Jennifer Oliver joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as counsel in San Diego.

Oliver focuses her practice on complex litigation, specifically data breaches, defending consumer class actions, and antitrust. She has played active roles in several high-profile jury trials, serving as lead counsel in complex mediations, and arguing before courts at both the trial and appellate levels. She also often counsels clients on antitrust matters related to mergers and acquisitions. She has experience litigating monopolization claims, trade secrets, RICO conspiracies, securities fraud, unfair trade practices, breaches of contract and privacy matters. She holds an International Association of Privacy Professionals Certification and is a longtime privacy professional.

Timothy K. Daveler joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as associate in San Diego.

Daveler represents commercial clients and healthcare providers in complex litigation. His clients include healthcare corporations and health systems, long-term care providers, assisted living facilities, and health systems across a broad spectrum of litigation matters, including corporate veil piercing litigation.

Ofelia M. Olmedo joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as associate in San Diego.

Olmedo counsels and represents clients on a range of healthcare-related issues, including litigation and regulatory compliance matters. She has experience conducting internal investigations, drafting policies and agreements to facilitate regulatory compliance, and providing guidance on HIPAA and privacy laws.

Luke R. Ashworth was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Ashworth represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as acquisitive strategics, in acquiring, operating and, in the case of sponsors, exiting their company and asset investments.

Naomi A. Igra was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in San Francisco.

Igra focuses her practice on a diverse range of civil and criminal matters, including antitrust and securities litigation, white collar criminal proceedings, consumer class actions, cases brought under the federal False Claims Act, and internal investigations.

Sarah A. Hemmendinger was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in San Francisco.

Hemmendinger focuses on securities and shareholder litigation, antitrust litigation, and ERISA class actions. She primarily represents clients in the life sciences, technology, and clean energy spaces. Sarah is an author of Sidley's annual review and analysis of developments in securities litigation in the life sciences sector, a resource used by in-house counsel, insurers and securities litigators.

Daniel J. Belke was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Belke focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, including domestic and cross-border public company M&A (buy-side and sell-side), joint ventures, carve-out transactions, tender offers, and equity investments.

Rita M. Leong was promoted to partner of Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP in San Diego.

Leong helps employers of all sizes, and across industries, navigate California's intricate labor and employment laws. In her practice, she skillfully represents employers involved in complex workplace disputes involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims as well as wage-and-hour and class-action lawsuits.

Elizabeth Chiba Rein was promoted to partner of Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP in San Diego.

Rein has a reputation for obtaining favorable settlements for her clients by thoroughly analyzing the merits of cases at the early stages of litigation, effectively managing her time and aggressively advocating in informal settlement negotiations, mediations and court.

Eric H. Geffner was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Geffner serves as a trusted advisor to clients, representing public and private companies and investors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, co-investments, joint ventures, and other general corporate matters, with a focus on sports, entertainment, and media.

Sara M. Carian was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Palo Alto.

Carian focuses on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, stock and asset acquisitions and sales, carve-out transactions, and cross-border transactions. Sara also advises clients on general corporate and governance matters.

Todd Gilbert was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles.

Gilbert focuses on U.S. securities offerings and a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. He has experience representing issuers, borrowers, and investment banks in debt and equity capital markets transactions, syndicated bank lending transactions, and secured lending transactions.

John Lee was promoted to partner of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Lee joined Larson in 2020 and represents clients across a wide range of high-stakes cases in state and federal courts. His practice focuses on complex commercial disputes - including class actions, trade secret lawsuits, and securities cases - and white collar defense matters.

Andrew J. Bedigian was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Bedigian joined Larson in 2016. His practice focuses on complex civil and commercial disputes and white collar criminal defense. His experience includes defending oil and gas companies and financial institutions against federal and state investigations.

Jonathan Gershon was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Gerson joined Larson in 2021. His practice includes financial services litigation, intellectual property disputes, and high-stakes class actions. Jonathan also represents clients in white collar defense matters.

