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Anthony DiMonte is Senior Counsel at ADLI Law Group. His practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions, complex business transactions, regulatory compliance, corporate and civil litigation. With over 19 years of experience in the legal profession, Mr. DiMonte utilizes his trial experience and skills to advise and counsel corporate and entrepreneurial individuals in business sales and acquisitions, commercial transactions, corporate governance and compliance and corporate and civil litigation.. Prior to joining ADLI Law Group, Mr. DiMonte was a Senior Counsel at the Law Offices of Virgil L. Roth, PC. During such time, he served as outside General Counsel and M&A counsel for domestic and international business entities and private investment and capital groups, which included negotiating and documenting purchase, sale and merger agreements and dissolutions, corporate contracts related to licensing, executive employment agreements, corporate governance, acquisition, vendor contracting, leasing and real estate property matters, and advising on loss mitigation and compliance issues. Many of Mr. DiMonte’s clients are active providers, vendors and care facilities in the Healthcare Industry. He also prosecutes and defends commercial claims in all counties of Southern California and Bay Area, including jury and bench trail matters in California State and Federal Courts.. Mr. DiMonte graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois with a Bachelor’s of Arts in History and obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He is also an active Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. Mr. DiMonte is committed to helping clients and providing them efficient and effective representation to resolve all complex business-transactional, regulatory compliance, corporate and civil litigation matters in a manner that is both expeditious and sensitive to the needs of modern investors, principals, and entrepreneurs.

Amy Duerk has over two decades of civil litigation experience defending corporations in matters including employment, fraud, antitrust, multidistrict class action, legal malpractice, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith, product liability, and contract disputes. As a litigator, Amy has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies, including companies in the technology, energy, media and entertainment, gaming, and insurance industries, as well as law firms, non-profit organizations, and individuals.. Amy specializes in highly sensitive and complex internal investigations and is an Association of Workplace Investigators Certificate Holder (AWI-CH). She follows the highest standards of excellence to perform neutral, thorough and trauma-informed investigations across all industries. Amy has investigated claims of sex- and race-based harassment and discrimination, assault, retaliation, conflict of interest, breach of fiduciary duty, bullying, embezzlement, and fraud.. As part of her pro bono work, Amy represented survivors of domestic violence, which moved her to look for better solutions to family disputes. Trained as a mediator, Amy occasionally serves as a pro bono mediator in divorces to help families mitigate the financial and emotional toll of litigation.. Amy is licensed to practice in California and Montana, and is admitted to the U.S. District Courts of California and Montana as well as the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She currently serves on the board of a local food security nonprofit organization, Garden City Harvest.

Almuhtada Smith is the managing partner at ARS IP Law Firm, P.C. He focuses his practice on all aspects of intellectual property and capital raising in the technology and real estate industries. His practice encompasses advising early stage companies from formation to startup financing, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements, and securities law.. Mr. Smith has extensive experience representing clients in connection with financing and related securities matters. He continually advises early-stage clients on capital raising transactions spanning friends and family rounds to Series A rounds and beyond. He also advises individuals and companies on how to structure a real estate syndicate and other real estate capital raising transactions.. In addition to his practice, Mr. Smith serves as Chairman of the Los Angeles Southwest College Foundation Board and as a Young Professionals Board member of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. He has served as an officer and board member of the John M. Langston Bar Association and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of West Los Angeles.

Allan N. Lowy earned his B.A. degree with Departmental Honors from UCLA, his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, and his certificate in mediation from Pepperdine Law School.  He was admitted to the practice of law in California in 1976, and in addition he is admitted to practice in front of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the United States Supreme Court.. Mr. Lowy’s practice is focused on the broad array of real estate transactions, with a special emphasis on real estate development and complex real estate financing vehicles, including tax exempt bonds and low-income housing tax credits.  Additional practice areas encompass land use and entitlements, business formations and joint venture agreements, purchase and sale, commercial leasing, construction contracts, economic development and re-development, tax and business consulting, wills and trusts and partnership disputes.  Mr. Lowy has extensive experience appearing before both administrative bodies and courts of law, and his clients include high net-worth individuals, real estate developers and investors, non-profit corporations, private schools, health care providers and private lenders. Typical transactions range in size from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000, with completed transactions in over 20 states.  Mr. Lowy is also a real estate broker and licensed general contractor, and serves as a neutral mediator/arbitrator in real estate and construction matters.. Mr. Lowy is a member of the Real Estate Section of the California State Bar, the Affordable Housing and Community Development Section of the American Bar Association, and the Urban Land Institute, and he is the former President of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Building Industry Association (NAHB).  He has also lectured on development issues for the Continuing Education of the Bar and at UCLA, USC, UCI, CSU-Northridge and  CSU-San Jose.

