Margaret M. Grignon

Justice Margaret M. Grignon (Ret.) is a partner in the firm. She is retired from the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Five, where she spent 14 years and authored in excess of 2,230 opinions, more than 160 of which have been published. Her work as an appellate practitioner has produced multiple precedential opinions from the state and federal courts, and resulted in her being named one of the Top Women Lawyers in California for 2010, 2013 and 2015,  rated in Band 1 by Chambers for Appellate Litigation in California for 2009-2022 and rated as Senior Statespeople by Chambers for Appellate Litigation in California for 2023-2024. Margaret has considerable expertise in arbitration and mediation, business, employment, financial institutions, government/municipal, health care, insurance, intellectual property, product liability and pharmaceutical, professional responsibility, real estate, tax and tort law.  She is the recipient of the California Lawyers Association 2024 Appellate Lawyer Hall of Fame award. This prestigious award, first given in 2018, is among the few devoted to recognition of appellate practice. The award honors attorneys who have excelled as appellate lawyers and whose careers exemplify the highest of values and professional attainment.

Justice Grignon is a Past President of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a former Board Member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.  She has authored numerous articles on tax, business and appellate law, and is a frequent lecturer at education programs for judges and attorneys.

Recognized as an excellent settlement judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court, Margaret continued to settle many cases on the Court of Appeal. After 20 years on the bench, Margaret returned to private practice where in addition to appellate law, she continued to employ her judicial skills as a well-respected mediator and arbitrator in a wide variety of practice areas, including business/commercial, complex litigation, employment, insurance, health care, legal and medical malpractice, and personal injury. As an appellate expert, she has worked to settle cases pending on appeal, acted as an appellate arbitrator, and sat frequently as a mock appellate justice for appellate moot courts.