make up for my lack of natural
talent.”
— John Roemer
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007  PAGE 15
Mary Craig Calkins
Joanne E. Caruso
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: San Diego
Law Firm: Howrey
Practice Area: Complex commercial
litigation, insurance recovery
Place of Birth: Phoenix
Law School: Boston College
Law School
Law Firm: Howrey
Practice Area: Commercial litigation
Mary Craig Calkins considers her
biggest recent monetary victory the
settlement last year of insurance-coverage
litigation involving a multimillion-dollar,
first-party loss for an international hotel
chain.
She credits years of experience for helping her to assert the coverage position she
believed was in her client’s best interest
and to trust it would lead to a favorable
resolution. It did.
As vice chair of the insurance-coverage committee of the American Bar Association’s
litigation section, Calkins has built a national reputation in the field of policyholders’
rights.
Her leap-of-faith moment was deciding to go into law, and knowing she could do it as
well as anyone else.
Next, Calkins is litigating a multimillion-dollar advertising-fraud case for an international airline, and representing a television producer in a broker-malpractice dispute.
Oh, and she’s also insurance counsel for Fox’s top-rated reality TV show “American
Idol.”
“Jump in, be committed and give 100 percent,” she said.
Last year, Howrey managing partner
Joanne Caruso prevailed when five companies she represented sought to invalidate a
California regulation they said adversely
affected their business.
In Caterpillar v. California Air Resources
Board, 05-AS-01133, state regulations
came into confl ict with settlements that
had been negotiated individually in 2001
between engine manufacturers and the
air-resources board, she argued.
As an attorney, Caruso does not much believe in chance.
“In terms of cases, there are not too many leaps of faith you are going to take,” she
said.
Instead, Caruso credits her husband, Thomas A. Zaccaro, for taking a plunge when,
in 1995, she sought to move from Howrey’s Washingon, D.C., office to its Los Angeles
outpost. The couple had a year-old baby and another on the way, and Zaccaro did not
have a job waiting for him in California.
“He took the bigger leap of faith,” Caruso said.
Zaccaro is now a partner at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.
— Bobbi Murray
— Susan McRae
Nanci L. Clarence
Cynthia H. Cwik
San Francisco
San Diego
Place of Birth: Santa Barbara
of the Law
Law Firm: Clarence & Dyer
Practice Area: Criminal defense and
civil cases
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh
Law School: Yale Law School
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins
Practice Area: Complex civil litigation
Nanci Clarence fought for three years
with federal prosecutors for her client, an
executive at Reliant Energy Services, a
company accused of manipulating the California electricity market during the state’s
2000 energy crisis.
A week before trial in March, the company agreed to pay a $22 million penalty,
and the U.S. attorney’s office entered into
a deferred-prosecution deal with her client:
No charges if he behaved and didn’t do it again.
“It was great to walk my client out of the case without a conviction,” she said.
Clarence decided to become a lawyer after learning to argue at the dinner table with
her father. What appeals to her is making sure people who get into trouble get a fair
shake.
“Law is wonderful because you get a fair fight, and most everyone plays by the rules,”
she said.
Clarence says her next big cases will involve defending technology executives accused of backdating stock options.
In December, Cynthia Cwik persuaded
a judge to toss a toxic-tort case in which
a dozen former Beverly Hills High School
students claimed they were harmed by
emissions from an oil well production plant
operated by her client, Chevron.
The key moment in the case, Cwik said,
came when she challenged the plaintiffs’
medical experts and showed “they didn’t
have adequate foundation for their allegations.”
Cwik specializes in mass-tort and product-liability cases, after earning her undergraduate and law degrees at Yale University.
She said her career leap of faith came during her 1989 representation of Montrose
Chemical Co. in a massive toxic-tort case.
That’s when she hunted down the Harvard scientist who came up with the medical
tests the plaintiffs were relying on, and he said they were mistaken in using them.
Cwik said the experience taught her the importance of “making sure you understand
the science of these cases.”
She is currently defending a Colorado mining company in a toxic-tort case.
— Dennis Opatrny
Linda Dakin-Grimm
Kelly Dermody
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Place of Birth: Fort Wayne, Ind.
