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Address
12275 El Camino Real, Suite 200 (Del Mar Heights)
San Diego, California 92130 (San Diego Co.)
Average Client Review Rating
5.0
out of 5
Average Peer Review Rating
5.0
out of 5
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's founding partners began the firm in Los Angeles in 1927 with the simple blueprint of providing superior client service and legal counseling. Sheppard Mullin attorneys continue to respond rapidly to ever-changing business and legal environments with creative, cost-effective and practical solutions. The firm's philosophy is to staff matters with experienced, effective, results-oriented attorneys who recognize that availability, accessibility and responsiveness to our clients is fundamental. Statement of PracticeGeneral Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in all State and Federal Courts; Financial Institutions Law; Commercial Law; Banking; Bankruptcy and Reorganization; Construction; Corporate; Securities; Antitrust; Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Health Care; Unfair Competition; Labor and Employment; Pension and Employee Benefits; Federal, State and Local Taxation; Government Contracts; Real Estate; Land Use; Environmental; White Collar Criminal Defense; International Business; Administrative; Probate; Trust; Estate Planning; Aerospace and Defense. Year Established: 1927
Firm Size: 532
Firm Affiliations TERRALEX
Address12275 El Camino Real, Suite 200 (Del Mar Heights)
San Diego, CA 92130, (San Diego Co.)
PhonePhone: 858-720-8900
Fax: 858-509-3691
Websitehttp://www.sheppardmullin.com
Firm/Affiliate OfficesLos Angeles, California: (Main Office) Forty-Eighth Floor, 333 South Hope Street, 90071-1448
Costa Mesa, California: 650 Town Center Drive, 4th Floor, Costa Mesa. Telephone: 714-513-5100. Telecopier: 714-513-5130. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
Los Angeles, California: 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1600, Los Angeles. Telephone: 310-228-3700. Telecopier: 310-228-3701. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
Menlo Park, California: 990 Marsh Road. Telephone: 650-815-2600. Fax: 650-815-2601. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
San Diego, California: 501 West Broadway, Nineteenth Floor. Telephone: 619-338-6500. Telecopier: 619-234-3815. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
San Francisco, California: Seventeenth Floor, Four Embarcadero Center. Telephone: 4l5-434-9100. Telecopier: 415-434-3947. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
Santa Barbara, California: 1111 Chapala Street, 3rd Floor. Telephone: (805) 879-1800. Fax: (805) 879-1855. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
Washington, District of Columbia: Eleventh Floor East, 1300 I Street, NW. Telephone: 202-218-0000. Telecopier: 202-218-0020. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
New York, New York: Twenty-fourth Floor, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 10112
Shanghai, China: Platinum Tower, 12th Floor, 233 Tai Cang Road, Luwan District. Telephone: +(86) 21 5175 7765. Telecopier: +(86) 21 5175 1561. Home Page Address: www.sheppardmullin.com.
(For complete biographical data on Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Orange County and Century City, California, New York, Washington, D.C. and Shanghai, China personnel, see Professional Biographies at those locations)
PARTNERSElizabeth S. Balfour (Partner) admitted to bar, 2001, California. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1996); Harvard University Law School (J.D., 1999). Practice Areas: General Practice; Litigation; White Collar Crime.Email: Elizabeth S. Balfour
+ John D. Collins (Partner) admitted to bar, 1970, California. Education: Stanford University (A.B., 1966; J.D., 1969). Recipient, San Diego Trial Lawyers Association Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award, 1982. Practice Areas: Labor Law; Employment Law; Trade Secrets; Unfair Competition; Civil Litigation.Email: John D. Collins
Domenic C. Drago (Partner) admitted to bar, 1984, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1981); Hastings College of the Law, University of California (J.D., 1984). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Business Transactions.Email: Domenic C. Drago
+ Richard M. Freeman (Partner) admitted to bar, 1974, California. Education: Claremont Mens College (B.A., cum laude, 1970); Duke University (J.D., with distinction, 1974). Author: "Federal and State Court Injunctions," Practicing Law Institute, 1981. Co-Author: "Creative Approaches in Employment Termination Cases," The Rutter Group, 1985; "Jury Trial Techniques In Employment Cases: Wrongful Discharge and Discrimination," Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California, 1985. Practice Areas: Labor Relations Law; Construction Law; Civil Litigation; Labor and Employment; Litigation.Email: Richard M. Freeman
Robert S. Gerber (Partner) admitted to bar, 1988, California; U.S. District Court, Southern and Central Districts of California, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Michigan (A.B., with high honors and high distinction, 1984; M.P.P., 1985); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1988). Law Clerk to the Hon. Rudi M. Brewster, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1988-1989. Chair, Intellectual Property and Technology Group, San Diego Offices of SMR&H, 2001. Chair, Legal Ethics Committee, San Diego County Bar Association, 2002. Member: Federal (Events Coordinator, 2001) and American Bar Associations; Association of Business Trial Lawyers/San Diego; San Diego Defense Lawyers; Louis M. Welsh and William B. Enright Inns of Court. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Litigation; Intellectual Property Infringement; Class Actions; Complex Litigation; Professional Errors and Omissions.Email: Robert S. Gerber
Jerry J. Gumpel (Partner) admitted to bar, 1980, California. Education: University of California at San Diego (B.A., with highest honors, 1975); Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A. and M.A.L.D., 1977); University of Chicago (J.D., cum laude, 1980). Languages: Spanish and German. Practice Areas: Business Transactions; Latin America; International Business Transactions; Real Estate; Corporations.Email: Jerry J. Gumpel
David E. Heisey (Partner) admitted to bar, 1998, Illinois and California; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Illinois (B.S.I.E., 1993); Loyola University, Chicago (J.D., 1998). Member: State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property.Email: David E. Heisey
