Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Renowned for trust and relationship management, they among the premier law firms in corporate matters.

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Thank you to Omar Parra for his support! Omar Parra is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and represents private equity funds, privately held businesses and strategic investors in a wide range of corporate matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, and general corporate governance.

Omar’s concentrations include Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), private equity, mergers and acquisitions, breaches of contract, and construction.

Gunderson Dettmer is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy. Their clients drive innovation. Their client's investments create institutions. Their client's ideas transform the world.

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Thank you to Natalie Pierce for her support! Natalie Pierce is a Partner and Chair of the Employment & Labor Group at Gunderson Dettmer. She represents emerging companies, venture capital and growth equity firms. Natalie is a trusted advisor to clients on all employment-related matter. Natalie also focuses her practice on the future of work, including counseling companies on incorporation of generative artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies.

Fenwick is a leading law firm, purpose-built to guide visionary tech and life sciences companies and their investors through every stage of growth, from startups securing their first round of funding to leading publicly-traded global enterprises. As one of Silicon Valley’s original legal practices, today they have over 500 lawyers, patent agents, engineers and scientists serving clients from seven offices located in innovation hubs across the United States and China.

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Special thank you to Samantha Cox-Parra and Blaine Schmidt. Samantha, a SFLRLA board member, represents technology and life sciences companies in a broad range of litigation matters, with a focus on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Blaine advises on a broad variety of litigation matters to support clients in the high technology and life sciences industries. Blaine also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters is a trial-practice litigation firm located in San Francisco. For more than 40 years, we have devoted our practice exclusively to complex civil and criminal litigation. Our record of success at trial, motions practice, appeals and alternative dispute resolution has earned the firm its reputation for solving bet-the-company intellectual property, commercial and white-collar crime disputes. We litigate and try cases in state and federal courts throughout California and the nation.

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Thank you to Franco Muzzio for his support! Franco specializes in high-stakes litigation in state and federal court. His clients include technology companies, professional sports leagues, investors, and criminal defendants. He has significant experience at every phase of the litigation process and has played a leading role in multiple trials where his clients were victorious on all claims. He maintains a robust pro bono practice with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights.

Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, where innovation meets the law. Cooley has over 1,300 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe, and a total workforce of nearly 3,000.

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Thank you to Beatriz Mejia, Eduardo Santacana, Daniel Paramés, and Argemira Flórez for their support!

Beatriz Mejia, a former board member of La Raza Lawyers Association of San Francisco, focuses primarily on complex business disputes and general business litigation.  Her deep bench of experience spans international cartel investigations, antitrust, and multi-district and class action litigation.  Currently, Beatriz serves as the Northern California head of Cooley’s business litigation practice. She is a former board member of Centro Legal de La Raza, a legal services agency in Oakland, and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. She is currently serving on the Council of the America Bar Association's Antitrust Section, having previously served as Vice Chair of the Cartel & Criminal Practice Committee.

Eduardo Santacana is a skilled and strategic litigator who represents a diverse array of clients in complex, high-stakes disputes. He has significant experience in intellectual property litigation, consumer fraud class actions and contract litigation. In addition to his practice, Eduardo has served as a commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Appeals, as a board member of Legal Aid at Work, and a board member of the American Constitution Society’s Bay Area Lawyer Chapter. 

Daniel Paramés advises private, venture backed technology companies, venture capitalists, angel investors, and executives across multiple industries including agtech, fintech, ecommerce and cleantech. His experience includes forming domestic and foreign companies, structuring and executing financings, structuring liquidity programs and secondary transactions, and advising companies and investors on strategic corporate and business matters.

Argemira Flórez represents clients in high-stakes litigation and investigations across a range of issues including privacy and data security, complex contracts, fraud, and First Amendment disputes. Argemira maintains an active pro bono practice, which has included multiple family law and immigration law cases and first chairing a federal jury trial. Argemira has also served as a mediator with the New York Peace Institute and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Global Citizens is building the operating system for global immigration, supporting all visa types and cross-border mobility matters. The platform combines AI-native infrastructure with human oversight to deliver immigration services with accuracy and care. Built first for legal teams and individuals, Global Citizens is designed with a long-term vision of supporting public-sector institutions and global companies through a one-to-one model in which business immigration helps fund humanitarian and asylum visas worldwide.

Thank you to Jomana Abdallah for her support!

Jomana is the cofounder and Head of Immigration at Global Citizens, a global immigration legaltech startup based in San Francisco. Jomana previously founded her own private immigration practice in San Francisco, representing top global talent in complex U.S. immigration matters. She began her career at Fragomen and later worked with Silicon Valley legal immigration companies. She is a frequent speaker on immigration topics at orgs like UC Law, UCSF, Antler, and Xooglers, an active AILA member, and a mentor with Centro Legal de la Raza’s Youth Law Academy.

Hanson Crawford Crum Family Law Group is a premier boutique family law firm, and one of the largest family law firms in Northern California. With a deep bench of six partners and six experienced associates, Hanson Crawford Crum handles cases of every level from those involving basic family law issues to complex financial transactions. The firm serves clients throughout the Bay Area from Marin to Silicon Valley.

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Thank you to Juliana Yanez, Marisa R. Chaves, and Elizabeth Arellano for their support! Juliana specializes in high-asset dissolutions and represents a diverse range of clients, including tech executives, founders, stay-at-home parents, lawyers, venture capitalists, and business owners. Juliana was also trial counsel in what the New York Times has described as “the first major Bitcoin divorce.” Marisa is a trusted advocate for individuals navigating divorce, high-asset disputes, spousal support, property division, and disputed prenuptial agreements. Elizabeth is an accomplished family law attorney, exclusively focusing on guiding individuals and families through challenging legal transitions. She is experienced in handling cases involving divorce, child custody and visitation, spousal and child support, property division, and other family law matters.

