FBA Los Angeles - Officers

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Members of the Board of Directors

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Christine Adams is a former federal prosecutor who recently co-founded Adams, Duerk & Kamenstein LLP, a Los Angeles-based, nationally active litigation boutique certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. She specializes in sensitive internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense matters, SEC investigations, and complex civil litigation. Christine has represented multiple Fortune 500 clients, including companies in the global media and entertainment, gaming, and banking industries.

Douglas A. Axel is a partner with Sidley Austin LLP.

Kristina Azlin is a partner with Holland & Knight LLP.

Koren Bell is a partner at Larson, LLP, where she specializes in white-collar criminal matters--including as Counsel of Record in the U.S. Supreme Court--and civil matters--including as trial counsel for the NCAA in a highly-publicized defamation case.

Lauren Blas

Joseph Boufadel is a partner at Salvato Boufadel LLP, where his practice focuses on business and commercial litigation, insolvency litigation, and appeals. Joseph is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization.

Davida Brook is a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP, focusing on commercial litigation at every level, and ranges from two-party business and employment disputes to complex, multi-party and class action cases involving securities, contract, and patent law. Davida is also well known for her work related to defamation and intellectual property. Prior to joining Susman Godfrey, Davida served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sandor Callahan

John Carson is Of Counsel in Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie's Intellectual Property practice group. His practice includes all phases of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law, including licensing and litigation.

Lana Choi is a Deputy County Counsel at the Los Angeles Office of the County Counsel. She currently works in the Sheriff's Legal Advisory Unit, providing in-house counsel on a variety of matters, including civil and criminal discovery, contracts, media/intellectual property, and the Public Records Act. Lana represents the Sheriff's Department in 1983 civil rights, tort, and Second Amendment/firearms cases in federal and state court. She currently serves as a Central District Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.

Sepehr Daghighian

Robert Dugdale is a partner at Kendell Brill & Kelly, where he specializes in white collar criminal defense litigation, conducting internal investigations, defending False Claims Act cases, managing crises on behalf of high-profile individuals, and representing companies spanning a variety of industries in complex civil litigation. From 1997 to 2016, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California, where he served, among other positions, as the Chief of the Violent and Organized Crime Section (2007-2010), the Chief of the Criminal Division (2010-2015), and the Chief Assistant United States Attorney for Trials, Integrity, and Professionalism (2015-2016).

Jonathan Eisenman is a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles.

Jeanne Fugate is a partner in the Los Angeles office of King & Spalding, LLP. Jeanne is a first-chair trial lawyer with a wide-ranging practice focused on class actions, intellectual property, and employee mobility issues. Jeanne has a stellar record of success on TROs and injunctions, summary judgment, trial, and appeal, including obtaining a multi-million dollar jury verdict as lead counsel in a three-week trade secret misappropriation trial.

Neil Gehlawat

John Hanusz

Moez Kaba is a partner with Hueston Hennigan.

Patricia Kinaga is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She provides advice to employers on a range of issues, including wage hour, major workforce layoffs, medical and disability leaves, discrimination, and discipline matters. She also conducts complex workplace investigations and provides advice on high profile executive separations.

Arnold Lee is an Assistant City Attorney with the City of Pasadena, where he litigates cases in both state and federal courts, as well as advising City Boards, Commissions, and Departments.

Sharlene Lee is a is a shareholder at Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth & Wynner, PC, practicing in the areas of business litigation and employment. She prosecutes and defends matters involving trade secrets, unfair competition, privacy, defamation, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, shareholder derivative claims, and real estate disputes. She has successfully brought and defended anti-SLAPP motions, protecting her clients' First Amendment rights.

Doug Miller

Peter Morrison

Kuruvilla Olasa is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP. His litigation practice encompasses a wide array of high-stakes matters, with a particular focus on complex antitrust litigation. He also counsels clients in the technology and entertainment industries on antitrust issues, including with respect to mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to Judge Sandra Ikuta of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Kuruvilla received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an articles editor for the California Law Review as well as the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Agustin Orozco is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Crowell & Moring LLP, and is a member of the firm's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and Government Contracts groups. As a former federal prosecutor, Agustin is a skilled trial lawyer focused on directing complex white collar cases and investigations, handling contentious and sophisticated pretrial litigation, and successfully proving highly difficult cases at trial. Agustin's background as a federal prosecutor and government contracts attorney leaves him uniquely situated to help clients where government contracts and white collar intersect.

Robert Quigley

Nicole Rodriguez Van Dyk is a principal at Bird Marella, concentrating her practice on the defense of white collar criminal prosecutions, government and regulatory investigations, and complex civil litigation. A significant portion of her practice is devoted to the representation of health care providers in state and federal criminal investigations and prosecutions, and parallel civil proceedings. Nicole also has extensive experience defending clients in criminal matters related to government contracting fraud, mortgage fraud, and labor violations, as well as civil qui tam actions and business disputes. Prior to joining Bird Marella in 2012, Nicole served as law clerk to the Honorable Josephine Staton of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and practiced for three years as a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Ellisen Turner is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He represents clients in complex commercial and intellectual property disputes in the Federal Courts, as well as in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and domestic and international arbitrations. He is also an IP strategist, counseling clients on IP transactions and combining business acumen with a deep understanding of IP law to support his clients' business goals and maximize the value of their technology.

Allison Westfahl-Kong is an Assistant United States Attorney.

Alex Wyman

Honorary Directors / Members

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