California Lawyers

Labor Law

25 N. Lima Avenue, Sierra Madre, CA 91024

Area of Practice: ESOPs, Equity Compensation, and Litigation David assists clients in general corporate matters and in employee ownership, benefit, ERISA, and related business matters, with an emphasis on executive compensation, equity incentive plans, non-qualified deferred compensation, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), ESOP transactions, mergers and acquisitions (and related tax planning), and business succession and estate planning. David has served as outside general counsel to numerous corporate clients over the past 32 years. He also frequently appears on behalf of clients in business and employment-oriented defense litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country, before regulatory agencies (e.g., U.S. Department of Labor, California Labor Commissioner, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and comparable state regulatory agencies, against felony criminal indictments in U.S. Federal Court, and in dispute resolutions of various kinds. David represents corporations in shareholder and non-competition disputes. David has defended ERISA fiduciaries, plan sponsors, selling shareholders, and investment advisers in ERISA litigation matters involving ESOPs and business transactions in federal and state courts throughout the country in a wide range of controversies covering ERISA fiduciary responsibilities, ESOP valuation disputes, disclosure obligations, investment issues, and tax matters. He has extensive experience in negotiating ESOP, ERISA, and other issues with government regulatory agencies and in representing ERISA fiduciaries in litigation. Recognized nationally for his experience and expertise in the ESOP and executive compensation field, David is a past chair (1993-1995 and 2005-2007) of the legislative and regulatory advisory committee of The ESOP Association. He also is a past chair of The ESOP Association’s advisory committee chairs council and is a former member of its board of directors. David was honored at the 17th annual conference of The ESOP Association as the outstanding committee chair for 1993-94. He also served for more than ten years as General Counsel to The National Center for Employee Ownership and on its board of directors.

Personal Injury Law

3780 Selby Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034

Criminal Defense Law

16633 Ventura Blvd, Encino, CA 91436, USA

David Kenner was admitted to practice in the State of California in 1968 and has devoted the last 4 ½ decades handling literally thousands of State and Federal criminal matters across the country. Whether in pre trial motions, in trial, at appeal, seeking extra ordinary relief, or fighting for prisoner’s rights, Mr. Kenner honed his courtroom skills to a fine edge. In addition to all of the State matters he has handled, Mr. Kenner has developed a large part of his practice devoted to the litigation of complex criminal, quasi-criminal, and civil litigation most typically opposing government counsel. He has tried cases against US attorneys, district attorneys, attorneys general, and has confronted in litigation the FBI, DEA, CIA, ATF, organized crime, OCIDEF Task Force cases, government contracting fraud, and many others. Mr. Kenner was defense counsel in the first Federal drug king pin case brought in the United States, a host of 848, 846, and 841 cases and a number of money laundering cases including the largest DEA undercover money laundering investigation called “Operation Polar Cap”. Mr. Kenner in that case won a dismissal for his client. Having handled nearly every kind of Federal crime including white collar crimes, weapons charges, Federal homicide cases and CFTC and SEC matters. Mr. Kenner has also distinguished himself in the representation of every type of State crime, both misdemeanors and felonies. Mr. Kenner’s excellence is well illustrated in his representation of “Snoop Dogg” where he won an acquittal, Robert Geddyes, where his cross examination in pretrial hearings forced the district attorneys office to dismiss their first degree murder charge on the eve of trial, and most recently he and Mr. Greenfield won an acquittal in a case involving twelve counts of attempted murder filed against two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in the State of South Dakota. He is considered an expert in the cross examination of government professional witnesses. Whether an instant arrest or a multi year conspiracy investigation, Mr. Kenner brings the experience, expertise and know how to level the playing field allowing the firm’s clients to receive a fair trial and the cutting edge in representation. Mr. Kenner has enjoyed an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell for the last 35 years which rates him at “the pinnacle of professional excellence earned through a strenuous peer review rating process that is managed and monitored by the world’s most trusted legal resource”. His AV rating gives him the “highest rating in legal ability and ethical standards”. In addition to the many of the highest profile cases that Mr. Kenner has handled as described he also strives to make the firm services available to each and every person who needs the firm’s expertise in negotiating through the dangerous waters of a criminal prosecution. Up until 2004 Mr. Kenner practiced as the Kenner Law Firm and hired and worked with a number of young attorneys always looking for that special one that would meet his requirements to become a part of this very special practice. In 2004 Mr. Kenner hired a then young attorney Brett A. Greenfield. In short order Mr. Kenner recognized the unique skill set, aggressiveness, maturity and understanding that he was seeking in a person to partner with to keep the firm ongoing. Since then Mr. Greenfield has become a partner in the firm, now Kenner & Greenfield, and as is clear from his bio below has not disappointed in not only meeting but exceeding all of these expectations. Mr. Greenfield now brings his own additional and individual value to this dynamic law firm. In those cases where it is appropriate Mr. Kenner and Mr. Greenfield combine both years of experience and youthful exuberance in a way that brings the best of all worlds to the client.

Civil Litigation

80 S Lake Ave suite 512, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA

David S. Lin is the founder and managing partner of the Law Offices of David S. Lin, specializing in representation of business clientele as well as individual plaintiffs in Southern California, and in foreign countries such as China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Lin has extensive legal experience, including numerous trials, which he has taken to successful verdicts and obtained significant monetary judgments on behalf of his clients. Lin is a graduate of Cornell University and Boston University School of Law. In addition to being a Super Lawyers honoree, Lin has also achieved numerous past accolades and award recognitions, including Pasadena Magazine’s Top Attorneys from 2012 through 2018 and Lawyers of Distinction for excellence in civil litigation in 2017 and 2018. After having worked at large, downtown Los Angeles law firms since 1991, Lin founded his own law firm in 2003. The firm prides itself on providing detailed, hands-on attention to its clients, whether large or small, and providing top-notch, big-firm legal services at a small-firm, competitive price. In today’s competitive business environment, the firm strives toward achieving the best possible results for its clients while maintaining the utmost integrity, confidentiality and professionalism in the handling and litigation of all cases.

Labor Law

2650 Camino Del Rio North, Suite 302, San Diego, CA 92108

Area of Practice: Employment Law David Mara is the founding member and president of Mara Law Firm, PC. Mr. Mara has devoted his many years of practice to representing employees in all aspects of California wage and hour law, including, but not limited to, class representation of employees seeking unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unfair business practices, and meal and rest period violations. California Employment Attorney David Mara also specializes in representing injured civilians working abroad pursuant to a U.S. defense contract. Over the course of his career, Mr. Mara has obtained tens of millions of dollars on behalf of California and Defense Base Act workers. A long-standing member of Consumer Attorneys of California, Mr. Mara is on the shortlist of lawyers the organization selects in California to author briefs in support of workers in California Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. Mr. Mara was co-counsel in the seminal California Supreme Court decision, Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court, in which the Court articulated the standards on employee entitlements to and employer obligations for providing meal and rest breaks in California and the availability of class action treatment for those claims. In addition to his trial and appellate work on behalf of California workers, Mr. Mara is also on the cutting edge of shaping California laws, as he is frequently asked to review and offer counter proposals to laws affecting California workers proposed in the California legislature and Congress.