Mark A. Kressel

Mark Kressel helps clients by first understanding their business needs and goals and how litigation can play a part in solving their problems, whether by winning on appeal, developing a multi-forum litigation or settlement strategy, or identifying vehicles to change the legal landscape.

Major studios and government entities rely on Mark Kressel for his extensive multi-forum strategy and appellate advocacy capabilities. He has handled appellate matters in a wide range of areas, including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the anti-SLAPP statute, the First Amendment, punitive damages, elder abuse, wrongful death and catastrophic injury, general business litigation, premises liability, and patent infringement litigation.

Mark joined the firm as an associate and was invited to join the partnership in 2018. Before joining the firm, Mark was a litigation associate with Irell & Manella LLP. In addition to his bar admissions, he has practiced before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

In 2021-2022, Mark was the Chair of the ABA’s Council of Appellate Lawyers. In 2021-2022, he was Vice President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and in 2013-2014 he was the President of the Barristers Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He was formerly co-director of the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law’s Ninth Circuit Appellate Advocacy Clinic from 2016 to 2022, and is active in diversity and inclusion organizations including the LGBTQ+ Bar Association of Los Angeles and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Prior to law school, Mark worked as a Broadway musician.