Hedyeh (Chelsea) Tirgardoon joined BraunHagey & Borden, LLP as attorney in San Francisco.

Tirgardoon has represented clients in a broad range of litigation matters in state and federal courts across the nation. While attending UC Irvine School of Law, she participated in the Intellectual Property, Arts and Technology Clinic, Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, and Labor Law Practicum Clinic. She assisted in drafting motions and amicus briefs and participated in oral arguments before California state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tirgardoon also was an executive editor of the U.C. Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law and served as a student liaison to the California Senate Select Committee on the Growing Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

Sanjay Bansal joined Kaufman Dolowich Voluck, LLP as co-managing partner in Los Angeles.

Bansal concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment law. He represents and counsels' clients regarding class action wage and hour cases, whistleblower, and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) matters. He advises and defends clients who are the target of wrongful termination actions as well as harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims. He handles contract negotiations and disputes, grievance hearings and writ of mandamus actions.

Stephanie Reynolds joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as partner in San Diego.

Reynolds brings more than two decades of experience representing employers in complex employment litigation in state and federal courts across California. She has represented clients in matters involving wrongful termination, harassment, employment discrimination, retaliation, misclassification, equal pay, and wage and hour claims.

Jordan R. Ferguson was promoted to partner of Locke Lord LLP in Los Angeles.

Ferguson has extensive experience defending and prosecuting claims on behalf of employers on individual, representative and class-wide claims before state and federal courts, in private arbitration and before governmental agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement

John Pavolotsky joined Stoel Rives LLP as of counsel in San Francisco.

Pavolotsky's practice will focus on advising clients regarding privacy and data security matters and on structuring and negotiating complex technology transactions, including inbound and outbound hardware and software licensing and strategic collaboration and development agreements.

Winnie Ward joined Rimon, P.C. as partner in Sacramento.

Ward advises commercial real estate clients in all facets of the industry, from national real estate investment trusts to local commercial developers. She specializes in leasing transactions, and she has drafted and negotiated literally thousands of lease documents, ranging from small retail tenants to single-tenant office buildings in excess of 170,000 square feet.

Jennie Wang VonCannon joined Crowell & Moring LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

VonCannon is a partner in the Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and Privacy & Cybersecurity groups. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and has previously served for over 11 years as an assistant U.S. attorney and was appointed the deputy chief of the Cyber & Intellectual Property Crimes Section of the National Security Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Benjamin Fuchs joined Knox Ricksen LLP as associate in Walnut Creek.

Fuchs has more than four years of litigation experience, having tried numerous labor and employment matters, including wage and hour violations, workplace safety issues and worker misclassifications, and representing labor unions and members before various state and federal agencies.

Michele Floyd joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Floyd has extensive experience defending actions brought under California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL), False Advertising Law (FAL), and similar statutes of other states and has handled complex commercial actions in federal and state courts across the country

Juan E. Zúñiga was promoted to managing partner of Rimon, P.C. in San Diego.

Zúñiga's practice is focused on buying and selling real estate, resort and hospitality transactions, mergers & acquisitions, overseas distribution agreements, international joint ventures, foreign trade and commerce, workouts of distressed assets, lending and investment issues. He has been particularly sought out for his handling of cross-border transactions, especially in Latin America.

Mariana Acedo joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as associate in San Diego.

Acedo brings a variety of transactional experience to the Firm, including work on cross-border transactions, business formation, filings and restructuring, drafting operating agreements and resolutions. Her experience also includes work on mergers and acquisitions, conducting corporate maintenance and assisting with commercial real estate matters, including representing clients in overseas investments. Acedo is licensed to practice law both in the state of California and in Mexico.

Koryn K. Sheppard joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as associate in San Diego.

Sheppard is a Certified Family Law Specialist. Earlier in her career, Sheppard became a Minor's Counsel, which required specialized training allowing her to represent children in family law cases. She also has considerable experience handling divorces for military families.

Ryan M. Simone joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as associate in San Diego.

Simone’s experience includes complex civil litigation, catastrophic personal injury including traumatic brain injury, and construction-defect litigation. Simone has advised, negotiated, and advocated for numerous policyholders in insurance coverage litigation disputes against insurers. He has also practiced bad faith insurance litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, as well as general business and commercial litigation.

