Professional Organizations

The firm has a long history of service to the legal profession and, through the efforts of Claude B. Cumming, was instrumental in the founding of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel. Our attorneys are leaders of the defense bar and give of their time and talent for the betterment of the legal system and related professional and trade organizations. What follows below is a sampling of those organizations:

Professional Associations

• Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys
• American Bar Association
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel
• American Hotel and Lodging Association
• Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Associated General Contractors of California
• Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada
• Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
• Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
• Aviation Crime Prevention Institute
  
• California Grocers Association
• California Hotel and Lodging Association
• California Minority Counsel
• California Restaurant Association
• Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM)
• Clark County Bar Association (Las  Vegas, Nevada)
  
• Defense Research Institute
• Deutsch Amerikanischer Juristen-Vereinigung
  
• Federal Bar Association
• Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
• GATTHA
• German American Bar Association
• German American Chambers of Commerce
• Global Legal Partners
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• Hispanics in Politics
• Hospitality Industry Bar Association
• Insuralex Network
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• Las Vegas Defense Lawyers
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Loss Executives Association    
• National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, Ltd. (NAPSLO)
• National LGBT Bar Association
• National Restaurant Association
• National Retail and Restaurant Defense Association
• Orange County Bar Association
• Product Liability Advisory Council
• Professional Liability and Underwriting Society
• PLRB/LIRB
• San Diego County Bar Association
• San Diego Defense Lawyers
• Southern California Mediation Association
• USLAW Network
• Women's International Shipping & Trading Association

State Bar Associations

• Arizona State Bar Association
• California State Bar Association
• Colorado State Bar Association
• District of Columbia State Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Nevada State Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• Oregon State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania State Bar
• Virginia State Bar
• Washington State Bar Association