Monique L. Fierro joined Berger Kahn ALC as a partner in Lake Forest. The move was Jul. 21, 2025.

Fierro brings over a decade of experience litigating a wide range of civil matters, including employment discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment and assault, wage and hour violations, personal injury, civil rights, business disputes, and education law. She has secured millions in damages for clients facing discrimination and abuse and successfully obtained dismissals and reduced liability for clients in high-risk litigation.

Douglas E. Lumish joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Lumish is co-head of Weil's nationwide IP, Technology & Science Litigation practice, a Chambers Band 1-ranked first-chair trial lawyer, and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He serves as lead strategic and trial counsel for the world's most sophisticated technology and life sciences companies in their most important and complex intellectual property, technology, and life sciences-related litigation. He has an exceptional track record of securing favorable outcomes for clients at all stages of litigation, including jury trials, bench trials, and on appeal. His diverse practice encompasses patent, trade secret, contract, licensing, fraud, and other technology and life sciences related cases.

Gabriel S. Gross joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Gross is a partner in Weil’s IP, Technology & Science Litigation practice, a veteran first-chair trial lawyer, and skilled courtroom advocate. He is routinely called upon to serve as lead counsel to life sciences and technology companies in their most important and complex intellectual property and commercial disputes, winning jury verdicts, summary judgments, arbitration awards, and appeals, and has defeated billions of dollars in damages claims over the course of his career.

Nicola A. Pisano joined Cozen O'Connor as a member in San Diego.

Pisano is a seasoned IP litigator with more than 35 years of experience, having served as lead or trial counsel in more than 250 cases involving patent, trade secret, trade dress and copyright issues in federal district courts throughout the U.S. and as lead counsel in interference proceedings and inter partes reviews before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, import matters pending before the International Trade Commission, and appeals before the Federal Circuit. He has litigated a vast array of technologies, including electrical circuits, computers and computer peripherals, wireless communications, software — including biometrics, antimalware, encryption, acoustic/vibration analysis and a wide range of medical applications — as well as mechanical and medical devices.

Scott Penner joined Cozen O'Connor as a member in San Diego.

Penner, who earned an AB in computer science at Harvard, also comes to the firm from Eversheds Sutherland and joins as a member. With a primary focus on patent litigation, his background includes helping clients protect a range of technological assets, from medical devices to computer software and hardware designs. Clients, ranging from multinational corporations to small technology startups, appreciate his ability to “talk code” with engineers and discuss business strategies with company executives. Recently, he secured summary judgment invalidating a number of patents asserted against his clients, conducted a due diligence source code review of an AI-based program designed to divide a large population into marketing categories, and achieved a jury verdict of non-infringement of multiple patents for a client in the anti-virus industry, all while also providing advice on contractual and portfolio management in the IP space.

Jose L. Patiño joined Cozen O'Connor as a member in San Diego.

Patiño concentrates on representing companies in high-stakes intellectual property disputes. He has extensive experience with patent litigation-specific proceedings, including claim construction before trial courts throughout the country, at the International Trade Commission, and as special IP counsel in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Joe has represented clients in a variety of industries, including biopharmaceutical, information technology services, cybersecurity, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, and telecommunications.

Annie Hsin-Yu Huang joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Huang's practice consists of state and local tax controversies at both administrative and judicial levels, tax planning and transactional work. Annie regularly practices before the California Franchise Tax Board, the California State Board of Equalization and the California Office of Tax Appeals. She also represents clients before administrative tribunals and state tax courts in other jurisdictions throughout the country. Prior to joining the firm, she was a tax counsel to one of the members of the California Board of Equalization.

Glenn Luinenburg joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Luinenburg is one of the country's most active deal lawyers and among Silicon Valley's most experienced and in-demand advisors, representing clients in the structuring, managing and negotiation of venture financings, strategic alliances, M&A transactions, public equity offerings, private placement equity and debt transactions, joint ventures, spin-outs, recapitalizations and other corporate reorganizations. His experience spans a wide variety of established and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, autonomous electric vehicles, big data, new energy technologies, cleantech, digital health, media and entertainment, fintech, semiconductors, software, SaaS, and many others.

Todd Rumberger joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Rumberger is ranked by Chambers USA as one of the nation's foremost Startups & Emerging Companies lawyers. His practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies throughout their lifecycle, counseling founders on the initial organization and capitalization of their startup, and providing guidance on fundraising strategies, negotiations and structure with pre-seed, seed and larger institutional and strategic investors. He also advises early and late-stage venture capital firms, and strategic corporate investors on their investment in, and management of, their portfolio companies. He has also developed a deep expertise in assisting foreign startup and growth-stage companies establish a presence and obtain venture funding in the United States.

