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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
Goodwin Procter LLP
David McFarlane
joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
McFarlane advises clients on a broad range of matters under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, and other laws related to retirement, health, and welfare benefits, as well as executive compensation.
DLA Piper
Stephen Taeusch
joined DLA Piper as partner in San Francisco.
Taeusch represents employers in state and federal courts in a wide variety of employment-related matters, including wage and hour, wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, unfair business practices and retaliation claims in single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff and class action litigation.
Allen & Overy LLP
Lisa Nguyen
joined Allen & Overy LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.
Nguyen represents cutting-edge technology companies in intellectual property matters, particularly in litigation against non-practicing entities.
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Kenneth Gerald Parker
joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as partner in Orange County/San Francisco.
Parker represents industries, including life sciences (for example, research tools, analytical instrumentation/software, medical devices, diagnostics, biomanufacturing systems, etc.), software (encryption, predictive algorithms, AI), electronics and semiconductors, and consumer products. He prides himself on leading or working with teams to best serve clients, making complex issues understandable for clients, judges, and juries, and obtaining superior results for clients.
Nossaman
Raja Sékaran
was promoted to co-chair, healthcare group of Nossaman in San Francisco.
Sékaran will serve as co-chair of the Firm's Healthcare Group. He represents healthcare delivery systems, health plans, hospitals, a major academic medical center, a county Local Health Authority, Federally Qualified Health Centers, medical groups, medical device companies, other providers, private equity investors, trade associations and California's private exchange for purchasing small group insurance.
Anna C. Tang
was promoted to co-chair, corporate group of Nossaman in Los Angeles.
Tang will serve as co-chair of the firm's Corporate Group . Tang represents and advises emerging and established companies across a broad range of industries as transactional and general corporate counsel with respect to a wide variety of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements and negotiations and corporate governance.
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP
Amy Eskin
was promoted to partner of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP in Emeryville.
Eskin has more than 30 years of trial experience in personal injury, products liability and complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases to the firm. She was elected into the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been honored as a top attorney of Northern California by San Francisco Magazine, and received the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Civil Justice Award among other honors.
Ryan Hicks
was promoted to partner of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP in Houston.
Hicks has practiced civil litigation since 1998 and has represented a variety of clients in products liability, negligence, commercial, and breach of fiduciary cases against corporate and individual clients including ATV manufacturers, airlines, premises owners, banks, investment firms, public utilities, and insurance companies.
Nathan B. Piller
was promoted to partner of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP in Emeryville.
Piller is an experienced litigator focusing on complex civil litigation in the areas of employment and consumer law. He has litigated numerous class and collective action cases, including Julian, et al. v. Swift Transportation, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:16-CV-00576-ROS (D. Ariz.) (represented trainee truck drivers in a nationwide wage-and-hour collective action against the largest trucking company in United States and achieved a $14,000,000 settlement); and Shaw, et al. v. AMN Services, LLC, et al., Case No. 3:16-cv-02816-JCS (N.D. Cal.) (represented traveling nurses in a wage-and-hour class action against a large healthcare staffing company and multibillion dollar hospital system, and achieved a $20,000,000 settlement).
David C. Leimbach
was promoted to partner of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP in Emeryville.
Leimbach's practice focuses on complex litigation, with an emphasis on employment and consumer protection class actions. He has successfully litigated numerous novel legal issues in trial and appellate courts, both procedural and substantive, including a series of class actions that led to the nationwide elimination of on-call scheduling policies in the retail industry.
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Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky has been established in California with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. The firm represents both individuals and institutional clients such as health insurers and municipalities in complex civil litigation. In addition to the Los Angeles office, the firm maintains a nationwide practice with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Texas, North Carolina and Puerto Rico. Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky handles class actions in the areas of employment, disability access, civil rights, and consumer protection. It also litigates cases in the fields of antitrust law, ERISA, and qui tam. The firm's practice focuses on impact litigation with a goal of remedying systemic violations of the law in employment, civil rights, public accommodations, consumer fraud, antitrust, and ERISA cases.
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. He focuses his practice on securities and corporate governance litigation. Drawing upon the invaluable experience gained from more than 30 years of trial experience representing national and international clients in a wide range of complex business disputes in courts throughout the United States, he develops innovative strategies for resolving the most challenging cases. His cases have involved disputes over business ownership issues, director and officer (D&O) liability, corporate governance, trade secrets, privacy and cybersecurity, False Claims Act and whistleblower issues, alleged corrupt practices (FCPA), price-fixing and market power, and alleged violations of regulations affecting the financial, technology, and life sciences industries.
Privette is also a noted thought leader in the areas of shareholder and fiduciary duty litigation and has represented dozens of clients with the defense of class actions involving claims by consumers and shareholders.
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Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing in 16 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Dallas, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit swlaw.com.
Address
Plaza Tower, 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1400
Costa Mesa, 92626-7689 United States