Shauneida Navarrete is special counsel in the general litigation department. She has extensive experience focusing on employment and general commercial litigation disputes in state and federal courts, as well as domestic arbitration forums. Shauneida works with her clients to ensure that they reach a reasonable resolution for their disputes—regardless of whether the resolutions require litigation, mediation, or general advice. In employment, Shauneida has litigated cases arising out of employment discrimination disputes. She has also provided advice to employers and employees on employment agreements, severance agreements, and general releases. Shauneida’s general commercial litigation experience ranges from breach of contract to shareholder disputes concerning tender offers. She also has experience with civil RICO claims, Attorney General investigations involving allegations of false advertising and deceptive marketing, SEC and DOJ investigations, wills and trust construction disputes, and legal fee disputes. Shauneida also has experience in real estate litigation. She has litigated breach of lease agreement disputes and landlord-tenant disputes on behalf of commercial tenants. She is also a member for Stroock's Diversity Committee.

Charles D. Naylor has been a maritime personal injury trial lawyer in the state and federal courts of Southern California for more than 35 years. During his career, Mr. Naylor has successfully settled or tried hundreds of cases arising from injuries occurring in the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and around the world. Mr. Naylor enjoys a national reputation among his peers for his strict adherence to the highest standards of ethics, quality of work, and successful prosecution of injury cases. In 2007 he was a finalist for the Consumer Attorney of the Year Award presented by the Consumer Attorneys of California and in 2008 was a recipient of California Lawyer Magazine?s prestigious CLAY Award. Mr. Naylor has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating possible from the most respected national legal rating service, and has been recognized by Southern California Super Lawyers as one of the ?top attorneys in southern California? for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Among his recent jury trial verdicts, in a 2007 wrongful death case Mr. Naylor obtained a verdict of more than $55 million for the family of a deceased longshoreman and a settlement agreement of $3.2 million for an injured longshore woman. Mr. Naylor has been a lecturer for the State of California, Continuing Education of the Bar program and serves as a Neutral Evaluator for the Los Angeles County Superior Courts for maritime injury cases. He is a commissioner of the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization Admiralty & Maritime Consulting Group, where he has played a vital role in the development of criteria for certification in California as a specialist in Admiralty and Maritime Law. Mr. Naylor is also an adjunct Professor of Law, teaching Admiralty and Maritime Law at Chapman University School of Law. He is a member and Past-President of the Maritime Section of the Long Beach Bar Association, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the American Association For Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers Association) Admiralty section, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, WILG and is a ?Bencher? member of the Joseph A. Ball/Clarence S. Hunt Inn of Court.

The son of an immigrant, Sy was raised with in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up working on motorcycles, ultimately becoming an AMI Certified motorcycle mechanic, and “expert” status WERA motorcycle racer. After college, Sy moved west, and earned his law degree the University of California in San Francisco, one of the top law schools in the country. Sy spend his first years as as attorney working for wealthy corporations. Unhappy serving Corporate America,Sy quickly realized that he should be practicing law for the American people instead. He started his own law firm, known in the motorcycle community as "RiderzLaw." Sy quickly got a reputation in the legal community as a relentless pitbull, winning cases that other lawyers were afraid to take.