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CUSTOM CONTENTA P R I L 2 6, 2 021WOME NOFINFLUE NC E:ATTORNEYSWelcome to the 2021 edition of our annual special supplement honoring LA’s most influential womenattorneys. According to the American Bar Association, 37% of practicing attorneys today are women – andthat number will continue to move toward balance when you consider that law school enrollment is currently54% female.Los Angeles is truly a national leader when it comes to influential women – and the field of law is no exception.There are some particularly stellar attorneys in the LA region who happen to be women and we’ve alphabeticallylisted some of the very best of them here, along with details about their careers, practices and relevant recent successesthey’ve achieved.The women covered in these pages have been recognized for exceptional legal skill and achievement across the fullspectrum of responsibility, exemplary leadership as evidenced by the highest professional and ethical standards, andfor contributions to the Los Angeles community at large.Congratulations to the extraordinary women included this year and thank you for your contributions to the peopleand businesses of our region.
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CUSTOM CONTENT – LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL 85APRIL 26, 2021WOMEN OF INFLUENCE: ATTORNEYSANGELA AGRUSAKALLEY AMANPartnerDLA PiperDLA Piper partner Angela Agrusa is ofthe country’s top litigation attorneys,handling high-stake matters that command headlines and shape legal precedent.In the last five years alone, Agrusa has successfully defended her clients in more than50 putative class actions with combinedpotential exposure of over 100 billion. Hertrack record has resulted in long-term partnerships with such iconic brands as Danone,Hilton, Chipotle and Motel 6. Agrusa isthe managing partner of DLA Piper’s LosAngeles offices, helping grow the firm’spresence in the market. She is an active,successful recruiter and has brought in several high-profile lateral partners in recentmonths. She is also on the firm’s ExecutiveBoard (its first Latinx board member) andco-chair of the firm’s Business and Commercial Litigation sub-practice, and its Food andBeverage sub-sector. She is also the executive sponsor of the firm’s Hispanic LatinoResource Group.KOREN BELLPartnerLarson LLPKoren L. Bell is an experienced, bilingualtrial and appellate lawyer and formersupervising federal public defender whohas litigated high-stakes cases in courtrooms around the country. At every stageof litigation, Bell delivers results for herclients through aggressive, creative, andfocused advocacy. She has handled complexwhite collar criminal matters – includingas counsel of record in a case she advancedto, and argued before, the U.S. SupremeCourt which invalidated the Ninth Circuit’s model fraud jury instruction – andcivil matters – including as trial counselin widely publicized complex commercialand civil rights cases for prominent clientsaround the world. In the past year, Bell andher co-counsel, Stephen G. Larson andJonathan E. Phillips, secured a 65 millionsettlement in the civil rights lawsuit filed onbehalf of developer Colonies Partners andits co-managing partner, businessman andphilanthropist Jeff Burum.JESSICA BABRICKShareholderBuchalterKalley R. Aman is a shareholder andserves as one of Buchalter’s officers of thecorporation as the senior vice president,chief legal officer, and assistant secretary.She is also a member of the firm’s Labor andEmployment, Litigation, and Hospitality,Restaurant, Food and Beverage PracticeGroups. Aman specializes in employmentlitigation and counseling, commercial litigation, and complex and class actions. Sherepresents employers in litigation involving claims of employment discrimination,wrongful termination, sexual harassment,retaliation, wage and hour violations, unfaircompetition, defamation and misappropriation of trade secrets. Aman regularly counselsemployers on wage and hour compliance, terminations, disciplinary matters, harassmentand discrimination complaints, and compliance with federal, state and local laws andregulations. Aman represents clients across awide variety of industries, including banking,restaurants, retail, apparel, beauty, manufacturing, artificial turf and real estate.Weinstock Manion is the nation’s leading estate planning firm, and JessicaBabrick, shareholder and director, isa member of several important teams thatresolve disputes involving trusts, estates,probate and conservatorships for Los Angeles’ most wealthy constituents. She is knownfor being a fervent advocate for her clients,and works closely with them to efficientlyand effectively handle claims that oftennever