Most Influential Women Lawyers in Los Angeles
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CUSTOM CONTENT APRIL 24, 2017 MOST INFLUENTIAL Women Lawyers IN LOS ANGELES OS Angeles is truly a national leader when it comes to influential women in business – and the field of law is no exception. There are some particularly stellar attorneys in the LA region who happen to be women and L we’ve alphabetically listed 50 of the best of them here, along with some basic information about their careers, practices and some relevant recent successes they’ve achieved. Congratulations to the attorneys who made this list and thank you for working to keep the people and businesses of Los Angeles on the right track! 35-49_influental_women_lawyers_supp.indd 35 4/20/2017 4:18:09 PM 36 LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL – CUSTOM CONTENT APRIL 24, 2017 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN LAWYERS TAMANY V. BENTZ NANCY A. BRUINGTON KIMBERLY BUFFINGTON MARY CRAIG CALKINS Partner Partner Partner Partner Venable LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP AMANY Vin- ANCY Bruington IMBERLY Buffing- ATIONALLY and son Bentz is a has cemented ton, a Pillsbury internationally Tpartner with Nher reputation Kpartner and Nrecognized, Venable. She is as one of the lead- noted class action, Mary Craig Calk- known for her ing finance attor- trial and appellate ins is a partner work handling high neys in Hollywood, lawyer, has a prov- in Kilpatrick profile trademark with over a decade en track record of Townsend’s Los litigation as well of experience securing multimil- Angeles office as intellectual structuring and lion-dollar awards where she leads the property matters negotiating com- for her clients. In fast-growing West generally, including patent, trade secrets, plex motion picture, television and other December 2016, she was named managing Coast Insurance Practice. Insurance is a and copyright litigation. Clients also rely on entertainment industry financing transac- partner of Pillsbury’s 85-lawyer Los Ange- critical part of virtually every significant Bentz to provide critical brand protection tions for a broad array of industry players. les office. She is also the co-hiring partner piece of litigation, and Calkins has more counseling to protect their most valuable She also skillfully navigates complex inter- for the Los Angeles office and co-heads than 30 years of high- profile insurance intellectual property and prevent or reduce creditor and interparty arrangements among the Los Angeles Summer Associate Pro- coverage experience representing policy- the negative impact counterfeiting and IP financial investors, producers, distributors gram. holders in headline-grabbing directors and theft can have on their business. and networks, completion bond companies, Skilled in trials, appeals and arbitra- officers liability, entertainment and media, Bentz counsels clients on the cutting guilds and other stakeholders. tions, Buffington has been successfully intellectual property, cybersecurity, and edge of the digital media industry, including Bruington handles a wide range of enter- litigating consumer class actions and other significant coverage disputes. companies that operate some of the most tainment industry financing transactions, complex intellectual property, insurance Under Calkins’ leadership, Kilpatrick visited websites in the world. She also including multi-picture or multi-series and coverage and commercial cases for 20+ Townsend’s West Coast team has helped advises companies in the entertainment, slate financings, cash flow and asset-based years. Co-leader of Pillsbury’s Internet and their clients recover hundreds of millions fashion and consumer products industries. A financing transactions, corporate finance Social Media team, Buffington regularly of dollars through the negotiation, liti- frequent speaker, Bentz recently moderated transactions, senior secured term loan and represents technology companies, startups gation, trial, and arbitration of complex a panel at the Digital Entertainment World revolving credit facilities, mezzanine loan and other businesses in social media and insurance coverage disputes. Her team is Expo discussing how user-generated content transactions, and the formation and cap- copyright-related matters. She asserts and currently handling coverage disputes and presents unique rights-management chal- italization of entertainment companies. defends trademark, privacy rights and issues implicating the laws of Brazil, Chad, lenges, and also a town hall at Sony Studios Recent work includes advising long-time licensing disputes for recording artists, Chile, Germany, Jordan, Malta, Syria, on data security. She is an editor of Digital client MGM in 2016 in its new, five-year $1 radio stations, and entertainment com- Turkey and the UK internationally, as well Media Link, a