McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP is an international law firm comprised of more than 400 lawyers and public policy advisors. With offices in Albany, Atlanta, Brussels, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, DC, our attorneys provide the critical industry knowledge and quality of service that today’s clients demand from their law firm. The LA Office is located in the heart of Los Angeles’ financial district. This strategic location is ideal for servicing both domestic and international clients.
The Los Angeles Office has practitioners with a wide variety of substantive practice area expertise. The three largest departments in the office are Government Contracts, Real Estate and Litigation. In addition, the office has significant expertise in general corporate counseling (including taxation, SEC, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring), finance, environmental compliance, employment law and white collar crime. Attorneys in each of these practice areas handle virtually every type of contract, litigation or counseling problem. Our clients include numerous Fortune 500 firms, mid-size companies, major government contractors and non-profit organizations of all types. We also offer civil business litigation and white collar criminal defense efforts, as well as international dispute resolution in the Middle East, Europe, Canada, and Japan.
Our attorneys and professionals in the Los Angeles Office are experienced in a broad spectrum of practice areas with a principal focus on:
The government contracts practice, which is part of the largest of its kind in the country, concentrates in prosecuting and defending complex contract litigation with the United States and foreign governments in the electronics, aerospace and computer fields. Matters run the gamut in size and geography. Los Angeles attorneys have taken the lead in litigations involving "nine-figure" claims for damages. These cases involved sophisticated electronic and software intensive air defense systems designed and built in the Middle East by two of the largest aerospace and electronics companies in the world under a foreign military sales contract, as well as similarly sized claims under domestic defense contracts for the development of major weapons systems.
Litigation
The litigation practice in Los Angeles handles a wide variety of complex business matters in addition to its involvement in the government contract cases. Litigators in our office practice in the areas of complex breach of contract litigation, class action suits, anti-trust, and banking law. In support of the government contract practice, the litigation practice has developed one of the most respected federal criminal and civil fraud defense practices in Los Angeles. MLA's Los Angeles litigators, coupled with an experienced team of white collar crime litigators in MLA’s San Diego Office, are well-known for their expertise in the defense of civil false claims under the federal statute permitting individuals to file whistleblower litigation in concert with or on behalf of the Department of Justice. Several of these cases have involved claims in excess of $100 million asserted against a variety of clients including: a major European multi-national corporation; major defense contractors; and an international service company that manages the U.S. Embassy facility in Tokyo over the theft of the embassy's oil supplies. In addition to these high profile cases, the office also handles fraud allegations at the state and local government levels.
Product Liability and Toxic Tort
Our product liability and toxic tort practitioners combine their experience in complex civil litigation with the firm's experience in the technical and medical issues that often form the battleground for these cases. Our extensive experience with scientific and medical issues enables us to integrate complex issues to present a credible scientific defense for each company. These types of cases frequently are won through discovery. When these cases are not defeated by pre-trial motions, our attorneys are skilled at presenting complex scientific evidence to lay juries with excellent results.
Los Angeles attorneys represent companies in traditional product liability and mass tort litigation alleging design, manufacturing and warning issues. The firm defends automobile manufacturers, automobile parts suppliers and industrial equipment suppliers in litigation in numerous jurisdictions. The firm also defends manufacturers in many of the current classes of mass torts, including asbestos litigation, silica litigation, benzene litigation, “fen-phen” litigation, industrial and agricultural chemical exposure litigation, latex glove litigation, PPA litigation and cell phone radiation litigation. We are pleased to have served as local, regional and national counsel in these actions.
One unique aspect of the firm’s practice is the defense of government contractors in toxic tort and product liability cases. We are particularly familiar with the special legal defenses available in such actions, including under the recently enacted Safety Act, which provides particular rights and defenses to manufacturers of homeland security products.
Real Estate
Our attorneys have multi-disciplinary experience handling all aspects of real estate development, investment and finance. We close many deals for borrowers and lenders, developers and owners, corporations and tenants. We represent lenders, servicers and borrowers in loan transactions ranging from simple secured real estate loans to large, complex financing facilities with revolving features and multiple branches of debt, mezzanine loans, loan assumptions and defeasance transactions. We also handle ground-up predevelopment planning, acquisitions and financing, development and subdivision, construction and leasing transactions. At the other end of the spectrum, we handle complex bankruptcy and restructuring/buyout deals for our real estate and other clients.
The Los Angeles Office's environmental attorneys counsel and litigate on behalf of a broad range of industrial clients and trade associations. Using sound business perspectives, we provide our clients with reliable and effective solutions to potentially business-threatening environmental problems.
The employment practice in Los Angeles is part of a national group that provides the full range of employment counseling, training and litigation services. We offer full-service, dynamic and proactive solutions for each of our individual clients.
The lawyers in MLA's Los Angeles office are active in the community and participate in the ABA Pro Bono Challenge. We are involved in a wide range of professional, community service, and civic organizations ranging from the local Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles Economic Development Counsel to international organizations that share a strong commitment to the city around us.
Our office is located at the intersection of Fifth and South Flower Streets in downtown Los Angeles. Our office is centrally located across the street from the landmark Los Angeles County Library and the Bonaventure Hotel.