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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - California

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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins maintains a formidable reputation for undertaking precedent-setting bet-the-company securities matters, offering notable strengths in regulatory compliance and shareholder litigation. The firm also provides a comprehensive commercial litigation offering to multinational companies, acting on complex and high-value cases in state and federal courts nationwide. Its particular areas of expertise include representing media and entertainment, technology and pharmaceutical companies.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins represented X (formerly Twitter) in defending a securities fraud class action, securing a dismissal with prejudice in San Francisco Superior Court.

Strengths

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They have a wide breadth of expertise, they have the ability to talk to experts on many matters.

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They are as you would expect, always on it, always available and top-notch. As a team, they are excellent.

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The ability they have to think through a number of various scenarios or outcomes is really critical.

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Latham provides quality legal advice for complicated matters. It's always prompt and able to tackle difficult topics and questions.

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Their partners are very communicative.

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Notable Practitioners

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Peter A Wald
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Peter A Wald
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Senior Statespeople

Peter Wald has built a robust securities practice over many years and enjoys an outstanding reputation as a securities litigator.

He is really accomplished in this area.

Peter is a very fine securities lawyer and a wonderful trial lawyer.

Peter Wald is a superb lawyer. He is a trial lawyer, presents very well in person, argues persuasively and works very hard, and is very good on details and overall strategy.

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Jake Ryan
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Jake Ryan
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Jake Ryan is widely recognized in the market as an experienced litigator with a keen focus on intellectual property disputes.

He meticulously takes apart the other side in litigation.

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Michele D Johnson
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Michele D Johnson
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Michele Johnson offers substantial experience representing clients in class actions and commercial disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in various Californian courts. She is the global chair of Latham & Watkins' litigation and trial practice group.

She is an expert in what she does, I have the utmost confidence in her work and team.

She is very client-focused, she understands the case law very well and is very strategic.

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Colleen C Smith
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Colleen C Smith
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Colleen Smith appears for both individuals and corporations in securities class actions, as part of a broad civil litigation practice.

She is one of the best litigators I've been up against; she's tough and takes a solid deposition.

Colleen is excellent.

She's a rockstar. You can see why clients really like her.

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Joshua Hamilton
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Joshua Hamilton
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Band 4
Joshua Hamilton fields significant expertise in securities litigation and investigations. He acts for a broad array of public companies, financial institutions and senior officers and directors.

He is a really good communicator.

He is an awesome strategist and litigator.

Josh is a great lawyer, who is extremely responsive and provides excellent advice on critical bet-the-company litigation.

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Melanie Blunschi
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Melanie Blunschi serves as both vice chair of Latham & Watkins' retail and consumer products industry group and co-chair of the bay area litigation and trial department. She is highly experienced in defending numerous complex, high profile litigation matters for clients in the technology sector, among others.

She is just an amazing person and is extremely responsive. Her talent is unquestionable.

She was really good at explaining things in plain English.

She's fantastic, I absolutely love working with her.

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Nicole C. Valco
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Nicole C. Valco
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Up and Coming
Nicole Valco focuses her practice on complex business disputes. She has experience in advising clients in the technology, energy and healthcare industries.

She is really smart, very intuitive and cool, calm and collected in litigations.

She is a good counsellor and a teammate to her clients.

She provides strategic advice to us.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Latham & Watkins LLP

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California

Litigation: General Commercial
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Melanie Blunschi
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Band 4
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Nicole C. Valco
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Nicole C. Valco
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Up and Coming
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Litigation: Securities
Peter A Wald
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Peter A Wald
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Senior Statespeople
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Michele D Johnson
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Michele D Johnson
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Band 1
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Colleen C Smith
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Colleen C Smith
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Band 4
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Joshua Hamilton
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Joshua Hamilton
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California: San Diego

Litigation: General Commercial
Jake Ryan
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Jake Ryan
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Band 1
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