Daniel R. Lahana was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Lahana joined Larson in 2020. He has represented a wide range of clientele, from publicly traded businesses to individual physicians and hospitals.

Catherine S. Owens was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Owens joined Larson in 2021. She represents clients in complex commercial litigation and white collar defense, ranging from class actions to patent litigation and business disputes. .

Sheri Porath Rockwell was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Rockwell focuses on privacy and cybersecurity law. She advises companies on privacy compliance and corporate data protection programs, including compliance with federal and state privacy laws.

Jessica Lewis was promoted to partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in San Francisco.

Lewis' practice focuses on securities litigation and enforcement matters, as well as general commercial litigation. She represents public companies, financial institutions, and their officers and directors in complex individual, class action and derivative cases in federal and state court.

Trevor Byron Countryman was promoted to partner of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP in Los Angeles.

Countryman advises clients in all aspects of real estate transactions including property acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing, development and construction. His clients range from large funds to individual developers and opportunistic investors, engaged in deals involving office, retail, multi-family, single-family, mixed-use and hotel properties.

Megan Ferkel Earhart was promoted to partner of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP in Los Angeles.

Earhart focuses her practice on estate planning, tax planning, probate, trust administration and related income, gift and estate tax matters.

Lara R. Leitner was promoted to partner of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP in Los Angeles.

Leitner has experience with a broad range of complex commercial litigation matters with particular expertise litigating land use disputes involving entitlements, the California Environmental Quality Act, the Housing Accountability Act, and other planning and zoning matters. She also has government-related litigation experience, including government bidding, public contracting, prevailing wages, and municipal affairs.

Sean Hanle was promoted to partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Los Angeles.

Hanle represents clients in complex business and trust and estate litigation matters, as well as employment matters and consumer class actions.

William R. Sears was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Los Angeles.

Sears focuses his practice on antitrust, competition, and class-action litigation. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants at every stage of litigation and has tried cases in both federal and state court.

Margaret Shyr was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Silicon Valley.

Shyr is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Before attending law school, she prosecuted patent applications before the U.S.P.T.O. as a patent agent.

Emily Kapur was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Silicon Valley.

Kapur’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, particularly cryptocurrency and finance cases featuring the operation of traditional and nascent trading markets. In the cryptocurrency arena, she has defended numerous securities litigation matters filed against crypto companies, litigated commercial disputes among cryptocurrency-focused companies in court and arbitration, and advised numerous crypto projects considering securities liability issues.

Zach Summers was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Los Angeles.

Summers’ practice focuses on technology-related litigation, with an emphasis on complex patent trials. He has represented clients such as the Broad Institute, VIZIO, Samsung, Google, Motorola, Cree, and Everlight Electronics at trial and in the ITC

Jennifer Jokerst was promoted to partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP‐ in San Diego.

Jokerst focuses her practice in the areas of business and securities-related litigation, electronic discovery, and products liability litigation.

Bradley M. Seltzer joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Orange County and Washington D.C..

Seltzer has experience testifying at public hearings on behalf of clients regarding proposed regulations that affect the utility industry, such as interest synchronization, consolidated tax adjustments, the normalization consequences of dispositions or deregulation, and nuclear decommissioning issues. He also counsels on tax saving strategies and manages complex tax refund claims, audits, appeals and litigation. Seltzer also serves as an expert witness in ratemaking proceedings and assists client witnesses in preparing their testimony in such rate cases.

Janlynn Fleener was promoted to managing partner of Downey Brand LLP in Sacramento.

Fleener is a trial attorney with nearly 30 years of experience representing businesses, individuals, and agencies in complex litigation and before appellate courts. Fleener joined Downey Brand as an associate attorney in 1993.

Nick Spear was promoted to partner of Susman Godfrey LLP in Los Angeles.