Law School: Harvard Law School
Law Firm: Milbank, Tweed,
Hadley & McCloy
Practice Area: Business and
reinsurance litigation, arbitration
Place of Birth: Ithaca, N.Y.
Law Firm: Lieff Cabraser
Heimann & Bernstein
Practice Area: Employment and
consumer law
Linda Dakin-Grimm led creditors to a
dramatic victory last year in an exceedingly complex business-valuation trial
in historically debtor-friendly Delaware
bankruptcy court.
Lawyers for a California-based diet-food
company thought the debts would go unchallenged, but Dakin-Grimm stuck to her
judgment. Her victory paved the way for
more aggressive challenges by future creditors.
It’s hard to believe this Yale- and Harvard-educated lawyer was once too intimidated
to sell Girl Scout cookies. She went into law to overcome her fears.
Her biggest challenge was deciding to join Milbank in 1999 as a partner, determined
to draw the big cases.
In May, Dakin-Grimm starts trial in federal court in Los Angeles, representing a
California-based insurance group in a dispute over a sales agreement.
“I think that leap-of-faith moment comes with the gelling of realization that you have
solid judgment and can handle matters yourself,” she said. “For a lot of women, it takes
a while to get to that point.”
Thanks to Kelly Dermody, a million
people without health insurance no longer
are being overcharged for hospital care.
In December and January, Dermody
settled a pair of class actions worth a total
of $699 million against not-for-profit hospitals Sutter Health and Catholic Healthcare
West. The hospitals were charging uninsured patients far more than they would
have charged privately insured patients for the same services.
Dermody said she considers herself lucky to have stumbled on Lieff Cabraser right
out of law school, which turned out to be a perfect fit for her.
Working for a plaintiffs’ firm by its very nature requires a leap of faith, she said.
“The cards are kind of stacked against you in every way. Plaintiffs’ class actions tend
to allege very large problems against very big companies who are extraordinarily wellfinanced,’’ she explained. “We invest our own money and time and take all the risk that
something will not go right. Just to have the gumption to file these cases, I think, is a
leap of faith.”
But Dermody plans to keep pressing on, with suits on behalf of underprivileged
people trying to succeed in the American system.
— Susan McRae
— Laura Ernde
Diane M. Doolittle
Helen Lalich Duncan
Redwood Shores
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Mount Vernon, Wash.
Law Firm: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart
Oliver & Hedges
Practice Area: Business litigation
Place of Birth: East Chicago, Ind.
Law School: Southwestern University
School of Law
Law Firm: Fulbright & Jaworski
Practice Area: Tax litigation
Diane M. Doolittle might be the only
woman to have tried a case in Saudi Arabia
under religious law, which typically prohibits female attorneys. She represented Oracle
Corp. after the company parted ways with a
Saudi partner in a joint venture.
The Saudi company, alleging breach of
contract, sought tens of millions of dollars
in damages. Doolittle tried the case this
past fall before an arbitration panel, which
ruled in Oracle’s favor.
As co-chair of Quinn Emanuel’s national
trial-practice group, Doolittle, a former prosecutor, handles everything from company internal investigations to grand-jury inquiries, and has won a remarkable 93 percent of her
trials. Last year, she represented a special board committee of Apple Inc. that investigated
stock-options backdating at the company and cleared its current management, including
CEO Steve Jobs, of wrongdoing.
Doolittle said her leap-of-faith moment came 18 months ago, when she was hired — 10
days before trial — to be lead counsel in a $135 million coverage dispute between a national insurance company and a defense contractor over the cost to clean up an Environmental
Protection Agency Superfund site.
She knew the gist of the case, but her knowledge of the specifics was “sorely lacking.”
During opening statements, “I was able to stand up and respond credibly to all of the
allegations,” said Doolittle, adding that the case settled shortly thereafter on terms favorable to her client.
After seven years of knotty litigation,
Helen Duncan brought her client Lehman
Brothers closer to victory.
The giant investment bank was sucked
into a class action when a subprime lender
it helped finance went bankrupt in 2001.
Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals erased the $5.1 million verdict
against Lehman Brothers and set up a new
damages trial.
