With more than 25 years of experience dedicated to the area of construction law, Mr. Baker focuses his practice on the representation of design professionals, engineers, general contractors, and public and private owners. His experience includes providing representation for business and contractual matters as well as disputes before arbitration panels, mediators, and trial courts. He has also acted in the capacity of mediator, arbitrator, and served on project dispute resolution boards on selected building programs and projects.

Mr. Baker’s transactional experience in both construction and design-related matters includes drafting contracts related to project delivery methods as well as drafting building program management agreements and construction management agreements for building programs ranging from $200 million to over $1 billion on behalf of contractors, design teams, and owners. His experience as a trial lawyer is shown by having brought 20 cases to trial for decision or verdict, including venues in 11 different counties in the State of California and trials in multiple federal circuit court districts in California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Additionally, Mike has arbitrated numerous cases in private arbitration on behalf of contractors, owners, engineers, architects, construction managers involving building, and civil works. 

Mr. Baker is a member of the State Bar of California, the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), the Southern California Chapter where he is a board member and past Chapter President (2013), and was a founding member of the CMAA, Southern California Foundation Board.

Anna M. Carno is president of Carno Law Group, a Professional Law Corporation. For over 25 years, her practice has focused on representing those in the construction industry. She has represented the legal interests of general contractors, developers, specialty subcontractors, engineering firms, design professionals, equipment rental companies, trucking companies, and various materialmen and suppliers. Carno Law Group has also developed a niche practice with respects to government contracts and SBE/WBE/MBE/VBE and SBA 8 (a) certification issues. Ms. Carno graduated cum laude from Loyola Marymount University, and she received her juris doctorate degree from Loyola Law School. She has spoken at numerous seminars regarding construction-related topics and has authored numerous publications regarding construction and litigation.

Kevin Dorse is the Managing Partner of Theodora Oringher, a law firm having offices in Costa Mesa and Los Angeles. Kevin has been representing business and government clients for over 30 years focusing on complex commercial litigation in a wide variety of industries and issues, including contract disputes, construction, class actions, intellectual property, product liability, insurance coverage, and health care. Kevin heads the Firm’s Construction Disputes Group specializing in heavy construction, school construction, tunneling, transportation, rail, highway, pipelines, and engineering disputes. Kevin has worked on some of the most noteworthy and complex infrastructure projects in Southern California and the country, including the Crenshaw/LAX light rail light project, Gerald Desmond Replacement Bridge Project, LAUSD School Bond Construction Program, Hollywood/Vermont Redline Subway Tunnels, Inland Feeder Project and Arrowhead Tunnels, Exposition Light Rail Line, 210 Freeway Extension, I-405 Freeway HOV lane and bridge project, North Hollywood Redline Subway Tunnels, and Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. While Kevin has extensive high-level experience in construction disputes, he also has substantial experience in day-to-day project issues, including with changes orders, change management, constructive changes, directed acceleration, construction scheduling and scheduling disputes. Kevin is admitted to practice in California and Florida and has been Southern California Super Lawyer in the field of construction litigation for each year from 2006 to the present as published in Southern California Super Lawyer Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine.

Mr. Luschei has represented private and public owners, design professionals, contractors and subcontractors for over 35 years in disputes and transactional matters.  He has tried, arbitrated or mediated many cases for clients such as the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the City of Long Beach, the County of San Bernardino and County of San Bernardino Flood Control District, and the Los Angeles Unified School District.  Erich’s experience with construction disputes lead him into contract preparation for A&E agreements, construction contracts, subcontract agreements, and many other agreements for construction industry participants.  He also has extensive high-level experience in construction disputes and substantial experience in complex day-to-day project issues, including with changes, change orders, change management, constructive changes, directed acceleration, construction scheduling and scheduling disputes. Erich is licensed to practice law in the State of California and has handled disputes across the country and internationally.  He is a frequent speaker on legal issues affecting the construction industry and has authored numerous topics concerning construction related topics.

Mary A. Salamone is a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP. She has dedicated her 35-year career exclusively to the specialized area of construction law. Ms. Salamone has represented virtually every participant in the building industry on both public and private works of improvement, which affords her a unique perspective to assist in understanding and resolving claims in a cost-effective manner. She has handled multimillion dollar disputes on high-profile, complex construction projects. Ms. Salamone is an active member of various trade associations and serves as a neutral with the American Arbitration Association and the Office of Administrative Hearings. Ms. Salamone has received an AV Preeminent rating with LexisNexis/Martindale Hubbell, which is given to two percent of the lawyers in the country. She has also been repeatedly recognized by both Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and by Best Lawyers in America in the field of construction law. She was also selected as a Senior Fellow with the Litigation Counsel of America and a Charter Fellow with the Construction Lawyers Society of America.