Announcements
At Chan + Punzalan, we’re honored to be the recipients of many industry recognitions. We’re proud to be an active part of our legal community, as well as many communities at large, and continue our commitment to excellence in service.
2026
2025
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Angelica advises clients on commercial contracts and other types of business contracts and transactions. Her background in commercial litigation, privacy, and general liability uniquely positions her to counsel clients across a wide range of business matters.
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Presented by the UCLA Alumni Association, Bruin Business 100 celebrates the hard work, talent and innovation of exceptional alumni business owners, founders and visionaries. Billy Chan and Mark Punzalan, the firm’s founding partners and proud UCLA Bruins, are excited to return to their alma mater later this month for the official reception for Bruin Business 2025 honorees.
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A special congratulations to Mark Punzalan for his sixth consecutive year on the Northern California Top 100 list.
2024
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Chowning is a seasoned litigator with experience in business matters from the common to the complex, including individual and class actions involving intellectual property, partnership and contract disputes, securities and derivative cases, and employment matters.
Chowning has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, 2025 Edition, as well as by Super Lawyers Magazine as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2023 and 2024, and as a Rising Star every year from 2017 to 2022. She has been included in San Francisco Magazine’s Top Women Attorneys in Northern California from 2017 to 2021. She has also been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions from 2021 to 2023.
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Practising Law Institute (PLI) is a nonprofit learning organization dedicated to keeping attorneys and professionals at the forefront of knowledge and expertise, as well as preparing them to fulfill their pro bono responsibilities.
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The Sacramento Filipino American Lawyers Association (SacFALA) is the recently formed association of Fil-Am lawyers in the Sacramento area. Comprised of attorneys, judges, and law students, it was formed to address the legal issues confronting the Filipino-American community and to meet the professional concerns of Filipino-American lawyers in the region.
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John most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer of Avellino, a biotech startup company in Silicon Valley, where he was responsible for Legal, HR, and Operations that spanned the U.S., Japan, Korea, and China. Prior to his time in-house, John was a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest management side labor & employment law firm.
John combines this unique set of experiences in corporate executive leadership and law firm partnership to provide practical advice to his clients, spanning from publicly traded billion dollar companies to angel investor backed pre-revenue startups. For his efforts, John has been recognized as a Rising Star and Super Lawyer in Northern California by Super Lawyers Magazine.
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The California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP) is a California 501(c)(6) non-profit mutual benefit corporation, dedicated to promoting diversity in the legal profession by providing attorneys of color with access and opportunity for business and professional development.
CMCP is the only state-wide organization that brings business lawyers of all races together as members and colleagues, regardless of the type of organization in which they practice, for the purpose of achieving diversity and inclusion within law firms and in-house law departments, and in the outside counsel spend of corporations and government agencies.
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The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founded in 1872, BASF enjoys the support of more than 7,500 individuals, law firms, corporate legal departments, and law schools. Through its board of directors, its committees, task forces and its community efforts, BASF has worked actively to promote equal justice for all and oppose discrimination in all its forms, including, but not limited to, discrimination based on race, sex, disability, and sexual orientation.
BASF provides a collective voice for public advocacy, advances professional growth and education, and attempts to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, and respect in the practice of law.
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Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Every year, Super Lawyers evaluates lawyers across the country for its annual list of top attorneys. Each candidate is measured against 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement as part of our patented selection process. The Top Lists take exclusivity one step further by featuring selected Super Lawyers attorneys with the most total points earned.
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The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founded in 1872, BASF enjoys the support of more than 7,500 individuals, law firms, corporate legal departments, and law schools. Through its board of directors, its committees, task forces and its community efforts, BASF has worked actively to promote equal justice for all and oppose discrimination in all its forms, including, but not limited to, discrimination based on race, sex, disability, and sexual orientation.
BASF provides a collective voice for public advocacy, advances professional growth and education, and attempts to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, and respect in the practice of law.
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The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) has been the voice of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Asian Pacific American (APA) legal community since 1976. AABA fosters professional development, community, and service. We are advocates and allies for civil rights, representation, and equality.
