I am trying to find California's Top Trial Lawyers.

 I am in search of Top Lawyer Lists.

   * Lists like California Law Business TOP 100 or National Law
Journal's 100 Most Influential Lawyers.

Hi! Thanks for the very interesting question.

I don’t have a complete list of the top lawyers in California but I do
have the list for the whole United States.

I however, have here a list of 36 of them in California. I included
links to where you could find the information on where they are
mentioned.

1. Mr. Ballon’s practice, conducted from both the Palo Alto and Los
Angeles offices, focuses on e-commerce, Internet and intellectual
property litigation, licensing and strategic counseling.
2. Lisa Specht co-chairs the firm’s Government Practice Group, chairs
the firm’s Land Use Practice Group, and is a member of the firm’s
Management Committee.
(both from Manatt Law firm)
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:Basidcm6CLEC:www.manatt.com/press_top100_CA.htm+%22Top+100+Most+Influential+Lawyers+%2Bin+California.%22&hl=en

3. Mary Cranston (Pillsbury Winthrop)
http://www.pillsburywinthrop.com/about/awards.asp
4. Kelli Sager (Partner -  Los Angeles, California Office of Davis
Wright Tremaine) http://www.dwt.com/lawdir/attorneys/SagerKelli.cfm
5. Michael J. Bidart (Shernoff Bidart & Darras)
http://www.shernoff.com/firminfo/awards/mjb_mostinfluential.php
6. Morgan Chiu (Irell & Manella LLP)
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:N3OtK5cLHY8C:www.ipo.org/ipoam_2000/Speaker_Bios/Chu_Bio.doc+top+%22lawyers+%2Bin+California%22&hl=en

The following are listed as Stanford Law Alumni
7. Warren M. Christopher ’49
8. Donald S. Chisum ’68 (AB ’66)
9. Mary B. Cranston ’75 (AB ’70)
10. Gordon K. Davidson ’74 (BS ’70, MS ’71)
11. Ronald M. George ’64
12. Joseph A. Grundfest ’78
13. W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
14. Craig W. Johnson ’74
15. J. Terence O’Malley ’75
16. John E. Place ’85
17. Dean Sullivan
http://lawschool.stanford.edu/alumni/lawyer/60/news9.shtml 

18. Solano County Deputy DA George H. Williamson
(http://www.ndaa.org/newsroom/names_in_the_news_march_april_2002_prosecutor.html)
19. Lindbergh Porter, Jr. is a partner in Allen, Matkins Leck Gamble &
Mallory LLP, in San Francisco, and is a member of the firm's
Employment Law Practice Group.
(http://www.dri.org/dri/cle-seminars/seminar_viewmain_hidden.cfm?SeminarID=15&showpg=2)

20. Justice Elwood Lui
(http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:5ECrGM0MT0kC:www.apalc.org/Building_Newsletter012402.pdf+%22Top+100+Most+Influential+Lawyers+%2Bin+California.%22&hl=en)

21. Wylie A. Aitken (http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:BUm4b9QYVZ4C:www.abota.org/abotaonly/PRESREPORT/PR1999v11.pdf+%22Top+100+Most+Influential+Lawyers+%2Bin+California.%22&hl=en)

22. Dov L. Seidman, the founder, chairman and chief executive officer
of LRN, The Legal Knowledge Company
(http://www.lrn.com/news/articles/top.html)

23. Kathleen M. Sullivan
(http://lawschool.stanford.edu/faculty/sullivan/Sullivan_cv.html)
Other Stanford Lawyers
(http://lawschool.stanford.edu/alumni/lawyer/56/news.shtml)

24. Melvin Goldman '63
25. Beth Jay '72
26. Richard Welch '77
27. Elizabeth J. Cabraser (Leiff Cabraser Henmann and Braser, LLP)
(http://www.lieffcabraser.com/bios/cabraser.htm)
28. Joseph Cotchett Jr., Cotchett Pitre & Simon, Burlingame
29. Thomas Nolan, Nolan Armstrong & Barton, Palo Alto
30. Matthew Powers, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Menlo Park
31. Larry Sonsini, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto
32. Donald Chisum, professor, Santa Clara Law School. 
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2001/10/29/daily26.html
33. John B. Quinn Partner (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges,
LLP) (http://www.quinnemanuel.com/attorneys/bios/quinn_j.htm)

