Michelman & Robinson, LLP
Stephen Weiss
was promoted to securities & capital markets chair of Michelman & Robinson, LLP in Los Angeles.
Weiss specializes in corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, public offerings and private placements.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Allen Matkins
Michael D. Kostecka
joined Allen Matkins as partner in Los Angeles.
Kostecka specializes in real estate and construction transactions.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
865 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2800 , Los Angeles 90017-2543 USA
T:
(213) 622-5555
Akerman LLP
Brenda Radmacher
joined Akerman LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Radmacher specializes in construction law.
She is based in Los Angeles
Address
601 W 5th St, Ste 300 , Los Angeles 90071-3506 USA
T:
(213) 533-5924
Kaplan Marino PC
Address
1546 N. Fairfax , Los Angeles 90046 USA
T:
(310) 557-0007
F:
(310) 861-1776
Mayer Brown LLP
Amanda Rosenberg
joined Mayer Brown LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Rosenberg focuses on federal income tax law with an emphasis on renewable energy investment, energy tax credits, government incentive programs and project financing.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Address
350 S Grand Avenue Fl 25 , Los Angeles 90071 USA
T:
(213) 229-5193
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Ross E. Viselman
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as member of the collateral recovery disciplinary review committee in Imperial Beach.
Viselman has been on the committee since 2018 and has been a risk manager at Higgs Fletcher & Mack since 2019.
He is based in Imperial Beach.
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Christopher Pelham
joined Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Pelham is a former federal prosecutor and specializes in commercial dispute advocacy, internal investigations, compliance counseling and representations before government agencies and regulators.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
555 South Flower Street Forty-First Floor , Los Angeles 90071 USA
T:
(213) 892-9221
Husch Blackwell LLP
Mhare O. Mouradian
joined Husch Blackwell LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Mouradian specializes in commercial contract disputes and business tort litigation.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 1500 , Los Angeles 90071 USA
T:
(213) 337-6572
F:
(213) 337-6551
Ogletree Deakins
Claudia Martorell
joined Ogletree Deakins as shareholder in San Diego.
Martorell focuses on employment related immigration matters.
She is based in San Diego.
Amanda Mullane
joined Ogletree Deakins as shareholder in San Diego.
Mullane specializes in employment related immigration matters.
She is based in San Diego.
Address
4370 La Jolla Village Dr, Ste 900 , San Diego 92122-1277 United States
Lagerlof LLP
Erika Rae Scheideman
was promoted to partner of Lagerlof LLP in Pasadena.
Scheideman specializes in family law matters.
Nicholas Everett
was promoted to partner of Lagerlof LLP in Pasadena.
Everett specializes in trust and estate litigation, contested conservatorships and estate planning.
Buchalter PC
David M. Balfour
joined Buchalter PC as shareholder in San Diego.
Balfour represents health care clients.
He is based in San Diego.
Address
655 West Broadway Suite 1600 , San Diego 92101-8494 USA
T:
(619) 219-5335
F:
(619) 219-5344
Nixon Peabody LLP
Farrah A. Usmani
joined Nixon Peabody LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.
Usmani advises recording artists, songwriters, executives and entertainment companies on transactions in the music industry.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Address
300 South Grand Avenue Suite 4100 , Los Angeles 90071-3151 USA
T:
(213) 629-6102
F:
(213) 629-6001
DLA Piper LLP US
Sarah A. Tauman
joined DLA Piper LLP US as partner in San Francisco.
DLA Piper has expanded its San Francisco office with the addition of partner Sarah Tauman, who advises, counsels and does transactional work for private equity and emerging company, capital market and public company deals. Her focus is on technology companies but she also has clients in other industries and jurisdictions.
"DLA presented this role as an opportunity to grow my practice and to shape it, all with the support of very talented partners and obviously highly regarded large firms and all of its many resources," Tauman said of her decision to move from Goodwin Procter, where she was counsel. She said she is still impressed with the amount of support and knowledge she's gaining from making the move.
"I learned early in my career that I really enjoy working with startups and early stage clients, because of the closeness of those relationships," she said.
