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Tortilleria El Molino™ is a local family-operated tortilleria and food to go restaurant in Concord founded in 2001 by Santiago and Victoria Morales, immigrants of Michoacan, Mexico. They began with offering fresh traditionally made tortillas door to door, apartment complex to apartment complex, and eventually ventured into fast casual food once they arrived on Monument Blvd, where Tortilleria El Molino™ proudly calls home. They offer a variety of tortilla products, all made in house, both at their location and in stores around the Bay Area. They are business to consumer as well as business to business — so if you are having a taco night, or are even a taco business, they can offer you quality tortillas at an affordable rate. Visit them in Concord or check out their website to see which one of your local markets carries the Tortilleria El Molino™ brand!
WEBSITE: tortillaselmolino.com
EMAIL: contact@elmolinocorp.com
PHONE: 925-687-7066
INSTAGRAM: @elmolinotortilleria
Location: 1500 Monument Blvd Ste F1, Concord, Ca 94520
Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono.
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Thank you to Omar Parra for his support! Omar Parra is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and represents private equity funds, privately held businesses and strategic investors in a wide range of corporate matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, and general corporate governance.
Omar’s concentrations include Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), private equity, mergers and acquisitions, breaches of contract, and construction.
Gunderson Dettmer is Gunderson Dettmer is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy. Their clients drive innovation. Their client's investments create institutions. Their client's ideas transform the world.
Thank you to Natalie Pierce for her support! Natalie Pierce is a Partner and Chair of the Employment & Labor Group at Gunderson Dettmer. She represents emerging companies, venture capital and growth equity firms. Natalie is a trusted advisor to clients on all employment-related matter. Natalie also focuses her practice on the future of work, including counseling companies on incorporation of generative artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies.
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Keker, Van Nest & Peters is a trial-practice litigation firm located in San Francisco. For more than 40 years, we have devoted our practice exclusively to complex civil and criminal litigation. Our record of success at trial, motions practice, appeals and alternative dispute resolution has earned the firm its reputation for solving bet-the-company intellectual property, commercial and white-collar crime disputes. We litigate and try cases in state and federal courts throughout California and the nation.
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Thank you to Franco Muzzio for his support! Franco specializes in high-stakes litigation in state and federal court. His clients include technology companies, professional sports leagues, investors, and criminal defendants. He has significant experience at every phase of the litigation process and has played a leading role in multiple trials where his clients were victorious on all claims. He maintains a robust pro bono practice with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights.
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Bank of San Francisco is a modern community bank that reflects the best qualities of the Bay Area’s rich culture. They are entrepreneurial, diverse, flexible and forward-thinking. BSF has an extensive local ownership and exclusively local decision-making.
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Thank you to Victor Vazquez! Victor develops and manages client relationships, with experience in the non-profit industry. Victor’s banking career spans more than two decades. He has held senior-level roles at various organizations, including Union Bank, Fifth Third Bank and Wells Fargo. Victor began his banking career at Home Savings of America, while majoring in business management at University of California, Santa Cruz. Victor focuses on deposits and the overall client relationship. He has extensive experience with legal and nonprofit organizations. Victor is passionate about community involvement and is a Community Advisory Panel member at KQED. He has served on the Board of Directors for Berkeley Symphony and The Link to Children (TLC).
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is a premier provider of innovative, results-oriented legal services. The firm specializes in real estate; litigation; business; intellectual property; employment; tax; and family wealth.
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Thank you to Fred Alvarez, Abraham M. Andrade III, and Marcia Valadez Valente for their support! Fred is one of the preeminent employment lawyers in the United States, combines a distinct blend of employment law experience, public service, and legal profession leadership. Abe’s practice focuses on complex litigation matters, including high-stakes commercial disputes, employment issues, and white collar defense. He represents businesses and individuals in all phases of litigation, including at the appellate level, in state and federal court. Abe is a long-term SFLRLA board member. Marcia is a trial attorney with a broad range of experience representing companies, individuals, and public entities in state and federal courts. Marcia’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation with an emphasis on financial and commercial cases, and employment disputes.
Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, where innovation meets the law. Cooley has over 1,300 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe, and a total workforce of nearly 3,000.
Special thank you to Beatriz Mejia for our her support! Beatriz Mejia's practice focuses on complex business disputes and general business litigation. In recent years, Beatriz’s practice has focused on international cartel investigations and related litigation. Her experience includes representing both corporations and individuals in government investigations brought by antitrust authorities around the world, including the US, Europe, Korea and Japan, and in litigation brought in multi-district and related class actions. Beatriz also has represented clients in antitrust litigation involving a range of federal and state antitrust claims, including monopolization claims. Beatriz is also a previous SFLRLA’s Attorney of the Year awardee!
Farella Braun + Martel is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business and real estate transactions and complex commercial, civil and criminal litigation. We are headquartered in San Francisco and maintain an office in the Napa Valley that is focused on the wine industry. Farella is proudly ranked by Vault as the #6 Best Midsize Law Firm to Work For in the United States.
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Thank you to Farella business litigation partner Cynthia Castillo (San Francisco La Raza board member), environmental law partner James Colopy, managing partner Brian Donnelly, and insurance recovery partner Erica Villanueva for their support.
Cynthia litigates high-stakes, complex civil cases with a focus on contractual disputes and consumer class actions, particularly Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class actions. She has represented a broad range of clients, including private equity firms, cannabis companies, large technology companies, startups, nonprofits, and individuals. While she typically handles business disputes and consumer claims, her broad litigation background includes experience with matters such as environmental liability, governmental enforcement actions, and bankruptcy claims.
Erica is the chair of Farella’s Insurance Recovery practice group. She helps her clients navigate the insurance claims process, pursues breach of contract and bad faith claims against insurers, and advises on policy wording and insurance renewals. Erica frequently handles claims and negotiations involving Cyber, Technology Errors & Omissions and Media liability (Cyber/Tech E&O), Directors & Officers liability (D&O), Commercial General Liability (CGL), Employment Practices Liability (EPL), Venture Capital/Private Equity liability, and property insurance policies.
Brian advises clients on partnership and corporate tax law matters. His work focuses on tax and business issues affecting real estate development projects and transactions. Brian previously served as Farella’s managing partner for eight years. Much of Brian’s work involves real estate, typically in the role of counseling clients on transaction structure and strategy.
Jim has extensive experience representing private and public entities in environmental and commercial litigation, environmental compliance and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Jim's significant complex environmental litigation experience includes representing manufacturers, chemical companies, developers, and governmental institutions in environmental enforcement actions, citizen suit litigation, cost recovery actions, toxic tort cases, and product liability actions and administrative proceedings involving federal, state and local environmental laws.
Fenwick is a leading law firm, purpose-built to guide visionary tech and life sciences companies and their investors through every stage of growth, from startups securing their first round of funding to leading publicly-traded global enterprises. As one of Silicon Valley’s original legal practices, today they have over 500 lawyers, patent agents, engineers and scientists serving clients from seven offices located in innovation hubs across the United States and China.
Special thank you to Samantha Cox-Parra and Blaine Schmidt. Samantha, a SFLRLA board member, represents technology and life sciences companies in a broad range of litigation matters, with a focus on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Blaine advises on a broad variety of litigation matters to support clients in the high technology and life sciences industries. Blaine also maintains an active pro bono practice.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani delivers maximum value to their clients by combining the resources of a national firm with the local knowledge of a regional firm. With more than 1,600 lawyers nationwide, they provide comprehensive litigation and business transactions services to public and private companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations. Founded in 1974, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani is recognized among the fastest growing and largest law firms in the country.
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Special thank you to Alyson Cabrera, Abraham Barrera, Jennifer Ayala, and Ernie Mejia. Alyson is a Partner in GRSM's Employment practice group. She represents both private and public entities primarily in employment related matters including employment discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, failure to accommodate claims and whistleblower actions. Alyson has represented a wide range of clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, while focusing a large portion of her employment litigation and labor practice on schools.
