Allen Matkins Attorneys Named in 2010 Edition of The Best Lawyers In America

SAN DIEGO - Aug. 19, 2009 - 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 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The firm was also top ranked in the following categories:

Number one in California in Real Estate Law
Number one in Irvine, CA in Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Number one in Irvine, CA in Corporate Law
Number one in Irvine, CA in Environmental Law
Number one in Irvine, CA in Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
Number one in Irvine, CA in Real Estate Law
Number one in Irvine, CA in Securities Law
Number one in Los Angeles, CA in Construction Law
Number one in San Diego, CA in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law

The firm congratulates these attorneys on this achievement:

Los Angeles:

Orange County:

Frederick L. Allen (Real Estate Law)
Robert J. Cathcart (Construction Law)
Thomas W. Henning (Tax Law)
Bryan C. Jackson (Construction Law)
Michael L. Matkins (Real Estate Law)
Anton N. Natsis (Real Estate Law)
Michael D. Ryan (Labor and Employment Law)
John M. Tipton (Real Estate Law)

Pamela L. Andes (Environmental Law)
Keith P. Bishop (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Securities Law)
Gary S. McKitterick (Real Estate Law)

San Diego:

Jeffrey A. Chine (Real Estate Law)
Valentine S. Hoy (Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Real Estate Law)
David L. Osias (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law)

San Francisco:

John C. Gamble (Real Estate Law)
Bruce W. Hyman (Real Estate Law)
Richard C. Mallory (Real Estate Law)
Sandi L. Nichols (Environmental Law)
Stephen S. Walters (Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation)
Robert D. Wyatt (Environmental Law)

Bruce Hyman has been listed in Best Lawyers for 26 years, Fred Allen 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 eight years.

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 32,000 leading attorneys cast almost two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

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.