Allen Matkins Attorneys Named in 2011 Edition of The Best Lawyers In America

LOS ANGELES - Aug. 16, 2010 - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California business and real estate law firm, announced today that several of its attorneys will be included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The firm was also top listed in California in real estate law.

The firm congratulates these attorneys on this achievement:

Los Angeles

• Frederick Allen (Real Estate Law)
• Robert Cathcart (Construction Law)
• Thomas Henning (Tax Law)
• Bryan Jackson (Construction Law)
• Michael Matkins (Real Estate Law)
• Anton Natsis (Real Estate Law)
• Michael Ryan (Labor and Employment Law)
• John Tipton (Real Estate Law)

Orange County

• Pamela Andes (Environmental Law)
• Dwight Armstrong (Labor and Employment Law)
• Keith Bishop (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Securities Law)
• Gary McKitterick (Real Estate Law)

San Diego

• Jeffrey Chine (Real Estate Law)
• Valentine Hoy (Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Real Estate Law)
• David Osias (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law)
• Dana Schiffman (Real Estate Law)
• Amy Wintersheimer Findley (Labor and Employment Law)

San Francisco

• John Gamble (Real Estate Law)
• Bruce Hyman (Real Estate Law)
• Richard Mallory (Real Estate Law)
• Sandi Nichols (Environmental Law)
• Stephen Walters (Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation)
• Robert Wyatt (Environmental Law)

Bruce Hyman has been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 25 years; Fred Allen, Richard Mallory and Michael Matkins have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 20 years; and John Gamble, Thomas Henning, Anton Natsis, David Osias, Stephen Walters and Robert Wyatt have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 10 years. Michael Alvarado, Dwight Armstrong, Dana Schiffman and Amy Wintersheimer Findley were listed for the first time in Best Lawyers.

Since its inception 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 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 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."

ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS

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.

Allen Matkins is located on the web at www.allenmatkins.com.