Buchalter, A Professional Corporation
Arielle Seidman
joined Buchalter, A Professional Corporation as associate in Orange County.
Seidman has represented clients in groundbreaking litigation, including the defense of Qualcomm against FTC antitrust claims and pursuing RICO and human trafficking claims against a major multinational religious organization.
Adam Sechooler
joined Buchalter, A Professional Corporation as special counsel in Orange County.
Sechooler focuses his practice on business litigation, high-stakes disputes, and white-collar defense. Before joining Buchalter, Sechooler clerked for federal Judge John W. Holcomb in the Central District of California.
Bryan Cave Leighton Pasiner LLP.
Anne Friedman
joined Bryan Cave Leighton Pasiner LLP. as partner in Santa Monica.
Friedman's practice focuses on structuring and negotiating large-scale strategic sourcing and technology transactions, including global and domestic outsourcings in the areas of information technology, software development and maintenance, and business process.
Greenspoon Marder LLP
Brian Edward Koegle
joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Koegle provides advice and counsel, including best hiring practices, employment contracts, wage and hour issues, compensation, discipline, and termination matters, to employers across various industries.
Michael R. Fostakowsky
joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Fostakowsky concentrates his practice on employment and labor litigation before state and federal courts. He regularly represents employers and employees in a broad range of matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, as well as Labor Code violations.
Ransom D. Boynton
joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Boynton focuses his practice on representing employers in all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour disputes, employment discrimination, employment contract, discrimination claims, and compliance issues. He also advises a wide variety of companies and organizations in a multitude of industries on compliance with federal, state, and local labor and employment laws.
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Devin A Donohue
joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Donohue concentrates his practice in the areas of business, trade secrets and securities litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before various arbitration tribunals. Over the course of his career, he has been lead trial counsel in over 100 cases in which he has represented several financial institutions, brokerage firms, and financial advisers, resulting in favorable dispositions, including several defense awards and rulings against multimillion-dollar claims.
Thomas E Lombardi
joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Lombardi has extensive experience. Among the issues he has litigated are purchase and sale agreements, leases, loans, options, first rights of refusal, commissions, partnerships, failure to disclose, construction, ADA, nuisance, quiet title, easements and boundary disputes.
Holland & Knight
Kenneth Yood
joined Holland & Knight as partner in Los Angeles.
Yood represents a wide range of healthcare providers and healthcare companies, including specialty and general acute hospitals (including local district, nonprofit and for-profit facilities), home health agencies, specialty pharmacy and infusion centers, pharmaceutical vendors, nursing facilities and health information and management providers.
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP
Jaimie Bombard
joined Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Bombard has maintained her practice in the San Francisco Bay area for nearly a decade, and specializes in commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes. She also counsels clients and develops case strategy for all aspects of unlawful detainer litigation, and regularly represents clients in matters arising before the San Francisco Rent Board. She handles property management, tenant buyouts, Ellis Act withdrawals, family evictions, and other just-cause based actions for removal in eviction-controlled California jurisdictions, and has also tried several cases in San Francisco Superior Court.
Address
425 California Street, Suite 2100
San Francisco, 94104 United States
T:
(415) 926-7600
Lurie Zepeda Schmalz Hogan & Martin PC
Victoria Tsylina
was promoted to shareholder of Lurie Zepeda Schmalz Hogan & Martin PC in Century City.
Tsylina focuses her practice on litigation in business, real estate, trust and probate matters. Her main objective is to promote clients' interests, aggressively working up their cases and developing thorough legal strategies on their behalf.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Chad R. Ensz
joined Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in San Diego.
Ensz's practice focuses on general corporate transactional matters and regulatory compliance, including the representation of financial institutions and public and private companies in capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint venture and commercial transactions, and ongoing public company representation.
Haynes and Boone LLP
Michael J. Smith
was promoted to counsel of Haynes and Boone LLP in San Francisco.
Smith is a dedicated patent attorney and a part of the firm's Precision Medicine and Digital Health Practice Group. He takes pride in being uniquely qualified to understand business needs from an intellectual property and patent strategy perspective because of his previous experience working for major life sciences and biopharma companies. Clients value Michael for his strong technical and legal background and his ability to tailor his counsel to the specific legal and business needs of the client.
Michael J Stoner
was promoted to counsel of Haynes and Boone LLP in Palo Alto.
Stoner’s practice focuses on insurance recovery, corporate and commercial litigation, and environmental law.
Daniel Kwok
was promoted to counsel of Haynes and Boone LLP in Orange County.
Kwok’s practice focuses on patents and he has experience developing and maintaining U.S. and international patent portfolios covering the fields of machine learning, blockchain technologies, objection recognition, encryption and authentication, image and video processing, antenna and wireless technologies, telecommunications, video processing, database management, IC design and manufacturing, nanofabrication, and radio frequency.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Patrick J. Sandor
joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Sandor represents many leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies, with a particular focus on the technology, fintech and healthtech industries.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Nury Yoo
joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner.
Yoo helps clients in the food and consumer product industries navigate regulations, anticipate and manage risk, and defend against challenges. Her areas of focus include labeling, claims and substantiation, marketing and advertising, food safety, due diligence reviews for private investment, and California's Proposition 65.
Pascal Benyamini
joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner is taking on new leadership role in Los Angeles.
Benyamini is co-leader of the firm’s consumer products and retail industry team. Benyamini will serve as co-leader with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.
Dechert LLP
Nicole Macarchuk
joined Dechert LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Macarchuk brings a wide range of experience in private equity and private credit transactions. Most recently, Macarchuk was the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Angel Island Capital in San Francisco, a multi-strategy credit boutique and portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Joseph Petersen
was promoted to managing partner of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Silicon Valley.
