Annette Rittmuller Joins Allen Matkins

San Francisco - Jan. 5, 2009 - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California-based business and real estate law firm, announces the addition of Annette Rittmuller as senior counsel practicing out of the firm's Walnut Creek and San Francisco offices. She joins Allen Matkins' labor and employment practice group.

Rittmuller counsels employers on a broad range of labor and employment law matters, including those that involve equal employment opportunity and wage and hour issues. She represents employers in individual, multi-party and class action employment litigation in state and federal court.

"Annette's depth of experience representing businesses on their employment litigation and counseling matters complements our thriving labor and employment group,” said Baldwin Lee, head of Allen Matkins’ labor and employment practice group for Northern California. "She will play an integral part in serving the diverse needs of our clients."

She was most recently an associate with the law firm of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker.

Rittmuller received her juris doctor and master of arts from Duke University and her bachelor's degree from University of California, Berkeley.

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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.

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