California Lawyers Chad Lewin to Chantal McCoy

Firm: Criminal Defense Incorporated

12711 Ventura Blvd , Los Angeles , California 91604

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

Attorney Chad Lewin has spent over 20 years vigorously defending clients in Los Angeles courtrooms. A UCLA Law graduate and lifelong Angeleno, he has built a reputation for navigating the city’s complex legal system with insight gained from decades of experience and deep familiarity with local judges and prosecutors. Known for his aggressive approach, meticulous preparation, and unwavering professionalism, Mr. Lewin has helped countless clients facing serious charges achieve favorable outcomes—including case dismissals, not guilty verdicts, and significant charge reductions. Outside the courtroom, he is a recognized legal commentator for CNN and Fox News, and his high-profile cases have been featured by CBS, NBC, ABC, KCAL9, KTLA, and major print outlets. He’s also represented celebrities on reality shows like Growing Up Hip Hop and Sisterhood of Hip Hop. His accolades include the 2020 National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Criminal Defense award, Best Attorneys of America recognition, an AVVO 10.0 rating, and membership in premier legal organizations such as the ABA, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National College for DUI Defense and, the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Firm: Nantha & Associates

2000 E 4th Street Suite #110, , Santa Ana , California 92705

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

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Firm: Law Office of Channe G. Coles

19 E. Mission Street , Santa Barbara , California 93101

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

Channe G. Coles understands the struggles which face divorced parents, especially those confronted with the challenge of raising a child on their own while struggling financially.. As a child of divorce herself, she grew up in a single-parent family with her mother and four sisters. She understands the toll child custody battles can take both physically and emotionally on parents, but also from the perspective of the child who often suffers the most when parents fight it out in court.. Channe has two undergraduate degrees from California State University, Northridge; a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Immediately following her undergraduate education, she enrolled at the West Los Angeles School of Law, graduated cum laude in May 2008, and passed the July bar in November that same year.. In 2009 Channe joined a general practice law firm in downtown Los Angeles, where she gained a wealth of litigation and trial experience in construction defects, probate, personal injury, and family law. Following her time there, she joined Law Offices of Gregory Johnson, in Oxnard, California exclusively practicing in the area of elder abuse and personal injury, where she chaired long-cause trials through Ventura and Los Angeles County and assisted in complex class action lawsuits. In 2014 she opened her own solo practice in Santa Barbara where 99% of her time is devoted to the area of family law. She brings a wealth of litigation experience and is extremely competent in handling both highly contested, big income and asset cases; as well as, the far less complex issues of a “friendly divorce”.. Channe resides with her husband, teenage son, champion Rhodesian Ridgeback “Truman”, and her two rescue cats in her home in Santa Barbara. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, camping, sailing, running, skiing, and wine tasting!

Firm: Setareh Law, APLC

4005 N. Blackstone #101A , Fresno , California 93726

Practice Areas: Slip and Fall Accident

Chanel Katiraie is a multifaceted attorney whose impressive career journey encompasses diverse domains within the legal profession. Notably, her tenure at Farmers Insurance involved defending cases, a role where she garnered invaluable insights into the intricacies of insurance law and litigation strategy. Building on this foundation, Ms. Katiraie has transitioned her focus to championing the rights of individuals, ensuring they receive the justice and compensation they rightfully deserve.. With a Juris Doctorate earned from Southwestern University School of Law, Ms. Katiraie combines her academic expertise with practical experience to provide exemplary legal representation. Her tenure at Tensor Law, P.C., Trugman Law Group, APC, and The Kern Law Group further enriched her skill set, refining her abilities in litigation, criminal law, intellectual property, and more.. It is Ms. Katiraie’s commitment to serving her clients that truly sets her apart. Drawing from her background in insurance defense, she understands the tactics employed by insurance companies to minimize payouts. Leveraging this insider knowledge, Ms. Katiraie now tirelessly advocates for individuals, ensuring they receive fair and just compensation for their injuries and losses.. Ms. Katiraie’s transition from insurance defense to client advocacy underscores her dedication to justice and equity. As she continues to champion the rights of individuals, Ms. Katiraie remains steadfast in her pursuit of ensuring that every client receives the representation and compensation they rightfully deserve.

