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Panteha Abdollahi is a seasoned litigator who represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters. She is well-versed in all stages of litigation and has tried numerous cases to verdict or settlement. She has authored and argued dozens of successful motions that have resulted in the early dismissal of claims. In addition to her commercial trial practice, Ms. Abdollahi leads her firm’s Appellate Practice Group. She has briefed matters before the United States Supreme Court, feder...

http://swelawfirm.com/ KYRA E. ANDRASSY is a partner of Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP. She concentrates her practice on bankruptcy and insolvency matters and business litigation. Her insolvency-related work includes representing chapter 11 debtors, chapter 7 and chapter 11 trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, purchasers of assets from bankruptcy estates, assignees in assignments for the benefit of creditors, federal and state court receivers, and borrowers in out-...

Steven Bledsoe’s practice focuses on complex, high-stakes litigation, including contract disputes, fraud and business torts, intellectual property, and insurance coverage litigation. With more than 25 years of trial experience, Steven is known for taking the most difficult witnesses at deposition and on cross-examination at trial. He has successfully tried cases before juries, judges, and arbitrators. Steven has defended corporate clients in a variety of industries, including the aerosp...

Matt Easton has been a central figure in some of Easton & Easton’s most prominent cases in recent years, including a 2019 mediated settlement for $20,000,000, a 2016 settlement for $3,060,000, a 2013 settlement for $2,750,000, and two 2017 settlements for $1,875,000 and $1,800,000 — all of which were selected as Top Million-Dollar Settlements in California for their respective years, and which contributed to Matt’s lifetime selection to the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates...

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 Doug Easton, the founder of the Law Offices of W. Douglas Easton, has practiced law since 1971. Over his career, Doug has represented thousands of people in personal injury claims who have sustained all manner of injuries in all types of accidents through the negligence or wrongdoing by other individuals, businesses, or governmental entities. Doug has served as an Orange County Superior Court Temporary Judge and as an arbitrator and settlement judge for the Orange County S...

Steve Edwards is a partner in Manatt's Orange County office. Steve has a broad background in real estate and real estate law, including in-house experience in the real estate industry, and serving as co-chair of the real estate practice for an international law firm. He has been active in virtually all aspects of the acquisition, sale, exchange, financing, ground leasing, leasing, and development of improved and unimproved real estate for both individual and institutional clients. His practic...

Aaron Hicks is a civil trial attorney and founder of Hicks Law Firm, based in Orange County, also with offices in San Diego and Tennessee. His current practice includes representing plaintiffs in personal injury cases, resulting in traumatic brain injuries, catastrophic injuries, complex regional pain syndrome and wrongful death.

Susan Hori's practice focuses on land use planning issues, including development entitlements and regulatory permits for real estate development projects and the resolution of environmental issues affecting real property. The hallmark of Susan's practice is her track record of success in navigating the complex process of multiagency permits and approvals. Her clients include landowners, financial institutions, developers and builders in the residential, retail, hotel/resort, and commercial an...

Ken Julian represents companies and individuals in civil and criminal cases and governmental investigations. He has prevailed in matters involving allegations of insider trading, healthcare fraud, financial fraud, false claims, price fixing, FDA violations and environmental contamination. He has represented Fortune 500 companies, corporate executives, physicians and attorneys. His clients include a former Major League Baseball player and a worldwide film star. Colleagues have described him as...

Michael I. Katz is highly regarded for his combination of creativity, strategic judgment, and courtroom prowess. He has more than twenty years' experience litigating complex business disputes, including intellectual property, unfair competition, and consumer class actions. Mr. Katz was formerly a partner at Morrison & Foerster. He began his career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, United States District Court for the Western Dis...

Abbas Kazerounian is one of the founding partners at Kazerouni Law Group, APC, and the Injury Recovery Group. Mr. Kazerounian’s areas of specialty are personal injury, consumer rights and class actions.In 2013, 2014, 2015 Abbas was selected by his peers as a rising star and in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 as a Super Lawyer (a prestigious recognition given to only 2.5 percent of the attorneys in the state). He was also voted as a Rising Star by the San Diego Daily Transcript in 2012. Abbas ...

Mike (Mohammad) Kazerouni is one of the founding partners at Kazerouni Law Group APC. For over a decade Mike has dedicated his legal career to the representation of personal injury victims and consumer protection from dangerous and defective products. Mike has successfully represented thousands of clients and litigated hundreds of personal injury and consumer protection cases including wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, burn injuries, defective products litigation, among other harms and ...