Brian C. Bunger joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Bunger has more than 30 years of experience in environmental, air and climate law, with a particular focus on environmental administrative law and litigation and has vast experience handling litigation matters, including arguing cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Jaye Heybl joined Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth as shareholder in Westlake Village.

Heybl is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and focuses on patent and trademark prosecution and litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before the USPTO. He has prosecuted patents in a variety of technologies including semiconductors, electronics, communications and computer related technologies, as well as mechanical matters.

Jill Heybl joined Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth as of counsel in Westlake Village.

Heybl practices extensively in trademark and trade dress prosecution. She has expertise in trademark watching, trademark clearance and infringement investigations and opinions, trademark disputes, and U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings such as appeals, oppositions, and cancellations. She represents clientele from various technologies focusing on consumer products and services. Jill practices regularly before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office prosecuting trademark applications and advises clients worldwide on securing their intellectual property rights.

Priya Huggett joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP as partner in San Diego.

Huggett's practice emphasizes a variety of corporate/commercial and real estate transactions, particularly private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and commercial contracts including vendor and licensing contracts. With respect to real property, her focus is on purchase and sale, commercial leasing, subdivision, easements and licenses, financing and related business matters. While serving as general counsel for Brixton Capital, Huggett oversaw all legal aspects of Brixton and its affiliates - providing oversight and a legal perspective for the acquisition, leasing and disposition of properties.

Carolyn G. Burnette was promoted to managing principal of Jackson Lewis P.C. in Sacramento.

Burnette has more than 20 years of litigation and investigation experience, having spent most of her legal career with the firm. She serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and privately mediates as well. Her robust advice, counsel practice, and extensive business background are valued by clients across industries. She also serves as a Judge Pro Tem for Sacramento County Superior Court.

Zak Megeed was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in San Francisco.

Megeed advises life sciences companies in complex collaborations and other strategic transactional matters spanning the full range of discovery, development and commercialization activities.

William P. Keane was promoted to american college of trial lawyers board of regents of Farella Braun + Martel.

Keane will serve on as an ACTL Regent for Region 2, which encompasses Northern California and Nevada, for a four-year term. Keane has over 30 years of experience in every aspect of jury trials, administrative hearings, parallel criminal-civil proceedings, and pre-charge investigations by numerous enforcement and regulatory agencies. He became an ACTL Fellow in 2010.

Brandon Michael Palmen was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Palo Alto.

Palmen advises clients on their commercial and intellectual property transactions, drafting and negotiating agreements with key customers, suppliers, and technology development partners, complex data and intellectual property license agreements, and agreements associated with technology-focused mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and spinoffs.

Christen Nalley Sewell was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Los Angeles.

Sewell counsels private and public companies and executives on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, with a particular focus on benefits issues for start-ups and emerging growth companies.

Lindsey Catherine Barnhart was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Palo Alto.

Barnhart focuses on complex class actions and commercial litigation. She has handled matters involving a range of issues, such as consumer protection, breach of contract, warranty, fraud, and intellectual property claims, and works with clients in the technology, sports, consumer brands, and financial services industries.

Jonathan D. Kintzele joined Miller Barondess LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Kintzele's practice primarily focuses on resolving complex commercial civil actions, including in the areas of trade secrets, trademark and copyright litigation, class action defense, real estate development and construction, entertainment and media, and complex business contract disputes.

Jon A MacDonald joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as of counsel in Orange County.

MacDonald's practice covers a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including advising developers and investors in connection with a broad array of development projects, portfolio and single asset acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing, and restructuring across asset classes, including retail, office, hotels/resorts, multifamily, and mixed-use projects throughout the United States.

Anne L. Rauch joined Berding & Weil LLP as partner in San Diego.

Rauch has extensive experience in the areas of appellate and civil litigation with special focus on common interest development law, construction defect disputes, homeowner association disputes, real estate law, insurance, and contract disputes.

Oswald Cousins joined Latham & Watkins LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Cousins provides high-level advice and counseling on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including trade secrets and restrictive covenants, wage-and-hour compliance, discrimination and harassment allegations, whistleblower and retaliation claims, individual employee separations, reductions in force, and employment aspects of transactions. He has tried cases to verdict in federal and state court, as well as in arbitrations and administrative proceedings.