Allen Matkins Attorneys Named in 2012 Edition of The Best Lawyers In America®

LOS ANGELES - Sept. 19, 2011 - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California-based real estate and business law firm, announced today that several of its attorneys will be included in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

The firm congratulates these attorneys on this achievement:

Los Angeles:

Frederick L. Allen (Real Estate Law)
Robert J. Cathcart (Construction Law; Litigation - Construction)
Mark J. Grushkin (Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law)
Thomas W. Henning (Litigation & Controversy - Tax; Tax Law)
Bryan C. Jackson (Construction Law)
Michael L. Matkins (Real Estate Law)
Anton N. Natsis (Real Estate Law)
Michael D. Ryan (Labor Law - Management; Litigation - Labor & Employment)
Pauline M. Stevens (Banking and Finance Law)
John M. Tipton (Real Estate Law)

Orange County:

Pamela L. Andes (Environmental Law)
Dwight L. Armstrong (Employment Law - Management; Labor and Employment Law; Litigation - Labor & Employment)
Keith P. Bishop (Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Securities Law; Securities/Capital Markets Law)
Gary S. McKitterick (Real Estate Law)

San Diego:

Jeffrey A. Chine (Land Use & Zoning Law; Real Estate Law)
Valentine S. Hoy (Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Construction; Litigation - Real Estate)
David L. Osias (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
Dana I. Schiffman (Real Estate Law)
Amy Wintersheimer Findley (Litigation - Labor & Employment)

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; Litigation - Environmental)
Stephen S. Walters (Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy))
Robert D. Wyatt (Environmental Law; Litigation - Environmental)

Bruce Hyman has been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 25 years; Fred Allen, Richard Mallory, Michael Matkins and John Gamble have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 20 years; and Thomas Henning, Anton Natsis, David Osias, Stephen Walters and Robert Wyatt have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 15 years. Mark Grushkin was listed for the first time in Best Lawyers.

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 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, 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.