Allen Matkins Attorneys Named in 2009 Edition of The Best Lawyers In America

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SAN DIEGO – Oct. 9, 2008 – Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP , a leading California business and real estate law firm, announced today that several of its attorneys will be included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America , which will be published in December 2008.

The firm congratulates these attorneys on this achievement:


Fred Allen ( Real Estate Law )
Robert Cathcart ( Construction Law )
Thomas Henning ( Tax Law )
Michael Matkins ( Real Estate Law )
Anton Natsis ( Real Estate Law )
John Tipton ( Real Estate Law )


Gary McKitterick ( Real Estate Law )
Keith Bishop (Corporate Governance and Compliance; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity)


David Osias ( Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law )
Jeffrey Chine ( Real Estate Law )


John Gamble ( Real Estate Law )
Bruce Hyman ( Real Estate Law )
Rick Mallory ( Real Estate Law )
Sandi Nichols ( Environmental Law )
Stephen Walters ( Commercial Litigation )
Robert Wyatt ( Environmental Law )

Bruce Hyman has been listed in Best Lawyers for 25 years, Fred Allen, Edwin Green, Bruce Hyman and Michael Matkins have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years, and John Gamble, Thomas Henning, Richard Mallory, Anton Natsis, David Osias, Stephen Walters and Robert Wyatt have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years. Gary McKitterick been listed in Best Lawyers for the past seven years.

Lawyers were selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review process that has been developed and refined for nearly 25 years. Lawyers are not allowed to pay a fee to be listed. Best Lawyers publishes an advertisement-free book each year to honor all those chosen - something that no other survey does. The new edition of Best Lawyers will be based on more than 2 million confidential evaluations by only the top attorneys in the country. Best Lawyers also conducts thousands of extensive telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its balloting process.

ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS

Allen Matkins, founded in 1977, is a California-based law firm with approximately 220 attorneys in four major metropolitan areas of California: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and San Diego. The firm's core specialties include real estate, real estate and commercial finance, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, construction, land use, natural resources, environmental, corporate and securities, intellectual property, joint ventures, taxation, employment and labor law, and dispute resolution and litigation in all these matters. For more than 30 years, Allen Matkins has helped clients turn opportunity and challenge into success by providing practical advice, innovative solutions and valuable business opportunities. When clients' challenges require experienced trial counsel, Allen Matkins has a proven track record of successful litigation before juries, judges and arbitrators.

Allen Matkins is located on the web at www.allenmatkins.com.