“It was a typical David-and-Goliath case. Although we didn’t commit the alleged
fraud,” Duncan said, “we had the money to pay.”
Duncan, who was admitted to the bar in 1981 after graduating from Southwestern
Law School, has enjoyed a long and successful career as a trial lawyer.
Immediately after law school, she moved to Washington, D.C., for a four-year stint as
a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice tax division. She was honored for her
performance twice, before leaving in 1985.
Duncan is currently defending HVB Bank in a class action filed by aggrieved investors who claim the bank conspired to induce their investments in illegal tax shelters.
Filed in Florida, Georgia, New York and Northern California, the suits have contributed
to Duncan’s busy schedule.
“In every case, … you have to dig in to find out the true facts,” Duncan said. “I don’t
believe people intentionally do wrongful or harmful things in business. The quest is to
find out what really happened and make the jury see your side of the case.”
— Craig Anderson
— Gabe Friedman
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Patricia L. Glaser
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Place of birth: Kansas City, Mo.
Law school: University of San Diego
School of Law
Law firm: Meyers Nave Riback
Silver & Wilson
Practice area: Land use, First
Amendment
Years in practice: 23
Place of birth: Charleston, W.Va.
Law school: Rutgers School of Law
Law firm: Christensen, Glaser, Fink,
Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro
Practice area: Business litigation
Years in practice: 34
Deborah J. Fox won a huge victory when
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the city of La Habra’s so-called “twofoot rule” banning lap dances. The case has
become a touchstone for cities and officials
trying to enforce similar standards across
the country.
Although some might call Fox the “porn
buster” for her work helping cities preserve the quality of life they envision for their
citizens, Fox said she always considered herself primarily a land-use attorney.
From the start of her career representing ranchers in northern San Diego County, she
has been a hands-on lawyer. After working at Burke, Williams & Sorensen, she founded
Fox & Sohagi, where she practiced for 18 years. She joined Meyers Nave in December.
Fox expects to continue working on land-use and First Amendment issues. She has
begun to tackle issues involving billboard advertising and super graphics, or ads that
wrap around buildings.
She said her practice sometimes requires her to go out on a limb, but it’s always a
calculated move.
“Am I a risk taker? Yes,” Fox said. “Do I leap on faith alone? No.”
— Max Follmer
Top-notch defending doesn’t always
mean avoiding liability. Sometimes, it
means reducing it. In January, Patricia
Glaser defended a group of real estate
companies in a fraud case in Oakland,
sidestepping a $10 million punitive-damages tack-on.
Glaser would not name the defendants
but said she was successful because her
client was “appropriately contrite.”
Glaser said mentors in and outside her law firm were instrumental in shaping her
career when they put their faith in her, time and time again.
Glaser’s firm has handled cases involving Spider-Man, Kim Basinger, ABC and “Extreme Home Makeover,” as well as billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian.
Glaser has emerged as firm spokeswoman following name partner Terry Christensen’s February 2006 indictment in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case.
In April, she was back in trial, defending MGA, maker of the popular “Bratz” dolls, in
a copyright and trademark infringement case.
“Clients take a leap of faith every time they hire me,” she said. “I am blessed. Some
people like to go into a dark room and ruminate — run into walls. They like that process.
“I like going into a dark room and finding a door out. I think that’s what the law does
— it helps you find doors out of dark rooms.”
— Rebecca Beyer
Gigi Gordon
Jessica L. Grant
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Place of Birth: New York
Law School: Southwestern University
School of Law
Law Firm: Post Conviction
Assistance Center
Practice Area: Criminal defense,
post-conviction law
Place of Birth: Redwood City
Law School: University of San
Francisco School of Law
Law Firm: Furth Lehmann & Grant
Practice Area: Class actions,
employment, antitrust
Gigi Gordon said the only faith she
needs in her career is that, if she proves
a wrong, the criminal justice system will
undo it.
Otherwise, Gordon doesn’t place much
faith in faith.
“I have no leaps of faith, especially in
what I do,” she said. “The question is,
Can I prove it? A leap of faith is antithetical to the entire legal process, as it requires
acquiring a belief without any empirical support.”