Petersen has more than two decades of experience representing a broad array of clients in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright and trademark law.
Cooley LLP
John-Paul Motley
joined Cooley LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Motley advises on corporate board governance, securities law compliance, and sophisticated equity and debt transactions.
Tyz Law Group
Joe Newman
joined Tyz Law Group as attorney in San Francisco.
Newman's practice focuses on technology transactions, privacy, and other regulatory matters, with a special focus on issues faced by companies in the video game and technology sectors.
Address
4 Embarcadero Center, Suite 1400
San Francisco, 94111 USA
T:
(415) 868-6900
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Howard M. Privette
joined Snell & Wilmer LLP as partner in Orange County.
Privette is an experienced trial lawyer and a member of the firm's commercial litigation practice group whose practice focuses on securities and corporate governance litigation
Miller Barondess LLP
Benjamin H. Segal
joined Miller Barondess LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Segal is a commercial and environmental litigator who represents plaintiffs and defendants in a range of complex disputes.
Address
1999 Avenue of the Stars Suite 1000
Los Angeles, 90067 US
T:
(310) 552-4400
F:
(310) 552-8400
Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP.
Richard Gottlieb
joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP. as of counsel in Los Angeles.
Gottlieb has a financial services practice.
Address
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles, 90067 USA
Maynard Cooper & Gale
Karen T Tsui
joined Maynard Cooper & Gale as associate in Los Angeles, CA.
Tsui is a litigator with experience in insurance coverage disputes, bad faith liability actions, and other contractual disputes. She focuses her practice on ERISA and employee benefits, including the representation of insurers in life, health, and disability litigation. Karen is an Associate in Maynard's Insurance & Financial Services Litigation Practice. She has substantial experience in all phases of civil litigation, including written and expert discovery, law and motion practice, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.
Address
1901 Sixth Avenue North, Suite 1700
Birmingham, 35203 United States
T:
(205) 488-3627
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Lauren J. Fried
joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Fried concentrates her practice on complex commercial disputes across a variety of industries, with an emphasis on entertainment and media.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Yonaton Rosenzweig
joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Rosenzweig's practice focuses on antitrust and unfair competition and extends to entertainment and general commercial litigation as well. He has secured favorable outcomes as lead counsel in matters with nine- and 10-figure dollar amounts at stake. His clients are drawn from industries ranging from retail to real estate to private equity, technology, software, and entertainment.
Address
865 South Figueroa St
Los Angeles, 90017 USA
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Christina Q. Bouchot
joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Bouchot counsels clients on their most critical employment and compliance issues, whether that means addressing founder disputes, drafting employment policies, making recommendations on the use of restrictive covenants, advising on compliance with wage-and-hour laws, or making recommendations on reductions in force. She also handles investigations and complaints involving allegations of sexual harassment, whistleblowing and discrimination. While she has experience representing companies in many industries, she has a particular focus on technology companies and private equity firms, and understands the nuances of their cultures and unique employment challenges.
Caroline E. Cherkassky
joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as partner in Santa Monica.
Cherkassky’s practice focuses on venture financings and corporate governance matters, and the general day-to-day legal needs of startups. She has also counseled companies on M&A, securities and technology transactions matters.
Littler
Michelle Ann Clark
joined Littler as shareholder in Fresno.
Clark has extensive experience in technology-focused litigation, including representing clients in cases involving patent and trade secret claims, breach of contract allegations, and unfair competition matters.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Vinay Kohli
joined Proskauer Rose LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Kohli will focus his practice on clients across the healthcare industry.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey
joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.
Weinberg-Fahey focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions. She represents and advises property owners, developers, tenants, lenders, and investors on acquisitions and dispositions, development, construction, joint ventures, secured loans, and workouts for retail, hospitality, office, aviation, and multifamily projects. She also advises clients on brokerage rules and regulations.
Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP
Dennis Huang
joined Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Huang's practice includes estate and gift planning for domestic and international clients, charitable giving, and probate and trust administration.
Address
One Wilshire Blvd, #2000
Los Angeles, 90017 United States
T:
(213) 629-7633
F:
(213) 624-1376
Faegre Drinker
Pascal Benyamini
was promoted to partner of Faegre Drinker in Los Angeles.
Benyamini will be a co-leader of the firm's consumer products and retail industry team with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.
Benyamini represents employers against employment law claims -- including wage and hour, discrimination and wrongful termination claims -- and advises them on compliance, claim prevention, investigations and employment best practices. He also represents furniture manufacturing clients in regulatory matters.
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.
Tina Li
joined Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. as associate in San Francisco.
Li counsels clients in a variety of matters relating to medical malpractice, professional liability, general liability and personal injury defense. She has represented hospitals, doctors, general contractors, commercial property owners, and professional athletic teams in all phases of litigation.
Address
580 California Street Suite 1100
San Francisco, 94104 United States
T:
(415) 788-1900
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Daphne M Higgs
joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as partner in Palo Alto.
Higgs represents clients in complex technology transactions, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, machine learning, open source, entertainment, cloud offerings, consumer products, eXtended reality, drones, and the transfer of technologies from universities. She also provides strategic IP, privacy, and data security advice on M&A and venture capital transactions.
Teresa M.L. Tate
joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Tate’s practice focuses on representing private and public companies in their acquisitions, dispositions, and other complex business combinations. She also represents investors and private companies in ECVC matters, spanning venture capital investments, strategic opportunities, liquidity events, and general corporate matters.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Lisa H Lazarus
joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as of counsel in San Francisco.
Lazarus focuses on toxic tort and product liability litigation and represents and defends corporate clients in all aspects of complex litigation from the pleading stage through mediation, trial, and settlement.