Spear litigates high-stakes and high-profile matters across the United States, representing both plaintiffs and defendants and regularly facing-off against industry titans. Spear is a true litigator - he has tried cases in federal courts, state courts, and arbitrations across a variety of legal areas including false claims, insurance, securities, real property, breach of contract, personal injury, intellectual property, and employment.

Rohit Nath was promoted to partner of Susman Godfrey LLP in Los Angeles.

Nath represents plaintiffs and defendants in high stakes litigation. He has taken on industry leaders such as the country’s biggest insurers, major media and technology companies, and international wireless carriers in courts across the United States. Nath has handled disputes in an array of practice areas, including insurance, copyright, patent, breach-of-contract, and real estate.

Halley Josephs was promoted to partner of Susman Godfrey LLP in Los Angeles.

Josephs represents clients in complex business disputes and high-stakes litigation. Her experience covers a wide range of practice areas, such as breach of contract, consumer protection, intellectual property, and False Claims Act litigation. She regularly advocates for clients before state and federal courts around the country, including in California, New York, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Manda McElrath was promoted to associate of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel in San Jose.

McElrath served as a teaching assistant for the UC Davis School of Law's Legal Research, and Writing I course. Additionally, she worked as a research assistant for the Tribal Justice Project, conducting research on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and CalNAGPRA.

Maria Mendoza was promoted to associate of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel in San Jose.

During law school she assisted detained asylum seekers in filling out asylum applications and was a member of the UC Hastings Pro Bono Society. She was a senior staff editor and author with the UC Hastings Journal on Race and Poverty where she published an article titled “Protecting California’s Farmworkers During the Wildfire Crisis: The State’s Response and the Need for Reform.” She was also a student mediator with the UC Hastings Mediation Clinic, where she earned a CALI award for earning the highest grade in the class. Outside of law school, Maria served as Vice President of Diversity Initiatives with the Latino Law Students’ Association.

Peter A. Singh was promoted to associate of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel in San Jose.

Singh is a member of Hoge Fenton’s Real Estate and Land Use practice group. He is a versed litigator who focuses on real estate litigation and some transaction work, specifically involving construction, land use, and easement issues.

Billy Abbott was promoted to partner of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Silicon Valley.

Abbott advises clients on tax matters in the context of private and public mergers and acquisitions, the formation of, and investments in, private equity funds, partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs), debt and equity securities issuances, and large-scale syndicated credit facilities.

Matt Cowan was promoted to partner of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles.

Cowan counsels clients through sensitive internal investigations, inquiries by federal and state enforcement authorities, and related criminal and civil litigation in the energy, technology, higher education, and financial services industries.

Timothy B. Heafner was promoted to partner of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Century City.

Heafner represents a broad range of clients in the sports and entertainment industries, as well as other Fortune 500 companies, in complex litigation matters. He has advised clients ranging from boxing promoters and superstars; to motion picture, media entertainment companies; to land development companies; to non-profit organizations in a variety of disputes, including matters in connection with breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, and copyright issues.

Mark Liang was promoted to partner of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in San Francisco.

Liang focuses his legal practice on patent and technology-related litigation. He has experience in all stages of patent cases, including claim construction, fact and expert discovery, dispositive motions, trial, post-trial, and appeal. He represents clients in federal courts, the International Trade Commission, and United States Patent and Trademark Office, including reexaminations and inter partes review (IPR). He has litigated over sixty patent cases in district courts, five ITC investigations, and over forty IPRs. He has been on several successful trial teams, including in the Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, District of Delaware, and the International Trade Commission, and has also served as lead counsel for clients in IPR proceedings. He has argued at dozens of hearings on claim construction and dispositive motions, and also taken/defended several dozen depositions, including of expert witnesses, inventors, and corporate fact witnesses. He has also briefed and argued appeals at the Federal Circuit.

Esteban Rodriguez was promoted to partner of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles.