A champion for the underdog, she was once appointed by the Los Angeles Superior Court to pour over 15,000 criminal cases looking for any wrongdoing in connection to the Rampart scandal.
She declined, however, to discuss any of her recent cases.
In 2004, Gordon worked with an LAPD homicide detective using DNA and other
forensic evidence to help free a mentally retarded man wrongfully convicted of three
strangulation rape-murders after spending 10 years behind bars.
Gordon worked three years on the habeas corpus case, which she took up after she
learned blood evidence at the crime scenes was inconsistent with that of her client.
— Ryan Oliver
In her first case as a plaintiffs’ lawyer,
Jessica L. Grant won a $172 million classaction jury verdict against Wal-Mart in
December 2005 over the company’s failure
to give meal breaks to its workers.
But her “leap of faith” moment in the
case goes back to 2001, when her 15-member San Francisco firm decided to take on
the retail behemoth known for stubbornly
refusing to settle and instead hiring teams of high-powered attorneys to vigorously
defend lawsuits.
Grant said there were many times when the case looked as if it might be thrown out.
But she knew that, if she could get it to a jury, she had a good claim. She tried to stay one
step ahead of the Wal-Mart team, which took up an entire floor at the Oakland Marriott
during trial.
In the process, Grant did something no one else had ever even tried in a wage-andhour case — get punitive damages.
Wal-Mart remains in the firm’s sights. In addition to defending the judgment on appeal, Grant is preparing to go to trial on another suit against the retailer, accusing the
company of manipulating employee time cards to cut pay.
“For me, it’s always having faith in myself and the case,” she said. “It doesn’t matter
who is on the other side or how impressive their pedigree is.”
— Laura Ernde
Samantha C. Grant
Melinda Haag
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Place of Birth: London
Law Firm: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
Practice Area: Labor and employment
Samantha Grant was an associate when
Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions began in 2001. She would make partner by the time the case concluded in her
side’s favor, with a summary judgment for
the defense in trial court.
In the high-profile case, a former writer’s
assistant for the hit ABC series “Friends”
had filed sexual harassment claims, along
with a charge of wrongful termination,
against Warner Bros. and individual writers.
Indeed, Grant knew early on that she
wanted to be an attorney.
“I was always very vocal, always advocating for things,” she said.
After graduating from the University of Toronto, she worked as an intake officer for the
Ontario region at Canada’s equivalent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she judged the validity of complaints and made recommendations regarding
investigations.
She knew then that employment law was for her, and she set off for California to pursue
a law degree.
Many assumed Grant would work the plaintiffs’ side because she is a minority female.
But a summer stint at a defense-side firm and an externship at the U.S. Information
Agency gave Grant what she calls a more-balanced perspective
Employment law is one of those fields in which you are on one side or the other, she said.
The moment she decided which side to join, for her, constituted a great leap of faith.
“I had faith I could develop clients and do great cases as a defense attorney,” she said.
Place of Birth: San Diego
Law Firm: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Practice Area: White-collar
criminal defense
Melinda Haag says that as a criminal
defense attorney, she must occasionally
take risks to reap nonguilty rewards for
her clients.
One of her biggest wins came when she
waived a jury trial in the case of former
McKesson Corp. Chief Financial Officer
Richard Hawkins. He was charged with
backdating a $20 billion deal to boost the
profit picture. A federal judge acquitted
him.
“There’s nothing better than telling your client, who was very afraid he would be
indicted, that it’s over and that he can go home and resume his life,” she said.
During college, she worked for a criminal defense attorney as a “gofer,” but she became transfi xed by the trials and the law. She decided to take the LSAT and attended
Boalt Hall. She was a civil attorney for a while before turning to law enforcement.
A federal prosecutor, Haag said her most rewarding case was prosecuting two guards
at Pelican Bay State Prison who assaulted inmates and encouraged other guards to
do the same. Haag also supervised environmental-crimes prosecutions for the U.S.
attorney’s office for the Northern District of California.
Like several other white-collar crime lawyers, she is currently defending individuals
and companies in stock-options backdating cases.
“These are all difficult cases, because there is tremendous political and media-related
pressure to ‘handle’ the issue,” she said.
