Four M&C Attorneys Named to Southern California Rising Stars List

June 7, 2022

Murchison & Cumming, LLP is pleased to announce that Partners Kelsey Maxwell, Joshua Praw, and Tina Vo and Associate Partner Georgiana Nikias have been selected to the 2022 Southern California Rising Stars list. This is an exclusive list, recognizing no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in Southern California.

Kelsey L. Maxwell is a Partner in the Los Angeles office focusing her practice on the areas of general liability, product liability and specialty tort including habitability and discrimination claims. She is a graduate of The University of Arizona (B.A.) and Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law (J.D.).  

Joshua W. Praw is a Partner in the Los Angeles office focusing his practice in the area of commercial general liability, products liability, construction defect, and toxic tort. Mr. Praw is a graduate of University of San Diego School of Law (J.D.) and University of Wisconsin – Madison (B.A. in History). 

Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Praw Co-Chair the firm's Summer Associate Program and Post-Bar Law Clerk Program where they train, mentor, and oversee the firm's summer associates and post-bar law clerks.

Tina H. Vo is a Partner in the Los Angeles office. She has experience in products liability, business torts, commercial, and transportation litigation. Ms. Vo is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University (B.A.) and University of Miami School of Law (J.D.). Ms. Vo is a member of the California and Florida bars.

Georgiana A. Nikias is an Associate Partner in the Los Angeles office. She has experience in business litigation, employment law, products liability, general liability, art law, IP litigation, and commercial real estate litigation. Ms. Nikias is a graduate of the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law (B.A. and J.D.) and Oxford University (M.St.). 

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.