Emily Stephens joined Alston & Bird as a partner in Los Angeles

Stephens advises a broad range of clients--from first-time fund sponsors to established asset managers--on the structuring, formation, and ongoing operation of private equity, private credit, venture/growth capital, real estate, energy transition, and other alternative asset funds (whether open-ended or closed-ended), as well as providing guidance on carry and equity arrangements and investment adviser and related compliance issues. She also represents lenders and borrowers in private credit facilities, including in NAV or other fund-related term loans or revolvers where her deep knowledge of both investment funds and credit investing helps provide clients with a unique advantage in identifying issues and structuring appropriate protections.

Kelly Siobhan Laffey joined Pryor Cashman LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Laffey's practice focuses on advising emerging growth and middle-market companies on a wide range of transactional and general corporate matters, including corporate governance and formation, venture capital and other financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, employee compensation, and complex shareholder and operating agreements.

Bradford Newman joined Eversheds Sutherland as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Newman is widely recognized for his leadership in trade secret litigation and next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital evidence. His arrival and experience in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector significantly enhances Eversheds Sutherland's litigation capabilities in the global high-tech market, building on the firm's strong foundation and ongoing work with technology clients.

Retired judge Ana Maria Luna joined Signature Resolution as a neutral in Los Angeles, CA. The move was Jul. 21, 2025.

With over four decades of legal experience, including 32 on the bench, Luna is known across California for her integrity, cultural competency, and trailblazing career spent resolving a wide variety of probate, family and civil matters.

Oluoma Kas-Osoka joined Knox Ricksen LLP as a counsel. The move was July 1, 2025.

Kas-Osoka has 10 years of experience representing a variety of clients in complex litigation matters. Most notably, she defended a pharmaceutical company in product liability litigation in several jurisdictions. Kas-Osoka has also represented clients in technology-related class actions, antitrust matters, and environmental disputes.

Brian Douglas Murray was promoted to partner of Trucker Huss APC in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025.

Murray concentrates his practice on employee benefits, with a focus on ERISA litigation. He represents plan sponsors, trustees, and other fiduciaries in a wide range of employee benefits cases, including 401(k) class action litigation, claims for retirement, medical, disability, and other benefits, ESOP and multiemployer pension plan disputes, and cases involving executive compensation. In addition to his litigation practice, he counsels clients on a variety of matters, including fiduciary responsibility, operational corrections, and regulatory compliance. Murray also represents plan fiduciaries in Department of Labor investigations.

Adrine Adjemian Cargill was promoted to partner of Trucker Huss APC in San Francisco. The promotion is effective Jan. 7, 2025.

Cargill concentrates her practice in the area of retirement plans and advises clients on issues regarding 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans, money purchase pension plans, cash balance plans, and traditional defined benefit plans. She also regularly works with multiemployer plans and plans of tax-exempt entities, public schools, and universities, including 403(b) and 457 plans. She assists clients with drafting plan documents, SPDs and amendments; preparing employee communications; analyzing plan administrative and fiduciary issues; preparing submissions to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and Department of Labor; reviewing qualified domestic relations orders ("QDROs"); conducting M&A due diligence; preparing plan committee charters, bylaws, and resolutions; and resolving ERISA and Internal Revenue Code compliance issues raised in connection with investigations or audits by the Department of Labor or IRS. She also assists with the review and negotiation of service provider agreements, including investment management agreements.

Anthony Valenzuela joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Valenzuela is a seasoned financial services litigator and award-winning regulatory attorney. He brings robust first-chair litigation capabilities to West Coast markets, leveraging over a decade of managing both domestic and global regulatory investigations and extensive in-house experience. Before joining the firm, he served as general counsel and global head of government relations and legislative affairs for OKX--the world's third-largest crypto exchange by trading volume--where he built a global legal department and supported every aspect of the company's worldwide digital assets business.

Elissa L. Gysi joined Thompson Coburn LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Gysi represents employers ranging from national companies to closely held businesses in managing their workforces, minimizing litigation risks, and fighting employment claims. She assists with all phases of employment disputes, from early settlement, to arbitration or jury trial, to appeals, defending employers facing claims of sexual harassment, disability discrimination, and wage and hour violations.

Carl R. Steen joined Polsinelli as a principal in Los Angeles.

Steen boasts more than 25 years of corporate and energy regulatory experience, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, restructurings and other corporate transactions and related regulatory matters. He advises clients on the development and financing of thermal and renewable energy projects, oil and gas pipelines and storage facilities, telecommunications systems, infrastructure and more.