— Dennis Opatrny
— Bobbi Murray
Joan M. Haratani
Carole E. Handler
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Redwood City
Law Firm: Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Practice Area: Product liability
and torts
Law School: University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Law Firm: Foley & Lardner
Practice Area: Intellectual property
and antitrust
What happens when there is a déjà vu
moment in virtual reality?
If you are Evans & Sutherland, a leading computer-graphics company, and you
notice that a competitor’s virtual-reality
program contains scenes and images very
similar to those in your program, you call
Carol E. Handler. Handler is leading Evans
& Sutherland’s copyright-infringement
claim, which is in the pretrial phase in federal district court in Utah.
The case is only the most recent cutting-edge or prominent intellectual-property matter Handler has litigated.
In hindsight, a career as an intellectual-property and antitrust attorney seems the perfect fit for Handler. She has excelled representing companies like Marvel Enterprises,
which was involved in a dispute surrounding rights to Spider-Man and other comic-book
characters; and she is the daughter of legal scholar Milton Handler, who wrote a seminal textbook on antitrust law.
But Handler says her career is the result of a leap of faith because she initially
“avoided law.”
After seven years as an urban planner, Handler decided to become a lawyer to make
a greater impact on society. And soon after enrolling in law school, she discovered that
she simply loved antitrust and copyright law.
— Drew Combs
Last year, Joan Haratani faced down a
huge class action against Wal-Mart brought
by plaintiffs in five countries alleging illegal
labor practices. She persuaded a federal
judge to dismiss it.
Haratani said there was a moment in the
litigation, which the business community
watched closely, when she believed the odds
were stacked against her. But she realized
she could win because she had done the
necessary work.
“I had put the blood, sweat and tears in
and deserved the victory,” she said. “The law was certainly in my favor.”
Haratani, whose cases often involve legally cutting-edge issues, has worked hard to
increase the visibility of women and minorities in major law firms. As president of the Bar
Association of San Francisco in 2006, she put together the organization’s first conference
on work-life balance.
Haratani’s first “leap of faith” moment came in 1990, when she made partner at a time
when large law firms employed relatively few minority women.
“It took a huge leap of faith for me to believe not only in myself and my merit but also in
the fact that my law firm recognized my talent and hard work,” Haratani said of her first
partnership.
She later moved to another firm, a decision requiring another leap of faith.
Haratani said that, in her next big case, she will be representing a Fortune 100 company
seeking recovery of insurance proceeds. The litigation could result in millions of dollars
in damages, and a trial date has been set for early next year, she said.
— Dennis Pfaff
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Ruth Kahn
Palo Alto
Los Angeles
Law Firm: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Practice Area: Copyright and
trademark infringement
Place of Birth: Chicago
Law School: Case Western Reserve
University Law School
Law Firm: Steptoe & Johnson
Practice Area: Toxic-tort, productliability litigation
A fl ip-flop of events helped Susan Hollander score one of her big recent litigation
victories, a settlement for an outdoor-furniture company in a trademark-infringement
lawsuit.
Interestingly, the defendant initially
accused Hollander’s client of co-opting a
trademarked term. Showing that her client
had a prior use of the term allowed Hollander to “take the upper hand in litigation”
and bring a suit against that company.
Hollander, a San Francisco resident, was a candidate for a doctorate in philosophy
at Stanford University, but decided to pursue a law degree instead. She has worked for
Manatt Phelps since 2000 and is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco
Law School, where she teaches copyright law.
One of Hollander’s scariest and most exciting moments came in 1993, when she
tried/litigated her first jury trial by herself. Then an associate, Hollander won a $2.3
million verdict.
“It gave me a lot of confidence and made me realize I was a stand-alone trademark
litigator,” she said.
Hollander is currently lead outside trademark counsel for Scotts Miracle-Gro, and is
representing the company in two high-profile trademark cases.
— Amy Yarbrough
When a plaintiff claimed his cancer was
caused by exposure to products supplied
by five oil companies, Ruth Kahn set out
to prove him wrong. The toxic-tort case
against Chevron, Texaco, ExxonMobil,
Shell and Valero ended with summary
judgment for the defense in 2006.