Albert S. Golbert is a principal in Golbert & Associates, Los Angeles. He earned degrees from the University of Southern California and the University of Denver before attending the University of Michigan Law School and completing his Doctoral studies at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales of the University of Geneva. He is a frequent lecturer before national and international bar associations and has lectured for the Praticing Law Institute (NY) for more than 20 years.. After practicing for ten years in Europe and the Middle East and two years in Africa and the Far East (where he was, inter alia, counsel to Chrysler in its acquisitions of control of or joint venture interests in, respectively, Rootes Motors, Ltd. in the United Kingdom, Simca Automobiles in France, Stanley Motors in Johannesburg, Rootes Ltd. in Melbourne and Mitsubishi Motor Industries in Japan), Mr. Golbert returned to California in 1970 and, in 1973, was Certified as a Specialist in Taxation Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California. In 1973, he co-founded the tax boutique of Forry Golbert Singer & Gelles and, in 1980, merged his practice into Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts (now, Bryan Cave LLP) where he was a Senior Partner until 1990. Mr. Golbert has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Southwestern University School of Law and at Whittier Law School, and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Southern California Law Center, Loyola Law Center, UC Davis and UCLA. He has authored more than 50 articles as well as five books including: Latin American Laws and Institutions (with Nun, Praeger, N.Y., 1982), Problems and Materials on International Trade and Investment (with Rosett, UCLA Press, 1973), and International Operations Handbook (Southwestern University Press, 1974). From 1976 to 1983 he was a member of the Board of Editors and from 1977 to 1983, Assistant Editor-in-Chief of The International Lawyer, the journal of the Section of International Law and Practice and, since 2001 has served as the Section’s liaison with the Tax Section of the American Bar Association; and is: (i) a founding member of the Committee on International Practice of the Business Law Section (1986-87) and of the Section of International Law (Member of the Executive Committee, 1987-90, Treasurer, 1989-90, Advisor, 1990-93 and Advisor Emeritus, 1993--) of the State Bar of California; (ii) a member of the International Tax Committee (1991--), Member of the Executive Committee (1995-98), Vice Chair of the Executive Committee (1997-98), Chair, Standards of Tax Practice Committee (1998-00) and Chair, Tax Practice, Policy and Legislation Committee (2000-2002) of the Taxation Section of the State Bar of California; (iii) a past Chair (1984-85) and since member ex officio of the Executive Committee of the Section of International Law of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and past Chair of the Association's Pacific Rim Committee (1989-91); (iv) past Chair of the Foreign Tax Committee, member of the Executive Committee (1989-1995) and past Chair (1993-94) of the Section of Taxation of the Los Angeles County Bar Association from which he received the Dana Latham Award, 2000, for lifetime achievement and commitment to the tax bar; (v) member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation (1999 – 2005); and (vi) a founding member, former Vice President and currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for International Commercial Arbitration in Los Angeles. He was named to Best Lawyers in America 2006-8 (Taxation) and 2007-8 (International Trade and Finance Law), and Southern California Super Lawyers 2006-8 (Taxation) and (International Trade Law) 2007-8. Languages: French, Italian and German.

Alan is the former Assistant Head Deputy, Major Crimes Division, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office from 1995-2013.  He was named Prosecutor of the Year in 2010 by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and Prosecutor of the Year in 2008 by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, Los Angeles County.. Alan has wn numerous high profile murder cases, including the murder conviction of celebrity record producer Phil Spector; secured a murder conviction against infamous mastermind Mike Goodwin (racing legend Mickey Thompson's murderer) from a decades old cold case; and won a murder conviction of Charlie Samuel (17 year old Lily Burke's kidnapper and murderer).. Additionally, Alan led delegations to Tokyo, Japan and developed a relationship with the Japanese Ministry of Justice. This in turn led to the international extradition of a Japanese businessman who had murdered his wife in Los Angeles in the early 1980's.. Alan tried 85 cases in front of a jury with a career victory rate of over 96%.. His expertise includes the high profile, complex criminal defense cases as well as white collar criminal defense.. Alan is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force where he served as a jet engine mechanic.. And, since 2013 he has been a consulting producer on the Showtime series "Ray Donovan."

