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.

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.

Elliot Keith Gordon joined JAMS as mediator and arbitrator in Los Angeles.

Gordon will serve as a mediator, arbitrator and special master in a variety of disputes including Business/Commercial, Class Actions/Mass Tort, Employment, Health Care and Insurance disputes.

William J. Elfving joined JAMS as mediator and arbitrator in Silicon Valley.

Elfving will serve as an arbitrator and mediator in a variety of disputes including Business/Commercial, Employment, Family Law, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Personal Injury/Torts, Professional Liability and Real Property.

Donald Lee Morrow joined JAMS as mediator in Orange County.

Morrow will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and special master in a variety of disputes including Antitrust/Competition, Business/Commercial, Class Action/Mass Tort, Construction, Intellectual Property and Professional Liability.

Randal James Lejuwaan joined Troutman Sanders LLP as partner in San Diego.

Lejuwaan focuses his practice on real property acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and development on behalf of shopping center developers, owners and retailers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jason Ryan Faas was promoted to shareholder of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.

Faas' practice emphasizes taxation, business law, real estate and estate planning.

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.

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.

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.

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.