Abraham, San Francisco La Raza Board member, is an Associate in the San Francisco office of GRSM and is a member of the Commercial Litigation practice group. Jennifer focuses her practice in employment law and represents a wide range of clients in matters including labor disputes, wage and hour, wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, discrimination, and failure to accommodate claims. Ernie, is a Senior Counsel in the San Francisco office of GRSM and is a member of the Healthcare practice group. Ernie’s healthcare practice runs the gamut of issues that healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities may face..
Hanson Bridgett LLP is a full service AmLaw 200 law firm with more than 200 attorneys across California. Creating a diverse workforce by fostering an atmosphere of belonging and intentional support has been a priority at Hanson Bridgett since its founding in 1958. They are dedicated to creating an environment that provides opportunities for people with varied backgrounds, both for attorneys and administrative professionals. As the first law firm recognized as a certified B Corp, Hanson Bridgett is committed to the communities where their employees live and work and consider it part of their professional obligation to serve justice by encouraging and supporting pro bono and social impact work.
Thank you to David C. Casarrubias-González and Jennifer Martinez for their support!. David is in Hanson Bridgett’s Appellate Practice Group where he focuses on writs, appeals, and law and motion in both state and federal court. In addition, he has experience litigating a variety of business disputes and has a robust practice representing government agencies throughout California in complex and multi-party litigation.
Jennifer is the firm's Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer (CDEIO). As CDEIO, she provides strategic, programmatic, and operational leadership for initiatives that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values of the firm.
Morrison & Foerster is a global firm of exceptional credentials. Our name is synonymous with a commitment to client service that informs everything that we do. We are recognized throughout the world as a leader in providing innovative legal advice on matters that are redefining practices and industries.
Thank you Arturo Gonzalez for his support! Arturo is one of the nation’s top trial lawyers. One federal judge said his “trial advocacy skills were superior,” while a federal magistrate described his trial skills as “phenomenal.” He is sought after by America’s largest companies, in part because of his ability to communicate with increasingly diverse juries.
Renne Public Law Group (RPLG) practices throughout California, advocating for and defending local public agencies and nonprofit entities, and representing a diverse group of individual clients and private entities who are in need of effective, responsive and ethical legal assistance.
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Thank you so much to Maribel Lopez, Mauricio Grande, and Karen Carrera.
Maribel, an SF La Raza board member, is an associate in the firm’s Government and Litigation practice groups. She focuses her practice on labor and employment law. Her practice includes representing both public entities and private sector clients in litigation, employee discipline, advice and counsel, arbitration, workplace investigations and compliance.
Mauricio, an SF La Raza board member and associate at the firm, is an attorney in the firm’s litigation practice group. Before joining Renne Public Law Group, Mauricio served as a judicial law clerk in the San Francisco Superior Court. advises on a wide spectrum of complex litigation and trial matters that included a city’s environmental contamination case involving over 35 affected sites, and did legal research, analysis and guidance regarding law and motion matters in asbestos cases, and writ petitions in CEQA proceedings involving public agencies.
Karen is Of Counsel and the Head of Investigations at the firm. Karen conducts workplace investigations for both public and private employers in response to employee complaints of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, and other alleged employee misconduct. She also provides diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and harassment prevention trainings and consultations for companies, government agencies and individuals, in both English and Spanish.
With more than 25 attorneys practicing solely in employee benefits law, Trucker Huss is one of the largest employee benefits specialty law firms in the country. Their in-depth knowledge and breadth of experience on all issues confronting benefit plans, and their sponsors, fiduciaries and service providers, translate into real-world, practical solutions for their clients.
Thank you to Katuri Kaye and Rudy Garcia for their support!
Katuri focuses her practice on qualified retirement plans, including defined benefit plans (both traditional and cash balance plans) and defined contribution plans (401(k), profit sharing, ESOPs and money purchase pension plans), and plans of tax-exempt entities and public schools and universities, including 403(b) and 457 plans. Her clients include benefit plans, service providers and employers of all sizes and industries, including Fortune 50 companies. Katuri also serves as the firm’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) Director.