make it into the public purview.Babrick has represented clients in complexestate planning matters, including a matterworth over 100 million for Tom Petty’sfirst wife, Jane Benyo, who was under aconservatorship. When Petty died, the publicity rights, intellectual property rights andpersonal property rights were being foughtover by the children, Benyo, and Petty’ssecond wife. Babrick successfully petitionedto remove the conservatorship on Benyo,which is rare. She now continues to represent Benyo over some of the intellectualproperty of the estate.GINA BIBBYFPartnerScali Rasmussen, PCMonica Baumann is litigator and adviser with extensive experience in theautomotive industry and in consumerenvironmental litigation, including Proposition 65 issues. She advises dealer clientsand litigates all aspects of dealership legaland regulatory compliance. She previouslyserved as director of legal and regulatoryaffairs with the California New Car DealersAssociation, where she developed cuttingedge compliance programs for dealershipsand focused on emerging legal and regulatory issues impacting the sales, finance andservice of vehicles. Baumann has extensiveexperience working with dealers and theirstaff to find practical business solutions totough legal issues. As a member of ScaliRasmussen’s Data Protection, Privacy, andCybersecurity team, she received certification as an information privacy professionalthrough the International Association ofPrivacy Professionals, the world’s preeminent organization for credentialing privacyprofessionals.KERI BORDERSPartner and Global Head of the Fashion Tech PracticeWithersworldwideormer software engineer and currentglobal fashion-tech practice lead, GinaBibby is a trailblazer for fashion-techentrepreneurs and women in male-dominated spaces. From “Big Law” in SiliconValley to forming her own firm to leading atWithers, Bibby’s innovative legal practice isopening paths for innovators, women andwomen of color. Bibby is a partner in Withers’ corporate team focusing on technology,fashion, and fashion technology, helpingclients protect their innovation throughcommercial agreements, and patent, trademark and copyright procurement and litigation. She leads a global practice focusedon advising fashion-tech clients on mattersinvolving corporate formation, venturecapital, corporate transactions, real estate,privacy, e-commerce, IP, and more. Bibbyroutinely handles matters involving dataprivacy, IP and technology licensing, and IPcounseling. She has significant trial experience handling complex IP, unfair competition, and trade secret disputes. Bibby is alsoa registered patent attorney.MONICA BAUMANNShareholder/DirectorWeinstock ManionPartner; Co-Leader, Food & Beverage Group;Co-Leader, Food False Advertising Group,Los Angeles OfficeMayer Brown LLPKeri Borders is a Mayer Brown partner, aco-leader of the Food False AdvertisingGroup in the Los Angeles office anda co-leader of the firm’s Food & BeverageGroup. For more than a decade, she hastackled legal issues where there isn’t a lotof precedent in class action suits, continuing to push the envelope with innovativearguments, making case law – and winningcases. Some of the nation’s biggest brandshave turned to Borders to lead their defense.She has responded with a multiprongedstrategy and a goal of not only defeatingthe case at hand, but also developing creative strategies to establish legal precedentthrough published opinions that will guideand corral these types of cases for years tocome. In the process, Borders has distinguished herself as the country’s go-to defenselawyer for defending food companies in consumer class actions alleging that productshave misleading labels.SARAH BROOKSPartnerVenable LLPApartner in Venable’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, Sarah Brooksfocuses her practice on intellectualproperty disputes, including patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright litigation.The proactive and creative counsel she provides in these complex areas has been recognized in many legal publications. She hasprevailed in numerous cases in federal court,and in 2014 she obtained a willful patentinfringement jury verdict for a client in theU.S. District Court for the Central Districtof California. Among her recent high stakesmatters was her work successfully defending Target Corporation against a patentinfringement lawsuit filed by competitorFunrise in the Central District of California.The Plaintiff also filed a TRO against Target, which was denied. The Plaintiff thenfiled three additional lawsuits against additional competitors Vons, Albertsons, andBig Lots. The patent and product at issuecovered a bubble machine. Brooks obtaineda successful settlement for all three retailers.
