Brian R. Michael joined Morrison & Foerster LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.

Michael's global practice also focuses on providing crisis management and compliance counseling, including on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anti-corruption; cybersecurity and data privacy; FinTech, blockchain technology, and digital currency; trade sanctions; and workplace conduct matters. He leads global risk assessments and helps to design and implement multi-jurisdictional compliance programs.

Matthew S. Brady joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as partner in Irvine.

Brady represents manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and retailers in product liability, toxic tort, environmental and other general liability issues, including cases arising out of exposures to asbestos and other hazardous materials.

Erica Michelle Chavez joined Wilshire Law Firm as partner in Los Angeles.

Chavez handles personal injury matters

Nancy Ngyuen Sims joined Baker Mckenzie LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Sims, is a commercial litigator with a focus on complex business disputes and investigations, has successfully defended dozens of class actions and handled multiple litigation matters involving an amount in controversy exceeding $100 million. She is fluent in both Vietnamese and English.

David S. Kupetz joined Locke Lord LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Kupetz advises companies in out-of-court restructurings in a variety of industries, including entertainment, real estate, retail and technology. He ‎represents clients on all sides of bankruptcy, crafting reorganization plans on behalf ‎of debtors, representing secured and unsecured creditors and advising buyers ‎looking to purchase assets from bankruptcy estates. He has also facilitated hundreds ‎of assignments for the benefit of creditors and managed municipal debt adjustment ‎negotiations for government entities.

Cara Sandberg joined Conrad Metlitzky Kane LLP as of counsel in San Francisco.

Sandberg's practice focuses on complex civil litigation and internal and government investigations. She has a decade of experience advising policy makers, executives, and judicial officers on litigation strategy, cutting-edge legal issues, and policy recommendations. Sandberg also served as an attorney for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court

Arsen Kourinian joined Mayer Brown as partner in Los Angeles.

Kourinian provides practical and operational guidance on how to harmonize data privacy laws and standards into uniform policies, procedures and practices. He regularly helps clients with privacy policies, adtech standards and data flows, cross-border data transfers, data privacy and security due diligence assessments for mergers and acquisitions, vendor contracts, privacy by design and human resources data.

Tambry Lynette Bradford was promoted to office managing partner of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP. in Los Angeles.

Bradford represents individuals and public and private companies throughout the United States. She regularly serves as lead trial counsel for clients facing high-stakes litigation. Her practice encompasses a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters involving claims of fraud, unfair competition, due process violations, contract disputes, and products liability. She advises clients in state and federal courts throughout the country and has handled appeals in California state appellate courts and the Ninth Circuit.

Kalama M. Lui-Kwan was promoted to office managing partner of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP. in San Francisco.

Lui-Kwan has a national litigation practice representing parties in complex commercial disputes arising out of M&A deals. He also represents consumer-facing companies in class actions and regulatory investigations. He regularly advises fintechs and national banks on regulatory and compliance matters and counsels financial institutions on the development of new products and services with their partners in the fintech space.

Nicholas (Nic) Frey joined Sidley Austin LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Frey focuses on executive compensation and benefits, equity plan and award design, M&A and capital markets transaction support, ERISA matters, and general public and private company compensation and benefit matters.

Francesca Grea was promoted to partner of Fox Rothschild LLP in Los Angeles.

Grea provides strategic guidance to clients in the entertainment industry, helping them identify, create and capitalize on opportunities to grow their brands, careers and businesses across multiple platforms. Focused on transactional law, she drafts and negotiates agreements that govern actors', writers', directors', producers' and other creatives' most important projects, protecting their interests and maximizing their return.

Joshua A. Edwards was promoted to partner of Fox Rothschild LLP in Los Angeles.

Edwards provides strategic guidance on a wide range of film, television and production agreements for above-the-line talent, independent producers and production companies. A former talent representative, he has significant experience at the negotiation table, complemented by a macro-level understanding of the film and television industry and in-depth knowledge of the deal terms available to above-the-line talent, producers and production companies.

Alex Grigorians joined Hanson Bridgett as partner in Los Angeles.

Grigorians provides counsel to local, national, and international real estate clients on commercial real estate matters, including the acquisition, disposition, development, financing, and leasing in all asset classes. Alex's expertise also includes mortgage lending, portfolio financing, as well as receivership and distressed real estate transactions.

