Betty M. Shumener

Betty M. Shumener

Los Angeles, CA recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2009
Shumener, Odson & Oh LLP

1 Best Lawyers award

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Awarded Practice Areas

Litigation - Real Estate

Biography

Betty Shumener is one of the three founding partners of Shumener, Odson & Oh LLP. Ms. Shumener represents some of the nation’s elite private equity firms, opportunity funds and financial institutions. As a commercial litigator, Ms. Shumener has protected billion of dollars of real estate and corporate assets for equity and debt investors dating back to the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980’s and evolving into the opportunity funds and investment banking firms.

Ms. Shumener represents a number of funds sponsored by major New York investment banking firms, opportunity funds headquartered on the East Coast and West Coast and the more traditional financial institutions in the United States and abroad. She has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and has been named in Best Lawyers since 2009. In 2013 she was named Best Lawyer's Lawyer of the Year in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area in real estate litigation.

Shumener, Odson & Oh LLP

1 Best Lawyers award

Shumener, Odson & Oh LLP logo

Overview

  • English

  • California State University Los Angeles, Ph.D., graduated 1980
  • California State University Los Angeles, MA, graduated 1976
  • California State University Los Angeles, BA, graduated 1974

  • California, The State Bar of California
  • District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
  • New York, New York State Bar Association
  • English
  • California, The State Bar of California
  • District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
  • New York, New York State Bar Association
  • California State University Los Angeles, Ph.D., graduated 1980
  • California State University Los Angeles, MA, graduated 1976
  • California State University Los Angeles, BA, graduated 1974

Client Testimonials

In my almost 14 years as in-house counsel, Betty is the smartest, most talented, and most effective litigator (and lawyer) I have ever worked with. She is pragmatic about if and when it makes sense to litigate. She gives her all to every transaction. Betty is available 24/7 to help.

Awards & Focus

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Litigation - Real Estate Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2013 - Litigation - Real Estate
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Litigation - Real Estate, Los Angeles (2017)
  • Litigation - Real Estate, Los Angeles (2013)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Litigation - Real Estate
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
  • Real Estate Law
Special Focus:
  • 1031 Exchange
  • Litigation

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