86 LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL – CUSTOM CONTENTAPRIL 26, 2021WOMEN OF INFLUENCE: ATTORNEYSDIANE CAFFERATAALYSSA CARIDISPartnerQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanFor 18 years, Diane Cafferata has been apartner at Quinn Emanuel, the world’slargest all-business-litigation firm. Shelitigates complex commercial matters in federal and state courts nationally. Her clientsinclude many Los Angeles-based companiessuch as Mattel, Northrup Grumman, andGrauman’s Chinese Theatre. Cafferata hasrepresented the Rose Bowl’s Legacy Foundation pro bono for the last six years. Cafferata’s teams have brought in more than 3billion through trials and settlements. Sheenjoys a general litigation practice, and hasexpertise in intellectual property and financial matters, and probate litigation. Cafferata co-chairs the firm’s Sexual Harassmentand Employment Discrimination practicegroup. She also fits in smaller litigation andcounseling matters. In recent years, Cafferata expanded her financial litigation practice.She represented the Lehman Brothers Estatein financial derivatives matters against JPMorgan, Citibank and Credit Suisse. Thosesettlements recovered billions for the Estate.Alyssa Caridis has quickly emerged as ago-to lawyer in many of the high-profileIP litigation battles unfolding in courtsacross the country. She is one of the leadattorneys for Sonos in global patent litigation against Google in a multi-billion dollarIP fight over wireless speaker technology.She has been on IP trial teams representingOracle, Netflix and other major companies.She was also first-chair at trial in fendingoff a bet-the-company patent infringementchallenge against Donghee America, a judgment upheld last year by the Federal Circuit.The Sonos patent litigation against Googledefines what top IP lawyers strive to develop– building a case that fundamentally seeksto protect the innovation at the heart of acompany’s existence. With the Sonos litigation, Caridis is essentially coordinating anexpanding universe of patent cases betweenthe two companies, ensuring the argumentsare aligned and crafting many of the keylegal arguments.AMY CHURANMONISHA COELHOPartnerRobins Kaplan LLPIn her complex insurance and business litigation practice, Amy Churan deals dailywith earth-shattering events – literally.Her current and recent caseload includeshigh-stakes matters stemming from a rangeof catastrophic events, including COVID19 claims, wildfires, mudslides, floods,volcanoes, hurricanes, building collapses,explosions, tsunamis, and earthquakes. Shealso handles a broad spectrum of builder’srisk, supply chain disruption, and businessinterruption claims. Churan has built herpractice around her ability to resolve novelcoverage questions in complex cases onbehalf of international insurers. Her clients are sophisticated and knowledgeableinsurance industry leaders, but when theyhave a truly unique and intractable problem, they call Churan. She has achievednumerous favorable results on behalf of herclients throughout her career, often in caseswith claims totaling nine or ten figures. Inaddition to her legal practice, Churan haslong devoted her time and experience to theBoys & Girls Club of Venice.GINA CAVALIERPartnerOrrickShareholderAlvaradoSmith, APCMonisha Coelho moved to the U.S.after practicing law in India. Beingdually-licensed in India and California, Coelho has successfully guided clientsthrough US-India cross-border legal matters,including setting up business operations andmarket entry in both countries, negotiatingcommercial contracts, resolving US-basedlitigation and arbitration, and handlingIndia-related real estate matters. She has agrowing tech practice covering data privacy,cyber law, and a wide range of disputes thatcan arise in a business context, includingbreach of contract cases, trade secret theft,and partnership disputes. Her recent workincludes defending a technology companyagainst a competitor’s claims of trade secrettheft and price-fixing, litigating claimsbetween majority and minority shareholders, resolving partnership disputes betweenhotel owners and managers, and representing companies in various breach of contractand non-performance lawsuits.VICKI CHOUPartnerCooley LLPGina Cavalier is among the first generation of attorneys who has dedicatedthe entirety of her career – nearly 25years – exclusively to representing healthcare and life sciences entities. Her practicefocuses on helping clients navigate complexfraud and abuse and compliance issues, aswell as cutting-edge data privacy and securitychallenges. Her practice includes regulatorycounseling as well as internal investigations,government investigations, diligence andpolicy advocacy; this substantive expertise isunparalleled in the California marketplace.Cavalier has led many recent significantmatters, including counseling on pandemicrelated issues/OWS. She has assisted numerous entities in the health care supply chain– including pharmaceutical manufacturers,pharmacies, and group purchasing organizations – on myriad issues arising during theglobal pandemic. This includes assistingmanufacturers in connection with makingcharitable donations of PPE and safety equipment to