Awards/Additional Recognition

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Congratulations to Darrell White for receiving both the City of Santa Ana Beautiful Yard Award and Neighborhood Hero Award! The awards were presented at Bower’s Museum on Thursday, June 23, 2016, and included recognition from the City Council of Santa Ana, Rep. Lorretta Sanchez (46^th Dist.), Sen. Janet Nguyen (34^th Dist.), Asmbly. Tom Daly (69^th Dist.), Diane L. Harkey (State Board of Eq.), and Supervisor Andrew Do (1^st Dist., Orange County).

Congratulations to the eight Weintraub Tobin attorneys selected to receive America’s Top 100 Attorneys, Northern California Lifetime Achievement  Membership! Membership in America’s Top 100 Attorneys is limited to the top 100 attorneys from each state who best exhibit excellence and the highest ethical standards. With these high standards, less than 1% of attorneys in the United States will be selected for the membership. The Weintraub Tobin attorneys recognized for this distinction include:

Gary L. Bradus

Dale C. Campbell

Chris Chediak

Edward J. Corey Jr.

Louis A. Gonzalez Jr.

Michael A. Kvarme

Charles L. Post

Lizbeth V. West

Weintraub Tobin and Jessica Marlow were recognized in Sacramento Bee’s “Sacramento’s ‘hometown heroes’ learn to navigate global fame” for its and her pro bono work for Sacramento’s hometown heroes.

“…After his office was flooded with requests for tributes, interviews or appearances featuring the local heroes, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson reached out to a renowned public affairs consultant and a major California law firm to help the trio face what was coming.

“Aaron McLear, founding partner of Redwood Pacific Public Affairs in Sacramento and a former press secretary for former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, took on the assignment pro bono. So did the law firm of Weintraub Tobin, which has offices in Sacramento, San Francisco and other California cities.

“When ABC’s Dancing with the Stars came calling for Skarlatos, Weintraub Tobin made available its Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, Jessica Marlow, to handle the contract negotiations in time for him to learn dance steps for his appearance on the show’s season opener last week…”

Click here to view the full article.

Sacramento, California – Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin, a business law and litigation firm, announces that Chris Chediak has been named Northern California’s Lawyer of the Year in Corporate Law for 2014 by Best Lawyers in America®. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Individuals are named to the list based on their particularly high level of peer recognition.

Chris is a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate department. He represents public and private clients in a variety of industries including technology, private equity, agri-business, manufacturing and trade associations. Chris routinely represents and counsels clients on a broad range of legal and business matters involving corporate governance, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary duties and licensing and distribution arrangements. His practice encompasses transactions for companies of all sizes ranging from growth companies to well capitalized publicly traded corporations, for profit and non-profit companies, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures.

Chris was also named 2009 “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Congratulations to Kay Brooks, Janet Chediak, Ed Corey and Hilary L. Lamar, all of whom have been selected as a 2013 “Top Rated Lawyer” in Trust and Estates Law by the national attorney-ranking service Martindale-Hubbell.

The attorneys received this prestigious honor after receiving an “AV Preeminent” review rating on Martindale-Hubbell from his attorney peers. The AV Preeminent rating is the highest possible rating in legal ability and ethical standards. For this designation, the attorneys are featured in the July 2013 issue of the American Lawyer & Corporate Counsel Magazine.

Kay is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. Kay advises individuals and families on all aspects of estate and tax planning, including family trusts, wills, powers of attorney, health care documents, life insurance trusts, education trusts, charitable giving, business succession planning, gifting programs, and family business entities such as limited liability companies and family limited partnerships.

Janet’s practice focuses on advising clients and foundations on estate tax, income tax, and property tax issues affecting trusts and estates. She also has extensive expertise in sales of real property by fiduciaries and in advising fiduciaries who had real property assets.

Ed’s practice focuses on estate and trust litigation, financial/fiduciary abuse, elder financial abuse, trust administration, probate, and conservatorships. Ed also has extensive trial, arbitration, mediation and appellate experience, and has successfully litigated a number of high profile trust and elder financial abuse cases in Northern California.

Hilary counsels individuals and businesses in all aspects of estate and tax planning, including trusts, wills, and powers of attorney, health care documents, life insurance trusts, education trusts, charitable giving, gifting programs, and family business entities such as limited liability companies and family limited partnerships. She also assists clients with estate and gift tax issues, and probate and trust administration, including advising executors, administrators, and trustees.

Our Trust and Estates attorneys’ foremost priority is to find innovated solutions that meet our clients’ objectives while protecting their interests when controversies arise. By combining careful analysis with the most recent development in tax policies, we also aim to provide our clients with the maximum financial benefits in estate and personal tax planning. Our depth of our experience is unmatched by other firms in California.

Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin has won “Tenant Improvement of the Year” in the Sacramento Business Journal’s Real Estate Projects competition.

The office remodel for Sacramento’s second largest law firm was lauded by judges for its “energy.” Said one judge: “The design was done tastefully and professionally for a law office, but they had the right dash of pizzazz.”

Weintraub Tobin was honored with the award at a breakfast at the Sheraton Grand Hotel on Friday, September 21, 2012. For the full story on the tenant improvement in the Sacramento Business Journal, click the above link.

Developer: Hines

General Contractor: MarketOne Builders Inc.

Architect: Williams and Paddon Architects and Planners Inc.

Where: 400 Capitol Mall, 10th and 11th Floors

When: Completed June 2011

Size: 44,900 square feet

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Sacramento, Calif.–Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin, a business law and business litigation firm, announces that Jim Clarke has been named Northern California’s Lawyer of the Year in Tax for 2013 by Best Lawyers of America. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Individuals are named to the list based on their particularly high level of peer recognition.

Jim is a shareholder in the firm’s Tax and Corporate Groups. His practice focuses on federal and state income tax, planning and dispute resolution, transactional tax and business planning matters in connection with mergers and acquisitions; structuring and choice of entity planning in connections with business formations; buy-outs; equity financings; reorganizations, acquisitions, business dispositions involving corporate (including nonprofit) and pass-through business entities, and client representation in federal, state and local tax controversy matters.

As part of his executive compensation practice, Jim combines his corporate and tax specialties to work with businesses in the planning and implementation of key employee compensation arrangements; including stock and synthetic equity performance incentives, deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, stock appreciation rights, and phantom stock option plans.

Jim has been recognized as a Northern California Best Lawyer in Tax Law since 2004.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

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To read the entire article that appeared in the San Francisco Daily Journal, click on the link above.

Over the last year, Weintraub Genshlea Chediak has tripled the size of its employment law department. In addition to enhancing the services we can provide to our clients, this growth has allowed us to continue presenting our quality seminars and maintaining our Labor and Employment Law Blog. Our results have paid off. We are pleased to announce that LexisNexis has ranked our blog as one of the Top 25 employment and labor law blogs in the nation for 2011. We are honored and proud to receive this recognition given the number of other high quality labor and employment law blogs out in the blogosphere.

Voting is now under way to determine the nation’s top (#1) employment and labor law blog for 2011. If you have enjoyed reading the commentary and information we regularly provide on our blog, please take the time to vote for “The Labor and Employment Law Blog” as the Top Blog of 2011 by clicking here.

We look forward to continuing to provide you with commentary and information about developing employment and labor issues in the years to come. Thank you.