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.

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.

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.

Albert W. Stemp joined Proskauer Rose LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Stemp advises clients in a broad array of real estate transactions, including private equity funds, REITs, institutional capital sources and hospitality companies. In addition, he represents lenders and borrowers in all types of real estate finance transactions, including mortgage, mezzanine and construction loans.

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.

Virginia Palmer was promoted to management committee of Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP in Oakland.

Palmer most recently served as co-chair of the firm's trusts & estates practice group. She focuses her practice on estate planning, trust administration, probate, mediation and elder law.

Graham Christenson Mills was promoted to partner of Newmeyer & Dillon LLP in Walnut Creek.

Mills concentrates in the areas of complex insurance law with an emphasis on insurance recovery, construction litigation, real estate litigation, and business litigation.

Frank H. Busch was promoted to partner of Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP in San Francisco.

Busch's practice focuses on complex trial and appellate litigation. He represents companies, with state and local governments, in disputes including intellectual property, contracts, unfair competition, and trade secret issues in California state court and federal courts across the country.

Annie Lau was promoted to partner of Fisher & Phillips LLP in San Francisco.

Lau defends employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, with an emphasis in single-plaintiff discrimination and harassment litigation claims. She represents construction firms and manufacturing and retail companies in wage and hour, disability and leave management matters, and layoff claims related to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Lau counsels employers on preventive strategies and compliance matters and assists in developing employee handbooks, policies and procedures.

Oleg "Alex" Stolyar joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Stolyar has represented plaintiffs and defendants in all phases of complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings. He focuses on disputes between majority and minority shareholders, limited and general partners, founders and investors, joint venturers, trustees and beneficiaries, and other principals and their fiduciaries.

Cristian Raul Arrieta was promoted to managing partner of Lowthorp, Richards, McMillan, Miller & Templeman in Oxnard.

Arrieta succeeds Patrick T. Loughman. Arrieta focuses his practice on trusts and estates, business and property law.

Yaron Shaham joined Kahana & Feld LLP as partner in Santa Ana.

Shaham is a general litigator with a focus on banking and financial services, and bankruptcy in the mortgage and lending industries.

Anne S. LaWer joined Littler Mendelson PC as shareholder in San Jose.

LaWer counsels employers on matters related to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Her practice includes advising on Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor compliance programs, health care privacy and security, executive compensation matters, and employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions.

Sarah Evelyn Christine Wolf was promoted to partner of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP in Los Angeles.

Wolf has worked as an attorney in private practice and at the Internal Revenue Service. Her practice focuses on estate planning, trust administration, and tax.

Natalie Tronkina was promoted to managing director of CohnReznick LLP in Los Angeles.

Tronkina is a member of the firm's restructuring, litigation and transaction advisory group. Her areas of focus include performing quality of earnings, net assets, and working capital assessments, preparing pro-forma financial statements, performing profitability and bridging analyses, evaluating financial reporting infrastructures, and recommending best practices in industries such as energy, manufacturing, business and financial services, distribution, and entertainment.

Lillian G. Stenfeldt joined Rimon PC as partner in San Francisco & Silicon Valley.

Stenfeldt represents secured creditors, hedge funds, creditors' committees, trustees and receivers in all areas of insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings and strategy. Her work includes assisting companies in purchasing intellectual property from bankruptcy estates and efficiently structuring business transactions and licenses to prevent losses and protect assets due to potential future insolvencies of others.

Joel Jay Berman joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Berman is a member of the firm's corporate practice and assists clients in preparing for, implementing and completing sales and other capital events, such as equity capital raises and debt borrowings. He also conducts and supervises commercial litigation in the state and bankruptcy courts.

Robert Mark Steinberg joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Steinberg is a member of the firm's corporate practice. He handles mergers and acquisitions, equity/debt financings and private placements, restructurings, as well as general outside counsel to early stage and established middle-market companies. Steinberg also has experience in securities law, including assisting publicly-traded companies and their executives on SEC compliance, corporate governance, securities offerings, and compensation and incentive plans.

Christopher Joseph Rizza was promoted to partner of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP in Los Angeles.

Rizza focuses his practice on real estate transactions, including retail, office, industrial and telecommunications leasing transactions, acquisitions and dispositions transactions, development and construction matters, and real estate finance transactions.

Michael Brian Garfinkel joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Garfinkel represents motion picture studios, television networks, production companies and talent agencies in a wide variety of matters, including disputes involving profit participations, commis-sions and trade secrets. He also counsels and litigates on behalf of media, advertising, commercial production and hospitality clients concerning copyright, trademark and right of publicity matters, as well as libel, slander and related First Amendment issues.

Miles Michael Cooley joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Cooley is a member of the firm’s media, sports and entertainment practice. He focuses his practice on litigation for major corporations, high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and thought innovators in the sports, entertainment and media industries.

Joel J Berman joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Berman is a member of the firm's corporate practice and assists clients in preparing for, implementing and completing sales and other capital events, such as equity capital raises and debt borrowings. He is a specialist in secured transactions with an emphasis on asset-based lending, creditors' remedies and loan workouts, and has extensive experience in structuring and implementing mergers and acquisitions; negotiating stock and asset acquisitions; structuring and documenting all elements of financial transactions; and exercising all forms of creditor's remedies. In addition to his transactional experience, Berman has extensive experience in conducting and supervising commercial litigation in the state and bankruptcy courts. At Jeffer Mangels, Berman was Vice Chair of the Corporate Department, Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Co-Chair of the Lateral Hiring Committee, and a member of the Management Committee.

Robert M Steinberg joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Steinberg is a member of the firm's corporate practice. He comes to Elkins Kalt after having served as a member of Jeffer Mangels' Management Committee and as co-Chair of its Mergers and Acquisitions group. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, equity/debt financings and private placements, restructurings, as well as general outside counsel to early stage and established middle-market companies. Steinberg also has extensive experience in securities law, including assisting publicly-traded companies and their executives on SEC compliance, corporate governance, securities offerings, and compensation and incentive plans.