John E. Wehrli joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC as partner in San Diego.

Wehrli represents life sciences companies in structuring and negotiating complex and strategic intellectual property transactions and licensing, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, global partnering deals, collaborations, spinouts, and strategic mergers and acquisitions. He also represents financial institutions as lead intellectual property advisor and conducts and defends scientific, business and intellectual property due diligence for life sciences public and private financings.

Steven A. Ellenberg joined Hopkins & Carley as shareholder in San Jose.

Ellenberg represents a range of clients in commercial, intellectual property and probate disputes. He also has experience with trust and estate litigation.

Gina M. Roccanova joined Jackson Lewis PC as principal in San Francisco.

Roccanova focuses her practice on labor relations, advice and counseling, workplace investigations and training. She regularly represents clients in healthcare, public protection, railroad, transit, building management, education, retail and other settings in discipline, contract interpretation, interest arbitration, unfair labor practice charges and fact-finding proceedings.

Donald P. Sullivan joined Jackson Lewis PC as principal in San Francisco.

Sullivan practice includes employee benefits and compensation and employment litigation. He provides counsel on workplace disputes such as health, disability, long-term care insurance policies, welfare benefit plans and managed care contracts between medical care providers.

Amy Fisch Solomon joined Judicate West as mediator in Los Angeles.

Solomon specializes in professional liability, product liability and catastrophic injury. She also has experience handling professional negligence and wrongful death cases.

Katy A. Graham joined California Appellate Law Group LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Graham works as a Court of Appeal research attorney delved into dozens of areas of substantive law, including environmental law, class actions, Proposition 218 cases, land use and eminent domain litigation, employment disputes, unfair competition suits, construction defect claims, arbitrability questions and probate and family law appeals.

Jan Weir joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP as partner in Newport Beach.

Weir has represented clients in intellectual property cases in federal court and argues cases before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Court of Appeals, including the Federal Circuit.
Weir has an in-depth knowledge of molecular biology, biochemistry and chemistry.

Robert W. Selna was promoted to partner of Wendel Rosen LLP in Oakland.

Selna advises cannabis companies and property owners on local and state regulations, real estate transactions, tax issues and litigation. He represents other business clients in real estate, land use and regulatory matters.

Guillermo A. Escobedo was promoted to office litigation manager of Jackson Lewis PC in San Diego.

Escobedo's practice focuses on training, counseling and defending companies in workplace-related legal matters. He defends claims of wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, defamation and breach of contract issues.

Robert A. Orozco joined Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC as counsel in El Segundo.

Orozco represents employers in workplace law matters, including preventative advice and counseling. Wage and hour class actions and complex civil matters, such as whistleblower claims, internal investigations and disciplinary hearings are some specific areas of his experience.

Karen W. Luh joined Goldberg Segalla LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Luh is a litigator and counselor to clients in the finance, transportation, technology, food and beverage, energy, data privacy and security, biotechnology and health care sectors. She focuses on employment and labor litigation and counseling.

Yusuf Z. Zakir joined Holland & Knight LLP as director of diversity and inclusion in Los Angeles.

Zakir works to enhance the recruiting, retention and development of those who are traditionally underrepresented in the legal profession. He will also help coordinate the firm's various diversity and inclusion programs, communications and client engagement efforts.

Hiro N. Aragaki joined JAMS Mediation, Arbitration, ADR Services as panel member in Los Angeles.

Aragaki will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and special master in business, commercial, employment, financial markets, intellectual property and international matters.

Michael S. Ringler joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

Ringler has a robust mergers and acquisitions practice including divestitures, joint ventures and other business combinations. He also advises clients on corporate control issues that include unsolicited acquisition proposals, hostile takeovers, proxy contests and shareholder activism.

Brenda B. Natarajan joined O&A PC as counsel in Los Angeles.

Natarajan is a Certified Public Accountant that specializes in entity formation and governance, corporate reorganization, corporate and commercial transactions, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and venture financing.

Jason G. Weiss joined Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as counsel in Century City.

Weiss has deep expertise in the management of data breaches, computer intrusion, cyber crime, forensic investigation, white collar crime, counterintelligence and counter-terrorism. Weiss will focus his practice on cybersecurity incident preparedness and response, compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act and other information governance laws and requirements, as well as data analytics, investigations and e-discovery.

Elizabeth G. Fellmeth joined Baker & Hostetler LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Fellmeth focuses her practice on business and complex commercial litigation. She has considerable experience representing clients in proceedings involving state and federal securities law violations, real estate claims, professional liability issues, financial fraud, and business disputes.

Annette S. Winters joined Baker & Hostetler LLP as associate.

Winters' practice focuses on labor and employment litigation and counseling. She has worked extensively on claims ranging from discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower claims, wage and hour claims, class and representative actions, confidential trade secret matters, unfair labor practices and employee grievances.

Kathy A. Khol was promoted to partner of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy PC in San Francisco.

Khol practices U.S. corporate immigration law and provides counsel to clients in the high-technology sector, ranging from large public companies to start-up businesses. She advises clients on all aspects of employment-based immigration, including the impact of evolving government policies on a company's immigration program.

Blake G. Miller was promoted to partner of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy PC in Irvine.

Miller works with clients across a range of industries, including engineering, real estate, financial services, construction procurement, manufacturing, entertainment and the arts. He has partnered with multiple hypergrowth companies to develop efficient, compliant and sustainable immigration programs.

Emily K. Allen was promoted to partner of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy PC in Los Angeles.

Allen focuses her practice on managing immigration programs for technology companies as well as technology organizations within multinational corporations in industries such as e-commerce, entertainment and financial services. Emily also advises clients regarding immigration compliance matters and enterprise-wide immigration protocols, and she contributes to firm-wide data integrity and security initiatives.