Rudy concentrates his practice in the area of employee benefits, with a focus on retirement and health and welfare plans, working with both single and multiemployer plans. He routinely works with sponsors on plan design, drafting, and administrative implementation. Rudy also advises clients on day-to-day benefit plan escalations, including fiduciary responsibility, Internal Revenue Code compliance, and ERISA’s claims and appeals process.
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Bracamontes & Vlasak, P.C., is a Bay Area litigation practice for plaintiffs with offices in Oakland and San Francisco. They focus on catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters, housing cases on behalf of tenants, and other civil rights cases on behalf of individuals and families.
Thank you to Bracamontes & Vlasa’s Michael R. Bracamontes and Ryan Vlasak for their support!
Michael focuses his practice on helping individuals in landlord-tenant, employment, and personal injury matters.
Ryan focuses his practice on catastrophic injury, wrongful death, tenant, employment, and corporate unfair business practices litigation, always for plaintiffs.
Since 1885, Fennemore has provided legal counsel to help clients thrive in a complex, evolving business and legal landscape. We deliver forward-thinking advocacy to generate value for clients and help them keep pace with the rate of change by protecting legal interests and identifying opportunities. Today, clients need a legal team to go beyond what exists to create what’s possible on the path to success. The Fennemore team has a proven track record as advocates for entrepreneurs & business leaders who continue to define the West. We're uniquely poised to offer legal services from general counsel to niche specialties. We offer a historical perspective on Western issues like agribusiness, business litigation, cross-border trade, immigration, intellectual property, labor & employment, mergers & acquisitions, mining, real estate, trusts & estates, and water law. From people to practices, Fennemore is the law firm dedicated to creating possibilities so clients can thrive.
Special thank you to Zury Molina for her support!
Zury Molina, a SFLRLA board member, is an Associate Attorney at the firm practicing business litigation. Her practice encompasses diverse litigation matters, including labor and employment, breach of contract, real estate, commercial disputes, fraud, and negligence.
Hanson Crawford Crum Family Law Group is a premier boutique family law firm, and one of the largest family law firms in Northern California. With a deep bench of six partners and six experienced associates, Hanson Crawford Crum handles cases of every level from those involving basic family law issues to complex financial transactions. The firm serves clients throughout the Bay Area from Marin to Silicon Valley.
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Thank you to Juliana Yanez, Marisa R. Chaves, and Elizabeth Arellano for their support! Juliana specializes in high-asset dissolutions and represents a diverse range of clients, including tech executives, founders, stay-at-home parents, lawyers, venture capitalists, and business owners. Juliana was also trial counsel in what the New York Times has described as “the first major Bitcoin divorce.” Marisa has begun her journey in family law with a passion for client service and an eye for creative solutions. She has facilitated the settlement of thousands of cases and knows that her clients often have sensitive concerns and issues that need to be handled with care and discretion. After helping several friends through divorces and growing up in a blended family, she knows that divorce is one of the most stressful life events any person can experience, and she strives to make sure her clients have the best possible representation. Elizabeth is an accomplished family law attorney, exclusively focusing on guiding individuals and families through challenging legal transitions. She is experienced in handling cases involving divorce, child custody and visitation, spousal and child support, property division, and other family law matters.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a U.S.-based law firm with offices nationwide. The firm’s national reputation spans the insurance industry, the financial services sector, professional services, and other highly regulated industries. Hinshaw provides holistic legal solutions—from litigation and dispute resolution and business advisory and transactional services to regulatory compliance—for clients of all sizes.
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Thank you to Robert Romero and Maria Quintero for their support!
Robert is an accomplished trial lawyer. Leveraging more than 30 years of experience, Robert defends the interests of his clients in complex commercial matters, directors and officers liability claims, insurance bad faith issues, intellectual property disputes, professional liability, and catastrophic loss cases. He regularly represents clients in pro hac vice in several states.
