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Meet the Colman Perkins Team

Colman Perkins Law Group, an AV-rated SIU and litigation firm, is honored to receive this highest of peer ratings, which recognizes professional excellence, legal ability and ethical standards.

“The buck stops here.”
~ Harry S. Truman

Jonathan H. Colman

Founding Partner

Jim Perkins, Los Angeles attorney

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain

James J. Perkins

Partner

“You never quit on a bad day.”
~ Author unknown

Kymberly Threlfall

Director of Business Operations

“Don’t play for the name on the back of your shirt, you play for the name on the front of your shirt.”
~ Tommy Lasorda

Daniel A. Everakes

Partner

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
~ Seneca

Brad A. Byszewski

Partner

“It’s nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.”
~ John Daly

Francis J. Fleming

Partner

“It don’t take much strength to pull a trigger but try getting up every morning, day after day and work for a living. Let’s see him try that, then we’ll see who the real tough guy is. The working man is the tough guy.”
~ Robert De Niro character, A Bronx Tale

Scott M. Koppel

Partner

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Francine B. Kelly

Partner

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
~ Janis Joplin

Michele L. Levinson

Partner

"Semper fi."
~ U.S. Marine Corps

Michael G. Hogan

Attorney

Brittany Auchard, L.A. attorney

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
~ John F. Kennedy

Brittany A. Auchard

Attorney

"You should never, never, doubt what nobody is sure about.”
~ Willy Wonka

Eduardo Contreras

Attorney

Dina DeSousa

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Dina DeSousa-Cabral

Attorney

Attorney

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
~ Aristotle Onassis

Chloe Graham

Attorney

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.”
 ~ Wade Boggs

Kelly Y. Hara-Tadaki

Attorney

“Be at your best when your best is needed.”
~ John Wooden

Lauren B. Kutz

Attorney

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the perseverance to continue that counts.”
~ Winston Churchill

Dennis S. Newitt

Attorney

Richard J. Vilkin

Attorney

“Live life with no regrets.”

Sara Young

Attorney

“Don’t dream it, be it.”
~ The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hugo Ambriz

Paralegal

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Becky Anaya

Office Administrator

“You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.”
~ Muhammad Ali

Edgar Lopez

AP/AR Coordinator

“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.”
~ Dwight K. Schrute

Sarah Cavenah

Paralegal

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
~ Vince Lombardi

Jo Ellen Faber

Claims Legal Analyst

Sheila Giordano

Sheila Giordano

Claims Legal Analyst

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
~ John Wooden

Carlos Gomez

Paralegal

“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
~ Max Depree

Miranda Hunt

Legal Assistant

“I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.”
~ Dwight Schrute, The Office

Denise Juarez

Paralegal

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to Serenity and contentment.”
~ Grenville Kleiser

Mona Kent

Legal Assistant

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.”
~ Deep Roy

Kelly B. Kyle

Claims Legal Analyst

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
~ Jimmy Johnson

Maria Najera

Senior Legal Assistant

“We keep moving forward—opening up new doors and doing new things—because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
~Walt Disney

Angela Resendi-Latif

Legal Assistant

"If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
~ Maya Angelou

Jessica Toney

Legal Assistant

“Nobody can take away from you what is meant for you.”
~ Author unknown

Lizbeth Vergara

Legal Assistant

Luisa Monterrozo

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
~ Nelson Mandela

Luisa Monterrozo

Legal Assistant

“A wise girl knows her limits.
A smart girl knows she has none.”
~ Marilyn Monroe

Christina Marolo

Administrative Support

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