Barbara N. Barath joined Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Barath focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation and high-stakes technology disputes to help clients protect proprietary technologies and defend against IP claims. With a proven track record of successful trial outcomes and favorable settlements, Barath has served as lead strategist on numerous complex patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark matters. She has litigated disputes relating to a broad range of technologies from semiconductor fabrication to USB, memory, communications, networking, cloud storage, two-way radio, mobile device user interface, mobile device management, data compression, spinal derotation, refrigerator water filter, and CAD.

Matt Caplan joined Foley & Lardner as a partner in San Francisco. The move was Jul. 14, 2025.

Caplan's multi-faceted practice focuses on trade secrets and technology disputes, business and competitor disputes, class actions, health care, and general commercial litigation. He regularly advises clients in the Innovative Technology and Health Care, and Life Sciences Sectors, offering deep insight into the unique challenges and opportunities present in these ecosystems.

Tara K. McGrath joined Perkins Coie LLP as a partner in San Diego.

McGrath's practice will focus on guiding clients through white-collar litigation and investigations, as well as civil litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution, cybersecurity, and crisis management. She joins a preeminent litigation practice comprised of more than 300 lawyers and former federal prosecutors who serve as staunch advocates in the courtroom and beyond.

Phillip Gharabegian joined Arentfox Schiff LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Gharabegian brings more than two decades of experience at the intersection of sports and media, having established deep and lasting relationships with business and legal executives at leagues, teams, and sports properties. Throughout his career, Gharabegian has led or played an integral part in the negotiation and drafting of some of the largest and most complex regional and national media rights agreements and partnerships involving major professional sports leagues and teams as well as collegiate conferences including the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the Atlantic Coast Conference and FIFA. He most recently served as Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at FanDuel Sports Network, where he was a member of the executive leadership team and responsible for day-to-day operations and long-term strategic initiatives for the nation's largest portfolio of regional sports networks (RSNs).

Cheyenne Rodriguez joined Arentfox Schiff LLP as an associate in Los Angeles.

Rodriguez focuses her practice within the sports media industry, advising clients on media rights, sponsorships, and intellectual property matters. She negotiates and drafts complex agreements, including media rights for professional sports teams and leagues, content licensing, and sponsorship, hospitality, and advertising transactions.

Jessica Kaplan was promoted to partner of Withers in San Francisco. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025.

Kaplan represents clients on lifetime and post-death gifting, wealth transfer planning and estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning. She also advises clients on all aspects of trust administration and probate matters.

Leslie Evans was promoted to partner of Withers in San Diego. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025..

Evans is a family lawyer advising on divorce, custody, support, paternity, and pre-nup and cohabitation agreements. Her cases regularly involve complex financial issues and benefit from Leslie's experience of addressing the intersection of corporate, tax, and estate concerns.

Kevin Jackson was promoted to partner of Withers in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025.

Jackson represents clients on trust and estate disputes in probate court, including will and trust contests, breach of fiduciary duties, disinheritance proceedings, financial elder abuse claims and contested conservatorships and guardianships. Kevin also assists on the creation and administration of trusts, conservatorships and guardianships.

Susanna Kim was promoted to partner of Withers in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025.

Kim is certified as a legal specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law. Susanna assists clients with trust planning, charitable trusts and probate matters as well as advising on property tax issues relating to transfers of real property.

Erika Scheideman was promoted to partner of Withers in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025.

Scheideman is a Certified Family Law Specialist advising on the full range of divorce and family matters, including pre-and post-nup agreements for ultra-high net worth clients, custody disputes, negotiation of three-parent custody arrangements and international move-away litigation and highly contested cases involving asset and debt division.

Craig Weinstein was promoted to partner of Withers in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jul. 1, 2025.

Weinstein advises on trust and estate litigation, including will and trust contests, breach of fiduciary duties, conservatorship and guardianship matters and financial elder abuse issues. Craig represents beneficiaries, creditors, trustees, executors and other fiduciaries, as well as working on complex business litigation involving contract and commercial disputes.

William B. Tate joined Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner in Los Angeles.

Tate's practice touches virtually every corner of the real estate landscape. He advises on high-stakes acquisitions, leasing, development and financing transactions involving commercial, industrial, hospitality and multitenant properties - from motion picture studios to medical office campuses to senior living facilities. He also brings robust experience in credit facilities, joint ventures and tenancy-in-common structures, making him a rare holistic practitioner in one of the nation's most complicated jurisdictions.

James Huie joined Paul Hastings LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Huie advises life sciences and technology companies on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, strategic partnerships, and private equity and debt financings. He also has extensive experience representing venture capital firms and other investors in private equity and debt financings. His practice focuses on advising early and late-stage start-ups throughout all stages of their lifecycle, along with numerous venture investors. His clients comprise the full range of the start-up ecosystem, from one-person companies to unicorns preparing for public offerings.