Aggressively helping businesses and individuals collect commercial debts and enforce judgments.. I also defend or advise debtors dealing with all of the above post-judgment enforcement actions.. As Business Manager, Mr. Hoang oversees the staff and the Firm’s daily operations. He focuses his practice on Commercial Debt Collections and Judgment Enforcement litigation. Mr. Hoang conducts, on a regular basis, Judgment Debtor and Third Party Judgment Debtor Examinations.

A partner at the Los Angeles office of Ford Harrison, LLP, attorney Daniel Chammas has broad experience in employment law and class action defense. As a member of Venable’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, he represents media production studios, major consumer goods and services providers, and other companies against consumer class actions and an extensive range of employment claims, from sexual harassment to unpaid wages. Daniel Chammas also advises clients in various employment matters, such as leave and disability guidelines, wage and hour law compliance, and employee dismissal.Prior to joining Venable, Dan Chammas spent 17 years handling employment law and class action suits at Venable LLP and McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Over the course of his career, he has defeated class certification or achieved favorable resolution in all manner of employment disputes. Daniel Chammas has successfully defended clients in such notable class actions as a disability discrimination suit brought by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and an alleged wage and hour violation claim against a multinational wireless tracking company tried before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.Before beginning his career, Dan Chammas graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a BA in political science and earned a JD from Stanford University Law School.

A Los Angeles-native, Ms. Berjis received her Bachelors of Arts in History, from California State University, Long Beach, and subsequently earned her Juris Doctorate from Trinity Law School.  As a law student, Ms. Berjis received the Academic Achievement Award (for getting the highest grade in her class) in an impressive six (6) courses, which included Civil Procedure II, Remedies, Evidence, Legal Research & Writing II, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure.  In addition to her academic success, as a law student, Ms. Berjis also was a member of the Trial Advocacy Team.. Prior to founding BERJIS l MYERS, Ms. Berjis had the privilege of working as a law clerk, at the largest trial court in the United States, for over eight (8) years.  As a student law clerk, Ms. Berjis was responsible for reviewing and analyzing all limited jurisdiction court judgments by default, stipulations for entry of judgment, and default judgments in unlawful detainer actions, as well as reviewing and processing time-sensitive ex parte motions & applications for both general and limited jurisdiction cases.  Such experience has provided Ms. Berjis with extensive and priceless knowledge & expertise in the field of civil litigation.  Ms. Berjis, also, spent one (1) summer as an extern for a Los Angeles County Superior Court (Civil) Judge, followed by two (2) summers externing as a law clerk, at the Office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender, and then, several months as an intern, for the Supervising Judge of the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts.  In fact, thanks to her work, within the court system, for so many years, Ms. Berjis brings unmatchable insight to each of her client’s cases, and, for that reason confidently knows exactly what it takes to get the job done, correctly and successfully.. Ms. Berjis' bar admissions include the State Bar of California, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.

A BOLD APPROACH TO LEGAL MATTERS.. Harris Bricken’s commitment to exceptional work has made us a leading name in international law, IP, cannabis, and psychedelic law. Yet we are always seeking to further build our global connections and our dynamic team. We welcome the opportunity to talk with bold, innovative legal professionals who identify with our values and our vision.. Hilary Bricken is widely regarded as one of the premier cannabis business and regulatory attorneys in the United States. As head of Harris Bricken’s Los Angeles office and Chair of its Regulated Substances Practice Group, Hilary helps cannabis companies with a wide range of legal issues, including regulatory compliance, transactions, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions.. The National Law Journal called Hilary a “Cannabis Law Trailblazer” and Chambers and Partners chose her as the best ("Band 1") cannabis attorney on the entire West Coast. Super Lawyers Magazine has named her a "Rising Star" every year for the last five years, and both the American Bar Association and the Puget Sound Business Journal chose her for their "40 under 40" editions.. In addition to zealously serving her clients, Hilary also regularly contributes to the firm’s Canna Law Blog.. Website:. Blog:. Ted Talk:. ?v=0M4Fse1Ioaw&feature=emb_title