34. Thomas J. Nolan Managing Partner-Firmwide of Howrey Attorneys at
Law (http://www.howrey.com/profiles/bio_detail.cfm?employeeID=590)

35. Walter J. Lack of Engstrom, Lipscomb and Lack
(http://www.elllaw.com/content_pages/w_lack.htm)

36. ALAN MENDELSON OF LATHAM & WATKINS
(http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:QUnLY-HXTY0C:www.lw.com/news/pressRels/mendelson2.htm+Top+100+Most+Influential+Lawyers+%2Bin+California&hl=en)

The following list meanwhile is of National scope from the National
Lawyer’s Journal:

The 100 Most Influential Lawyer’s of America:
http://www.law.com/special/professionals/influential/index.html (The
list are in alphabetical order and starts here)

The following page describes how they came up with the list.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZOHWLO49C&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0

Search terms used:
top 100 trial lawyers California and US

I hope this would be of help to your research. Thanks for being a part
of Google Answers.

Regards,
Easterangel-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by membership-ga on 27 May 2002 19:43 PDT

I already have the California Law Business and the NLJ 100 most influential lists. 
 
I am in search of lists like them. 

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 28 May 2002 16:57 PDT

Hi again! 
 
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to get your question right the first time
around. Here are other top lawyer lists that I found online. Aside
from the “Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers of California” I couldn’t
find anything on line, which is a definitive list for California. I
have found other lists like this that you maybe interested to look at.
 
Chicago 
30 Tough Lawyers (from Chicago Mag.com) 
<a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/people/0302lawyer.htm">http://www.chicagomag.com/people/0302lawyer.htm</a>  
 
Minnesota 
Minnesota's top lawyers from Superlawyers.com 
<a href="http://www.superlawyers.com/minnesota.asp?l=alpha&amp;sort=A">http://www.superlawyers.com/minnesota.asp?l=alpha&amp;sort=A</a>  
 
Washington 
Washington's top lawyers from Superlawyers.com 
<a href="http://www.superlawyers.com/washington.asp?l=alpha&amp;sort=A">http://www.superlawyers.com/washington.asp?l=alpha&amp;sort=A</a>  
 
Washington’s Top 50 from the Washingtonian 
<a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/people/lawyers/heavyhitters.html">http://www.washingtonian.com/people/lawyers/heavyhitters.html</a>  
 
Dallas 
The Best Lawyers in Dallas from D Magazine 
<a href="http://www.dmagazine.com/may01/lawyerc0501.shtml">http://www.dmagazine.com/may01/lawyerc0501.shtml</a>  
 
Best Lawyer’s.com has a searchable database of their best lawyer’s
list.
<a href="http://www.bestlawyers.com/">http://www.bestlawyers.com/</a>  
 
I hope this would be helpful to you. Thanks again for visiting us at
Google Answers. 

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Request for Answer Clarification by membership-ga on 29 May 2002 11:13 PDT

I'm only looking for a list of top lawyers in California. 

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 29 May 2002 15:45 PDT

Hi again. I'm sorry but the only other definitive list for top
California lawyers is the the "top 50 women layers of Southern
California" and it seems that such a list is not available on the
Internet. I tried to find some members but I onlyy came up with Molly
Munger, Co-Director, Los Angeles, CA     
(<a href="http://www.advancementproject.org/contact_info.htm">http://www.advancementproject.org/contact_info.htm</a>).
 
I was under the impression that a national type of list will do just
fine.
 
I really apologize for not answering the question to your
satisfaction. 

My question was not answered. I was given lists I already stated in my
question and lists that were not in the state of California.

The California Law Business JOurnal produces a list of the states Top
100 lawyers.  Although they don't make it available on line, a lot of
lawyers do their own press releases when they make the list.  A Google
search on "top 100" "lawyers in California"will give you 40 solid hits
to get you started.

As for the National list (from a few years back):

One hundred and eight lawyers have appeared in previous special
reports by The National Law Journal that featured top trial lawyers
and their winning strategies. Listed below are their names and the
year or years in which they appeared.

