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WC&C congratulates its Super Lawyers!

WC&C is proud to announce that senior partners LEONARD J. COMDEN and DAVID B. CASSELMAN have been selected from among the lawyers of the State of California by Southern California Super Lawyers/Los Angeles Magazine as "SUPER LAWYERS" for 2008.

WC&C partners LEONARD J. COMDENand DAVID B. CASSELMAN were selected by the Southern California Super Lawyers/Los Angeles Magazine as "SUPER LAWYERS" in 2007, LEONARD J. COMDEN, DAVID B. CASSELMAN and FRANK W. CHEN were selected as "SUPER LAWYERS" in 2006, and LEONARD J. COMDEN and FRANK W. CHEN were selected as "SUPER LAWYERS" in 2005. 

The WC&C Super Lawyers were selected by the Southern California Super Lawyers/Los Angeles Magazines. The Southern California Super Lawyers list is published in the February issues of Los Angeles Magazine, and in the Southern California Super Lawyers edition mailed to every lawyer, judge and corporate counsel in the state. The Super Lawyers honor, which is bestowed upon the top 5% of attorneys in Southern California, is decided by an elaborate selection process conducted by a panel of 270 Southland legal peers and leaders after balloting 65,000 lawyers in Los Angeles and Orange Counties requesting nominations of great attorneys in more than 60 practice areas.

Founded in 1976, Wasserman, Comden & Casselman, L.L.P. is the largest firm in the San Fernando Valley. It also serves the greater Los Angeles area with offices in Alhambra and Oxnard. WC&C provides a wide range of legal services, specializing in major civil litigation, governmental liability and class actions. It also handles general business, real estate, intellectual property, worker's compensation defense, insurance, estate planning, probate and family law. The firm has also successfully handled many large complex cases, such as Big Rock landslide litigation, Lockheed environmental litigation, and class actions against Denny's, General Motors, CitiBank, Home Store and many others. In 2001, WC&C obtained two of the ten largest verdicts in the State of California.

David B. Casselman is the Vice President and Secretary of the California state organization of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He recently finalized what is believed to be the largest settlement in Santa Barbara County history. In a major inverse condemnation and governmental tort claim, Caltrans settled and has now paid $81 million to compensate a group of Montecito residents for damages caused by Caltrans' construction.

Frank W. Chen is experienced in civil litigation involving real estate, construction, employment, and business disputes. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese and has extensive experience in Pacific Basin litigation.

Leonard J. Comden is a seasoned trial lawyer with over thirty-four years of experience in family law, real estate, intellectual property including trademark, copyright and litigation to enforce intellectual property rights and general business litigation.