Coachella Valley’s Largest Law Firm
Slovak Baron Empey Murphy & Pinkney LLP (“SBEMP”), the Coachella Valley’s largest law firm and one of the largest and fastest growing law firms in the Inland Empire, continues its growth with the opening of a new office in Indian Wells, California. SBEMP is a full service law firm with a focus in handling complex litigation and transactional matters. With the addition of the Indian Wells office, SBEMP will now have offices in Palm Springs, Costa Mesa, San Diego, and Indian Wells, California; and in New York and New Jersey .
Employment & Labor Law | Estate Law
SBEMP clients will be served out of the Indian Wells office by SBEMP Partners Renell E. Burch, Lena Wade, Vee Sotelo, and Valerie A. Powers Smith. Ms. Burch handles transactional, real estate, trusts and estates; as well as, civil litigation matters. Ms. Wade is the Chair of SBEMP’s Public Agency practice group and serves as general counsel to public agencies. Ms. Wade also handles public agency litigation, labor negotiations, and defends clients in ADA litigation. Mrs. Sotelo is the Chair of SBEMP’s Labor and Employment practice group. Mrs. Sotelo devotes her practice to representing employers and management in labor and employment related matters, including wrongful termination, wage and hour class action defense, sexual harassment defense and other labor and employment related litigation. Valerie A. Powers Smith is Chair of SBEMP’s Trusts, Estates & Probate and Special Needs & Elder Law practice groups. Ms. Powers Smith focuses her practice on estate planning, special needs trusts, conservatorships, and trusts and estates advisory work; as well as, trust, estate, probate, conservatorship, and elder law litigation.
“SBEMP’s decision to open a new office in Indian Wells is in response to the firm’s growing client base in the central and eastern areas of the Coachella Valley.” said John Pinkney, SBEMP’s managing partner. “This move will enhance our firm’s ability to service clients throughout the Coachella Valley and is consistent with our strategy of growth. In addition to opening a new office in Indian Wells, SBEMP has added five new lawyers in the last several months to ensure that we are able to keep up with client demand and provide timely and highly skilled legal services to our clients across a diverse spectrum of practice areas,” said Pinkney. “Our focus has always been and will continue to be meeting the needs of our clients.”