“After heavy, contentious litigation, I
filed for a summary judgment, and it was
granted,” Kahn said.
The court found that Chevron and Exxon had no liability because the plaintiff worked
for an independent contractor who had been informed of potential health hazards.
Today, Kahn points to a pair of leap-of-faith moments that helped defi ne her career.
The first was a move immediately after law school, from Chicago, where she had a job
lined up, to Los Angeles, where there was no position awaiting her; she had yet to even
take the California Bar.
“I thought I could do it, I wanted to do it and I did it,” Kahn said.
The second was in 1997, when, just a year after she made partner, Kahn left Lane
Powell Spears Lubersky with eight colleagues to open the Los Angeles office of Steptoe
& Johnson.
She is currently defending a chemical manufacturer in a pesticide-exposure case.
“I like big cases,” she said. “The more complex, the more parties there are, the happier I am.”
— Bobbi Murray
Kay Kochenderfer
Jennifer L. Keller
Los Angeles
Irvine
Place of Birth: Tucson, Ariz.
Law Firm: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Practice Area: Business litigation,
antitrust, consumer class action
Place of Birth: Fort Wayne, Ind.
of the Law
Law Firm: Law Offices of
Jennifer L. Keller
Practice Area: Criminal defense
Jennifer Keller’s big win last year saw her
client sentenced to six years for attempted
manslaughter rather than close to life for
premeditated attempted murder.
Keller figured she had a chance when a
question from a potential juror indicated
that the jury might understand that her
client’s tragic history had left him so
fragile that he would empty his pistol at
his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend as they
fled in a car.
While a student at Hastings College of the Law, Keller wanted to be a district attorney
because “they wear the white hats.” But a professor, noting Keller’s soft heart and trouble with authority, made her promise to try an externship at a public defender’s office.
She did, back home in Orange County, and she returned to that office as a deputy
after graduating from Hastings in 1978. Next, Keller left for a 2½-year stint as a research
attorney for the state’s 4th District Court of Appeal, then opened her own criminal-defense firm in 1992.
In her next big case, Keller is representing a 70-year-old man charged with the special-circumstances murder of his wife of 30 years.
“I don’t think he did it,” she said.
Criminal defense is a tough job “practically every day,” the attorney added. “What are
the chances that 12 total strangers are going to care?”
— Don DeBenedictis
In October, Sempra Energy and its utilities, Southern California Gas Co. and San
Diego Gas & Electric Co., settled a lawsuit
filed by the California Public Utilities Commission and the state attorney general
accusing the energy giant of seeking to
drive up prices and prevent competition in
the market.
Kay Kochenderfer represented the
energy company, which likely would have
had to pay billions, in the class action. The
case settled for $580 million.
Having begun her career as a summer associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Kochenderfer is a rarity in the legal community, remaining at the same fi rm for 20 years.
As a litigator handling complex antitrust cases, Kochenderfer continually takes
chances, especially when devising strategies to educate juries about her clients, which
range from health-care providers to natural-gas companies to high-tech corporations.
When arguing complex business cases involving antitrust allegations, Kochenderfer
says, it is crucial to provide jurors with enough information to understand the issues,
including economic principles that might be underlying factors.
Kochenderfer will rely on her ability to educate juries in an upcoming high-tech antitrust case involving monopolization claims.
“What I’ve learned is how to put faith in a jury that they will understand your cases if
you put enough work and preparation into them, and that, through your opening [statement] and cross-examination of witnesses, you take great care that you educate the jury
about your clients,” she said.
— Alexa Hyland
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Edith R. Matthai
Redwood City
Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Bethesda, Md.
Law School: University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Law Firm: Fish & Richardson
Practice Area: Litigation
When Katherine Lutton announced more
than a decade ago that she wanted to change
course and go to law school, her colleagues
in General Electric’s fast-track engineering
management program said she was throwing away her career.
But now, since Lutton has been named
head of the 240-attorney litigation group at
Fish and Richardson, the sketpics may want
to revise their assessment.
“My first year in law school, I analogized
my situation to jumping off a cliff and being
in suspended animation, waiting with baited breath to find out if I was going to land on
my feet,” Lutton said. “When I made law review at the end of my first year, I never looked
back.”