John J. Hentrich (Partner) admitted to bar, 1978, California. Education: Fordham University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1971); Yale University (Ph.D., 1975; J.D., 1978). Practice Areas: Corporate Law.Email: John J. Hentrich
Richard L. Kintz (Partner) admitted to bar, 1970, California. Education: University of Redlands (B.A., with distinction, 1966); University of California at Berkeley (J.D., 1969). Order of the Coif. Editor, California Law Review, 1968-1969. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Venture Capital Law; Securities; Business Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Partnership Law; Taxation.Email: Richard L. Kintz
Stephen LaSala (Partner) born June 15, 1972; admitted to bar, 1997, New York; 2000, California. Education: Boston College (B.A., cum laude, 1994); Fordham University (J.D., 1997). Member: State Bar of California; New York State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Law.Email: Stephen LaSala
James A. Mercer, III (Partner) admitted to bar, 1990, California; 1992, Arizona. Education: University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1983); California State University, Fullerton (M.B.A., 1986); University of Southern California Law School (J.D., 1989). Member, San Diego Corporate Finance Council. Member, San Diego Telecommunications Council. Practice Areas: Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities Law.Email: James A. Mercer, III
Pamela J. Naughton (Partner) admitted to bar, 1980, District of Columbia and Minnesota; 1981, California. Education: St. Olaf College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1976); Yale University (J.D., 1979). Phi Beta Kappa. Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Barrister, William B. Enright Chapter of American Inns of Court. Instructor, U.S. Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, 1985. Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, 1979-1981. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California, 1981-1987. Associate Counsel to U.S. House of Representatives Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, 1987. Associate Special Counsel for Impeachment, U.S. House Judiciary Committee, 1988-1989. Member: San Diego County Bar Association (Member, Judicial Evaluation Committee); State Bar of California; Federal Bar Association (President); Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Attorneys Delegate to Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Languages: Serbo-Croatian. Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Government Investigations; Criminal Law; Health Care and Hospital Law.Email: Pamela J. Naughton
Kirt W. Shuldberg (Partner) admitted to bar, 1997, California. Education: Brigham Young University (B.S., 1992); Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (J.D., 1997). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions.Email: Kirt W. Shuldberg
Beni Surpin (Partner) admitted to bar, 2000, England and Wales (inactive); 2001, California. Education: Oxford University, St. Edmund Hall (B.A., with honors, 1995); Cambridge University, Jesus College (LL.M., with honors, 1997). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Intellectual Property.Email: Beni Surpin
John D. Tishler (Partner) admitted to bar, 1992, Illinois; 1993, Colorado; 1998, California. Education: Cornell University (B.A., with distinction, 1989); Yale University (J.D., 1992). Member: State Bar of California; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Law.Email: John D. Tishler
Michael S. Umansky (Partner) admitted to bar, 1993, California and U.S. District Court, Southern District of California. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, 1990); University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D., 1993). Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Gamma Mu. Associate Editor, California Law Review, 1992-1993. Practice Areas: Corporate; Emerging Growth and Technology Companies; Venture Capital Financings; Mergers and Acquisitions; Public Securities Offerings.Email: Michael S. Umansky
John A. Yacovelle (Partner) admitted to bar, 1987, California; U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Education: Southwestern University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1987). Moot Court Honors. Member, Board of Governors, Moot Court Honors Program, 1986-1987. Member, Southwestern Law Review, 1985-1986. Member: Associated Builders and Contractors of San Diego; The Associated General Contractors; American Subcontractors Association. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Construction Litigation; Construction Law; Litigation.Email: John A. Yacovelle
Daniel N. Yannuzzi (Partner) admitted to bar, 1994, District of Columbia; 1998, California; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Delaware (B.S., 1982); Johns Hopkins University (M.S., 1986); University of Maryland (J.D., 1993). Member: San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Litigation.Email: Daniel N. Yannuzzi
SPECIAL COUNSELBetty J. Santohigashi (Special Counsel) admitted to bar, 1987, California. Education: California State University Northridge (B.A., summa cum laude, 1973); Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 1986). Moot Court Board. Practice Areas: Business Torts; Class Action Defense; Contracts; Unfair Competition; Trademark Litigation.Email: Betty J. Santohigashi
ASSOCIATESVincent J. Brown (Associate)
Graham M. Buccigross (Associate)
Jeralin Cardoso (Associate)
Michael C. Cato (Associate)
Crystina P. Coats (Associate)
Ryan Connor (Associate)
Michael Febbo (Associate)
Abraham Hanono (Associate)
Matthew W. Holder (Associate)
Julie Komosinski (Associate)
Jennifer Lamirand (Associate)
Michael R. Leake (Associate)
Jon E. Maki (Associate)
Matthew S. McConnell (Associate)
Michael Murphy (Associate)
Christopher R. Noon (Associate)
Michael D. Orlando (Associate)
Rebecca Roberts (Associate)
Adam Shipley (Associate)
Anup Suresh (Associate)
CONTRACT ATTORNEYSAndreas F. Pour (Contract Attorney) admitted to bar, 1994, California; 1995, New York (inactive). Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1988; M.S., Computer Science, 1990); University of Michigan (J.D., magna cum laude, 1993). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Technology and Science; Intellectual Property.Email: Andreas F. Pour
Carole M. Ross (Contract Attorney) admitted to bar, 1992, California. Education: University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., 1989); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1992).
All San Diego Attorneys are Members of the State Bar of California and San Diego County Bar Associations. + Professional Corporation
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