August 20, 2026 (San Diego/Orange County/Silicon Valley/Las Vegas/Scottsdale/Washington, D.C.) – Seventy-three Procopio attorneys in dozens of practice areas have been named to the 2027 Best Lawyers® and Ones to Watch® lists. These outstanding attorneys can be found in all six Procopio locations: San Diego, Orange County, Silicon Valley, Scottsdale, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. The Best Lawyers in America lists are compiled annually through exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers provide confidential nominations and feedback.
Three Procopio partners were recognized by their peers with a “Lawyer of the Year” award, a designation given to only a small percentage of Best Lawyers recipients:
Below are Procopio’s Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch, grouped into ten broad categories of law. Those new to the list or new practices recognized for existing Best Lawyers or Ones to Watch are in italics.
Commercial Litigation
- Partner Anthony Dain: Appellate Practice (San Diego)
- Special Counsel Meg Dawson (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
- Partner Kendra Hall: Appellate Practice (San Diego)
- Partner Elaine Harwell: Commercial Litigation, and Consumer Law (San Diego)
- Associate Victoria Manfredonia (One to Watch): Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
- Partner Maria Pum: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions / UCC Law, and Litigation – Bankruptcy (San Diego)
- Partner Sean Sullivan: Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
- Partner Frederick Taylor: Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
- Partner Paul Tyrell: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Litigation-Real Estate (San Diego)
- Partner Edward Walton: Commercial Litigation, and Admiralty and Maritime Law (San Diego)
- Associate Benjamin White (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation (San Diego)
- Associate Lianlian Wu (One to Watch): Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
Construction Law
- Senior Counsel Jeffery Garofalo: Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation, and Construction Law (Las Vegas)
- Partner Jeffrey Hood: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
- Of Counsel Katherine Knudsen: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
- Partner Michael Nolan: Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
- Partner Scott Omohundro: Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
- Partner Laurence Phillips: Litigation-Construction and Construction Law (San Diego)
- Partner Timothy Salter: Construction Law and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
- Senior Counsel Michelle Wells: Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
Corporate Law
- Managing Partner Dennis Doucette: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, and Venture Capital Law (San Diego)
- Partner William Eigner: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (San Diego)
- Partner Jason Femrite: Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Venture Capital Law
- Partner Paul Johnson: Corporate Law (San Diego)
- Partner Michael Kinkelaar: Corporate Law (San Diego)
- Partner John C. Lee: Corporate Law (San Diego)
- Senior Associate Alexander Tang (One to Watch): Corporate Law (Orange County)
- Senior Counsel Jennifer Trowbridge: Corporate Law (San Diego)
- Associate Gabriela Turner (One to Watch): Corporate Law (San Diego)
- Partner Merrick Wadsworth (One to Watch): Corporate Governance and Compliance Law (San Diego)
Family Law
- Partner Michele Brown: Family Law, Collaborative Law: Family Law, Family Law Arbitration and Family Law Mediation (San Diego)
- Senior Associate Ashley Genser: Family Law (San Diego)
- Partner Adrian Martinez: Commercial Litigation and Family Law (San Diego)
- Special Counsel Matthew Strauss: Collaborative Law: Family Law and Family Law (San Diego)
- Partner Sarah Taylor: Family Law, Family Law Arbitration and Family Law Mediation (San Diego)
- Partner David Zachry: Family Law, Collaborative Law: Family Law, Family Law Arbitration and Family Law Mediation (San Diego)
Health Care Law
Intellectual Property
- Partner Stephen Beuerle: Patent Law (San Diego)
- Partner Victor Felix: Litigation-Intellectual Property and Litigation-Patent (San Diego)
- Counsel Lyndsey Heaton: Litigation-Intellectual Property (Silicon Valley)
- Senior Associate Raph Kim (One to Watch): Intellectual Property Law, Life Sciences Practice, and Patent Law (Washington, D.C.)
- Partner Pattric Rawlins: Patent Law (San Diego)
- Associate Robert Selfaison (One to Watch): Intellectual Property Law (Arizona)
- Associate Blake Winn (One to Watch): Intellectual Property Law and Patent Law (Orange County)
Labor & Employment Law
- Associate Eva Adel (One to Watch): Labor and Employment Law, Labor and Employment: Management, and Litigation: Labor and Employment (San Diego)
- Partner Gina Miller: Labor and Employment (Orange County)
- Partner Marie Burke Kenny: Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor and Employment (San Diego)
- Partner Wendy Tucker: Litigation-Labor and Employment, and Employment Law-Individuals (San Diego)
Native American Law
- Of Counsel Glenn Feldman: Gaming Law and Native American Law (Scottsdale)
- Partner Kerry Patterson: Gaming Law, Native American Law, and Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Senior Associate Racheal White Hawk (One to Watch): Native American Law (San Diego)
Real Estate Law
- Associate Matt Abbot (One to Watch): Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law (San Diego)
- Of Counsel Dana Bessenecker: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Partner Amy Cannon: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Partner Steven Casselberry: Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law (Orange County)
- Partner Jordan Ferguson: Land Use and Zoning Law, and Real Estate Law (Orange County)
- Partner Michael Kiesling: Litigation-Real Estate and Litigation-Construction (San Diego)
- Partner Michael Lyon: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Associate Alexander Manglinong (One to Watch): Litigation-Real Estate (San Diego)
- Partner Sara Neva: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Partner Craig Sapin: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) and Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Partner Steve Serna: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Senior Associate Hayden Weaver (One to Watch): Real Estate Law (San Diego)
- Associate Wyatt Williams (One to Watch): Real Estate Law (Arizona)
- Of Counsel Raymond Wright: Real Estate Law (San Diego)
Tax Law
Procopio attorneys and practice groups are routinely named to various legal rankings lists, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers-Best Law Firms.
