O'Melveny & Myers LLP

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O'Melveny & Myers

Type of Company	Limited liability partnership
Founded	1885
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California
Key people	N/A
Industry	Legal services
Products	Full legal services
Revenue	N/A
Employees	1,000 attorneys
Slogan	A values-driven law firm
Website	www.omm.com

O'Melveny & Myers LLP is an international law firm based in Los Angeles, California, broadly recognized as one of the finest in the country. The firm was founded in 1885, and has a strong record of public service. Attorneys of the firm have served at the highest level of government under both Republican and Democrat administrations. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher is a partner at the firm's Century City, CA office. The current chair of the firm is the former White House Counsel during the Reagan Administration, Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., who is located in the Washington, D.C. office.

O'Melveny has 13 offices worldwide and more than 1,000 lawyers in its employ. Areas of practice include anti-trust and competitiveness issues, appellate work, aviation law, capital markets, class-action defense, corporate law, entertainment and media law, finance and restructuring, "global enforcement" and criminal defense, healthcare law, insurance and mass torts, intellectual property and technology, labor and employment law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, project development and real estate, SEC, securities litigation, strategic counseling, tax law, and trial and litigation work.

1 Notable partners
2 Notable cases
3 Office Locations
4 External links

[edit] Notable partners

Warren Christopher - Former U.S. Secretary of State, currently a partner at its Century City office.
Daniel Petrocelli - Achieved fame as the attorney in the successful wrongful death lawsuit brought by Ronald Goldman's family against O.J. Simpson Petrocelli also represented Jeffrey Skilling in his criminal prosecution arrising out of the collapse of the Enron Corporation.
Mark Holscher - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney. Represented Jeffrey Skilling with Petrocelli, as well as former U.S. Representative Duke Cunningham, and wrongfully accused nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., former White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan.
Alejandro Mayorkas - Former United States Attorney for the Central District of California, nominated in 1998 by President Bill Clinton. Mr. Mayorkas was, at the age of 39, the youngest U.S. Attorney in the nation.

[edit] Notable cases

The firm represented the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in the lawsuits over the Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles in the 1990s. The LAUSD later sued the lawfirm for malpractice due, in part, to the involvement of its attorneys on all sides of the negotiations. [1] The lawsuit was deemed frivilous by many but eventually settled, with the law firm paying $3 million towards completion of Belmont.[2]