Reinis Joins Steptoe Firm

Attorney Richard Reinis has joined Los Angeles–based Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he will provide transactional and litigation services to the international law firm’s clients.

Reinis has a long history with the apparel industry, having served as general counsel to the California Mart (now called the California Market Center) and apparel company Smart Modes of California. For nearly 20 years, he operated his own firm, Reinis & Reinis, which specialized in apparel-industry clients.

He was the founder and executive director of Compliance Alliance, a voluntary labor-law compliance association.

Most recently, Reinis was the chief executive officer of Great Circle Family Foods, the largest Krispy Kreme franchisee for Southern California. He also was co-principal of Great Circle Management, a company that solicited restaurant franchise rights for development in Southern California.

Alison A. Nieder