Lane E. Webb joined Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP as a partner in San Diego.

Webb has substantial experience in the defense of property damage and bodily injury claims arising from exposures to carbon monoxide, benzene, silica, asbestos, commercial cleaning products containing chlorophenols, hydrogen sulfide, mold, PFAS, fiberglass, mercury, lead, calcium carbonates, medical imaging contrast dyes, commercial pesticides, liquid nitrogen, and nitrogen dioxide, as well as other environmental contaminants.

Shanna M. Van Wagner joined Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP as a partner in San Diego.

Van Wagner has extensive experience in the defense of property damage and bodily injury claims arising from alleged exposure to carbon monoxide, liquid nitrogen, silica, mold, and PFAs, as well as other environmental contaminants. She also has experience in general liability matters, insurance fraud, personal injury, wrongful death, and habitational claims. Her practice also includes the defense of state and federal class action lawsuits.

Marisa R. Quinzii joined Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP as a partner in San Diego.

Quinzii's practice focuses on personal injury, premises liability, and construction defect litigation. She worked as a commercial liability defense litigator in civil, personal injury, habitability, nuisance, contract, and general liability matters. She gained extensive courtroom experience, which included conducting bench and jury trials and arguing motions.

John D. Culver joined Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP as a partner in San Diego.

Culver has handled complex cases including wrongful death, serious and catastrophic injuries, environmental claims (such as mold), housing discrimination, habitability issues, infectious diseases, unfair business practices, HOA disputes, assault, landslides and slope failures, insurance bad faith, automobile accidents, and premises liability cases.

Ian J. Carstens joined Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP as an associate in San Diego.

Carstens' practice focuses on insurance defense. While studying law, he interned as a tax attorney at the University of San Diego Federal Low Income Tax Clinic.

Chris Manderson joined Glaser Weil as a partner in Century City. The move was Jul. 10, 2025.

Manderson has more than two decades of experience guiding clients through complex transactions at the intersection of business, law and finance. He advises public and private companies, private equity funds and entrepreneurs on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, restructurings and tax-efficient structures involving Net Operating Loss (NOL) assets. In addition to his deal work, he is frequently engaged to advise on governance, securities regulation and compliance matters that demand both strategic judgment and technical precision.

Neel Chatterjee joined King & Spalding LLP as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Chatterjee is an internationally recognized IP and technology litigator who has led matters for Silicon Valley's most well-known technology companies. He represents entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies in their complex disputes, including those related to patents, trade secrets, copyrights, internet law and complex commercial technology issues.

Jade Turner-Bond joined Orrick as a partner in Los Angeles. The move was Jul. 2, 2025.

Turner-Bond's practice focuses on social and transportation infrastructure projects, and she serves as counsel to issuers, underwriters and sponsors on a broad spectrum of public finance transactions. She has worked on a broad range of financing structures, including fixed and variable rate, tax-exempt and taxable, letter of credit and liquidity-supported bonds, tenders, exchanges, senior/subordinate, project finance, direct purchases, and 144A and Section 4(a)(2) offerings. Some of her notable clients include the City of Los Angeles, the State of California, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Port of Los Angeles, and The Broad, as well as some of the most active underwriters in the market.

Evan Chuck joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a shareholder in Los Angeles.

Chuck will split his time between the firm's Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices. He is an internationally recognized strategist to multinational corporations and private equity firms, navigating the complexities of international trade and geopolitical conflict involving China and around the world. He will help Brownstein build a geopolitical risk practice focusing on international trade and national security by expanding the firm's practices in International Business & Foreign Affairs and Government Investigations/White Collar Defense.

Todd J. Dressel was promoted to managing partner of McGuireWoods LLP in San Francisco.

Dressel's practice focuses on corporate and municipal bankruptcy and restructuring matters. He represents financial institutions, hedge funds, indenture trustees, institutional investors and other creditors, including official and ad hoc committees of creditors, in matters in and out of court.

Gary Stiffelman joined Frost LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Stiffelman's practice focuses on providing comprehensive legal advisory services for up- and-coming and elite artists, individual entrepreneurs, and entertainment-focused corporate clients. Drawing on his decades of experience advising leading artists and record labels on deals, legal liability, M&A and catalogue sales, and business opportunities in technology and merchandising, he takes a whole-of-career approach in his work with clients and maintains long-term professional relationships with those clients. He has represented some of the most recognized recording artists, songwriters, and producers of our time: Prince, Lady Gaga, Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Scott Weiland, Eminem, Toni Braxton, Justin Timberlake, George Clinton, Hans Zimmer, and Yo-Yo Ma.