FBA Los Angeles - Officers

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Members of the Board of Directors

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Christine Adams is a former federal prosecutor who recently co-founded Adams, Duerk & Kamenstein LLP, a Los Angeles-based, nationally active litigation boutique certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. She specializes in sensitive internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense matters, SEC investigations, and complex civil litigation. Christine has represented multiple Fortune 500 clients, including companies in the global media and entertainment, gaming, and banking industries.

Douglas A. Axel is a partner with Sidley Austin LLP and is a member of the White Collar, Securities Enforcement and Regulatory, and Commercial Litigation and Disputes practices. A former federal prosecutor, Doug focuses his practice on white collar criminal defense, government enforcement matters, internal investigations and commercial litigation and disputes. He has prosecuted and defended individuals and corporations in a wide range of white collar and government enforcement matters, including matters involving the False Claims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities fraud, insider trading, consumer protection, healthcare enforcement and antitrust.

Kristina Azlin is a partner with Holland & Knight LLP.

Koren Bell is a partner at Larson, LLP, where she specializes in white-collar criminal matters--including as Counsel of Record in the U.S. Supreme Court--and civil matters--including as trial counsel for the NCAA in a highly-publicized defamation case.

Lauren Blas is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where her practice focuses on class actions, labor and employment litigation, and complex commercial litigation in the trial courts and on appeal.

Lauren Border is an associate at Hueston Hennigan LLP, an elite litigation boutique focused on high stakes jury trials and arbitrations. Before joining the firm, she served as an inaugural clerk for eighteen months to the Honorable Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Lauren is a graduate of Stanford Law School.

Joseph Boufadel is a partner at Salvato Boufadel LLP, where his practice focuses on business and commercial litigation, insolvency litigation, and appeals. Joseph is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization.

Davida Brook is a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP, focusing on commercial litigation at every level, and ranges from two-party business and employment disputes to complex, multi-party and class action cases involving securities, contract, and patent law. Davida is also well known for her work related to defamation and intellectual property. Prior to joining Susman Godfrey, Davida served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sandor Callahan

John Carson is Of Counsel in Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie's Intellectual Property practice group. His practice includes all phases of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law, including licensing and litigation.

Lana Choi is a Senior Deputy County Counsel at the Los Angeles Office of the County Counsel and Chief Legal Advisor for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. She advises the Board of Supervisors and County departments on gun safety issues, including red flag laws/gun violence restraining orders, and advises the Sheriff's Department on a variety of matters, including civil and criminal subpoenas/discovery, contracts, media/intellectual property, and the Public Records Act. Lana represents the Sheriff's Department in 1983 civil rights, tort, and Second Amendment/firearms cases in federal and state court. She served as a Central District Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.

Sepehr Daghighian Sepehr Daghighian is a seasoned trial attorney, specializing in civil litigation, intellectual property, and business litigation. He has successfully tried over 25 cases to verdict as first chair. Mr. Daghighian possesses a strong scientific, business, and legal background that is rare among practitioners.

Jonathan Eisenman is a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles.

Jeanne Fugate is a partner in the Los Angeles office of King & Spalding, LLP. Jeanne is a first-chair trial lawyer with a wide-ranging practice focused on class actions, intellectual property, and employee mobility issues. Jeanne has a stellar record of success on TROs and injunctions, summary judgment, trial, and appeal, including obtaining a multi-million dollar jury verdict as lead counsel in a three-week trade secret misappropriation trial.

Neil Gehlawat is a trial lawyer at Taylor & Ring, where he handles civil rights cases against police agencies.

John Hanusz

Patricia Kinaga is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She provides advice to employers on a range of issues, including wage hour, major workforce layoffs, medical and disability leaves, discrimination, and discipline matters. She also conducts complex workplace investigations and provides advice on high profile executive separations.

Jeffrey A. Koncius is a partner at Kiesel Law LLP. He has been a civil litigator for his entire career handling complex matters in federal and state courts on behalf of plaintiffs. With experience in all aspects of civil trial and appellate practice, for more than the last decade he has concentrated on consumer class actions in courts throughout the country representing consumers.

Arnold Lee is the Acting Chief Assistant City Attorney with the City of Pasadena, where he litigates cases in both state and federal courts, as well as advises City Boards, Commissions, Departments, and serves as the General Counsel for the Pasadena Center Operating Company.

Sharlene Lee is a is a shareholder at Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth & Wynner, PC, practicing in the areas of business litigation and employment. She prosecutes and defends matters involving trade secrets, unfair competition, privacy, defamation, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, shareholder derivative claims, and real estate disputes. She has successfully brought and defended anti-SLAPP motions, protecting her clients' First Amendment rights.

Amy Longo is a partner in Ropes & Gray's litigation and enforcement practice group, specializing in securities enforcement and securities litigation. Amy has more than 25 years of experience representing and prosecuting companies and individuals, with a focus on the financial services industry.

Doug Miller

Peter Morrison is the leader of Skadden's Los Angeles Litigation Group and co-head of the firm's West Coast litigation practice. He has a broad litigation practice with a particular emphasis on securities, M&A and tax litigation.

Erin Murphy

Patrick Nutter is a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP, with a focus on antitrust, product liability, and government enforcement actions. Patrick graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2019 and started his career at White & Case in Los Angeles, working on affirmative and defensive antitrust and commercial litigation. From 2021 to 2022, Patrick clerked for the Honorable Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha in the Central District of California.

Kuruvilla Olasa is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP. His litigation practice encompasses a wide array of high-stakes matters, with a particular focus on complex antitrust litigation. He also counsels clients in the technology and entertainment industries on antitrust issues, including with respect to mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to Judge Sandra Ikuta of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Kuruvilla received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an articles editor for the California Law Review as well as the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Agustin Orozco is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Crowell & Moring LLP, and is a member of the firm's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and Government Contracts groups. As a former federal prosecutor, Agustin is a skilled trial lawyer focused on directing complex white collar cases and investigations, handling contentious and sophisticated pretrial litigation, and successfully proving highly difficult cases at trial. Agustin's background as a federal prosecutor and government contracts attorney leaves him uniquely situated to help clients where government contracts and white collar intersect.

Robert Quigley is an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission.

Nicole Rodriguez Van Dyk is a principal at Bird Marella, concentrating her practice on the defense of white collar criminal prosecutions, government and regulatory investigations, and complex civil litigation. A significant portion of her practice is devoted to the representation of health care providers in state and federal criminal investigations and prosecutions, and parallel civil proceedings. Nicole also has extensive experience defending clients in criminal matters related to government contracting fraud, mortgage fraud, and labor violations, as well as civil qui tam actions and business disputes. Prior to joining Bird Marella in 2012, Nicole served as law clerk to the Honorable Josephine Staton of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and practiced for three years as a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Ellisen Turner is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He represents clients in complex commercial and intellectual property disputes in the Federal Courts, as well as in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and domestic and international arbitrations. He is also an IP strategist, counseling clients on IP transactions and combining business acumen with a deep understanding of IP law to support his clients' business goals and maximize the value of their technology.

Alex Wyman is a partner at Latham & Watkins. A former federal prosecutor and accomplished trial lawyer, Alex Wyman represents clients in complex litigation and regulatory investigations.

Honorary Directors / Members

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