August 15, 2024 (San Diego/Orange County/Silicon Valley/Las Vegas/Scottsdale/Washington, D.C.) – A record total of 81 attorneys in dozens of practice areas have been named to the 2025 Best Lawyers in America® and Ones to Watch® lists. These outstanding attorneys can be found in all six Procopio locations: San Diego, Orange County, Silicon Valley, Scottsdale, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. The Best Lawyers in America lists are compiled annually through exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers provide confidential nominations and feedback.

One Procopio Partner, Michael Lyon, was recognized by his peers with a “Lawyer of the Year” award, a designation given to only a small percentage of Best Lawyers recipients. Michael was recognized in the category of Real Estate Law.

Below are Procopio’s 81 Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch, grouped into nine broad categories of law. Attorneys named to the Ones to Watch list are in italics.

Commercial Litigation

• Managing Partner John D. Alessio: Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Intellectual Property and Litigation-Real Estate (San Diego)
• Partner Richard D. Barton: Medical Malpractice Law-Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants (San Diego)
• Partner Zagros S. Bassirian (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
• Partner Anthony J. Dain: Appellate Practice (San Diego)
• Partner Kendra J. Hall: Appellate Practice (San Diego)
• PartnerElaine Harwell: Commercial Litigation and Consumer Law (San Diego)
• Partner Gerald P. Kennedy: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation-Bankruptcy (San Diego)
• Partner S. Todd Neal: Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar and Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs (San Diego)
• Partner Eric A. Plourde (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Securities, and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants (San Diego)
• Partner Rebecca Reed: Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
• Partner William Smelko: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation-Bankruptcy (San Diego)
• Partner Sean M. Sullivan: Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
• Partner Frederick K. Taylor: Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
• Partner Paul A. Tyrell: Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
• Partner Edward C. Walton: Admiralty and Maritime Law (San Diego)
• Associate Lianlian Wu (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation (San Diego)

Construction Law

• Senior Counsel Jeffery A. Garofalo: Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation, and Construction Law (Las Vegas)
• Partner Jeffrey Hood: Construction Litigation (San Diego)
• Partner Michael R. Kiesling: Litigation-Construction and Litigation-Real Estate (San Diego)
• Of Counsel Katherine Knudsen: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
• Of Counsel David Kuhlman: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
• Senior Counsel Michael Nolan: Construction Law (San Diego)
• Partner Scott Omohundro: Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
• Partner Laurence R. Phillips: Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
• Partner Craig A. Ramseyer: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
• Partner Mary A. Salamone: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (Orange County)
• Partner Timothy E. Salter: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
• Senior Associate Paul M. Tyson (One to Watch): Construction Law (San Diego)
• Senior Associate Michelle J. Wells (One to Watch): Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)

Corporate Law

• Partner Trent J. Andrews (One to Watch): Business Organizations including LLCs and Partnerships (San Diego)
• Partner Dennis J. Doucette: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, and Venture Capital Law (San Diego)
• Partner William W. Eigner: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (San Diego)
• Associate Helen Goldstein (One to Watch): Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law (Arizona)
• Partner Paul Johnson: Corporate Law (San Diego)

Family Law

• Partner Michele B. Brown: Family Law (San Diego)
• Associate Ashley R. Genser (One to Watch): Family Law and Family Law: Arbitration and Mediation (San Diego)
• Partner Adrian Martinez: Commercial Litigation and Family Law (San Diego)
• Associate Leyla Tabatabaie (One to Watch): Family Law (San Diego)
• Associate Sarah L. Taylor (One to Watch): Family Law (San Diego)
• Partner David M. Zachry: Family Law (San Diego)

Intellectual Property

• Partner Victor Felix: Litigation-Intellectual Property (San Diego)
• Senior Counsel Brett Garrison (One to Watch): Intellectual Property Law, Life Science Practice, and Litigation-Patent (Washington, D.C.)
• Partner Noel Gillespie: Patent Law and Trademark Law (San Diego)
• Senior Associate Raph Kim (One to Watch): Intellectual Property Law (Washington, D.C.)
• Senior Associate Rosie Kim (One to Watch): Intellectual Property Law and Native American Law (San Diego)
• Partner Jack Shaw (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Intellectual Property (Silicon Valley)

Labor & Employment Law

• Associate Ashley Fasano (One to Watch): Labor & Employment Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor and Employment (San Diego)
• Partner Marina Gruber (One to Watch): Litigation-Labor and Employment, Employee Benefits (ERISA) (Silicon Valley)
• Associate Nicholas Kawuka (One to Watch): Labor and Employment Law-Management (San Diego)
• Partner Marie Burke Kenny: Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor Law and Management (San Diego)
• Partner Wendy L. Tucker: Employment Law-Individuals (San Diego)

Native American Law

• Of Counsel Glenn M. Feldman: Gaming Law and Native American Law (Arizona)
• Partner Kerry K. Patterson: Gaming Law, Native American Law, and Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Senior Associate Racheal White Hawk (One to Watch): Native American Law (San Diego)

Real Estate Law

• Of Counsel Dana Bessenecker: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Amy Cannon: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Senior Counsel Steven Casselberry: Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law (Orange County)
• Partner David Crawford (One to Watch): Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Susan L. Daly: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Theodore J. Griswold: Land Use and Zoning Law (San Diego)
• Of Counsel Todd E. Leigh: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Michael E. Lyon: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Sara Neva (One to Watch): Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Craig P. Sapin: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Steve Serna (One to Watch): Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Jeff Stoke: Land Use and Zoning Law, and Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Of Counsel Raymond Wright: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
• Partner Andrew X. Yocopis (One to Watch): Real Estate Law (Scottsdale)

Tax Law

• Associate Paloma Armella Álvarez (One to Watch): Tax Law (San Diego)
• Of Counsel David C. Boatwright: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), and Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner Robert J. Brown: Real Estate Law and Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner Pedro E. Corona de la Fuente: Tax Law (Washington, D.C.)
• Partner Renee M. Gabbard: Trusts and Estates (Orange County)
• Partner Enrique Hernandez-Pulido: Tax Law (San Diego)
• Senior Associate John Y. Lee: (One to Watch): Real Estate Law and Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner John C. Miles (One to Watch): Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner Jon Schimmer: Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner Eric D. Swenson: Litigation & Controversy: Tax and Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner Raúl Villarreal Garza (One to Watch): Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates (San Diego)
• Special Counsel L. Reza Wrathall (One to Watch): Tax Law (San Diego)
• Partner Juan Pablo G. Zaragoza: Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law, and Trusts and Estates (San Diego)

Procopio attorneys and practice groups are routinely named to various legal rankings lists, including Chambers and Partners®, Martindale-Hubbell®, and Super Lawyers®. Dozens of its practiced areas are recognized by U.S. News-Best Law Firms®. Procopio is also recognized for diversity by Law360 and American Lawyer Magazine and is certified by Diversity Lab as a Mansfield Rule Plus law firm.