Floyd Abrams (1990) 
Guy H. Allison (1995) 
Thomas T. Anderson (1991) 
Stanley Arkin (1989) 
Thomas D. Barr (1985) 
Fred H. Bartlit Jr. (1985, 1995) 
Jere Locke Beasley (1995) 
Philip S. Beck (1997) 
Melvin M. Belli (1985) 
David H. Berg (1992) 
William O. Bittman (1989) 
Roy Black (1992) 
Maxwell M. Blecher (1988, 1996) 
Brad D. Brian (1995) 
Aaron J. Broder (1996) 
James J. Brosnahan (1990) 
James E. Butler Jr. (1994) 
Helen Davis Chaitman (1995) 
Morgan Chu (1995) 
Michael V. Ciresi (1989, 1993) 
Robert A. Clifford (1993) 
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (1992) 
Vincent H. Cohen (1988) 
Roxanne B. Conlin (1989) 
Philip H. Corboy (1985) 
Joseph W. Cotchett (1992, 1993) 
Finis E. Cowan (1994) 
Morris Dees (1991) 
Thomas A. Demetrio (1990) 
James E. Ferguson II (1989) 
Peter E. Fleming Jr. (1988) 
Willie E. Gary (1994, 1996) 
Wendell Gauthier (1989) 
Susan Getzendanner (1992) 
Oscar B. Goodman (1985) 
Browne Greene (1990) 
Marshall B. Grossman (1989) 
Robert F. Hanley (1985) 
David M. Harney (1985) 
Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes (1985) 
Joseph D. Jamail (1988, 1993) 
Alfred S. Julien (1985) 
John W. Keker (1996) 
William L. Kirk Jr. (1996) 
Peter C. Kopff (1997) 
Albert J. Krieger (1997) 
Ronald D. Krist (1990) 
Scott D. Lassetter (1997) 
William F. Lee (1996) 
Arthur L. Liman (1990) 
James Paul Linn (1991) 
Jack T. Litman (1989) 
Judith A. Livingston (1993) 
Susan E. Loggans (1985) 
Martin London (1995) 
Frederick A. Lorig (1994) 
Paul N. Luvera (1994) 
Pat Maloney Sr. (1991) 
Edward F. Mannino (1990) 
John S. Martel (1988) 
C. Barry Montgomery (1996) 
Robert M. Montgomery Jr. (1991) 
Thomas A. Moore (1992) 
Robert G. Morvillo (1988) 
R. Kenneth Mundy (1991) 
James F. Neal (1985) 
Gustave H. Newman (1994) 
Raymond P. Niro (1997) 
Jack H. Olender (1990) 
Brian B. O'Neill (1995) 
Vance K. Opperman (1992) 
John M. O'Quinn (1993) 
Dennis P. Orr (1997) 
Ronald M. Oster (1994) 
Henry F. Owens III (1995) 
Mary A. Parker (1990) 
Eugene G. Partain (1991) 
Cornelius Pitts (1993) 
Debra E. Pole (1994) 
Joseph A. Power Jr. (1996) 
Howard J. Privett (1993) 
Thomas P. Puccio (1985) 
James W. Quinn (1993) 
Mary Beth Ramey (1991) 
Roy L. Reardon (1991) 
Harry M. Reasoner (1992) 
Leonard M. Ring (1988) 
Robert N. Sayler (1997) 
Ivan S. Schneider (1997) 
William M. Shernoff (1996) 
Harvey M. Silets (1992) 
H. T. Smith (1997) 
Suzelle M. Smith (1997) 
Neal R. Sonnett (1993) 
Gerry L. Spence (1985) 
Deborah C. Stevens (1996) 
Brendan V. Sullivan Jr. (1988, 1992) 
Stephen D. Susman (1989) 
Robert A. Swift (1995) 
Barry Tarlow (1988) 
William V. Vaughn (1989) 
R. Lawrence Ward (1994) 
Dianne J. Weaver (1988) 
Dan K. Webb (1991) 
Harvey Weitz (1994) 
Howard L. Weitzman (1985) 
Theodore V. Wells Jr. (1990) 
Edward Bennett Williams (1985)