Partner

Jessica Grant is an experienced trial lawyer who has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts. Most recently, Jessica represented the State of New Hampshire against ExxonMobil and a number of major...

Partner

Brandi Brown is well versed in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private securities offerings, leveraged buy-outs, and general corporate counseling of public and private companies. Brandi represents a diverse group of...

Partner

Howard Slavitt specializes in real estate, intellectual property, and other complex commercial litigation matters. He counsels attorneys and defends them in matters involving alleged malpractice or other alleged breaches of...

Partner

Bill Hutton is one of the nation's leading authorities on the tax and financial aspects of land conservation transactions, and is widely recognized as an expert in nonprofit and tax law. He acts as counsel to both national...

Special Counsel

John Anderson is a prominent counsel and legal advisor to the marketing services industry. He has more than 25 years of experience with advertising, new media, branding and strategy, direct response, design, market research,...

Harry O'Brien practices real estate, development, and land use law, with an emphasis on representing real estate developers in the entitlement, finance, and construction of large commercial, residential, and institutional...

Partner

Jeff Maso practices transactional real estate law, including acquisitions, finance and lending, workouts, and retail and office leasing, with particular emphasis on the negotiation and documentation of complex transactions.A...

Partner

Danna Kozerski represents developers and companies in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions including financing, leasing, and acquisitions and dispositions of office buildings, museums, shopping centers,...

Partner

Fred Fields brings more than 40 years of civil litigation experience to his clients and has resolved commercial disputes of almost every kind.He has particular expertise in the defense of accountants, directors and officers,...

Partner

With more than 20 years of experience, Howard Lasky has a broad-based business practice that emphasizes general corporate and intellectual property matters, private company financing, and mergers and acquisitions.Howard has...

Partner

Jim Mitchell is certified as a specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. His practice focuses on tax and estate planning, as well as trust and estate...

Partner

With 15 years of experience in real estate law, Laudan Raissi brings a business-oriented, problem-solving approach to her work. Laudan’s clients benefit greatly from her broad- based expertise in sophisticated real estate...

Of Counsel

Katherine Zarate Dulany is an employment litigator and advisor with more than 10 years of experience in representing a broad spectrum of employers, including Fortune 500 companies, technology companies, start-ups, nonprofit...

Partner

Gregg Ficks leads the firm’s Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Practice Group, and his nationwide commercial bankruptcy practice is focused on representing large secured and unsecured creditors, including landlords, lenders,...

Of Counsel

Jeffrey Sinsheimer represents the technology, broadband service, Internet application and brick-and-mortar clients, most of whom operate highly regulated businesses. He has 22 years' experience advocating and litigating cable,...

Associate

Rees Morgan is a trial attorney who has litigated to verdict multiple matters in federal and state courts, including as first chair in five federal jury trial victories.  Rees’s practice focuses on business...

Associate

Jorge Lopez is an associate in the family wealth, tax and exempt organizations practice groups. He specializes in nonprofit law, counseling clients on the formation, taxation and governance of tax-exempt organizations with a...

Associate

Bejan Fanibanda has experience across a broad range of corporate litigation matters in both state and federal courts, including commercial disputes, domestic and foreign governmental investigations, white collar criminal...

Partner

Paul Escobosa’s years of experience as a corporate CEO, CFO and CMO prior to launching his law career give him a particularly keen insight into the complexities and practicalities of business. Since beginning his legal...

Partner

With more than 25 years of experience, Virginia Crisp brings a practical and strategic approach to her broad litigation practice, covering general civil litigation, as well as probate and trust matters. Virginia specializes in...

Of Counsel

Gina Roccanova joined Coblentz after a decade with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. She is a senior employment and labor attorney with extensive experience in negotiations, counseling, litigation, arbitration,...

Partner

Paul Tauber brings wide-ranging transactional experience to his corporate, technology, and venture capital clients. He is particularly skilled in the areas of financing, intellectual property licensing, joint ventures, and...

Associate

Charmaine Yu litigates in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. She has experience in a wide range of litigation matters including contractual disputes, business torts, unfair business practices...

Partner

Julie Treppa is one of the leading tax practitioners in the field of New Market Tax Credits, counseling investors, businesses, and community-based organizations seeking to use tax incentives and tax credits to maximize profits...

