Best Lawyers Near You in Westlake Village, California
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Lee Cirsch is a senior attorney at The Lanier Law Firm. He is an experienced trial lawyer who has handled a wide variety of personal injury, products liability, and business and commercial litigation matters for more than two decades. He primarily focuses on representing the firm’s clients in personal injury and product liability matters. Lee focuses on the needs of the firm’s clients and develops the best strategy to achieve those needs in the most creative, efficient, and econom...
Michael A. Akselrud is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm in Los Angeles , specializing in business litigation , personal injury and products liability . He joined the Lanier family in 2012 as a law clerk and member of the firm’s pharmaceutical litigation team. Michael was named by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Southern California since 2016. In 2020 Michael was named to the LawDragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, one of the most respected guides to the legal profession. ...
Rachel Lanier practices in the areas of toxic torts, pharmaceutical litigation, mass torts, and product liability. Prior to joining The Lanier Law Firm in 2016, Ms. Lanier was an associate at a mid-sized firm in Manhattan, where she focused on representing individuals suffering from asbestos-induced diseases, such as mesothelioma and lung cancer. Ms. Lanier earned her undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University in California, and her law degree from the St. John’s University School ...
Jose represents private companies at all stages of the corporate life cycle in buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions. His experience includes reverse/forward triangular mergers, equity purchases and asset sales. He also advises private companies and investors in financing transactions, such as sales of preferred or common stock, company interests, convertible notes and SAFEs. In addition, Jose counsels private companies on formation and general corporate matters. Jose provides ongoing g...
Ms. Marino is a 27-year lawyer and a State Bar of California Certified Criminal Law Specialist. Her practice focuses on white collar and complex criminal litigation on both a national and international level. Ms. Marino regularly represents individuals in matters involving allegations of all aspects of fraud, including, wire and mail fraud, health care fraud, insurance, and bank fraud, as well as allegations of money laundering, conspiracy, computer crimes, bribery, and kickbacks, counterfeit...
Mr. Pomerantz has substantial experience representing debtors, unsecured creditors, secured creditors, trustees, and creditors' committees in chapter 11 reorganization cases, chapter 7 cases, and in related litigation in both state and federal court. Mr. Pomerantz also has an active creditors' committee practice, having represented the creditors' committees in Glazed Investments (Krispy Kreme), Commissary Operations, Tom's Foods, Empire Beef and Souper Salad. Mr. Pomerantz's practice is gener...
Paul Frimmer focuses on estate planning, wills and trusts, probate and trust administration, postmortem tax planning, probate litigation, art law, charitable giving, and tax issues relating to these matters. Widely regarded as one of the top estate planning attorneys in the country, Paul has received numerous accolades for his work. He’s known for taking a collaborative approach with his clients and guiding them toward the best decisions tailored to meet their individual needs. Paul has...
Jay L. Cooper focuses his practice on music industry, motion picture, television, multimedia and intellectual property issues. He represents individuals and companies on intellectual property matters including recording and publishing agreements for individual artists and composers; actor, director, producer and writer agreements in film and television; executive employment agreements; complex acquisitions and sales of entertainment catalogs; production agreements on behalf of music, televisi...
Dorothy Wolpert is a founding member of Bird Marella. Her practice includes trial experience in copyright infringement, legal malpractice (as both plaintiff and defendant), probate matters, post-acquisition disputes, entertainment cases, and several precedential cases related to the construction of the Los Angeles subway. She has argued in the Supreme Court of the State of California and before all the U.S. district courts in the state, as well as the Ninth Circuit. Dorothy has served as a ju...
Wendy Albers is a partner at Benedon & Serlin LLP in Woodland Hills, California, where she focuses her practice on Appellate Practice. She joined the firm in 2012 and has more than 25 years of experience representing clients in state and federal appellate courts throughout California. Her work includes briefing and oral argument in complex civil appeals, as well as strategic guidance at critical stages of litigation. Certified in Appellate Law by the State Bar of California. Recognized by...
Mr. Iser specializes in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment, commercial, real estate and employment litigation, including the defense of nationwide class action lawsuits. He handles complex, high-profile matters around the country for clients including Mattel, SeaWorld, eBay, Univision, Roland Corporation, and iconic musical artists including Jackson Browne and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Mr. Iser is the Managing Partner of KWIKA. In the area of intellectual property, Mr. Iser co...
Andrew Apfelberg, a Partner at Greenberg Glusker LLP, is a corporate and finance attorney for middle-market companies throughout the United States. Andrew often acts as outside general counsel to his clients, providing advice on a business’ significant transactions whether it’s a merger or acquisition, private equity or other financing, joint venture or licensing deal. He has a considerable depth of experience in the branded consumer products and manufacturing & distribution i...
Steven J. Lurie is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Real Estate Law. Steven J., who practices law in Los Angeles, California, has been recognized since 2014. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Steven J. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.