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.

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.

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.

Victor M. Marquez joined Nossaman as partner--real estate group in San Francisco.

Marquez's practice focuses on residential and commercial real estate transactions, land use and zoning laws, real estate, business and general commercial litigation, state and local government relations and community outreach specialization in the context of land development and redevelopment for both private companies and nonprofit organizations.

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.

Richard Gottlieb joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP. as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Gottlieb has a financial services practice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abimael (AJ) Bastida was promoted to partner of McManis Faulkner in San Jose, CA.

Bastida represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business, criminal and employment-related disputes. He also has experience with civil rights, probate and trust litigation and white-collar matters, representing high-level executives.

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.