E. Martin Estrada is a partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson. His practice is focused on trials, arbitrations, complex litigation and internal investigations. Mr. Estrada represents major corporations and executives before both federal and state courts in a variety of areas, including business disputes, technology, antitrust, environmental regulation, securities, and competition law.
A former federal prosecutor and supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Estrada is an experienced litigator who has tried more than two dozen federal and state trials and arbitrations, argued a dozen appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals, and handled numerous legal and evidentiary hearings in federal and state courts.
Widely recognized by his peers and community, Mr. Estrada has been named among the “Top Litigators in Los Angeles” and one of the “Most Influential Minority Lawyers in Los Angeles” by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Mr. Estrada is a two-time recipient of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award and has received many other recognitions for his work, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s prestigious Director’s Award for Superior Performance and the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Federal Lawyer Award, awarded to the country’s top government attorneys.
Key Representations:
- Southern California Edison in complex civil litigation regarding mass tort claims filed by over six dozen plaintiffs.
- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in a complex trial against insurance carriers for failure to cover an underlying securities settlement.
- LG Electronics in federal multidistrict litigation in one of the largest pending antitrust cases in the country, involving claims of foreign price-fixing conduct.
- A high-level corporate executive in federal criminal and civil litigation regarding securities matters and disclosures.
Mr. Estrada has consistently been involved in public interest work and pro bono representations, including helping to lead and win one of the largest educational-rights cases in the country that sought to establish equal rights to education for Latinos and other minority groups, handling numerous pro bono asylum matters for indigent immigrants, and leading a program to assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining restraining orders.
He is also an active member of the legal and civic communities, currently serving as a member of the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association, and as a past member of the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation (JNE) of the State Bar of California. Mr. Estrada is a board member of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and the Alliance for Children’s Rights. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor forLoyola Law School’s Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic, part of the Alarcón Advocacy Project.
During his over seven years as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Estrada served as the Deputy Chief of the Violent and Organized Crime Section and as the International Organized Crime Coordinator in the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, and prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases involving a broad spectrum of criminal violations, including bank fraud, access device fraud, identity theft, murder, kidnapping, RICO violations, child-sexual exploitation, drug-trafficking, and firearms offenses.
Among other major cases, Mr. Estrada successfully led and directed the nation’s largest RICO organized crime prosecution targeting members and associates of Eurasian organized crime, one of the country’s largest-ever bank fraud and identity theft prosecutions, a major public corruption matter involving the illegal leaking of sensitive, under-seal information by a federal court clerk and her husband, and a multi-defendant prosecution involving the largest seizure of phencyclidine (PCP) in U.S. history.
Mr. Estrada served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert J. Timlin of the Central District of California and Judge Arthur L. Alarcón of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School in 2002, where he served as executive editor of Stanford Law Review, and earned his undergraduate degree in history from the University of California, Irvine, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1998. Mr. Estrada’s family emigrated from Guatemala, and he is fluent in Spanish.
Education:
- Stanford Law School (J.D., with distinction, 2002) executive editor, Stanford Law Review
- University of California, Irvine (B.A., magna cum laude, 1998) Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions : California
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