"Smaller companies tend to regard outside counsel as members of their own team, which is gratifying."
Tauman worked "to ensure that clients of every type and size come to rely on me in that same way. I love the human element of the work that I do. ... I may be a little old fashioned in that I'll pick up the phone and call folks and encourage clients and colleagues to ring me anytime. I really do enjoy and appreciate the personal connection."
Address
555 Mission Street Suite 2400 , San Francisco 94105-2933 USA
T:
(415) 836-2500
F:
(415) 836-2501
Polsinelli LLP
Joseph M. Teleoglou
joined Polsinelli LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.
Teleoglou focuses on U.S. and foreign patent applications in the aerospace, telecommunications, software and automobile system industries. He also provides legal opinions regarding patentability and infringement of intellectual property and litigates intellectual property disputes.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
2049 Century Park East, Suite 2900 , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T:
(310) 203-5393
F:
(310) 556-1802
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Nicole S. Healy
was promoted to san mateo county superior court judge of Gov. Gavin Newsom in Redwood City.
Healy formerly was a partner at Ropers Majeski PC, where she specialized in complex individual, shareholder derivative and class action litigation. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge George A. Miram.
She is based in Redwood City.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Babak Emil Nikravesh
joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as partner in Palo Alto.
Nikravesh practiced for five years and founded the sovereign investor practice.
He is based in Palo Alto
Address
707 Wilshire Boulevard , Los Angeles 90017-3543 USA
T:
(650) 813-5829
Perkins Coie LLP
Eudeen Y Chang
joined Perkins Coie LLP as partner in San Diego.
Chang focuses on commercial litigation with a focus on real estate, hospitality, employment, investment and construction disputes.
He is based in San Diego
Address
11452 El Camino Real Suite 300 , San Diego California 92130-208 92130-208 USA
T:
(858) 720-5794
F:
(858) 720-5799
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
Stacey Tyree
was promoted to partner of Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) in San Diego.
Tyree specializes in the acquisition, disposition, development and leasing of commercial property.
She is based in San Diego
Perkins Coie LLP
Paul S Jasper
joined Perkins Coie LLP as senior counsel in San Francisco.
Jasper focuses on transactional, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring matters.
He is based in San Francisco.
Address
505 Howard Street Suite 1000 , San Francisco 94105-3204 USA
T:
(415) 344-7155
F:
(415) 344-7050
Meyers Nave APC
Palmer Hilton
joined Meyers Nave APC as associate in Sacramento.
Hilton specializes in public agency, environmental, land use and water rights law.
He is based in Sacramento.
Address
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1200 , Sacramento 95814 USA
T:
(916) 556-1531
F:
(916) 556-1516
Zacks, Freedman & Patterson PC
Emily Lowther Brough
was promoted to shareholder of Zacks, Freedman & Patterson PC in San Francisco.
Brough specializes in real estate and environmental litigation, administrative law, land-use disputes, property rights and landlord-tenant matters.
She is based in San Francisco.
Justin Alda Goodman
was promoted to shareholder of Zacks, Freedman & Patterson PC in San Francisco.
Goodman focuses on real estate disputes and transactions and landlord-tenant law.
He is based in San Francisco.
Buchalter APC
Lee Cheng
joined Buchalter APC as shareholder in Orange County.
Cheng focuses on corporate transactions and intellectual property matters.
He is based in Orange County
Michael Katz
joined Buchalter APC as shareholder in Orange County.
Katz specializes in complex business disputes with an emphasis on intellectual property.
He is based in Orange County.
Address
1000 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1500 , Los Angeles 90017-1730 USA
T:
(949) 224-6471
F:
(213) 896-0400
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Kela Shang
was promoted to partner of Baker & McKenzie LLP in Palo Alto.
Shang advises companies on offering employee equity plans.
He is based in Palo Alto.
Aarthi Kumar Belani
was promoted to partner of Baker & McKenzie LLP in Palo Alto.
Belani specializes in mergers and acquisitions and venture deals in the technology and life sciences industries.
She is based in Palo Alto.
Elizabeth Ann Lieb
was promoted to partner of Baker & McKenzie LLP in Palo Alto.
