Now with a fresh name change, the business litigation firm that began in 1990 as Gray Duffy LLP is now Gray, Duffy, Eisenbaum & Lee LLP.
The Woodland Hills-based law firm announced the change late last year, bringing Managing Partner Michael Eisenbaum and civil litigation partner Nathan Lee into the highest rung of firm leadership. Eisenbaum has been managing partner of the firm for three years and has been weighing the investment into name partner for the last half of that.
“I wanted to prove to myself that I could get it done and be successful at it,” he said. “I had something to prove to myself first.”
In his time at the helm, the firm has shored up its attorney headcount to the present-day 16 and also in 2022 relocated its longtime Encino headquarter office to the Warner Center in Woodland Hills. There, it started with 8,400 square feet; the firm added 2,000 more square feet to its floor lease this past summer.
Lee joined the firm in 2012 and built up a practice that includes personal injury and business disputes, developing an expertise in asbestos-related issues.
The name change comes as cofounders Gary Gray is “semi-retired” and John Duffy continues to work daily. Eisenbaum hailed Lee as a “partner in crime” at the firm.
“That’s why his name’s up there with mine,” he quipped. “He’s really been such an asset to the firm. His work ethic far surpasses just about everyone, including myself, except maybe for Gary Gray. He was worthy of recognition.
“The one thing that’s always been constant and that’s been ingrained in myself, Nate and the firm generally is our commitment to the legal practice and service to our clients,” he added.