Lutton, who had a high-level job at GE developing hardware and software systems for
military aircraft, said she was fascinated in the law from a young age. She decided that
becoming an attorney was what she really wanted.
Since March, she has been supervising attorneys in 10 offices nationwide, the largest patent litigation group in the country. Among the recent victories for attorneys in
her group was a patent-infringement case involving circuit-chip designers, Synopsys
v. Magma, C04-3923. The suit, filed in district courts in both Delaware and Northern
California, led to a settlement favorable to Lutton’s client, San Jose-based Magma Design
Automation, she said.
Place of Birth: Taft
Law School: Hastings College of the
Law
Law Firm: Robie & Matthai
Practice Area: Legal malpractice and
judicial-disciplinary actions
The phrase “a lawyer’s lawyer” often is
used to describe a practitioner of exceptional ability, not simply an attorney who
represents fellow members of the bar.
But Edith Matthai can lay claim to the
term’s literal and figurative uses.
Matthai often is the first call made by
California judges in trouble. She describes
her practice representing judicial officers
facing disciplinary actions as one in which
you “can’t make victories public, and the losses are on the front page.”
Matthai spoke more freely, but only a bit, about the legal-malpractice aspect of her
practice. During the past 12 months, she has obtained summary judgments in several
malpractice cases, including one involving claims arising from an attorney’s referral of
two doctors to another attorney who allegedly committed malpractice.
Matthai originally planned to pursue a career in academia, but switched to law after
working for a few months as a secretary at a law fi rm. As a young lawyer, she gained trial
experience by taking cases “no one else in the fi rm wanted to try.”
Since those early days, Matthai says, her career has progressed based on “the faith
that the best business development is good work for one’s client.”
— Drew Combs
— Tim Hay
Donna D. Melby
Susan S. Muck
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Law Firm: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky
& Walker
Practice Area: Business and
employment litigation
Place of Birth: Morgantown, W.Va.
Law School: University of Virginia
School of Law
Law Firm: Fenwick & West
Practice Area: Securities litigation
Three months after Donna Melby
stepped in as counsel for a major municipality that was headed for trial last year on
a harassment and discrimination case, the
court dismissed the case without any liability payments.
Simply taking the case was a leap of faith
for Melby because of the bad facts, the difficult posture and the formidable skill of
the plaintiff’s counsel.
Melby, the first woman to lead the American Board of Trial Advocates, moved last
spring from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to her current fi rm, where she heads the
L.A. office’s labor and employment practice.
In Melby’s very first federal jury trial in 1983, a co-defendant ducked out with a plea
bargain at the last minute. Still, she went to trial with her client and prevailed.
“I had to convince myself not only to do this, to try the case under the worst of circumstances, but that I could do it and win,” she said.
In the coming year, Melby will handle a number of class-action defense cases.
— Robert Iafolla
When the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the Justice Department
say your corporate client condones bribery
to get ahead in business — and the press
runs wild with the story — the pressure
is on.
That’s the situation Fenwick & West’s
Susan Muck found herself in last year.
So she picked apart the SEC’s findings
— agents representing Invision Corp.
bribed business associates overseas — until nothing was left.
“It’s always difficult to defend a securities class action when they can point to SEC
statements and press statements,” Muck said. “But the fact that they investigate does
not mean there was securities fraud.”
The charges against Invision were dismissed with prejudice.
Muck, who was born in West Virginia, said she always wanted to be a lawyer. Her leap
of faith, she said, came with her decision to take a job with Fenwick when other fi rms
— several of which had bigger securities litigation divisions — were courting her.
“I felt Fenwick had the best platform and potential. And from the minute I got here,
I’ve had opportunities that I could have only dreamed about as a defense lawyer,” she
said.
Muck is currently busy defending six securities class actions, some of which feature
damning SEC reports against her clients. But, she said it takes more than an SEC report
to scare her these days.
— Tim Hay
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Harriet S. Posner
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Law School: Columbia Law School
Law Firm: Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon
& Jamra
Practice Area: Family law
Place of Birth: Chicago
Law Firm: Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom
Practice Area: Commercial litigation
Powerhouse celebrity divorce lawyer
Stacy Phillips took the road less traveled
when she left New York City and a family
legacy of well-established lawyers and began practicing family law in Los Angeles.
