WALNUT CREEK, CALIF., July 29, 2011 - Archer Norris announces the recent addition of special counsel Geoffrey Graves and associates Christina Le (Newport Beach), Kacie Owen (Sacramento), and returning associate Helen Yi (Los Angeles). Graves enhances the firm’s business transaction and litigation practices; Le, Owen and Yi strengthen various aspects of Archer Norris’s core litigation practices.
“We are thrilled to add significant laterals to enhance our core practices,” said Managing Partner Gene Blackard. “With the caliber of experience Geoff, Christina, Kacie and Helen bring to the table, we can focus on our clients’ legal needs throughout California and in other states too.”
Before joining Archer Norris, Graves headed his own firm where he represented clients from a wide variety of industries and professions. Using more than 16 years of experience in business law matters, he provides legal services in business formation, counseling and litigation, transactions, and estate planning. Graves received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1994 and his B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1991.
An experienced defense attorney, Le represents individuals and local and national commercial enterprises in business, commercial, construction and general liability claims. She joins us from Lewis Brisbois where she practiced general liability litigation. Christina earned her J.D. in 2004 from Loyola Law School, and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999.
Owen focuses her practice on construction defect litigation, including personal injury cases. Most recently an associate with the Sacramento firm of Read & Aliotti, she received her J.D. in 2007 from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California Los Angeles in 2003.
An associate in Archer Norris’s Los Angeles office, Yi supports the firm’s litigation and transactional practices. Helen rejoins us after spending a year in New York writing copy for the fashion blog, Refinery29. Helen earned her J.D. from Cornell University, Cornell Law School in 2009 and her B.S. from the University of Southern California, magna cum laude, in 2005.
About Archer Norris
Archer Norris, a Professional Law Corporation, is headquartered in Walnut Creek, with more than 100 attorneys and offices in Newport Beach, Los Angeles and Sacramento, California. The firm counsels clients in complex litigation, insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, business, health care, public entity, environmental, and real estate transactions throughout California and wherever our clients need us.
For more information about the firm, please contact Jann Dudley at 925.952.5406 or visit the Archer Norris website at www.archernorris.com.