Lauson & Tarver LLP

Cislo & Thomas LLP's story begins in 1970 when Donald M. Cislo, a patent attorney from Chicago, Illinois, decided to venture west. Having earned his chemical engineering degree from ITT, and going to DePaul University College of Law at night, Don decided that intellectual property would be extremely important in Southern California. Passing up a great opportunity at Hughes Aircraft, Don liked his prospects better at a small patent firm in Santa Monica, even if it meant less money.
Chuck Thomas also studied electrical engineering in Illinois and, in fact, attended DePaul Law School several years after Don. They met at an alumni dinner where they discovered that their wives were in the same sorority. The rest was history. They formed their two-attorney partnership in 1979, with Dan Cislo later joining in 1987, and have since faithfully served the Southland's inventors and small businesses as California has grown into an innovative powerhouse.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
El Segundo, CA	2

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Entertainment and New Media	1
IP	2
IP - Patent	2
Litigation	2