health care providers.PartnerHueston HenniganVicki Chou is a partner and a key memberof the White Collar and Investigationsteam at Hueston Hennigan. She is aseasoned trial and appellate attorney andrecently served as a deputy chief in the U.S.Attorney’s Office in the Central Districtof California. As an AUSA in the CentralDistrict of California, she represented theUnited States in hundreds of criminal cases,including computer and internet fraud,intellectual property, money laundering,bank fraud, tax fraud, and racketeeringoffenses. Many of her matters involved highlevel, international coordination, includinga case in which she successfully negotiated afirst of its kind joint investigative agreementwith a European country. She has successfully tried over 10 cases as lead counsel andwon every one of her appeals before theNinth Circuit. She was awarded the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation forher work involving China.MICHELLE COOKEPartner; Leader, Intellectual Property Protection andEnforcement PracticeManatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLPMichelle Cooke is a nationally recognizedattorney and the go-to advisor forcompanies navigating global marketexpansion, brand development and entranceinto the digital landscape, as well as for thosefacing complex, multijurisdictional trademarkdisputes. As leader of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP’s intellectual property protectionand enforcement practice, Cooke is knownfor the breadth and depth of her knowledgeof the intellectual property landscape bothin the United States and abroad. Her clientsbenefit from her unparalleled understandingof the full gamut of intellectual propertyissues and also from her truly global approachto preplanning, management and vigilance,as well as her masterful guidance through delicate brand rehabilitation issues. She countswell-known entertainment, multimedia, software, apparel and consumer products companies among her clients. She is a member ofManatt’s board of directors and a member ofthe firm’s Strategic Growth and RecruitingCommittee.ELIZABETH COUSINSPartner-Infrastructure GroupNossamanElizabeth Cousins joined Nossaman inearly 2014 after a highly regarded legalcareer in Melbourne, Australia. She hasextensive experience on complex and cutting-edge transactions in an array of infrastructure sectors including road, rail, health,justice, and particularly water – where shecurrently serves as lead on a number ofcutting edge infrastructure projects throughout California. In 2020, she reached asignificant milestone as the lead on theEast County Advanced Water Purification(ECAWP) project which will develop fourprogressive-design-build/transitional operations packages to provide East San DiegoCounty with a new, safe, sustainable anddrought-proof water supply. In October of2020, the ECAWP Joint Powers Authority Board awarded the first phase of twoprogressive design-build agreements. Theroughly 700 million project will implementa potable reuse program to create a newdrinking water supply for East San DiegoCounty, and is a closely watched project inthe water industry.
CUSTOM CONTENT – LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL 87APRIL 26, 2021Lewis Brisbois congratulatesJana I. Lubert and Alexis G. Crumpon being selected as omen o In uenceby the Los Angeles Business JournalJana I. LubertAlexis G. CrumpWe are pleased that Los Angeles Partners Jana I. Lubert, Los AngelesOffice Co-Managing Partner, Firm General Counsel, and National ChairD&O Practice, and Alexis G. Crump, National Co-Chair CommercialLending and National Vice-Chair Corporate Practice have been listedas Women of Influence by the Los Angeles Business Journal! Janaand Alexis consistently show their commitment to the firm, its clients,and its people by excellence in their practices, and respectively, ascoco-chair of Lewis Brisbois' Women's Initiative and co-chair of Diversity& Inclusion. We thank them for their hard work and congratulate themon this recognition.LewisBrisbois.com005-114 labj20210426 fullpages.indd 874/18/21 6:31 PM
88 LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL – CUSTOM CONTENTAPRIL 26, 2021WOMEN OF INFLUENCE: ATTORNEYSSANDRA CRAWSHAW-SPARKSPartner; Chair, Entertainment,Copyright and Media Practice GroupProskauer Rose LLPArecognized litigator in LA and beyond,Sandra (Sandy) Crawshaw-Sparks represents the most iconic names in themusic business in matters involving recording, publishing, licensing and managementcontracts, copyrights, trademark rights,unfair competition claims, and the rights ofprivacy and publicity. In addition to advisingBillboard top recording artists, she serves asdeputy national legal counsel to the NationalAcademy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.