2121 N California Blvd Ste 290 , Walnut Creek , California 94596

Practice Areas: Mediation

Firm: Law Office of Chandra E. Miller

1147 High Street , Auburn , California 95603

Practice Areas: Child Custody & Visitation, Divorce, Family , Divorce & Separation

Ms. Miller understands that divorce is an extremely difficult transition in a person's life and is dedicated to assisting clients with compassion and professional advocacy. Ms. Miller is committed to helping people through the litigation process and empowering clients. After becoming a member of the State Bar of California in 2005, she began her career at Family Law Center and Bartholomew and Wasznicky, LLP in Sacramento where she acquired experience in a wide range of family law matters.. Ms. Miller continues to expand her legal education by regularly attending trainings covering diverse topics in family law and staying current with recent developments in family law.. Ms. Miller grew up in Northern California. Her educational pursuits have taken her out of the area, however she has returned to Sacramento to settle into her law practice. Ms. Miller attended Colorado State University on a debate scholarship, graduating with a Bachelor of Art degree in political science. Returning to California to attend law school, she graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. While in law school, she held a number of internship positions in practice areas such as environmental, landlord/tenant, and family law. She worked as an intern at the San Francisco Department of Child Support Services and completed the Community Board's Volunteer Mediator Training in San Francisco. Ms. Miller also spent a semester in Ireland studying International Human Rights and International and Domestic Dispute Resolution. Most recently, Ms. Miller traveled to Scotland to participate in the European Collaborative Law Consensus.. In 2009 and 2010, Ms. Miller was named by Northern California Superlawyers as a Rising Star.

Firm: Raffalow, Bretoi, Lutz & Steele

7677 Oakport Street , Oakland , California 94621

Practice Areas: Litigation

1349 S Burnside Ave , Los Angeles , California 90019

Practice Areas: Litigation

Mr. Parker received his J.D. from Southwestern Law School and graduated in the top ten (10%) percent of his class. While in school, Mr. Parker was on the Dean’s List, received the Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence, and was the recipient of several Cali Awards for having the highest grades in his class. Mr. Parker was selected to be a member of Southwestern’s prestigious Moot Court Honor’s program where he won First Place Oralist and Honorable Mention Writer in an intramural competition and led his team to win a national moot court competition between some of the top law schools in the country. As a result of Mr. Parker’s efforts, Southwestern’s Moot Court Program honored him with the award of Best Oralist in the program.. After graduating law school, Mr. Parker was selected as a distinguished fellow by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) where he received specialized training in trial litigation by some of the nation’s most successful trial attorneys. Additionally, Mr. Parker worked as a law clerk for a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge and the Los Angeles District Attorney.. Mr. Parker has extensive experience in litigation involving construction defects, defamation, complex business disputes, insurance defense, personal injury, home owners associations, landlord and tenants. Most recently, an Appellate Brief written by Mr. Parker led the Fourth District Court of Appeal to reverse their previous case precedent and make new law. See Sanders v. Walsh, G047440 (Cal. Ct. App. 2013).. Mr, Parker was selected as one of Southern California's Rising Stars for 2014 by Superlawyers Magazine

