LITIGATION Skip Miller Miller Barondess When your one-time partner gets indicted in the Pellicano case, it’s time to consider starting over. Four years after leaving Terry Christensen and the firm he helped found, Miller is in the arms of family — literally: Two of his key colleagues are sons Daniel and James. He’s been busy...Read More
Lawyer Limelight: Louis R. “Skip” Miller By John Ryan With a successful new firm staffed in part by his two lawyer sons, life is sweet for Louis R. “Skip” Miller. At 61, the hard-nosed litigator is as happy as he’s ever been. Miller has always had a rewarding, high-end litigation practice. He has worked on...Read More
Los Angeles Business Journal August 20-26, 2007 SPECIAL REPORT: WHO’S WHO IN L.A. LAW THE BEST OF THE BAR Louis (Skip) Miller Firm: Miller Barondess LLP Clients: KB Home, SunCal Companies and Elton John. Reason I’m a Lawyer: I really enjoy courtroom work, especially trying cases and jury work, and helping clients solve problems. Most...Read More
Profiles of the 50 Best-Compensated Lawyers in L.A Louis R ‘Skip’ Miller III Miller Barondess Specialty: Litigation Law School: UCLA, 1972 Career Highlight: Assisted the city of Los Angeles in the Rodney King civil rights action WHEN it comes to complex, high-profile cases, Skip Miller is regarded as a go-to heavy hitter in Los...Read More
Clash of the Titans A Riverside Police Shooting Pits Johnnie Cochran Against Skip Miller – Finally They are a crash course in contrasts. One is a bombastic media darling, a flamboyant courtroom orator who’s the star of a TV talk show on American justice; the other a deliberative, masterful legal craftsman, called in by major...Read More
By Scott Smith, Los Angeles Business Journal – February 8, 1999 A Breed Apart: L.A.’s Trial Attorneys Louis ‘Skip’ Miller CHRISTENSEN, MILLER, FINK, JACOBS, GLASER, WEIL & SHAPIRO SPECIALTY: GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS LITIGATION LAW SCHOOL: UCLA, 1972 WHEN the City and County of Los Angeles run into legal trouble – and that seems to be...Read More
L.A.’s Hired Gun All Around Defense Louis (Skip) Miller CAREER PATH Christensen White won a beauty contest in 1989 to represent Los Angeles in a five-year-old lawsuit over the city council’s downsizing of a median strip owned by Southern Pacific Railroad. On the eve of a summary judgment hearing, Miller helped negotiate a $3 million...Read More
A Tenacious Bulldog Who Hates to Lose By Krysten Crawford From motorist Rodney King to retired L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates and his former assistant Robert Vernon, there’s no doubt that the Los Angeles City Council has weathered its fair share of legal toils and political troubles in recent times. In these times of urban...Read More