(the GRAMMY Award organization). Shehas focused her legal practice in the musicsector since approximately 1988 and is one offew senior level women litigators in the business. Among other high profile clients, Crawshaw-Sparks represented Live Nation andMadonna in successfully defending against amotion to remand a putative class action toFlorida state court. She also represented theRecording Academy in a dispute regardingdefendants’ registration and use of “ChristianGrammy Awards” word and design mark.ROBYN CROWTHERRobyn Crowther, who serves as co-managing partner of Steptoe’s Los Angelesoffice, has considerable first-chair trialand arbitration experience across a varietyof litigation fields. Her arrival to Steptoein January 2019 has strengthened the firm’spresence on the West Coast and addeddepth to the litigation capabilities thefirm has in the Los Angeles office. In thepast two years, Crowther once again ledall-women teams in arbitration and trial.Since 2018, she first-chaired five differentarbitration and trial proceedings. In eachproceeding, she led a team of all women,with all team members gaining stand-upexperience with direct and cross examinations, arguing motions and making theopening statement. Moreover, Crowtherwas the only repeat attorney on each team,meaning that she assembled five differentteams of women to handle substantive civillitigation.MARISSA DENNISMAlexis Crump is a partner in the LosAngeles office of Lewis Brisbois andserves as co-chair of the firm’s Commercial Lending Practice, as well as vicechair of its Corporate and Italy Practices.Crump handles debt and equity financing,real estate, municipal finance, and mergersand acquisitions for private equity, institutional lenders, developers, and publicentities throughout the United States. Shehandles both buy-side and sell-side businessacquisitions for small to mid-market companies, and has assisted in the growth of thefirm’s Italian cross-border practice. She hasled over 1 billion in transactions duringher career. As co-chair of the Diversity &Inclusion Committee, Crump works withthe firm’s chief diversity partner and director of diversity to strengthen Lewis Brisboisthrough diverse associate and lateral hiring,support, mentoring, promotion, and retention. In addition, she has remained a presence in the Los Angeles legal community,despite the ongoing pandemic.RPartnerReed Smith LLPMara Curtis is a partner in the Labor &Employment Group of Reed Smith.Curtis’ practice focuses on counselingand litigating wage and hour matters. Curtishas handled more than 100 class/representative actions over her young career, and sheis currently lead counsel on more than 15class/representative action lawsuits in California. She has extensive experience representing employers both in state and federalcourt, and has handled numerous putativeand/or certified class actions alleging overtime, minimum wage, meal and rest period,waiting time penalty and wage statementclaims. Curtis also has experience in singleemployment cases including suits allegingclaims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, defamation, wrongful termination,and misappropriation of trade secrets. Curtisand her team successfully defended RalphsGrocery Company in a PAGA trial that wasoriginally filed as a class action.LORRAINE (LORI) ECHAVARRIAPartnerHahn & Hahnita Diaz is a member of Hahn & Hahn’slitigation, employment, and trust andestates practice groups. She has significantexperience handling contentious trust andestates litigation, as well as advising trusteesand beneficiaries through trust administrationissues. She is also skilled at advising companies on employment matters, includingdiscrimination, leaves of absence, and wageand hour issues, and reviewing and draftingemployee handbooks. Recent matters haveincluded trust administrations (including acomplex trust administration involving oiland gas interests and various pieces of realproperty); preparing estate plans (both newand updated) for numerous families; assistingtrustees with administration of trusts, including trusts with difficult beneficiaries and complex assets such as business interests, valuableartwork, firearms, and high-end vehicles;assisting executors with probate administrations; preparing and successfully prosecutedobjections to an overreaching trustee’saccounting; and many other challenging processes on behalf of clients.MARA CURTISPartnerLewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLPRITA DIAZPartner; Operating Partner of Los Angeles OfficeAllen Matkinsarissa M. Dennis is a highly acclaimedlitigation partner in the Los Angelesoffice of Allen Matkins where she wasrecently appointed office operating Partner.She also serves as the co-chair of the firm’sDiversity and Inclusion Committee. Herlitigation practice is focused on commercial,real estate, and financial services litigation.Dennis commonly represents commerciallandlords, tenants and developers in a variety of breach of contract and tort actions,as well as national lenders and servicers incomplex consumer finance litigation. Shealso has extensive experience representingtechnology companies in unfair competition and false advertising claims, including in multiple class actions. Dennis haschaired numerous jury trials, bench trials,and arbitrations, and has argued before theCalifornia Court of Appeal and federal andstate courts throughout California. A largeportion of her practice of late has beenrepresenting landlords and tenants in fairmarket rent disputes.ALEXIS CRUMPCo-Managing Partner of Steptoe’s LA officeSteptoe & Johnson LLPALLISON ETKINPartnerWilmerHaleLori Echavarria represents