Tara R. Burd joined Klinedinst PC as counsel in San Diego.

Burd has extensive probate and trust litigation experience, with an emphasis on trust administration, probate avoidance and probate litigation. She helps clients with matters such as breach of contracts, business disputes, partition actions, employment and personal injury lawsuits.

Ali Mojibi Yazdi was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Los Angeles.

Mojibi Yazdi is a trial lawyer who focuses on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. He has represented clients from the medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer electronics, energy, fashion and food industries.

Neema T. Sahni was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Los Angeles.

Sahni has experience in legal issues facing clients in the sports, media and entertainment industries. She handles commercial matters at the trial and appellate levels and maintains a counseling and advisory practice.

Megan L. Rodgers was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Palo Alto.

Rodgers specializes in defending clients in complex commercial disputes, mass tort cases and class actions in state and federal court.

Lily N. Chinn joined Baker Botts LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Chinn is a civil and criminal environmental litigator. Her clients include energy, oilfield services, refining, manufacturing and chemical companies as well as individuals charged with criminal wrongdoing.

Matthew R. Baker joined Baker Botts LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Baker provides strategic advice to clients industries such as security and crisis preparedness, with a specialization in the energy and chemical sector. He focuses on civil and white collar defense and has extensive experience with domestic and international data privacy issues and information security.

Sarah B. Axtell was promoted to partner of Goodwin Procter LLP in Redwood City.

Axtell specializes in corporate and securities law, with a primary focus on advising emerging growth technology companies and capital markets transactions.

Brian J. Raynor was promoted to partner of Goodwin Procter LLP in San Francisco.

Raynor advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in transactions including acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, minority and growth equity investments and joint ventures.

Dave A. Rand joined California Housing Partnership Corp. as board member in Los Angeles.

Rand specializes in land use law and governmental regulatory matters. His expertise includes aspects of municipal law, the planning and entitlement process, the California Environmental Quality Act, the Subdivision Map Act and the Coastal Act.

Charles E. Weir joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Weir focuses on class actions, shareholder derivative suits, qui tam litigation and commercial disputes. He regularly represents public and private companies and executives in industries including healthcare, entertainment, energy and technology.

Collie F. James was promoted to managing partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Costa Mesa.

James counsels clients on business litigation matters, including mass tort, product liability, environmental liability, unfair business practices claims and consumer class actions.

Kevin K. Org joined Goldberg Segalla LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Ong concentrates on counseling insurers, self-insured employers and third-party administrators in the defense of workers' compensation claims and claims-handling strategy.

Hannah Y. Lee was promoted to partner of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in Menlo Park.

Lee has significant trial experience focusing on life sciences and technology cases. She represents plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving patent law.

Thomas J. Stipanowich joined JAMS as neutral in Century City.

Stipanowich is experienced in commercial and construction arbitration. He will serve as an international arbitrator, mediator, special master and neutral evaluator in business, commercial, engineering and construction disputes.

Cheryl C. Yakey joined Clyde & Co. LLP as senior counsel in San Francisco.

Yakey's focuses on representing insurance companies and insurtechs in transactional and regulatory matters. She also has previously offered in-house counsel to insurers.

Nichole Rapier Rocha joined Judicial Council of California, Governmental Affairs office as supervising attorney in Sacramento.

Rocha has focused on family law, medical privacy and mental health issues, administrative law, the California Public Records Act and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Cory L. Webster joined Dykema Gossett PLLC as senior counsel in Los Angeles.

Webster represents clients in commercial litigation, with a focus on appeals and key trail court motions.

Jeffrey M. Reisner joined McDermott Will & Emery LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Reisner works with private equity, hedge funds, high-net worth individuals as well as private and public companies in connection with reorganization of financial affairs and as purchasers, lenders, creditors and creditors' committees.

Ali U. Nardali joined K&L Gates LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Nardali's practice focuses on executive compensation matters, including business leaders involved in public, private, domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other transactions.

William Mark Levinson joined Carlton Fields LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Levinson has a transactional practice in which he represents businesses such as consumer, technology, food service, sports, real estate, cannabis and municipal finance entities.

Brad S. Markoff joined Carlton Fields LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Markoff handles real estate and domestic and cross-border corporate transactions in the securities, financial services and technology sectors.

Pamela R. Davis joined Winston & Strawn LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Davis is a white collar and regulatory defense attorney with a focus on global investigations. She also conducts global reviews of existing compliance plans, performs due diligence associated with mergers and acquisitions work and vendor onboarding.

James P. Cleary joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as partner in San Diego.

Cleary focuses his practice on patent law, including preparation and prosecution of patent applications, rendering of opinions on infringement and validity, licensing, due diligence investigations and strategic counseling.

Heather M. Sager joined Perkins Coie LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Sager is a litigator who focuses her practice on representing employers in single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, representative, collective and class action matters. She advises clients on the California Equal Pay Act, recent updates to the standard for contractor classification and wage and hour issues.

Sarah E. Piepmeier joined Perkins Coie LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Piepmeier has extensive trial experience litigating patent and other intellectual property disputes in federal districts courts and before the International Trade Commission.

Marjorie J. Burchett joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP as partner in Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3), San Diego offices..

Burchett has worked with major residential, resort, commercial, mixed use and master planned developments projects with clients such as individuals, corporate investors and developers, lenders, receivers and private equity investors. She also has a special interest in title insurance matters.

Stanley E. Heyman joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Heyman concentrates his practice in federal, state and local tax planning, estate planning, tax controversy matters, and probate, estate and trust administration. He also is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, real estate tax structuring, executive compensation, pension planning, estate and works with high net individuals on wealth preservation matters.

Robert D. Tucker was promoted to general counsel of California Department of Tax and Fee Administration in Sacramento.

Tucker works on a variety of areas including legislation, regulations, litigation, subpoenas, administrative tax appeals, settlements, offers in compromise, criminal tax evasion and fraud matters, bankruptcy, tax controversy and personnel matters.

John D. Hanusz joined Mark Beck Law PC as of counsel in Pasadena.

Hanusz represents individuals and corporations in criminal and ancillary matters such as investigations by government, educational institutions, religious institutions and trial and appellate proceedings.