Munger, Tolles & Olson

In 2008, Munger, Tolles & Olson ranked as the nation's top law firm on the American Lawyer A-List based on financial performance, pro bono practice, associate satisfaction and workplace diversity.[9][10] The firm topped the "A-List" of the nation's most elite law firms again in 2009[11] and 2010.[12] After three years at the top of the list, the firm took second place in the 2011 rankings.[13]

In 2015, Vault ranked the firm first in the nation for selectivity, and sixth in transparency.[14] Additionally, the firm ranked third on the American Lawyer's 2011 Diversity Scorecard, with 23.4% of the firm's attorneys and 16.1% of the firm's partners as minorities.[15]

• The Getty Trust after allegations of wrongdoing in the acquisition of its antiquities collection;[16]
• Michael Ovitz in defending his executive pay at Disney;[17]
• California candidate for governor Bill Simon after a jury returned a $78 million verdict for fraud;[18]
• Southern California Edison in the reorganization of California's energy industry;[19]
• Merrill Lynch in the bankruptcy of Orange County;[20]
• The Philippines against Imelda Marcos and Ferdinand Marcos;[20]
• Several couples and Equality California in a California Supreme Court petition challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8.[21]
• Defense of AFTERMATH RECORDS regarding the percentage of royalties owed for digital downloads (known as the "Eminem decision").[22]
• Defense of ABC's reality show The Glass House in a lawsuit by CBS alleging copyright infringement.
• Defended and lost the case of self-help speaker James Arthur Ray when he was convicted of criminally negligent homicide for the deaths of three people at a sweat lodge in Sedona, Arizona.

The firm's transactional practice has represented:

• Yahoo!'s board of directors during Microsoft's proposed takeover
• Warren Buffett in his $31 billion gift to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Berkshire Hathaway in its $22 billion purchase of General Reinsurance and $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs[23]
• Legal counsel for the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.[24]

There are 170 lawyers at Munger, Tolles & Olson.[2] In 2008, the Daily Journal named three attorneys to its list of the most Top 100 Lawyers in California.[25] Attorneys include:

• Jeffrey L. Bleich, former Special Counsel to President Barack Obama and United States Ambassador to Australia[26]
• Robert Denham, former CEO of the investment bank Salomon Brothers during the 1990s and current chairman of the MacArthur Foundation;[27]
• Ronald Olson, a director of Berkshire Hathaway, who was named the most influential lawyer in California by California Law Business;[28]
• Donald B. Verrilli Jr., former U.S. Solicitor General in the Obama administration[29]

• Nancy Bekavac, the first female president of Scripps College;
• Alan Bersin, President Barack Obama's "Border Czar" and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of California;
• Daniel P. Collins, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Michelle Friedland, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Carla Anderson Hills, former U.S. Trade Representative and former Secretary of Health and Human Services;
• Roderick Hills, former White House Counsel and Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC);
• Brett Kavanaugh, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States[30]
• Leondra Kruger, Justice of the California Supreme Court[31]
• Carolyn Kuhl, judge on the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles and former Deputy Solicitor General at the Department of Justice;
• Felicia Marcus, Chairman of California State Water Resources Control Board[32]
• Vilma Socorro Martínez, United States Ambassador to Argentina and past president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF);[33]
• Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
• John B. Owens, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Paul J. Watford, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit