Los Angeles—Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce that 22 of its attorneys across all three offices have been included in the Best Lawyers in America® 2022 list. In addition, 6 attorneys have been included in the second ever "Ones to Watch" edition which recognizes lawyers earlier in their careers who have achieved outstanding professional excellence.
Best Lawyers also named Rod Berman as "Lawyer of the Year" for Trademark Law in Los Angeles and Gordon Schaller as Lawyer of the Year for Trusts and Estates in Orange County. Only a single lawyer in a specific practice area and designated region are honored each year.
Best Lawyers is based on a comprehensive peer-review survey in which tens of thousands of top lawyers evaluate the legal abilities of other lawyers within their practice areas.
The 22 JMBM attorneys included in The Best Lawyers in America 2022 and the areas in which they are honored are:
Los Angeles
Rod S. Berman – Trademark Law
Rachel Capoccia – Litigation – Intellectual
Property
Bradford S. Cohen – Tax Law
Neil C. Erickson – Trusts and Estates
Vincent Farhat – Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Barry V. Freeman – Banking and Finance Law
Stanley M. Gibson – Litigation – Patent
Timothy Lappen – Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses
Law
Guy Maisnik – Real Estate Law, Leisure and Hospitality
Law
Robert E. Mangels – Commercial Litigation
Burton Mitchell – Trusts and Estates, Tax Law, Litigation
– Trusts and Estates
Benjamin M. Reznik – Land Use and Zoning Law
David A. Sudeck – Real Estate Law
San Francisco
Bridget McInerney Harris – Trusts and Estates
L. Randolph Harris – Tax Law
Robert B. Kaplan – Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights /
Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation –
Bankruptcy
Martin H. Orlick – Real Estate Law
Richard A. Rogan – Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights /
Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy,
Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
Kerry Shapiro – Environmental Law
Bennett G. Young – Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights /
Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation –
Bankruptcy
Orange County
Gregory S. Cordrey – Litigation – Intellectual
Property, Litigation – Patent, Patent Law
Gordon A. Schaller – Trusts and Estates, Litigation –
Trusts and Estates
The 6 JMBM attorneys included in the "Ones to Watch" list and the areas in which they are honored are:
Los Angeles
Lauren Babst – Commercial Litigation
Daniel Freedman – Land Use and Zoning Law
Matthew J. Landa – Trusts and Estates
Andrew K. Steenbock – Litigation – Trusts and Estates,
Trusts and Estates
San Francisco
Taylor N. Burras – Labor and Employment Law –
Management
Stuart K. Tubis – Civil Rights Law
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