Three from Murchison & Cumming Selected as Top Attorneys by Pasadena Magazine

November 14, 2012

LOS ANGELES--Murchison & Cumming, LLP is pleased to announce that attorneys Guy R. Gruppie, Eric P. Weiss and Mhare O. Mouradian have been named San Gabriel Valley "Top Attorneys" in a survey of peers and judges conducted by Pasadena Magazine. Mr. Gruppie has been selected for the fourth consecutive year and Mr. Mouradian for a third year.

Attorneys and judges from the San Gabriel Valley and metropolitan Los Angeles area cast votes for the lawyers who, according to their peers, are well qualified in their practice specialties.

Mr. Gruppie was named to the 2012 list in the category of Personal Injury Defense and Civil Litigation. He is the chair of Murchison's Emerging Risks & Specialty Tort Litigation and Vertical Transportation practice groups, and is also a senior member of the firm's Product Liability and General Liability & Casualty practice groups. A longtime resident of the San Gabriel Valley, Mr. Gruppie is active in his community through his service as a member of the Board of Directors of the Arcadia American Little League, a volunteer coach with the league and San Marino-South Pasadena YMCA, and through participation in the City of Arcadia's annual Law Day. He has also served as a mediator for the Pasadena branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Mr. Gruppie is a longtime member of the Pasadena Bar Association.

Mr. Weiss was also selected for the Personal Injury category. The immediate Past-Chair of Murchison's Toxic Tort & Environmental Law practice group, he focuses his practice in the areas of construction litigation, products liability, trucking, environmental and toxic tort litigation, as well as Nevada state and federal law.

Selected for the Civil Litigation category, Mr. Mouradian focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and business litigation, and he is a senior member of the Vertical Transportation practice group. Mr. Mouradian is an active member of the Pasadena Bar Association and he is a past San Gabriel Valley resident.

The list was published in Pasadena Magazine’s November issue. Attorneys named in this year’s poll were honored at a reception hosted by the magazine and attended by members of the Pasadena-area judiciary.

About Murchison & Cumming, LLP
With a firm history dating to 1930, Murchison & Cumming, LLP is a premier, AV-rated civil litigation firm with five offices in California and Las Vegas, whose attorneys specialize in the defense of domestic and international businesses, insurers and individuals, at trial and on appeal. The firm's attorneys also handle employment matters and business transactions. The firm is a member of the USLAW Network. For additional information, please visit our website at www.murchisonlaw.com.