LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is pleased to announce that the following firm attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®: Brenda Aguilar-Guerrero, Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation Law (Oakland); Michelle Marchetta Kenyon, Municipal Law (Oakland); Daniel W. Maguire, Insurance (Palm Desert); Joseph M. Montes, Municipal Law (Los Angeles); Elizabeth M. Pappy, Commercial Litigation (San Jose); Patricia L. Peden, Litigation – Intellectual Property (Oakland); Eric S. Phillips, Land Use and Zoning Law (San Francisco); Anna C. Shimko, Environmental Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Land Use and Zoning, and Real Estate Law (San Francisco); Eric S. Vail, Municipal Law (Riverside); and Stephen E. Velyvis, Land Use and Zoning Law (San Francisco).
Burke is also pleased to announce that the following attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America: Kristin E. Charbonnier, Real Estate Law (San Francisco); Marvin C. Cho, Litigation – Labor and Employment (Los Angeles); Colleen L. Cleary, Litigation – Antitrust and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs (San Francisco); Kara L. DiBiasio, Real Estate Law (San Francisco); and Gina N. Giovacchini, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants (Los Angeles).
Burke Managing Partner John J. Welsh reflected, “Burke is very proud of the growing number of Best Lawyers 2025 recognitions for Burke attorneys across a wider range of the firm’s practice areas. We remain committed to growing our offering of excellence to meet the diverse legal challenges of our clients.”
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is a California limited liability law partnership with 173 member attorneys. Our mission is to provide clients with creative, results oriented, and cost effective legal services within the complex environment in which they function. We view ourselves as problem solvers and legal strategists, not simply compliance monitors and reciters of the law. Burke has ten practice groups: Public Law; Labor and Employment Law; Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation; Construction Law; Litigation; Environmental, Land Use, and Natural Resources; Real Estate and Business Law; Insurance Coverage and Litigation; Intellectual Property; and Education Law. Each practice focuses on the professional development of member attorneys and on providing advisory services tailored to the needs of both public and private clients. With regional offices in the Inland Empire, Palm Desert, Los Angeles, Marin County, Oakland, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Ventura County, as well with the added support of advanced communications technology, Burke can easily be where our California situated clients need us to be. For more information, please visit www.bwslaw.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/burke-williams-&-sorensen/about/?viewAsMember=true