William N. Lobel specializes in chapter 11 reorganizations and out-of-court restructurings. He is certified by the state bars of California and Florida and has more than forty-five years of experience as one of the nation’s leading bankruptcy lawyers. He represents clients in the real estate industry, including home builders, commercial real estate developers, and subprime lenders. He has also successfully applied his legal expertise in representation of gaming casinos and restaurant ch...

Eli counsels clients on a variety of technology transaction matters including discovery, development, protection, licensing, and commercialization of intellectual property. Eli is also a passionate aviator and counsels clients seeking to acquire, lease, or share the use of turboprop and turbojet aircraft and has extensive experience with various aviation transactional matters as well as FAA and international aviation regulatory issues. He also holds an FAA commercial pilot’s license wit...

Ellen Marshall focuses on business transactions, including capital markets, finance, mergers and acquisitions and securitization. She has practiced banking, corporate and finance law in Los Angeles and Orange County for more than 30 years. Ellen represents businesses in their acquisition and disposition of companies and business units. She represents banks, investment funds and other companies involved in the mortgage, auto finance and other specialty finance business, including such financia...

https://swelawfirm.com/about-the-firm/ Robert S. Marticello, a partner of Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP, concentrates his practice on bankruptcy/insolvency matters and business and bankruptcy-related litigation. He has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers Magazine and was selected to participate in the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ Next Generation Program, which is designed for 40 “up and coming” bankruptcy attorneys in the country. Mr. Marti...

Defining the Automotive Liability Industry Since 1995 Jonathan Michaels has been in practice since 1995, and during that time has created an exemplary law firm. By challenging some of the largest companies in the world, Michaels has gained national recognition as the “go to” attorney for high stakes litigation, when everything is on the line. Michaels has developed a unique practice in the automotive industry, where he has litigated cases against nearly every major automotive manu...

Bardia Moayedi is a corporate and securitie s partner at Snell & Wilmer , a full-service business law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing in 16 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico, including three locations in California. He is chair of the firm's Technology Industry Group and co-chair of the firm's Life Sciences Industry Group . He primarily advises emerging growth and public companies throughout their life cycles as well as venture capital and private equity fi...

John Murphy focuses his practice on eminent domain, inverse condemnation and other complex real estate trials. He represents a wide variety of public agencies, corporations, and landowners. Mr. Murphy and his firm have earned its clients over $275 Million in eminent domain awards over the past six years. His firm has won arguably the highest condemnation awards in the State in each of the past four years. Its 2017 judgment against the County of San Bernardino totals $48 Million. He has been c...

Tom Phelps is a renowned banking attorney who has worked with scores of financial institutions throughout the country. As a founding partner in the firm, he boasts a long and distinguished career serving banking, thrift and nonbank financial institutions. He is active in banking industry groups, including the California Bankers Association, where he previously served on the State Government Relations Committee and the Federal Government Relations Committee. Tom has been a featured speaker at ...

Jeff's practice is focused on handling complex business disputes in any forum. He represents companies and individuals in the technology, nutrition, life sciences, entertainment and other industries in business and tort cases and class actions, including handling high-profile, trade secret misappropriation, defamation, and data breach cases. Jeff is lead counsel for over 30 counties and cities in Arizona, Missouri, Kansas and Maryland who are suing the opioid manufacturers and distributors se...

http://swelawfirm.com PHILIP E. STROK, a partner of Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP, concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy/insolvency matters and business reorganizations. Mr. Strok has experience representing chapter 11 debtors, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors’ committees, asset purchasers and other parties in the context of bankruptcy cases, out-of-court workouts, and assignments for the benefit of creditors. His representative industries include real estat...

Andrew Calderón doesn’t run from fire. Large employers and other business clients depend on Andrew to help manage sensitive and high-stakes matters with a focused, disciplined approach that solves problems and achieves results. Serving clients in the technology, communications, and cryptocurrency sectors, as well as other industries, Andrew is noted for his responsiveness and flexibility. Business leaders know they can trust Andrew as an “anywhere, anytime” litigator,...

Gabriel Mendoza is an associate attorney at Easton & Easton, LLP, and focusses his practice on representing injured persons. Gabriel’s passion to seek justice for personal injury victims drew him to Easton & Easton. Prior to law school, Gabriel was a paralegal for a personal injury law firm, where he experienced first-hand the inequities of a system that desired to take advantage of victims who had been harmed by the negligence of others, which sought to pay these victims as lit...

Sam Sadeghi represents employers in complex employment litigation and strategically advises employers in navigating California’s employment laws. Sam’s litigation and trial experience includes handling wage and hour class actions, representative actions under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, single-plaintiff lawsuits, private arbitration, government agency actions, and pre-litigation disputes. Sam focuses his practice on issues related to wage and hour laws, discr...