While a student at Columbia Law School,
Phillips was drawn to the prospect of negotiating and using her communication skills,
and she decided to pursue family law.
After clerking for Central District Judge
Edward Rafeedie and practicing at several
boutiques, Phillips launched her own fi rm
in 1990.
An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Phillips said she is driven to help and mentor,
especially young female lawyers.
Although Phillips’ celebrity clients often find themselves in the spotlight, the attorney
chooses to keep the details of their often-complex divorce cases out of the public eye.
“I really wanted to have a career where my clients had a heartbeat, not a litigation
budget,” she said.
Harriet Posner spent much of the past
year locked in a discovery battle with a
group of plaintiffs who claimed that Wells
Fargo violated anti-discrimination laws in
its loan pricing policy. Although the fight
has centered on the narrow issue of whether plaintiffs can gain class certification, the
future of other class actions looms.
It is the type of hard-fought, procedural
litigation that Posner loves.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1980, she bypassed her native Chicago in order to move west to Los Angeles. The
decision had a lasting impact when Posner enrolled in UCLA School of Law, graduating
in 1984.
Her career started in Skadden Arps’s Los Angeles office, when only 11 lawyers
worked there.
“I thought the people were the kind of lawyers I wanted to be when I grew up,” Posner
said. “Talk about a leap of faith, I knew only four lawyers at the time.”
Nearly 23 years later, she’s still practicing complex litigation as a partner in the fi rm’s
Los Angeles office, which has grown to 150 lawyers.
In the coming year, Posner will continue to devote significant time to the shareholder
litigation arising out of the stock-options practice at Activision, a Santa Monica-based
electronic video-game maker.
— Alexa Hyland
— Gabe Friedman
Linda M. Rottman
Gwyn Quillen
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
Law Firm: Bingham McCutchen
Practice Area: Securities litigation
and accounting malpractice
Gwyn Quillen recently defended a major
accounting firm against a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by a publicly traded company.
The client viewed it as a shakedown.
In mediation, Quillen stood up to the
plaintiff’s attorney, and the plaintiff soon
backed off.
Quillen has been a litigator at Alschuler
Grossman since she clerked for Judge Robert Boochever of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals.
Early in her career, Quillen got a judgment reversed on appeal, but had to retry the
case in front of the same judge whose judgment she had gotten reversed. Trusting her
legal chops, she prevailed for her client.
Quillen is now set to handle an amended complaint against client KPMG in a class
action filed on behalf of SeraCare shareholders. The revised complaint comes after the
court granted KPMG’s motion to dismiss the original complaint.
“I learned that the only way to grow as a lawyer is by taking on new challenges,” Quillen said.
— Robert Iafolla
Place of Birth: Milwaukee
Law School: Marquette University
Law School
Law Firm: Luce, Forward, Hamilton
& Scripps
Practice Area: Family wealth and
exempt organizations, fiduciary
litigation
Linda M. Rottman recently helped secure a $65 million verdict for her clients, a
widow and her two children, in a breach-offiduciary-trust case that lasted seven years,
including four in trial.
In the end, Qualcomm founder Neil
Kadisha was labeled “a common thief” by
the trial judge.
“The trustee moved heaven and earth to
bury the information on what he had done,” Rottman said.
The big win was another feather in the cap of a litigator who has gone from the shores
of Lake Michigan to the beaches of the Pacific. After deciding “on a cold, cold, cold day”
in 1984 to ditch private practice in Wisconsin for sunny California, Rottman left the law
for the business world.
A desire to give her horse, a Swedish Warmblood, “the same things all the other horses
had” brought her back to the law.
She joined probate boutique Ross Sacks & Glazier before moving to Holland & Knight.
She then jumped to Luce in 2006 along with nine of her colleagues.
Among Rottman’s upcoming projects is work with a “very, very, very large trust” that
she isn’t ready to discuss.
She said her early years on the job taught her that you cannot rely on faith alone when
practicing law.
“I learned to question every fact that is presented,” Rottman said.
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