, Clovis , California 93612

Practice Areas: general practice attorney

Firm: Pardon & Gladych, LLP

3020 Old Ranch Parkway , Seal Beach , California 90740

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death

I am dedicated to helping injured plaintiffs and have made helping those in need a core part of me. I have taken dozens of cases to trial, obtaining over $19,000,000 in verdicts and tens of millions more in settlements.. I was a finalist for the prestigious 2020 Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Rising Star award, have been selected as a Southern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers from 2020 to the Present, am a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and a member of the Ball/Hunt/Schooley American Inn of Court in Long Beach, California.. I am also co-founder of Lifeguard Lawyers, which is my specialized aquatics practice. I have resolved cases involving drownings, electric shock, and other aquatics based injuries resulting in millions of dollars recovered. I have unique subject matter experience having served as an Ocean Lifeguard/Emergency Medical Technician for the Los Angeles County Fire Department for over ten years and have years of previous experience as a certified pool lifeguard and Water Safety Instructor. I was an NCAA Division I water polo player at the University of California, Irvine and continued to compete at the Master’s level. I have also coached swimming and water polo.. In law school, I was President of the UCI Law Trial Advocacy Club and a member of the Domestic Violence Clinic. In the Domestic Violence Clinic, I helped many victims of domestic violence get the protection they needed. I continue to represent domestic violence victims.. I am dedicated to preparing every case for trial and aiding those who need it most.

Firm: Maho & Prentice LLP

629 State Street , Santa Barbara , California 93101

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Law Offices of Chanaka N. Ramanayaka, APC

680 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 180 , Pasadena , California 91101

Practice Areas: Immigration

I am a licensed attorney in California, practicing in the field of immigration law. I have worked as an associate of a long-standing immigration law firm based in San Diego, California. I have volunteered as an attorney at Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Immigration and Refugee Resettlement Services. I have also worked as the Staff Attorney of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Immigration and Refugee Resettlement Services.. I am a graduate of the University of Middlesex, UK, where I earned my LLB (Hon). Additionally, I am an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and hold a Diploma in Forensic Medicine and Science for lawyers from Medical College, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I hold a Masters degree (LLM, cum laude) in Comparative Law from California Western School of Law, San Diego.

Firm: Benton Employment Law, PC

2831 Telegraph Avenue , Oakland , California 94609

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

Employment law attorney Chambord Benton-Hayes founded the Oakland law firm Benton Employment Law in 2021. Prior to opening her own practice, she worked for an international firm where she counseled companies like Apple, Tesla, and Google on how to stay in compliance with labor laws. She now focuses her practice primarily on representing California workers who have been harassed, discriminated against, or otherwise mistreated on the job. Attorney Benton-Hayes is an empathetic, trustworthy, and compassionate legal counselor as well as a trial-tested litigator who refuses to back down from the competition until her clients succeed. She is currently the President of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Northern California. A San Francisco native, she enjoys cheering on her favorite basketball team, The Golden State Warriors.

Firm: Law Offices of Chadwick J. Johnson

1024 Iron Point Rd., Ste. 100 , Folsom , California 95630

Practice Areas: Car Accidents

Chadwick J. Johnson was born in Los Angeles, California in 1974. Soon thereafter, his family moved to Sherman, Texas, where he lived until the age of ten. Chadwick's family would eventually migrate back west to Novato, California in 1984. His family would finally settle in Vallejo, California, where he attended Hogan High School, a proud graduate of the class of 1993. He attended California State University of Sacramento on a football scholarship from 1993 to 1997, where he earned a bachelors degree in Criminal Justice. In June of 1997, Chadwick married his high school crush, Ericka, and had the first of their five children in 1998. After college, Chadwick worked for Hewlett Packard as a software developer. In 2005, Chadwick enrolled into evening division at McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California.. Chadwick earned his Juris Doctorate degree from McGeorge in 2009, where he earned the Outstanding Achievement Award in Mock Trial, won first place in the Ben Franz Mock Trial Competition and made the Dean’s List while working full-time at HP.. Prior to opening up his own practice, Chadwick worked as an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Edward A. Smith. It was his work under the tutelage of Mr. Smith is where Chadwick learned how to do the work of a personal injury attorney. He worked on a wide variety of cases, from the low-value, minor impact, rear-end collision, to the million-dollar catastrophic injury case. Chadwick worked as a volunteer with Volunteers of America from 2010 to 2014 as a “mindfulness coach” at the Mather Community Campus. He has also volunteered hundreds of hours at drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities, college campuses, online communities, and many other venues throughout northern California. Chadwick has written several articles and blogs on mindfulness, provided keynote speeches, given multiple interviews on the topic.. Chadwick is a member of the State Bar of California, Sacramento County Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys of California, Capital City Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America/American Association for Justice and the Wiley Manual Bar Association.

