People
Kelly M. Breen
Kelly M. Breen
Counsel
Kelly Breen has a proven track record of helping clients navigate complex business issues with a common sense approach that achieves optimal results. She applies the right balance of aggressive advocacy, robust understanding of the law, and creative problem-solving to every case she handles.
Sacramento 916.520.5485
Counsel
Sacramento 916.520.5485
Monica Browner
Monica Browner
Associate
Monica Browner helps clients navigate complex environmental issues with a pragmatic and dynamic approach. Clients rely on her to minimize uncertainty in a constantly changing regulatory landscape. Monica uses her analytic skills and knowledge of state and federal environmental law to assist clients with a broad range of legal issues including compliance with various environmental regulations.
Sacramento 916.520.5377
Associate
Sacramento 916.520.5377
Kristin N. Capritto
Kristin N. Capritto
Partner
Kristin Capritto assists clients with all aspects of estate planning, trust administration, probate, business entities, and real estate transactions. Her alternative dispute resolution and negotiation expertise offers clients alternatives to litigation and adversarial proceedings.
Sacramento 916.520.5275
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5275
San Francisco 415.848.4818
Bradley C. Carroll
Bradley C. Carroll
Partner
Bradley Carroll is a seasoned litigator who focuses on complex business disputes in trial courts and on appeal. Bradley is known for his client-centric approach and his effective and efficient resolution skills. His combined experience as an appellate staff attorney and trial attorney allows Bradley to successfully guide clients through arduous, high-stakes business disputes and litigation.
Sacramento 916.520.5299
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5299
Sophia B. Castillo
Sophia B. Castillo
Partner
Sophia Castillo (“Sophie”) helps her clients comply with, and litigate, complex legal issues relating to toxics and chemicals in products and in the environment. Her practice focuses on California’s Proposition 65, litigation involving chemicals in consumer products, and pollution and contamination claims in soil and water.
San Francisco 415.848.4814
Partner
San Francisco 415.848.4814
Brian T. Cragg
Brian T. Cragg
Partner
Clients turn to Brian Cragg when they need advice on energy regulatory and transactional matters, including meeting regulatory requirements for the development or purchase of generation, energy storage, and transmission projects, evaluating the risk of energy-related investments, and navigating the interconnection and new resource processes of the California Independent System Operator.
San Francisco 415.848.4813
Partner
San Francisco 415.848.4813
Joseph G. De Angelis
Joseph G. De Angelis
Partner
For more than 20 years, Joe De Angelis has combined his legal skills and accounting background to guide his clients through complex tax planning and business transactions. His substantial experience as a certified public accountant is extremely valuable to clients requiring practical business solutions for complex legal issues.
Sacramento 916.520.5308
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5308
James L. Deeringer
James L. Deeringer
Of Counsel
Jim Deeringer is one of Northern California's premier trust and estate litigation attorneys. With more than 35 years of practice, he has handled hundreds of planning, administration, and litigation matters involving estates ranging from the relatively small to over $100 million in value.
Sacramento 916.520.5352
Of Counsel
Sacramento 916.520.5352
Matthew W. Ellis
Partner
San Francisco 415.848.4846
Sacramento 916.520.5495
Cassandra M. Ferrannini
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5387
Janlynn R. Fleener
Janlynn R. Fleener
Partner / Chair, Litigation Department
For over 25 years, a variety of businesses—from financial institutions to national property developers and shopping center owners, governmental agencies, regional businesses, sole proprietorships, and individuals—have turned to Jan Fleener to handle their complex business litigation.
Sacramento 916.520.5227
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5227
Nicole E. Granquist
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5369
Cameron P. Haynes
Cameron P. Haynes
Associate
Cameron advises and defends clients regarding all aspects of federal, state, and local employment laws. Using a common sense approach, Cameron helps clients navigate the intricate nuances of employment law in California to achieve outstanding results, assist clients’ business goals, and strategically resolve lawsuits.
Sacramento 916.520.5330
Associate
Sacramento 916.520.5330
Counsel
San Francisco 415.848.4844
Sacramento 916.444.1000
Tyson E. Hubbard
Tyson E. Hubbard
Partner
Tyson Hubbard is an experienced litigator who focuses on trust and estate disputes. Tyson's clients rely upon him to steer an efficient and effective path. He draws from more than a decade of litigation experience across a wide range of matters, as well as from his personal experience as a trustee of a family trust.