public companies, including many household names,corporate officers, financial institutions,hedge funds and other financial market participants facing serious government investigations and potential enforcement actions.She brings a deep understanding to thiswork, having previously spent more than15 years at the US Securities and ExchangeCommission, where she most recentlyserved as Associate Regional Director andhead of the enforcement program for theLos Angeles Regional Office and oversawall the office’s attorneys and accountants inthe investigation and litigation of federalsecurities law violations in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam.Echavarria is a thought leader in the broaderlegal community and frequently speaks athighly regarded securities and corporate lawconferences across the country, includingthe Securities Regulation Institute, Securities Enforcement Forum West, Los AngelesCounty Bar Association’s Annual SecuritiesRegulation Seminar and more.PartnerWood Smith Henning & Berman LLPAllison Etkin is a civil litigator who worksa broad range of complex cases in theareas of transportation, constructiondefect, subrogation, products liability, realestate and habitability. During the pastyear, she worked with several nationalcompanies to provide an aggressive defensewhen necessary. She also assists our clientsin developing an overall strategic approachto minimize exposure and risk. With respectto community service, following the deathof Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Etkin coordinated two donation based charity events,titled “Dance for Democracy,” raising nearly 6,500.00 that was donated to Justice Ginsberg’s favorite charities in her honor. Thispast year, Etkin also volunteered for We TheAction to provide pro bono legal services tononprofit organizations on the front lines ofsocial change. Her most notable experiencehas been with Homeless Children’s PlaytimeProject, a non-profit with a mission to provide transformative play experiences to children experiencing family homelessness.
CUSTOM CONTENT – LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL 89APRIL 26, 2021CongratulationsALISON PLESSMANVICKI CHOUWomen of Influence — Attorneys—Los Angeles Business JournalHUESTON.COM005-114 labj20210426 fullpages.indd 894/19/21 3:53 PM
90 LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL – CUSTOM CONTENTAPRIL 26, 2021WOMEN OF INFLUENCE: ATTORNEYSMARTA FERNANDEZRACHEL FISETPartnerJeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLPMarta Fernandez has a traditional laborlaw practice with 35 years of experience in the representation of employers in union/labor collective bargaining inboth the private and public sectors. She hasnegotiated well over 100 labor contracts forher clients with every major labor union inCalifornia, primarily in the healthcare andhospitality industries. The labor contractsshe negotiates represent multiple millions ofdollars to employers in labor costs coveringwages, benefits such as health care and pension plan contributions, and work rules. Fernandez is the chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department at Jeffer MangelsButler & Mitchell LLP and is a member ofthe firm’s Management Committee. Recently, as the chief negotiator, Fernandez successfully negotiated a three-year labor contract on behalf of a major healthcare systemcovering seven separate healthcare facilitiesand approximately 5,000 registered nurseswith the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.PartnerZweiback, Fiset & Coleman LLPRachel L. Fiset is a co-founder and partnerof Zweiback, Fiset & Coleman LLP. Herpractice includes state and federal civiland white-collar criminal matters, includinggovernment and internal investigations. In2018, Fiset left a large international firmwith a clear mission – to build a powerhousewoman owned law firm focused on diversity,leadership and efficiency. Since formingZweiback, Fiset & Coleman, Fiset has beeninvolved in several of the highest profileinvestigations and cases in the Central District of California. She currently defends anunindicted co-conspirator in the indictmentof various entities relating to allegations of afraudulent 2 billion-dollar scheme to avoidpaying U.S. tariffs. Recently, Fiset defendedand achieved a declination from the Department of Justice on behalf of a chain oflong-term care pharmacies relating to FalseClaims Act allegations amounting to over 100 million dollars. Villamizar v. SeniorCare Pharmacy Services, Inc. et al.TANYA FORSHEITPartner; Chair of the Privacy & Data Security GroupFrankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PCIn a world where privacy and data securityare among the most urgent issues facinggovernment, business and individuals,nobody knows more about how to navigatethe fast-changing regulatory landscape thanFrankfurt Kurnit Privacy & Data Securitychair Tanya Forsheit. A lifelong SouthernCalifornia native and current supervisingpartner of Frankfurt Kurnit’s LA office, Forsheit is widely considered one of the country’s top privacy and data security lawyers.Forsheit has advised on high-profile mattersinvolving confidenti
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