The Century City office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has added two partners to the firm’s Business Trial practice group: Adam F. Streisand and Nicholas J. Van Brunt.
Streisand and Van Brunt join Sheppard Mullin from Loeb & Loeb, where Streisand chaired the firm’s Trust and Estate Litigation practice.
Guy Halgren, chairman of Sheppard Mullin, said Streisand is a veteran litigator with considerable trial experience.
“Adam is a true rock star in the trusts and estates world,” Halgren said. “He is one of the most high profile and highly regarded trial lawyers in Los Angeles. We are delighted to welcome him and Nick to the firm. They are top-flight attorneys that significantly add additional depth and breadth to our existing litigation capabilities, especially in the trusts and estates area.”
Streisand said he and Van Brunt were thrilled to be joining Sheppard Mullin.
“I have found the attorneys here to be talented, extremely entrepreneurial, collegial, and welcoming,” Streisand said. “We are also impressed with the firm’s successful strategic growth in Los Angeles and firmwide.”
He said the firm’s presence and profile in California was a critical factor in their decision to join Sheppard Mullin.
“I am especially pleased that Nick and I will be able to continue to practice together,” he said. “Sheppard Mullin offers us a dynamic and exciting platform to expand our practices here in Los Angeles and nationally.”
Streisand is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top trial attorneys, particularly in the field of private wealth disputes, including litigation involving trusts, estates, and conservatorships.
He is best known for his victories in courtroom battles over celebrity estates and his recent trial victory for former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vindicating his right to acquire the LA Clippers for $2 billion in litigation against Donald Sterling.
Streisand has been in courtroom battles over the estates of Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Michael Crichton, Anna Nicole Smith, Rodney Dangerfield, Dennis Hopper, and William Randolph Hearst.
In addition to his law practice, he teaches other lawyers the art and science of trial work as an instructor with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and as a frequent lecturer and author.
Streisand is also active in authoring probate law, including legislation he drafted at the request of the Marilyn Monroe estate, to protect the right of a celebrity’s heirs to control his or her name, image and likeness after death.
Van Brunt focuses his practice on trusts and estates litigation. His typical client matters include will and trust contests, breach of fiduciary duty cases, trustee accounting disputes, conservatorship proceedings, and civil matters involving the intersection between probate and trust law and other legal areas.
