Rutan & Tucker lawyers are experienced and highly regarded experts, delivering sophisticated and superior client service and value in a wide-range of practice areas, markets and industries. Our lawyers enjoy what they do and appreciate the opportunity to help our clients achieve their goals. We recruit new lawyers from more than 30 top law schools nationwide. Many of our lawyers graduated with law school honors, including Order of the Coif, law review, or moot court, or held judicial clerkships prior to joining the firm. Many of our lawyers hold significant leadership positions in philanthropic, community and professional organizations.

Our lawyers have skill sets that are both broad and deep, with significant emphasis on working with clients to develop cost-effective solutions consistent with client goals. We use technology in all aspects of our practice and welcome collaboration with client in-house counsel, management or other resources to help clients manage their legal budget.

For many decades Rutan & Tucker has distinguished itself as the largest full-service law firm in Orange County, and today, our practice extends to Northern California through our Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices, and nationwide.

Rutan & Tucker represents a broad spectrum of clients in many markets and industries including, for example, multi-national corporations, financial institutions, publicly traded companies, technology companies, private equity and venture capital funds, real estate developers and financers, construction companies, agricultural enterprises, cities and other public entities, hospitality companies, public/private partnerships, aerospace and defense contractors, educational institutions, family-owned businesses, individuals, non-profit organizations and pro bono clients.

We assist our clients with a wide-range of transactional, litigation, government, financial, intellectual property, real estate, employment, tax and international matters and can readily and efficiently bring expertise in each of these areas to bear on specific issues.

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Michael Adams
Randall M. Babbush
Thomas G. Brockington
Mark B. Frazier
Richard K. Howell
Katherine Jenson
Jeremy Jungreis
Dave Lanferman
Patrick D. McCalla
Edson K. McClellan
Jeffrey Melching
Richard Montevideo
Steven A. Nichols
Ronald Oines
Alisha Patterson
Ash Pirayou
John Ramirez
Ira G. Rivin
Michael Rubin
Brian Sinclair
Maria Stearns
Hans Van Ligten
Duke Wahlquist

SL2023 grayThe following are Rutan & Tuckers California Rising Stars ranked by Super Lawyers of California for 2023:

Kathryn Domin
Sayuri Espinos
Alan Fenstermacher
Kelly Galligan
Lucas Hori
Sarah Kruszona
Samantha Papuchis
Amy Pfeifer
Sophia Sarwar
Kyle St. James
Proud Usahacharoenporn
Ashley Vaccaro
Bryan Wilbert
Meredith Williams (Sivakumar)

SL2023 graySeveral Rutan & Tucker attorneys have been selected as California Super Lawyers for 2023:

Hope Case
David Lanferman
Gloria Lee
Matthew Francois
Pat Munoz
Maria Stearns