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

Jonathan H. Colman

Founding Partner

“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

“When a hero stumbles, the cowards rejoice.”
~ Dave Chappelle

Kymberly Cole

Director of Business Operations

Jonathan J. Belaga

Partner

Becky M. Brooks

Partner

“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

“Your only competition is your own potential.” ~ Alex Aubrey

Kianne E. Farmer

Partner

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”
~ John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Sean P. Flanagan

Partner

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

Francis J. Fleming

Partner

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.” ~ Calvin Coolidge

John N. Haramalis

Partner

“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

Partner

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” ~ Marie Curie

David B. Holnagel

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

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

Lauren B. Kutz

Partner

Thomas R. Slezak, Jr.

Partner

“Live life with no regrets.” ~Author unknown

Sara Young

Partner

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” ~ Chris Grosser

Amir Ahmadi

Attorney

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Amanda M. Blackman

Attorney

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
~ Ronald Reagan

Kristen B. Brown

Of Counsel

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

Dina M. DeSousa-Cabral

Attorney

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing." ~ Barry Finlay

Jacqueline Diamond

Attorney

“For this is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us.” ~ Oswald Spengler

Hunter Felkner

Attorney

“You become what you believe.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Naveen Q. Feroz

Attorney

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~ Laozi

Hector Franco

Attorney

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” ~ Charles Mingus

Geoffrey Gallegos

Attorney

"What you seek is seeking you." ~ Rumi

Parysa Ghazizadeh

Attorney

“Stop complaining about what is difficult to do. Get working and do what you need to do.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

Roy D. Goldstein

Attorney

"Just cause you can't do something yet doesn't mean you can't do it, you just need to keep practicing!” ~ Elmo

Charles A. Hancock

Attorney

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.” ~ Miyamoto Musashi

Robert W. Kane

Attorney

“You cannot argue rationality with an irrational person.”
~ Matt Huey

Tiffany Lam

Attorney

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde

Tammy Louie Thai

Attorney

“That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.”
~ Joe Rogan

Catherine F. Lukehart

Of Counsel

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou

Karla V. Luviano

Attorney

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." ~ Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Guy Mailly

Of Counsel

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert G. McKeon

Attorney

Hasmik Mehrabyan

Attorney

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” ~ Mark Twain

Maneh Nazarian

Attorney

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Dennis S. Newitt

Of Counsel

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” ~ Bruce Lee

Dat-Vinh Nguyen

Supervising Attorney Law and Motion and Appellate Department

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” ~ Mark Twain

Jeremy M. Otchis

Attorney

Truong X. Pham

Attorney

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain

David B. Rosser

Of Counsel

“The hill we climb is steep, but we climb it together.” ~ Amanda Gorman

Marisa V. Scalzo

Attorney

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Graham Scott

Of Counsel

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Original Author Unknown

Jacob R. Slobodien

Attorney

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” ~ Albus Dumbledore

Bernadine Sobingsobing

Attorney

"Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." ~ Oscar Wilde

Sara M. Stogsdill

Attorney

Alexis Thometz

Attorney

“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within: strength, courage, dignity.” ~ Viola Davis

Francis Ventura

Attorney

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle

Talia R. Yessaie

Attorney

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

Hugo Ambriz

Paralegal Supervisor

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
~ Maya Angelou

Grace Arevalo

Paralegal

“The time is always right to do what is right.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Demetria Baxter

Paralegal

“We had better not enjoy the moment, but create the moment.” ~ Ai Weiwei

Melissa Burczyk

Paralegal

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

Carlos Gomez

Paralegal

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” ~ Vince Lombardi

Jacqueline Koch

Paralegal

“Wherever people are suffering, wherever they are humiliated by poverty or injustice, and wherever a mockery is made of their rights, make it your task to serve them.” ~ Pope John Paul II

Jesse Lopez

Paralegal

“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 Lundy

Paralegal

“If you are feeling disheartened that you are somehow not enough, set your heart ablaze.” ~ Kyojuro Rengoku

