(Main Office)

Tatro Tekosky Sadwick LLP strives to provide exceptional legal counsel to businesses, public entities and individuals. Our principals have been partners in some of the nations oldest and most respected law firms. We recruit attorneys exclusively from large, national firms. Our single-minded focus is on achieving successes for our clients. Tatro Tekosky Sadwick LLP attorneys and staff meet exacting standards in servicing our clients' needs, but because of our unique efficiencies we are able to obtain these results at a reasonable cost to our clients, and a variety of public entities.

Tatro Tekosky Sadwick LLP serves an international clientele ranging from publicly traded, multinational corporations, including members of the Fortune 500, to privately held companies, partnerships and individual entrepreneurs, and various public entities. The firm's practice focuses on complex commercial and environmental litigation (including toxic torts, cost recovery, and civil and criminal enforcement defense), class-action litigation, real estate litigation, OSHA, regulatory compliance and transactional matters, as well as sophisticated business transactions.

Statement of Practice

Complex Commercial Litigation, Class Action Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Insurance Coverage Disputes, Environmental Law, OSHA, Business Law, Corporate Law, Business Transactions, Secured Transactions, Property Acquisition, Brownfields Development, Land Use, Superfund Cleanup, Real Estate, Toxic Torts, Employment Litigation, Labor and Employment Law and Litigation, Public Pension Law, General Fiduciary Issues.

Representative Clients:

Alumax, Inc.
Alcoa
Anacomp, Inc.
Andonian Investments
Authentic Specialty Foods, Inc.
Banner Pharmacaps, Inc.
BKK Corporation
Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
City of Anaheim
Cordis Corporation
Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation
Esprit de Corp.
Ethicon, Inc.
Excel Legacy Corporation
IMC Chemicals, Inc.
Johns Manville Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
Keysor-Century Corporation
Lorea Land, Ltd.
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association
Microsoft Corporation
National Gypsum Company
Neutrogena Corporation
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.
PACCAR Inc.
Pacific Focus Inc.
Pacific Gas & Electric
Pacific Tube Company
Pasadena Fire and Police Retirement System
Pharmavite Corporation
PMC, Inc.
Price Legacy Corporation
Target Stores
TransTechnology Corporation
Univar USA Inc.
Vopak Logistics North America Inc.
wonderfulbuys.com.

Address

333 South Grand Avenue, Suite 4270
Los Angeles, CA 90071, (Los Angeles Co.)

Phone

Phone: 213-225-7171
Fax: 213-225-7151

Website

http://www.ttsmlawfirm.com

PARTNERS

René P. Tatro (Partner) admitted to bar, 1977, California and U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; U.S. Court of International Trade. Education: Kansas State University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1974); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1977). Former Partner: Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Founding Partner, Tatro Tekosky Sadwick Mendelson LLP, 2003. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Complex Employment Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Toxic Tort Litigation.Email: René P. Tatro

Steven R. Tekosky (Partner) admitted to bar, 1982, California. Education: University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1977); Southwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1981). Former Partner: Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City. Founding Partner, Tatro Tekosky Sadwick Mendelson LLP. Former Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Counsel for Environmental Policy and Technology. Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law: University of California, Los Angeles School of Law Graduate School of Engineering; Southwestern University School of Law; University of Southern California; Loyola Marymount University Law School. Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Environmental; Environmental Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Environmental Regulation; OSHA; Labor Regulatory Compliance.Email: Steven R. Tekosky

David B. Sadwick (Partner) admitted to bar, 1986, California; 1989, District of Columbia. Education: University of California at San Diego (B.A., 1983); Stanford Law School (J.D., with distinction, 1986). Judicial Law Clerk, Hon. David Thompson, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1984-1986. Former Partner, Preston Gates & Ellis. Founding Partner, Tatro Tekosky Sadwick Mendelson, LLP. Contributing Editor: "Proposition 65 News - Proposition 65 Litigation Reporter," 1996-2000; Co-Author: "How has California Handled Toxic Torts?" Toxic Torts Practice Guide, McGraw-Hill, 1994-1996; "Inactive Sites - The Superfund Process," Environmental Law Practice Guide: State and Federal Law, Matthew Bender, 1992-1995. Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member, Environmental Law Section); State Bar of California (Member, Environmental Law Section); District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Environmental Law; Pharmaceutical; Technology; Environmental Litigation; Unfair Competition; OSHA.Email: David B. Sadwick

Juliet A. Markowitz (Partner) admitted to bar, 1993, California and U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California. Education: Brandeis University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1987); Stanford University (J.D., 1992). Phi Beta Kappa. Note Editor, Stanford Law Review, 1991-1992. Articles Editor, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1990-1991. Former Partner, Tatro Coffino Zeavin Bloomgarden LLP. Former Associate, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Board Member, Levitt & Quinn Law Firm. Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Association of Business Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Environmental Litigation; Toxic Tort Litigation; Complex Business Litigation; Intellectual Property; Insurance Coverage Litigation.Email: Juliet A. Markowitz

OF COUNSEL

Holly J. Sadlon (Of Counsel) admitted to bar, 1994, California. Education: Rutgers University, New Brunswick (B.A., with highest honors, 1991); University of California School of Law, Los Angeles (J.D., 1994). Editor, University of California Law Review, 1993-1994. Moot Court Program. Former Associate, White O'Connor Curry Gatti & Avanzado. Former Associate, Christensen White Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser & Shapiro. Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Environmental; Civil Litigation; Labor and Employment; Business Law; Entertainment and the Arts.Email: Holly J. Sadlon