Maria handles complex insurance disputes involving a broad range of insurance coverage lines including property, cyber, environmental, employment, commercial general and professional liability. She devotes her practice to assisting clients with all facets of insurance law including negotiation, litigation, coverage opinions, policy drafting and extra-contractual disputes.
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a 125+ attorney AV-rated law firm founded in 1972 with offices in San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and Munich. They have a diversified practice successfully representing plaintiffs throughout the U.S. and Europe in the fields of antitrust, civil rights and social justice, consumer protection, cybersecurity and data privacy, economic injury product defects, employment discrimination and unfair employment practices, environmental and toxic exposures, False Claims Act, personal injury and products liability, securities and financial fraud, and survivor rights and advocacy. Their clients include individuals, classes, groups of people, businesses, and public and private entities.
At Munger, Tolles & Olson, a diverse workforce improves their ability to serve the needs of their clients and creates a more dynamic workplace for their attorneys.As a result, diversity, equity and inclusion have always been – and continue to be – a cornerstone of their firm. The firm was founded in 1962 by a group of attorneys that included a woman. Since then, their managing partners have included two women, a woman of color, an LGBTQ man and an African-American man. They remain a leader in diversity hiring, retention and promotion, and we consistently beat national averages in the number of women and diverse lawyers in our associate and partner ranks.
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Thank you to Miriam Kim and Giovanni Saarman González for their support! Miriam’s practice focuses on civil litigation and high-stakes investigations and she is a co-chair of the firm’s Development & Retention committee. Giovanni is a co-chair of MTO’s Attorneys of Color Initiative and his practice focuses on representing and advising clients operating in regulated industries, particularly energy utilities.
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Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. Since 1946 Cleary Gottlieb’s lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges, whether domestic or international. They support every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen and a human touch. Cleary Gottlieb has a proven track record for serving with innovation. They are fluent in the many languages of local and global business. And they have achieved consistent success in multiple jurisdictions.
Thank you to Marcela Robledo for her support! Her practice focuses on the intellectual property, data, and technology aspects involved in a wide range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing, collaboration agreements, and joint ventures. Marcela has practiced law in the United States and Colombia.
Conrad|Metlitzky|Kane is a trial boutique led by a trio of former Assistant United States Attorneys. We handle a broad array of complex, high-stakes litigation and internal and government investigations. Based in San Francisco, the firm serves local, national and international businesses, organizations, executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
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Thank you to Gabriela Kipnis for her support! Gabriela is a Partner at Conrad|Metlitzky|Kane, where her practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including trade secrets and unfair competition litigation, consumer and commercial disputes, and high value tort cases. Publicly traded corporations, startups, and individuals turn to Gabriela for help litigating novel and cutting-edge legal issues.
Express Depositions is a boutique, customizable legal support firm with an unparalleled commitment to customer service. They believe that clients come first and strive to not only meet but exceed their clients' expectations. Express Depositions can assist with Court Reporting, trial technology, legal videography, interpreting, and translation. As well as attorney services, records retrieval, and digital imaging. They are a small local company that provides service in areas all over CA and nationwide.
Thank you to Emily Yesenia Bradshaw for her support! Emily is an Account Executive at Express Depositions. She is a proud Latina with a passion for civil litigation. Emily has a strong commitment to customer service and is eager to help clients with their deposition and attorney service needs. Emily can be reached at 650-435-9587 or emilyb@expressdeposition.com.
Immigrant Crime and Justice, LLP, their attorneys, Karl Krooth and Julian Sanchez Mora, represent foreign nationals in seeking post-conviction relief in criminal courts throughout California. They also represent foreign nationals before the California Court of Appeal, and the California Supreme Court. Their attorneys’ extensive experience at the intersection of criminal law and immigration law gives them the skills and expertise to also manage complex immigration cases. They represent foreign nationals before the Immigration Court, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), and the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”).
Special thank you to Julian Sanchez Mora! Julian is a former SFLRLA board member and long-time criminal and immigration attorney. Julian is committed to providing high-quality representation, and working with his clients and keeping them informed throughout their process.