Norman Sanchez

Paralegal

“ Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Yvette Sanchez

Paralegal

“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 Supervisor

“The insight of a man certainly slows down his anger, and it is beauty on his part to overlook an offense.” ~ Proverbs 19:11

Melissa Arellano

Claims Legal Analyst

"All people are different people." ~ Ted Lasso

Howard Brong

Claims Legal Analyst

"The scariest moment is always just before you start." ~ Stephen King

Patricia Castro

Claims Legal Analyst

“Work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.”
~ Tom Osborne

Brad Conley

Claims Legal Analyst

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
~ Aesop

Rita DeMarco

Claims Legal Analyst

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Mary Faeth-Sullivan

Claims Legal Analyst

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Cheryl Gall

Claims Legal Analyst

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

Robert Garcia

Claims Legal Analyst

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt

Sheila Giordano

Claims Legal Analyst

"Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." ~ Jesus (John 8:7)

Robert Harris

Claims Legal Analyst

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Mary Kelley

Claims Legal Analyst

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

Pravitri Nawbatt

Claims Legal Analyst

"We must be mindful of the future, but not at the expense of the moment.” ~ Qui-Gon Jinn (The Phantom Menace)

Tina Ricard

Claims Legal Analyst

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
~ Vince Lombardi

Brian Terrio

Claims Legal Analyst

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." ~ Dalai Lama XIV

Jayme Thometz

Claims Legal Analyst

"Faith over fear." ~ Unknown

Jamie Valdez

Claims Legal Analyst

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

Maria Najera

Senior Legal Support Manager

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

Jessica Toney

Senior Legal Support Supervisor – NV

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Jessica Aguirre

Legal Assistant

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ~ Coco Chanel

Crystal Burgos

Legal Assistant

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Jessica Cooper

Legal Assistant

Flor Garcia

Legal Assistant

"If it’s a boring adventure, I don’t want to do it." – Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece

Leticia Hernandez

Legal Assistant

“Oh yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.”
– Rafiki, The Lion King

Raquell Hoyes

Legal Assistant

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

Miranda Hunt

Legal Assistant

“Keep your face always towards the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Walt Whitman

Desiree Martinez

Legal Assistant

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

Christina Marolo

Legal Assistant

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Luisa Monterrozo

Legal Assistant

“Loyalty is a two-way street. If I’m asking for it from you, then you are getting it from me.”
~ Harvey Specter

Melany Nguyen

Legal Assistant

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.” ~ Ronald Reagan

Kimberly Recinos

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

"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go." ~ Rumi

Tanaz Rouhani

Legal Assistant

Eric Rivero

Legal Assistant

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." ~ Wayne Gretzky

Amanda Shirk

Legal Assistant

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ~ Vivian Greene

Juliana Velasquez

Legal Assistant

"Life isn't perfect, but my dog is" ~ Unknown

Nadya Claudine

Law Clerk

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
~ Bertrand Russell

Becky Anaya

Office Administrator

“You don’t get to take something with you, but hopefully you can leave something good behind.”
~ Anthony Bourdain

Cinthia Munoz

Assistant to Office Manager

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

Lizette Covarrubias

Administrative Support

“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors.” ~ Epictetus, Philosopher, 55-135 C.E.

Michelle De Anda

Administrative Support

"The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker

Madison Erol

Administrative Support

“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.” ~ James Joyce

Joanne Lopez

Administrative Support

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." ~ Robin Williams (as John Keating, Dead Poets Society)

Teana-Faye Martinez

Administrative Support

George Najera

Administrative Support

"Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today." ~ James Dean

Lissa Thompson

Administrative Support

“I’m not superstitious but I am a little stitious.”
~ Michael Scott

Nanthakoun Santivong

Billing Coordinator

"There’s no crying in baseball!" ~ Tom Hanks (A League of Their Own)

Shane Smith

Billing Coordinator

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

Edgar Lopez

AP/AR Coordinator

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas Edison

Hector Padilla

Accounts Receivable Specialist

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Stephen Schillinger

Director of IT

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.” ~ Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Emily Cable

Marketing Coordinator

Jessica Carp

File Clerk

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