Archives: Team

Maurice S. Kane

February 03, 2026

Maurice S. Kane, Jr. is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Riverside Office and primarily works with governmental entities on a variety of legal issues. Throughout his legal career, Mr. Kane has represented private individuals and corporations, including trucking companies and other businesses. Clients invest not only time and money in legal representation and Maurice […]

Joana Arilyn T. Castro

January 23, 2026

Joana Arilyn T. Castro joined Graves & King LLP in 2025 and is an associate attorney in the firm’s Riverside office. Ms. Castro earned her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2025, concentrating in Privacy Law and Cybersecurity while earning a Law and Artificial Intelligence Certificate. […]

Frank A. Romeu, Jr.

April 07, 2025

Mr. Romeu is an experienced trial attorney and has tried cases in both California and Louisiana. He has extensive experience defending general liability, premises liability, general and fraudulent automotive and commercial vehicle casualty claims, and claims brought against rental car companies and their customers, as well as having defended professionals, both legal and medical, from […]

K. Fredric Willis

March 03, 2025

K. Fredric Willis rejoined Graves & King in 2024 and is a Senior Associate in the Riverside office. Mr. Willis’ practice includes public entity liability, involving local municipalities, counties, and school districts. He has also practiced for several years in long-term healthcare defense practice. Mr. Willis graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor of Arts […]

Anthony M. Javier

February 14, 2025

Anthony Javier graduated from Northern Arizona University in 2016 with B.S. degrees in Economics and Business Administration. Mr. Javier graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Law in 2020. To gain hands on experience, Mr. Javier worked as a judicial clerk at the Richard J. Daley Center’s Mortgage Foreclosure Section, and as […]

Gary Dennis

August 19, 2024

Gary Dennis joined Graves & King, LLP in May 2024 as an associate attorney at the firm’s Riverside Office. Prior to joining Graves & King, Gary worked at a public service law firm where he provided legal representation in civil matters to individuals from underserved communities in the Inland Empire. He earned his JD degree […]

Mike Liao

June 13, 2024

Mike Liao joined Graves & King LLP in 2024 and is an attorney at the firm’s Glendale office. Mr. Liao’s practice primarily focuses on civil litigation. During law school, Mr. Liao was a member of the Environmental Law Society where he furthered his passion for the environment. After law school, Mr. Liao focused on a […]

Mark J. Ballinger

December 14, 2023

Mark J. Ballinger joined Graves & King LLP in 2023 and is an attorney in the firm’s Glendale and Riverside offices. His practice focuses on the defense of public and private entities across a broad range of matters, including general liability, premises liability, professional liability, construction, and employment. Mr. Ballinger represents clients at all stages […]

Eric M. Ziegel

March 01, 2023

Mr. Eric M. Ziegel joined Graves & King LLP in 2022 and is an associate attorney at the firm’s Riverside office. Mr. Ziegel graduated cum laude from California State University of Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 2016. He went on to graduate cum laude from University of La Verne, […]

Bethany J. Ring

June 26, 2021

Ms. Ring specializes in highly complicated public entity and corporate defense litigation with an outstanding record of successfully representing clients in complex, multi-faceted and multi-party cases.   Ms. Ring excels in situations that require strategic analysis of technical data and transforming complexity to clarity for the court and jury and the disassembly of opposing expert […]