Allen Matkins Elects Six Lawyers to Partnership

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – July 1, 2024 – Allen Matkins announced today that it has elected Melissa K. Bell, Paige H. Gosney, Joseph L. McGeady, Scott Perlin, Stephanie S. Roberts, and Jennifer C. Shakouri to the partnership. These new partners represent the Litigation, Land Use, Real Estate, and Employment practice groups and are based across our San Diego, Century City, Downtown Los Angeles, and Orange County offices.

“This year’s new partner class represents the best of Allen Matkins.” says Jeff Patterson, managing partner of Allen Matkins. “Melissa, Paige, Joe, Scott, Stephanie, and Jennifer are each superb lawyers, and also exemplify our core values of respect, collegiality, client service, and giving back to our communities. We congratulate all of them for this achievement.”

Melissa K. Bell
Melissa is an employment partner based in both Los Angeles and Orange County. Melissa serves as a trusted advisor to management and human resources professionals, providing employment advice and counseling on employment agreements, workplace policies, and personnel issues. She also represents employers in litigation and before government agencies, such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Civil Rights Department, and the California Labor Commissioner.

Paige H. Gosney
Paige is a land use partner based in the firm's Orange County office where he assists commercial and industrial developers in navigating the entitlement process and obtaining and defending land use and environmental approvals. His practice includes representing clients in both transactional matters and in all aspects of litigation before state and federal courts, including matters involving due diligence, land use and development entitlements, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and Coastal Act compliance, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, water rights, the Outdoor Advertising Act, and general planning and zoning laws.

Joseph L. McGeady
Based in the San Diego office, Joe is a member of the Litigation Group. His practice includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of commercial litigation matters. His has experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, including drafting and arguing pre-trial motions, taking and defending depositions, and direct and cross-examining witnesses.

Scott W. Perlin
Scott Perlin is a litigation partner in the San Diego office with substantial trial experience. He represents clients primarily in matters of real estate development and other real property disputes, business litigation, construction law, and general civil litigation. 

Stephanie S. Roberts
Stephanie is a real estate litigation partner, based in Los Angeles, whose experience encompasses nearly every type of real estate-related dispute, including disputes concerning financing projects, construction defects, easement disputes, taxation disputes, and disputes between commercial landlords and tenants and buyers and sellers of real estate. She also has extensive experience litigating complex business disputes and employment matters. Stephanie handles all aspects of litigation, from pre-litigation workouts through litigation, mediation/settlement, trial, and post-trial and appellate matters.

Jennifer C. Shakouri
Jennifer is a litigation partner in the Century City office. She has significant experience litigating complex real estate and business disputes for a broad array of clients, including property developers and owners, purchasers, sellers, investors, high-net-worth individuals and families, lenders, telecommunications companies, and other leading industry players. Jennifer has an impressive track record of favorable results in California state and federal courts and through alternate dispute resolution.

ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS
Allen Matkins, a law firm with over 250 attorneys, was founded with deep roots in real estate and has leveraged that foundation to grow and build prominent litigation, corporate, tax, labor and employment, land use, and environmental practices allowing us to partner with clients across myriad industries and markets. For more than 45 years, Allen Matkins has worked with clients drawn to us by our reputation for market leading solutions, pragmatism, exemplary quality, approachability, and our unparalleled network of contacts and connections in business and government. For more information about Allen Matkins please visit www.allenmatkins.com.