DJ profiles GMSR

Last week the DJ profiled GMSR in LA-based appellate firm scores big wins handling major cases: "Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP has built a strong reputation for a small firm by taking on tough appellate cases in state and federal court."

"With 18 full-time attorneys, the Los Angeles-based firm is small compared to many others, but huge by the standards of appellate specialists. The firm's partners say they only know of one appellate firm in the state that is larger: Horvitz & Levy LLP in Burbank. That's the firm that Irving H. Greines, Alan G. Martin, and Kent L. Richland left in 1983 to join Martin Stein and form Greines Martin. Greines has since retired, and Martin died." In 2016 the firm opened a San Francisco office.

"Appellate law is part ivory tower and part futuristic dystopia, according to the partners" at GMSR.

"[A]ppellate people tend to be more academic," "We pretty much have to take the facts as they are given to us by the trial court. We're mainly arguing about the law. It's not just different skill sets, it's different mindsets."