Associate

Jana Contreras has experience in all aspects of commercial litigation in state and federal courts, including representing clients at mediation, settlement conferences, arbitration and trial. She has particular expertise in...

Partner

Zuzana Ikels is a partner in the firm's litigation group, with particular expertise in electronic discovery issues. Zuzana's practice involves handling all types of complex commercial disputes, including class actions, unfair...

Partner

Lauren Kowal's practice focuses on complex civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels. She has represented clients in both state and federal court in a wide range of matters, including securities law, antitrust,...

Partner

Naomi Rustomjee's civil litigation practice emphasizes complex business, commercial, and employment disputes. She is committed to serving her clients' needs, always ensuring that she understands their goals and long-term...

Associate

Jerry Burke's practice focuses on general civil litigation in both state and federal courts. Prior to joining the firm, Jerry clerked for the Honorable Samuel Conti of the United States District Court for the Northern District...

Partner

Pam Duffy practices in the areas of commercial real estate, land use, and development, with a special expertise in large public and private entity transactions. She has acted as lead counsel for numerous major development...

Partner

Jeffry Bernstein is one of the most well-known and preeminent tax attorneys in California. As the head of the firm's tax department, Jeffry brings extensive experience and close personal attention to the representation of...

Partner

Cynthia Rowland has extensive experience in tax and corporate law and her practice is focused on charitable giving arrangements. Cynthia offers unparalleled personal service and attention to the high-net-worth individuals and...

Partner

Karen Frank’s practice covers virtually every aspect of intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, domain names, unfair competition, right of publicity, branding and advertising, publishing and the Internet....

Partner

Venessa Henlon is a partner in the firm's Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group. In addition to her expertise in traditional commercial real estate transactions, Venessa brings a deep understanding of the issues facing...

Associate

David Mehretu practices complex commercial litigation in both federal and state court. He has experience in a variety of areas including intellectual property, class actions, appeals, business fraud, mass torts, and regulatory...

Partner

Todd Brody’s specialty is serving as outside general counsel to a wide range of privately held companies, usually at the advanced growth stage. He approaches each project with a holistic view and a keen mind, working...

Associate

Caroline Guibert is a senior associate in the firm's Land Use & Real Estate Practice Group, with particular expertise in assisting commercial and residential developers with obtaining the requisite approvals to develop real...

Partner

Charles J. (CJ) Higley counsels clients on a broad range of real property matters, including transactional real estate (acquisition, disposition, and leasing), land use entitlements, design and construction law, and compliance...

Partner

Ann Johnston has more than twenty-five years of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of complex civil litigation matters, with a focus on cases involving cable television, telecommunications,...

Partner

Matt Bove has extensive experience in sophisticated real estate transactions representing some of the Bay Area’s most active developers and investors in acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, construction and financing....

Associate

Eleanor Hicks practices general corporate law and represents both new and well-established private and public companies, as well as financial institutions and individuals. She has experience drafting contracts and legislation,...

Partner

A co-managing partner of Coblentz, Jeff Knowles is a trial lawyer practicing complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property matters. He has specific expertise in copyright, trademark, trade secret,...

Associate

Dan Vermillion is an integral member of the firm’s Family Wealth practice, with particular expertise in estate planning and the ability to efficiently draft, and counsel clients on, a wide range of wealth transfer...

Associate

Elizabeth Thomas' practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions and represents local, regional, and national developers, investors, property owners, tenants and others. Having served as Vice President for a real...

Associate

Aaron Foxworthy is a senior associate in the firm's Real Estate Practice Group. He guides clients through the intricacies of federal, state and local environmental and land use law applicable to real estate acquisition and...

Partner

Lou Giraudo brings extensive legal and business experience to his general business law practice. He has spearheaded numerous mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and refinancings for corporate clients on both sides of major...

Partner

Joshua Steinhauer's practice focuses on real estate, land use development, and environmental compliance under CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) for large and complex, commercial, institutional, residential and...

Associate

Courtney Gardner's broad range of tax education and expertise, including sophisticated skills learned while earning a prestigiousLL.M. in taxation at New York University. Law School, enables her to analyze each of her client's...