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The California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP) is a California 501(c)(6) non-profit mutual benefit corporation, dedicated to promoting diversity in the legal profession by providing attorneys of color with access and opportunity for business and professional development.
2023
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The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in the legal profession.
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The mission of Kristi Yamaguchi’s Always Dream is to ensure children have access to high-quality books in the home environment and extensive family engagement support.
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At home on the campus of one of the world’s leading research universities, Stanford Law offers unmatched opportunities. Our approach to education is distinctly student-centric, defined by the needs and ambitions of future graduates and customizable to each individual student. Create your own joint degree, invent a new course, explore law’s intersection with the most dynamic disciplines of the day — the possibilities are virtually limitless. And the advantages extend beyond law school, resulting in the practice-ready skills employers demand, better chances at prestigious clerkships, a high bar passage rate and support when you’re ready to launch a career.
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Every year, Super Lawyers evaluates lawyers across the country for its annual list of top attorneys. Each candidate is measured against 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement as part of our patented selection process. The Top Lists take exclusivity one step further by featuring selected Super Lawyers attorneys with the most total points earned.
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Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
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Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
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Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
2022
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The Super Lawyers designation is given to the top 5% of attorneys and reflects their professional achievement and peer recognition.
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As a former law clerk to two federal district judges, Jeremy Faulkner knows how to carefully evaluate the trial record and how to communicate complex material in an understandable manner. Jeremy assisted judges on a wide range of complex, high-stakes litigation related to consumer protection laws, intellectual property, class actions, employment laws, criminal cases, and more. Jeremy’s strengths lie in his legal research and writing abilities, organizational skills, and his ability to work closely with colleagues.
Doug Saavedra is a litigator with experience representing business clients of all sizes in commercial and employment litigation. He has represented clients across an array of industries, including real estate, construction, automotive, healthcare, and hospitality, advocating for clients in high stakes and complex matters from pre-litigation through trial. Doug’s diverse experience is ideal for clients who need a focused litigator with versatility to handle issues unique to their business.
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Founded in 1897, AIPLA is a national bar association constituted primarily of practitioners in private and corporate practice, in government service, and in the academic community. AIPLA represents a wide and diverse spectrum of individuals from law firms, companies, and institutions involved directly or indirectly in the practice of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition law, as well as other fields of law affecting intellectual property. Our members represent both owners and users of intellectual property.
AIPLA was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics, to aid in the improvement in laws relating to intellectual property and in their proper interpretation by the courts, and to provide legal education to the public and to its members on intellectual property issues.
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The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founded in 1872, BASF enjoys the support of more than 7,500 individuals, law firms, corporate legal departments, and law schools. Through its board of directors, its committees, task forces and its community efforts, BASF has worked actively to promote equal justice for all and oppose discrimination in all its forms, including, but not limited to, discrimination based on race, sex, disability, and sexual orientation.
BASF provides a collective voice for public advocacy, advances professional growth and education, and attempts to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, and respect in the practice of law.
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Practising Law Institute (PLI) is a nonprofit learning organization dedicated to keeping attorneys and professionals at the forefront of knowledge and expertise, as well as preparing them to fulfill their pro bono responsibilities.
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Every year, Super Lawyers evaluates lawyers across the country for its annual list of top attorneys. Each candidate is measured against 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement as part of our patented selection process. The Top Lists take exclusivity one step further by featuring selected Super Lawyers attorneys with the most total points earned.
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Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
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As a national bar association, the National Filipino American Lawyers Association (NFALA) recognizes the value of diversity and the need for diverse voices in all arenas of society. As the national voice for the Filipino American legal profession, NFALA advocates for justice, civil rights, and equal opportunity for the Filipino American community. NFALA will continue to strive for equity and inclusion for all Filipino Americans within every facet of American life.
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The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founded in 1872, BASF enjoys the support of more than 7,500 individuals, law firms, corporate legal departments, and law schools. Through its board of directors, its committees, task forces and its community efforts, BASF has worked actively to promote equal justice for all and oppose discrimination in all its forms, including, but not limited to, discrimination based on race, sex, disability, and sexual orientation.
BASF provides a collective voice for public advocacy, advances professional growth and education, and attempts to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, and respect in the practice of law.
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The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in the legal profession.