newsletter covering trends billion revolving credit facility arranged by panies, and has recovered $50+ million as matters in California, Colorado, Dela- and developments in the industry, and also J.P. Morgan with a syndicate of lenders. The for insurance policyholders. She was the ware, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North sits on the board of the Association of Inde- arrangement replaced MGM’s existing $665 featured speaker at the 2016 Women in Carolina and Texas. She is handling major pendent Commercial Producers (AICP) million revolving credit facility and lowers Law Empowerment Forum in Los Angeles coverage litigation in North Carolina and West. its borrowing rate to the London Interbank on the topic, “Ambition: The Fuel for negotiating matters in New York and Dela- Offered Rate plus 2.25%, and augmented Your Career Engine (Why Talent Isn’t ware involving more than $250 million in other terms within the agreement. Enough).” insurance coverage. We are very proud that our Amy Solomon is among one of 2017’s Most Infl uential Women Lawyers. She’s awesome! Congratulations Amy All of us at … 1126 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: 213-262-6777 | Phone: 888-397-7655 | Fax: 213-481-1554 35-49_influental_women_lawyers_supp.indd 36 4/20/2017 4:18:16 PM APRIL 24, 2017 CUSTOM CONTENT – LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL 37 CONGRATULATIONS TO WSHB PARTNERS CONSTANCE ENDELICATO & BRENDA RADMACHER NAMED 2017 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN LAWYERS WSHB is proud to celebrate these two partners for their achievements and much deserved recognition as Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2017 Most Influential Women Lawyers in Los Angeles. They are just two examples of why WSHB was recently named one of the top ten law firms in the nation for female lawyers by several national publications. 877 974-2529 wshblaw.com 09-66_labj_fullpages_04_24_17.indd 37 4/20/2017 4:21:29 PM 38 LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL – CUSTOM CONTENT APRIL 24, 2017 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN LAWYERS MICHELLE COOKE ALEXIS CRUMP KATESSA CHARLES DAVIS M. ELIZABETH DUBECK Partner Partner/Vice-Chair of Corporate Practice Shareholder Partner Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & O’Melveny & Myers LLP Stewart, P.C. OR over 20 LEXIS Crump leader in years, Manatt’s is a partner ATESSA Charles O’Melveny’s Fintellectual Ain the Los Davis is a A Project Devel- property co-chair Angeles office Kshareholder in opment and Real Michelle Cooke has of Lewis Brisbois the Los Angeles Estate Practice, successfully been and vice-chair office of Ogletree, Liz Dubeck rou- helping clients of the Corporate Deakins, Nash, tinely handles the protect—as well as Practice. Crump Smoak & Stewart. firm’s high profile, expand—their most has more than 20 She is responsible groundbreaking important asset: years of experience for all aspects of project finance and their intellectual property. Having cultivated in municipal and corporate finance, real employment litigation matters on behalf development deals, as well as public-private a reputation for exceptional trademark work estate, redevelopment, EB-5 financing and of employers and management, including partnership transactions. attuned to business interests, Cooke serves mergers and acquisitions. She has acted as trials and arbitrations. Davis has tried to Last year was a particularly strong as a trusted partner to her clients. She works counsel to public entities, developers and verdict in state and federal court employ- one for Dubeck, as she led the legal team with publicly traded companies such as Uni- private equity groups for the financing of ment matters involving gender, race, and handling the $2.5 billion bond financing versal Studios, General Mills and Alliance various commercial, retail and residential disability discrimination and harassment, transaction in connection with LaGuardia Healthcare Services in establishing, guarding real estate development projects through- as well as retaliation and wrongful termi- Gateway Partners’ (LGP’s) leasing, redevel- and growing their brands. This includes pro- out the United States. nation. She also provides preventive coun- opment, financing, and long-term operation viding global strategies to create and increase Crump has assisted clients in the seling to clients. (through 2050) of the Central Terminal brand value and tackling cross-border trade- capacity of bond counsel, corporate coun- Davis is a past President of the Los Building at New York LaGuardia Airport. mark and copyright issues and disputes, and sel, developer’s counsel and disclosure Angeles County Bar Foundation, a past She and the rest of the O’Melveny team revising those strategies to reflect a client’s counsel. Crump has handled the issuance Trustee of the Los Angeles County