Don Melamed joined Proskauer Rose LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Melamed represents institutional investors and asset managers in investment and fund-related matters with an emphasis on forming buy-out, mezzanine, distressed debt, real estate and venture capital funds. He also handles incentive arrangements, co-investment transactions, spin-outs and all other matters related to the formation and operation of asset management businesses. In addition, he advises institutional investors and family offices in connection with both primary and secondary transactions across the asset class.

Christine Marie Ciccotti joined California Department of State Hospitals as deputy director, chief counsel in Davis.

Ciccotti has served as a deputy attorney general in the Correctional Law Section at the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General since 2014. Prior to that, she was a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Contract Management Agency and an assistant general counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Brendan Yeats Joy joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Joy defends employers in a variety of employment matters including claims of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour violations. He represents employers in single plaintiff and class action litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and administrative hearings. Joy also counsels clients on issues ranging from employment contracts, employee handbooks, personnel policies, workplace investigations, to employee discipline and termination.

Andrew H. Struve joined Brown Rudnick as partner in Orange County.

Andrew Struve is a partner in Brown Rudnick's Commercial Litigation group in the Orange County office.

Andrew's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and unfair competition actions as well as regulatory compliance matters, with a particular expertise in healthcare, private equity, insurance, and the defense of consumer suits. In the healthcare field, Andrew has litigated class and other representative actions, federal and state qui tam litigation, antitrust suits, RICO actions, managed care contracting suits, earnout disputes, partnership actions, bad faith claims, and payment disputes, and has additionally conducted numerous internal investigations and compliance audits. In the managed care and insurance fields, Andrew has litigated numerous fraud and other class actions in addition to individual unfair business practices suits, bad faith actions and rescission litigations. Andrew also has represented clients in trials and other litigation of significant matters involving real estate, title insurance, intellectual property, false advertising, employment, misappropriation of trade secrets, product liability, professional liability, partnerships, indemnity, contribution, subrogation, and other areas of the law, and has served as regulatory counsel and governance advisor to healthcare clients. In addition to leading litigation teams in healthcare disputes in federal and state courts across the United States, Andrew also serves as national governance, regulatory, and compliance counsel for a number of companies.

Damian J. Martinez joined Andrade Gonzalez LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

He specializes in complex civil litigation and white collar defense.

James Stephen Azadian joined Dykema Gossett PLLC as member in Los Angeles.

Azadian is a member of the firm's appellate practice. He specializes in complex federal and state court civil appeals raising cutting-edge and core business issues, the First Amendment to the Constitution, Article 1 of the California Constitution, and the application of California's anti-SLAPP statute in federal court.

Andrew Hardenbrook Struve joined Brown Rudnick LLP as partner in Orange County.

Struve will build and lead Brown Rudnick's new US health practice. His work includes class action, federal and state qui tam and antitrust, managed care contracting suits and earn out disputes. Struve has also handled intellectual property disputes, bad faith claims and payment disputes, fraud cases including RICO actions, and non-dispute work, including serving as national governance, regulatory and compliance counsel for large corporate clients.

Bradford Grice Hughes joined Clark Hill LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Hughes is a member of the firm's litigation practice. He focuses his practice on representing clients in commercial litigation and trucking and transportation matters.

Daniel Paul Scholz was promoted to partner of Finch Thornton & Baird LLP in San Diego.

Scholz practices primarily in areas of construction law including federal procurement and claims; local agency, municipal, and state contracts; labor and employment; claims and disputes; collections; and as project counsel. He also handles general business and commercial litigation, transactions and general labor and employment matters.

Elliott H. Stone as attorney

Stone specializes in business, construction, and real estate

Peter M. Williamson as of counsel

Williamson specializes in business cases, construction, real estate, and personal injury.

Carrie Melissa Leroy joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

LeRoy's intellectual property and technology transactions practice focuses on complex IP licensing, cross-border and commercial transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Daniel Teitelbaum joined Blackacre LLP as partner in Manhattan Beach.

Teitelbaum's practice focuses on real estate transactions, placing a specific focus on commercial leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, financing and construction.

Henry Daniel Gradstein joined King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Gradstein litigates a wide variety of entertainment, intellectual property and complex business cases.

Harvey Wayne Geller was promoted to shareholder of Carlton Fields in Los Angeles.

Geller has experience in intellectual property, technology, Internet, digital media, and entertainment matters and has litigated on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts around the country.

Dawn Knepper joined Buchalter as shareholder in Orange County.

Knepper representing employers in all aspects of employment law including litigation and counseling in federal and state court.

Sarah Kroll-Rosenbaum was promoted to partner of Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP in Century City.

Kroll-Rosenbaum's practice focuses on complex employment litigation in the federal courts, particularly class actions and Private Attorneys General Act matters.

Daniel Adam Rozansky joined Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP as partner in Sherman Oaks & Santa Monica.

Rozansky concentrates his practice on entertainment, privacy, First Amendment and complex business and real estate disputes.

Joseph Von Meier joined Crosbie Gilner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP as senior counsel in San Diego.

Meier focuses his practice on student housing, multifamily, luxury residential and retail.

Eoin Henry Gubbins joined Crosbie Gilner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Gubbins focuses his practice on negotiating and documenting complex purchase and sale agreements, leases covering all asset types and advising clients on day-to-day real estate management issues and strategies.

David Abel Alvarado joined Crosbie Gilner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Alvarado focuses his practice on purchase and sale, debt and equity financing, development, construction and leasing transactions. He advises clients regarding day-to-day operational matters and property management issues.