April 23, 2025
Alex Weingarten, Managing Partner of Willkie’s Los Angeles office and Chair of the firm’s Entertainment Litigation Practice, and Misty Sanford, Chair, Real Estate – West Coast, have been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers 2025.”
Alex Weingarten is widely recognized as a leading commercial trial lawyer who represents clients in all facets of entertainment, probate and business litigation. LABJ highlighted his success in launching Willkie’s Los Angeles office in 2021 and overseeing its growth as a market leader with approximately 100 attorneys. The publication also noted Alex’s role in creating the Willkie Los Angeles Foundation, which recently partnered Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services to help establish a substance abuse treatment center for 12-17 year-olds.
LABJ recognized Misty Sanford as one of the top real estate transactional attorneys in the Los Angeles market. She has extensive experience advising a broad client base – her work includes deals for premier institutional investors, private equity firms, multinational corporations and developers – on the full lifecycle of real estate assets. She regularly handles loan workouts, public/private partnerships, real estate financing, complex mixed-use developments, as well as purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures, and leasing and reciprocal easement agreements, among other complex transactions.
View Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers 2025” here.