Firm: BECK & YATES, A Professional Law Corporation

1301 L Street , Modesto , California 95354

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Chad Bion Yates is President and Principal Attorney at Beck & Yates, A Professional Law Corporation, with offices loceted in Modesto and Ripon, California.  Chad's areas of practice include the following:. Estate Planning - preparation of revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, advance health care directives, irrevocable trusts, special needs trusts, and life insurance trusts; probate and trust administration; and estate litigation.. Business - forming and counseling corporations, LLCs, and LPs, commerical transactions, buy-sell agreements, business succession planning, and agricultural, commercial and residential real estate transactions.. Litigation - civil, commercial, estate, landlord-tenant, and real property disputes.. Chad received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  Chad is a graduate of Modesto Junior College and the University of California, Davis, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in history.  Chad also attended graduate school at The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., studying history and public policy.. Chad is a member of the Stanislaus and San Joaquin County Bar Associations and the Stanislaus County Estate Planning Council.  Chad is a graduate of the Modesto Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Modesto (2010) and Commonwealth Modesto.  Chad was a founding director of the local nonprofit Alzheimer/Dementia Support Center, Inc., which provides education and support to those living with Alzheimer's disease/dementia and their caregivers.  Chad enjoys reading, traveling, hiking, golf, and spending time with his wife and young son.

Firm: Wootton Law Group LLP

119 1/2 N. Larchmont Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 90004

Practice Areas: General Practice, Insurance, Insurance

Wootton Law Group LLP is a boutique insurance and litigation firm in Los Angeles. We dedicate ourselves to providing our clients with legal work of the highest caliber, while tailoring our services to each client’s unique needs and always striving to provide efficient, creative and intelligent solutions in the matters in which we are engaged. We provide a combination of responsiveness, efficiency, dedication, individualized attention and excellent results that we believe larger firms cannot match.. We specialize in insurance coverage and defense work on behalf of insurance carriers, third party administrators and related entities, with particular expertise in commercial general liability policies, professional liability coverage, employment practices liability insurance, directors and officers policies, management liability insurance and non-profit policies. We have extensive experience providing insurance coverage advice to insurers and handling insurance-related litigation, as well as defending insureds in construction defect litigation, employment cases, personal injury matters and other claims.. We also represent businesses and individuals in breach of contract disputes, contract negotiations, employment matters, class actions and other areas of litigation.

Firm: Booth, Mitchel & Strange LLP

701 South Parker Street Suite 6500 , Orange , California 92868

Practice Areas: Business , Civil , Real Estate , Insurance, Insurance

Firm: Paul Hastings

55 Second Street Twenty-Fourth Floor , San Francisco , California 94105

Practice Areas: Civil , Corporate , Litigation

2121 N. Tustin Ave , Santa Ana , California 92705

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: Payton Employment Law

11500 W Olympic Blvd Ste 400 , Los Angeles , California 90064

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

An engaged, aggressive litigator, Chantal McCoy Payton has a passion for the field of employment law and helping her clients to obtain compensation and justice when they suffer illegal conduct in the workplace. Described by her clients as a compassionate, attentive attorney, she understands the difficulties employees face when they are being harassed, discriminated against, or not paid in accordance with the law. She has committed her career to being a voice for employees undergoing such struggles.. Throughout her career, Ms. Payton has represented hundreds of employees in various professions in all stages of their career, in navigating workplace disputes and aggressively advocating for financial compensation when employers have failed to follow the law. Her clients have included business executives and owners, attorneys, paralegals, doctors, nurses, school teachers, and other professionals, and workers at various levels within the healthcare, retail, service, construction, manufacturing, housekeeping, and hospitality industries. In her practice, she has obtained numerous six-figure settlements on behalf of her clients, including in single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and class action matters.