Rodriguez's practice focuses on defending life sciences companies in government investigations and complex, multi-jurisdictional matters alleging product liability, false advertising, unfair competition, and other consumer fraud claims. Most recently, he was a critical member of the trial team that defended Johnson & Johnson in opioid litigation brought by the State of Oklahoma. He continues to play a key role representing the company in nationwide litigation concerning its opioid medications, including state attorneys general investigations and litigations. Esteban also provides life sciences law compliance advice to pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Jillian Weinstein was promoted to partner of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles.

Weinstein is lawyer to the firm’s lawyers and management, advising on a vast array of matters, including client intake and conflicts; policy development and compliance; data controls; and daily HR counseling. Since 2020, Weinstein has also served as O’Melveny’s de facto public safety officer, helping the firm stay on top of shifting COVID-19 public health and safety mandates. She previously practiced as an O’Melveny litigator, representing public and private companies in a variety of complex civil, employment, and labor matters. In 2020, she received the firm’s Warren Christopher Values Award

Stuart L. Eisler was promoted to partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Diego.

Eisler has extensive experience representing award-winning heavy civil, industrial, commercial, and residential developers and general contractors in complex construction disputes. His expertise has been utilized in a wide range of bet-the-company matters that include contract issues, strict products liability, project delay and disruption, loss of use, deficient quality, redevelopment matters, LEED green building construction complications, personal injury, and negligent supervision claims. In addition to his litigation practice,

Anthony J. Dutra was promoted to partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco.

Dutra focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, business reorganizations, workouts and commercial litigation. His insolvency and bankruptcy practice has involved the representation of both debtors and creditors—individually and as counsel to the creditors’ committee. He has experience both defending and prosecuting adversary proceedings, including preference actions.

Stefan R. Chacon was promoted to partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP in Sacramento.

Chacon represents clients in matters involving health care fraud and abuse, qui-tam actions, compliance, government investigations, licensure, and commercial and civil litigation. He has successfully advised and counseled various clientele, including hospitals, nursing homes, Federally Qualified Health Centers, family medical practices, and dental offices.

Sheila B. Bridges was promoted to partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco.

Bridges focuses on trusts and estates, as well as charitable giving. She advises individuals and families on a broad range of sophisticated estate and gift tax planning strategies and works closely with each client to create a comprehensive estate plan designed to meet the client’s objectives. Shepreviously practiced in Massachusetts and California.

Alan S. Bishop was promoted to partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco.

Bishop focuses his practice on the construction industry, performing both transactional work and litigation. Clients benefit from his experience as a licensed civil engineer, allowing him to quickly identify and understand key technical issues as well as the legal issues.

Katherine Bowles was promoted to partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP in Los Angeles.

Bowles began her professional career as a registered nurse and her experience has translated to valuable strategic insights for her provider clients in negotiating contracts, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. She has experience representing hospitals, surgery centers, group practices, telehealth companies and psychiatric health entities in transactional and regulatory matters. She has developed an expertise in understanding the implications of the flow of revenue and routinely performs compliance reviews for Stark and Anti-Kickback, Corporate Practice of Medicine, Billing/Pricing and related concerns.

John B. Major was promoted to partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles.

Major focuses his practice on complex civil litigation with an emphasis on litigation involving Internet and technology companies. He has significant experience in litigation involving the Communications Decency Act and in representing internet and technology companies in disputes involving platform liability, trade-secret issues and compliance with novel regulatory requirements. Major also litigates high-stakes disputes in a variety of other contexts, representing law firms, higher education institutions and major corporations in their most challenging cases. Prior to joining the firm, Major clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge Paul J. Watford, both of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Faye Paul Teller was promoted to partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles.

Teller represents clients in a broad array of industries including life sciences, health care, technology, higher education and automotive. Teller has particular experience with patent trials, having served as trial counsel in bench and jury trials in courts across the nation. Her recent work also includes high-stakes internal and government investigations. Prior to joining the firm earlier this year, Teller was a partner at a trial boutique in Chicago. She clerked for Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Edmond E. Chang of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and was a champion of the University of Chicago Law School's Hinton Moot Court Competition.