Lieb specializes in corporate and international tax planning.
She is based in Palo Alto.
Ethan Kroll
was promoted to partner of Baker & McKenzie LLP in Los Angeles.
Kroll specializes in tax law.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Helena Jung Engfeldt
was promoted to partner of Baker & McKenzie LLP in San Francisco.
Engfeldt specializes in advising clients in cross-border transactions and international expansion.
She is based in San Francisco.
Gov. Gavin Newsom
James Brockton Damrell
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as chief counsel at the california department of real estate in Sacramento.
Damrell was assistant commissioner of legislation and regulations at the Department of Real Estate.
He is based in Sacramento
Matthew Lee
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as california department of cannabis control in Sacramento.
Lee was the deputy legal affairs secretary for the Office of the Governor from 2019.
He is based in Sacramento.
Tamara Michelle Colson
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as deputy director of legal at the california department of cannabis control in Sacramento.
Colson had been assistant chief counsel at the Bureau of Cannabis Control since 2016.
She is based in Sacramento
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Bethany Gayle Lukitsch
joined Baker & Hostetler LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Baker & Hostetler expanded its litigation practice with the addition of Bethany G. Lukitsch, who joined the firm in Los Angeles as a partner and co-chair of the class action defense team on July 13.
"I was really attracted by the firm's commitment to the West Coast," Lukitsch said in an interview. "I was really impressed by the expansion and really the high quality of trial attorneys that they were adding to their West Coast practice."
"They are really building sort of a destination trial team in Los Angeles and that was tremendously attractive to me," she added.
She was also drawn to the firm's reputation in big ticket litigation and class actions.
During her previous 24 years at McGuireWoods LLP, she was co-chair of the class action practice and chaired the litigation subgroup of the data and privacy group.
Lukitsch has handled class actions involving products, labeling and alleged misrepresentation. Her clients include consumer products, manufacturing and food and beverage companies.
"I really love working on complex cases and I love working with the client to build the strategy that's best for them within this complex environment of class actions," she said. "In other words, the messier the better in my mind in terms of the issues and the fact pattern."
Lukitsch is among 35 trial attorneys that have joined Baker & Hostetler on the West Coast since 2019.
"I am thrilled to have Bethany join me as co-leader of the class action defense team," said Orlando-based partner Julie Singer Brady in a news release. "Her experience in consumer related matters, along with her impressive list of clients, will be a true asset to the firm."
Address
11601 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1400 Los Angeles, CA 90025 , Los Angeles 90025 USA
T:
(310) 820-8800
F:
(310) 820-8859
Miller Barondess, LLP
Jamie D. Vogel
joined Miller Barondess, LLP as associate in Los Angeles, CA.
Vogel is a litigator with experience representing clients in complex civil litigation matters, including commercial business, real estate and entertainment disputes, and contested probate and trust litigation.
Address
1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067 United States
T:
(310) 552-4400
DLA Piper
Sarah Ashleigh Tauman
joined DLA Piper as partner in San Francisco.
Tauman focuses on employment law
related to transactional matters.
She is based in San Francisco.
Address
555 Mission Street Suite 2400 San Francisco, California , San Francisco 94105 USA
T:
(415) 836-2510
F:
(415) 659-7310
Goodwin Procter LLP
Wendy Rochelle Kottmeier
joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Kottmeier focuses on mergers, acquisitions and private equity transactions.
She is based in Orange County.
Address
601 South Figueroa Street 41st Floor , Los Angeles 90017 USA
T:
(213) 426-2500
F:
(213) 623-1673
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Brenton R Babcock
joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner and chair of the patent trial and appeal board trials practice in Los Angeles.
Babcock focuses on intellectual
property disputes.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 2200 , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T:
(310) 282-2000
F:
(310) 282-2200
Jamra, Jamra & Hanasab LLP (formerly Jamra & Jamra LLP)
Michael B. Hanasab
as partner
in Beverly Hills
He specializes in family law matters,
including divorce, paternity, child custody, spousal and child support and
domestic violence.
He is based in Beverly Hills.