Thirty-One Allen Matkins Partners Named to 2014 Best Lawyers in America®; Armstrong and Chine Named "Lawyers of the Year"; Firm Receives Tier 1 Rankings

SAN DIEGO - August 15, 2013 - The Best Lawyers in America® has released its 2014 rankings and Allen Matkins once again received high marks. This year's list includes 31 Allen Matkins partners, including Dwight L. Armstrong and Jeffrey A. Chine being named Best Lawyers' "Lawyers of Year" in Orange County Labor Law-Management and San Diego Real Estate Law, respectively.

In addition to the individual acknowledgements, Allen Matkins received Tier 1 Rankings in the 2014 edition of U.S. News - Best Lawyers' “Best Law Firms.” The firm received National Tier 1 Rankings in Construction Law, Litigation-Construction and Real Estate Law. For the Metropolitan Tier 1 Rankings, the firm was selected in Los Angeles for Construction Law, Litigation-Construction, Litigation-Tax and Real Estate Law; in Orange County for Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, Litigation-Labor & Employment, Real Estate Law, and Securities/Capital Markets Law; in San Diego for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtors Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Land Use & Zoning Law, Litigation-Construction, Litigation-Labor & Employment, Litigation-Real Estate, and Real Estate Law; and in San Francisco for Employment Law-Management, Environmental Law, Litigation-Environmental and Real Estate Law.

Individually, partners selected from the Century City office include Tony N. Natsis, Michael D. Ryan and John M. Tipton; from the Los Angeles office, Frederick L. Allen, John J. Allen, Robert J. "Mike" Cathcart, Thomas W. Henning, Bryan C. Jackson, Gregg J. Loubier, Michael L. Matkins and Pauline M. Stevens; from the Orange County office, Pamela L. Andes, Dwight Armstrong, Keith P. Bishop, Vincent C. Coscino, Drew M. Emmel, Gary S. McKitterick, Richard E. Stinehart and Stephen R. Thames; from the San Diego office, Jeff Chine, Valentine S. Hoy, David L. Osias, Michael C. Pruter and Amy Wintersheimer Findley; and from the San Francisco office, David C. Cooke, Bruce W. Hyman, Baldwin J. Lee, Nancy Lundeen, Richard C. Mallory, James L. Meeder and Sandi L. Nichols.

Since it was first published 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 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 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.”