Associate

Suneeta Fernandes practices commercial litigation on behalf of a wide range of corporate and individual clients in all phases of litigation. She has particular depth of experience in the discovery phase.She litigates securities,...

Of Counsel

Jaime Mannon is a member of the Family Wealth practice group. Her depth of knowledge and ability to understand—and gracefully navigate—family dynamics give her unique insight into estate planning. She works closely...

Partner

Susan Jamison prosecutes and defends cases at both the trial and appellate levels. She has particular expertise in defending financial institutions in consumer and operations-related cases, defending class actions and complex...

Partner

Steve Lanctot specializes in general business law with an emphasis on labor and employment issues. He represents a number of closely held corporations in a variety of industries in corporate transactions and strategic issues,...

Associate

Katharine Van Dusen practices civil litigation in both state and federal court. Prior to joining the firm, she clerked for the Honorable Vaughn R. Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of...

Partner

Tony Vecino practices family wealth transfer and tax law, counseling high-net-worth individuals on how to achieve their wealth transfer and asset preservation objectives, while minimizing exposure to income, gift, estate and...

Partner

Alan Gennis's real estate practice emphasizes acquisitions and dispositions, as well as commercial leasing matters. With an M.B.A. and a working background in business, Alan has special insight into the complexities and...

Partner

Doug Sands maintains a broad transactional real estate practice with specific emphasis on finance, leasing, and purchases and sales. His wide-ranging skills were recognized when he and partner Pam Duffy were honored in 2009 by...

Partner

Sara Finigan has developed a successful practice helping both corporate and individual clients develop and implement strategies to navigate complex business matters. She represents businesses in financing, mergers and...

Associate

Scott Hall's practice focuses on complex civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels. He has represented businesses and individuals in a wide range of matters, including patent and trademark, antitrust and securities...

Partner

Cliff Yin has over 15 years of experience litigating high-stakes business, real estate, and employment disputes, including first-chairing jury trial victories. He is known for his reasoned approach to problem solving and for...

Associate

With a mathematics degree from the University of Michigan, Alex Christopher brings a careful and methodical approach to his general civil litigation practice in both state and federal courts.  Before joining the firm, he...

Partner

Julie Greer is a trial and appellate lawyer whose practice emphasizes intellectual property, false advertising, and complex business cases, often in the volatile and dynamic world of entertainment litigation....

Partner

Phil Feldman is one of the preeminent estate planning practitioners in the Bay Area and is the senior member of the firm's Family Wealth practice. Phil brings over 30 years of experience in designing wealth management and...

Associate

Misti Schmidt has extensive experience with nonprofits, clean energy finance and development, conservation easements, and community service.Misti also has experience in the acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of...

Partner

Richard Patch’s trial and appellate practice focuses on complex civil litigation, and he is widely regarded as one of the leading cable television and telecommunications lawyers in the country. His further expertise...

Of Counsel

Rob Hodil's practice focuses on land use entitlements and real estate development. He represents commercial and residential developers, hospitals, and nonprofit entities in the process of acquiring and obtaining approvals to...

Partner

Barbara Milanovich is the head of the firm's Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group and is widely recognized as one of the top leasing attorneys in San Francisco. She has represented both landlords and tenants in office,...

Partner

Jon Bass brings more than 30 years of trial and appellate experience to the firm. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of cases involving securities, antitrust, real estate, eminent domain, bank...

Associate

Kathleen McConnell’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including contract and other commercial disputes, business tort matters, trade secret misappropriation, antitrust litigation, appellate matters, real...

Partner

Tay Via works primarily in the areas of commercial real estate, land use and development. She specializes in large public/private projects and represents real estate companies, nonprofit entities, and other businesses,...

Associate

Todd Hovey is an associate in the firm's Business and Intellectual Property Groups and has broad corporate experience representing clients in a number of industries including the sports, financial, and technology industries. He...

Associate

Melody Chen’s practice focuses on the purchase, sale, financing, and leasing of commercial real estate. She also has experience representing lenders in institutional and private financings and providing real estate support to...

Associate

Lindsay Gehman’s practice focuses on advertising, technology and emerging growth companies in a variety of complex corporate and securities law matters. This includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, SEC...