Sacramento 916.520.5216
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5216
Steven B. Hymas, II
Steven B. Hymas, II
Partner / Chair, Corporate, Securities and Tax Department
With over a decade of prior experience working in business and technology, Steve Hymas has a deep understanding of the legal issues clients face in relation to how their businesses work, the technical challenges they face, and how to handle those issues to best address their needs.
Sacramento 916.520.5538
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5538
Christopher Miles Kolkey
Senior Associate
Sacramento 916.520.5320
Alexandra K. LaFountain
Senior Associate
Sacramento 916.520.5245
Michael J. Laino
Michael J. Laino
Associate
Since joining Downey Brand in 2019, Michael Laino has represented businesses and individual clients in a wide arrange of civil litigation matters, including partnership and shareholder disputes, construction and product defect litigation, wild fire liability, adversary proceedings in bankruptcy cases, financial security matters, and general real estate and contractual litigation.
Sacramento 916.520.5360
Associate
Sacramento 916.520.5360
Christian L. Marsh
Christian L. Marsh
Partner / Executive Committee Member
Public agencies and private companies turn to Christian Marsh for advice on regulatory and land use entitlement issues governing real estate developments, ground and surface water supply projects, renewable and non-renewable energy facilities, mining operations and processing plants, and port and waterfront developments.
San Francisco 415.848.4830
Partner
San Francisco 415.848.4830
John C. McCarron
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5450
Sean G. McKissick
Sean G. McKissick
Counsel
Sean McKissick provides strong and effective legal assistance throughout all stages of trust and estate disputes. Sean has extensive experience across a wide variety of litigation areas and industries in addition to trust and estate work, including healthcare, real estate, civil rights, and white-collar criminal defense.
Sacramento 916.520.5262
Counsel
Sacramento 916.520.5262
Kathryn L. Oehlschlager
Partner
San Francisco 415.848.4820
John Oehmke
John Oehmke
Of Counsel
John Oehmke has been helping his clients buy and sell businesses for more than twenty years. He primarily helps them structure transactions, whether it is a merger, asset deal, or a stock deal, representing both the buyer as they add new businesses and the seller as they exit.
Sacramento 916.520.5480
Of Counsel
Sacramento 916.520.5480
Steven P. Saxton
Steven P. Saxton
Of Counsel
For nearly 30 years, public agencies, businesses and agricultural landowners have looked to Steve Saxton to successfully handle water, resources, and land use litigation and representation in both private negotiations and in state and federal courts throughout California.
Sacramento 916.520.5435
Of Counsel
Sacramento 916.520.5435
Megan J. Somogyi
Megan J. Somogyi
Partner
Megan Somogyi specializes in the California Public Utilities Commission and California regulated utilities. She assists clients in a broad array of utility-related matters, including wildfires and power shutoff proceedings, utility certification and ratemaking, nuclear power plant decommissioning, tariff filings, energy industry rulemakings, administrative litigation, and regulatory compliance.
San Francisco 415.848.4829
Partner
San Francisco 415.848.4829
Elizabeth B. Stallard
Elizabeth B. Stallard
Partner
Elizabeth Stallard helps clients navigate complex employment and business issues with a common sense and pragmatic approach. A seasoned and creative problem-solver, Elizabeth advises clients with workforce management issues and efficiently resolves disputes either through litigation or alternative dispute resolution.
Sacramento 916.520.5238
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5238
M. Max Steinheimer
Of Counsel
Stockton 209.472.3926
Sacramento 916.444.1000
Danielle R. Stephens
Danielle R. Stephens
Partner
Danielle Stephens is a skilled transactional attorney who assists clients with commercial real estate leasing, financing (including CMBS and SBA loans), acquisitions and sales, easements, and title matters with a focus on contractual negotiations requiring collaborative deal-making. She also advises on matters involving contaminated properties including due diligence and remediation.
Sacramento 916.520.5475
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5475
Melissa A. Thorme
Partner
Sacramento 916.520.5376
San Francisco 415.848.4800
Matthew J. Weber
Partner
Stockton 209.472.3922
Sacramento 916.444.1000
Jennifer L. Williams
Jennifer L. Williams
Counsel
Regional public entities, businesses, sole proprietorships, and individuals have benefited from Jenny Williams's legal counsel. In today's challenging economic climate, an increase in case filings have reduced the court's availability to hear oral arguments and resulted in significant delays in obtaining trial dates.
Stockton 209.472.3918
Counsel
Stockton 209.472.3918
Sacramento 916.444.1000