Farella Braun + Martel Attorneys Named to 2025 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Thirty-one Farella Braun + Martel lawyers were named to the Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists of top attorneys in Northern California for 2025.
2025 Farella Northern California Super Lawyers:
• Carly Alameda – Business Litigation
• Sarah Bell - Environmental
• Amy Briggs – Business Litigation
• James Colopy – Environmental Litigation
• Doug Dexter – Employment
• Elizabeth Dorsi – Business Litigation
• Shanti Eagle – Insurance Recovery
• Jeffrey Fisher – Intellectual Property Litigation
• Tyler Gerking – Insurance Recovery
• Sarah Good – Securities Litigation
• Robert Hines – Environmental
• Gary Kaplan – Bankruptcy: Business
• William Keane – White Collar Crime Defense
• Karen Kimmey – Business Litigation
• Anthony Ratner – Real Estate
• Janice Reicher – White Collar Crime Defense
• Cynthia Rowland – Nonprofit Organizations
• Raymond Sheen – Insurance Recovery
• Donald Sobelman – Environmental Litigation
• Richard Van Duzer – Construction Litigation
• Erica Villanueva – Insurance Recovery
• Christopher Wheeler – Business Litigation
2025 Farella Northern California Rising Stars:
• Cynthia Castillo – Business Litigation
• Carolina de Armas – Real Estate
• Michelle Kao – Business Litigation
• Hilary Krase – White Collar Crime Defense
• Kelly Matayoshi – Business Litigation
• Thomas Pardini – Intellectual Property Litigation
• Linda Sobczynski Gilleran – Environmental Litigation
• John Ugai – Environmental Litigation
• Ryan Wessels – Employment
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, recognizes the top attorneys nationwide, across a variety of practice areas and firm sizes, using a patented process of independent research and peer input. Each year no more than 5% of attorneys are selected to Super Lawyers and 2.5% to Rising Stars.
Farella Braun + Martel is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business and real estate transactions and complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation. Clients seek our imaginative legal solutions and the dynamism and intellectual creativity of our lawyers. We are headquartered in San Francisco and maintain an office in the Napa Valley that is focused on the wine industry.
Contact:
Cheryl Loof
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
415.954.4433/[email protected]

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