O’Melveny & Myers

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O’Melveny & Myers

Type	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
Website	www.omm.com

O’Melveny & Myers LLP is an international law firm founded in Los Angeles, California. The firm is the 19th largest law firm in the world and lauded by Vault as one of America’s top twenty most prestigious law firms.^[1]

It employs around twelve hundred attorneys in thirteen offices worldwide. The firm has represented a host of notable clients, such as Apple, Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs, the District of Columbia, New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and other law firms.

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The firm was founded in 1885. Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher is a partner at the firm's Century City, CA office. The current chair of the firm, Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., who serves at the firm's Washington, D.C. office, is the former White House Counsel during the Reagan Administration.

O’Melveny & Myers attorneys represent clients in many areas, including antitrust 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 and alumni
2 Notable cases
3 Office locations
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Notable partners and alumni

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.

Walter E. Dellinger III, United States Solicitor General for the 1996-97 Term of the Supreme Court.

Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., former White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan.

Alejandro Mayorkas, former U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. In 1998, President Bill Clinton nominated Mayorkas to be the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, the largest federal judicial district in the nation. Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Mayorkas to the position in December 1998 and the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination in August 1999. Mayorkas was, at the age of 39, the youngest U.S. Attorney in the nation. He supervised more than 240 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and oversaw the investigation and prosecution of cases involving complex securities and financial institution fraud, international money laundering, civil rights violations, high-tech and computer-related crime, defense procurement fraud, corrupt public officials, environmental crime, organized crime, narcotics trafficking, and racketeering. He was the chief federal law enforcement official in a District spanning approximately 180 cities with an aggregate population of 18 million people. Currently, Mayorkas serves as the Chairperson-elect of the Board of Directors for Bet Tzedek Legal Services - The House of Justice.

Carla J. Christofferson, the Miss North Dakota USA 1989 and co-owner of the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team. Currently a partner at the firm's Los Angeles office and is the firm's Talent Development Partner.^[2]

William T. Coleman, the former secretary of transportation under President Ford, and also helped Thurgood Marhsall win Brown vs. Board of Education. Currently a partner in the Washington, DC office.

Marty Dunn, Deputy Director, and former Acting Director, of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance. Currently a partner in the Washington, DC office.

Louis Caldera, served as United States Secretary of the Army.

[edit] Notable cases

Acting District of Columbia Attorney General Peter Nickles has selected O’Melveny & Myers partner Walter E. Dellinger III to defend the constitutionality of the District's handgun ban before the Supreme Court^[3]. Dellinger will argue that the city's ban on the possession of handguns and its trigger lock requirement is not implicated by the Second Amendment.^[4]

Dellinger will also argue in front of the Supreme Court on behalf of Exxon over the Exxon Valdeez oil spill.^[5]

The firm represented the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in the lawsuits over the Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles in the 1990s. LAUSD later sued the firm for alleged malpractice due, in part, to the involvement of its attorneys on all sides of the negotiations.^[6] The lawsuit eventually settled, with the law firm paying $3 million towards completion of Belmont.^[7]