For more than 30 years, Judicate West has been one of California’s leading providers of private dispute resolution services with a distinguished roster of proven neutrals, including retired state and federal court judges, plus professional attorney mediators and arbitrators from a wide variety of practice areas. Founded in 1993, the firm prides itself on maintaining the utmost integrity in delivering innovative solutions to all types of civil disputes. The firm’s successful formula involves top-tier neutrals, a great company culture, and an experienced team of ADR professionals dedicated to delivering gold standard service in alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

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Thank you to Victorina McAdam for her support! Victorina focuses on marketing and business development for Judicate West. Based out of the company’s Oakland office, you can find Victorina at industry events and conferences throughout Northern California. Victorina previously worked with various clientele, from sole practitioners to Am Law 100 firms, at a leading global provider in the legal tech space.

You can also connect with Victorina on LinkedIn.

At Munger, Tolles & Olson, a diverse workforce improves their ability to serve the needs of their clients and creates a more dynamic workplace for their attorneys.As a result, diversity, equity and inclusion have always been – and continue to be – a cornerstone of their firm. The firm was founded in 1962 by a group of attorneys that included a woman. Since then, their managing partners have included two women, a woman of color, an LGBTQ man and an African-American man. They remain a leader in diversity hiring, retention and promotion, and we consistently beat national averages in the number of women and diverse lawyers in our associate and partner ranks.

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Thank you to Giovanni Saarman González for their support! Giovanni is a co-chair of MTO’s Attorneys of Color Initiative and his practice focuses on representing and advising clients operating in regulated industries, particularly energy utilities.

Nationwide Legal, LLC provides complete legal support services to law firms and their respective legal departments nationwide. We maintain fully staffed operational departments for all areas (literally nationally) including but not limited to; service of process, e-filing, court services, messenger services, investigations, debt collection support, document duplication, subpoena, and court reporting services.

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Thank you to Angelica Pacheco for her support!

Angelica is Bay Area native with strong Latin roots. She have been supporting legal professionals for years and understand the importance of teamwork in ensuring everything runs smoothly. Most importantly, she care about making clients feel supported, heard, and taken care of.

Please reach out to Angelica if you need legal support services at either 510-485-1933 or scheduling@nationwidelegal.com.

Renne Public Law Group (RPLG) practices throughout California, advocating for and defending local public agencies and nonprofit entities, and representing a diverse group of individual clients and private entities who are in need of effective, responsive and ethical legal assistance.

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Thank you so much to Maribel Lopez, Mauricio Grande, and Karen Carrera.

Maribel, an SF La Raza board member, is an associate in the firm’s Government and Litigation practice groups. She focuses her practice on labor and employment law. Her practice includes representing both public entities and private sector clients in litigation, employee discipline, advice and counsel, arbitration, workplace investigations and compliance.

Mauricio, an SF La Raza board member and associate at the firm, is an attorney in the firm’s litigation practice group. Before joining Renne Public Law Group, Mauricio served as a judicial law clerk in the San Francisco Superior Court. advises on a wide spectrum of complex litigation and trial matters that included a city’s environmental contamination case involving over 35 affected sites, and did legal research, analysis and guidance regarding law and motion matters in asbestos cases, and writ petitions in CEQA proceedings involving public agencies.

Karen is Of Counsel and the Head of Investigations at the firm. Karen conducts workplace investigations for both public and private employers in response to employee complaints of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, and other alleged employee misconduct. She also provides diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and harassment prevention trainings and consultations for companies, government agencies and individuals, in both English and Spanish.

Express Depositions is a boutique, customizable legal support firm with an unparalleled commitment to customer service. They believe that clients come first and strive to not only meet but exceed their clients' expectations. Express Depositions can assist with Court Reporting, trial technology, legal videography, interpreting, and translation. As well as attorney services, records retrieval, and digital imaging. They are a small local company that provides service in areas all over CA and nationwide.

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Thank you to Emily Yesenia Bradshaw for her support! Emily is an Account Executive at Express Depositions. She is a proud Latina with a passion for civil litigation. Emily has a strong commitment to customer service and is eager to help clients with their deposition and attorney service needs. Emily can be reached at 650-435-9587 or emilyb@expressdeposition.com.

Conrad|Metlitzky|Kane is a trial boutique led by a trio of former Assistant United States Attorneys. We handle a broad array of complex, high-stakes litigation and internal and government investigations. Based in San Francisco, the firm serves local, national and international businesses, organizations, executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

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Thank you to Gabriela Kipnis for her support!  Gabriela is a Partner at Conrad|Metlitzky|Kane, where her practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including trade secrets and unfair competition litigation, consumer and commercial disputes, and high value tort cases. Publicly traded corporations, startups, and individuals turn to Gabriela for help litigating novel and cutting-edge legal issues.

Potomac Law is committed to innovation, excellence, and inclusion. The value stems directly from the talent and commitment of their attorneys who practice law throughout the United States. Their attorneys have outstanding academic credentials and impressive professional experience, with an average of seventeen years at top national firms and/or in-house at major corporations. Clients recognize our attorneys’ skills and creative strategies, as well as their common sense and practical solutions. They are deeply committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the uniqueness of each of our attorneys and support staff.

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Thank you so much to Patricia Medina for her support! Patricia is a partner in the firm’s Litigation, Employment, and Investigation & White Collar Defense practice groups in San Francisco. She represents companies and individuals in high stakes litigation and government investigations, with a focus on protecting her clients’ interests in matters involving fraud, breach of contract, corporate governance, breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, employment law, and real estate.