Kevin Benedicto was promoted to associate of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in San Francisco.

Benedicto was just appointed to the San Francisco Police Commission.
Benedicto is a co-leader of the firm's Mobilizing for Equality Law Enforcement Policy Working Group. He is a member of The Bar Association of San Francisco's Criminal Justice Task Force and the San Francisco Superior Court Committee on Elimination of Bias.

Mark M. Gnesin was promoted to partner of Ropers Majeski in Costa Mesa.

Gnesin is a trial lawyer focusing on personal injury, property damage, and construction defect litigation, including all general liability claims. He also advises corporations and insurance companies on liability, insurance coverage, and indemnity matters, drawing on his extensive training and previous experience as an insurance claims representative. Gnesin takes a creative approach to cases and has obtained numerous favorable jury verdicts and settlements for his clients.

Anna Novruzyan was promoted to of counsel of Ropers Majeski in Los Angeles.

Novruzyan is a business and commercial litigator, handling cases from intake through trial, including setting strategy, trial preparation, and assisting with settlement negotiations. She has extensive experience in commercial contracts and professional liability matters in a variety of industries.

Cameron M. Miller was promoted to senior associate of Ropers Majeski in Los Angeles.

Miller counsels clients on all aspects of insurance matters, including those involving allegations of personal injury, wrongful death, insurance defense, and construction defect. He is experienced in trial management, from intake to depositions to motions to trial preparation and settlement negotiation.

Gayland O. Hethcoat II joined ArentFox Schiff LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Hethcoat develops solutions for complying with the complex web of federal and state laws governing the healthcare sector, including in the emerging fields of telemedicine and digital health.

Alexandre Cornelius as partner in Calabasas

Cornelius is CEO and senior attorney at Cornelius & Kasendorf. He practices in the areas of commercial and business litigation and transactions including, but not limited to, purchase and sale of real estate, construction related disputes (including construction defects, mechanics liens and general contractor / subcontractor disputes), finance, leasing, development, entitlements, company and entity formation and structure, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditor/debtor rights and remedies.

Alexander Kasendorf as partner in Calabasas

Kasendorf's practice focuses on litigation, dispute resolution, advocacy and lobbying. He utilizes a combination of skills and talents to assist his clients in areas such as complex business transactions, commercial property issues, real estate disputes, construction and sports and entertainment matters.

Trinity E. Taylor as associate in San Jose

Taylor represents clients in employment disputes, real property disputes, and business cases. She has litigated cases involving claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, nuisance, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, and a derivative action. As a former deputy district attorney,

Taylor was previously with Fishman Larsen & Callister in Fresno, and served as a Tulare County deputy district attorney.

Jonathan S. Shenson joined Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.

Shenson's bankruptcy practice includes representation of debtors, secured creditors (including debtor in possession), lenders, committees, acquirers and other parties in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructures and work-outs, acquisitions, foreclosures, and assignments for the benefit of creditors. His practice also includes commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation including extensive experience in fraudulent transfer and preference actions and litigation in the areas of breach of contract, breach of duty, alter ego, successor liability, and lender liability.

Jamie Garelick joined Blank Rome LLP. as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Garelick focuses her practice on commercial real estate and corporate transactions, notably representing property owners, tenants, landlords, investors, and borrowers in connection with leases, acquisitions, and dispositions, as well as the development and financing of commercial, industrial, and retail properties.

Jennifer Lin Liu as managing partner in Menlo Park

Liu represents individuals in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law and focuses on employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, and employment contracts and agreements.

Rebecca Beth Peterson-Fisher as partner in Menlo Park

Peterson-Fisher will continue to litigate employment discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions, and to represent individual employees in all areas of employment law.

Reece A. Román joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as partner in San Diego.

Román has litigated hundreds of personal injury, property damage, employment, product liability, class action, and business disputes. He has prevailed on numerous demurrers and motions for summary judgement winning pre-trial dismissals in actions for wrongful death, personal injury, sexual abuse, nuisance, trespass, and inverse condemnation.

Leila Sayegh was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.

Sayegh represents corporations and private equity funds as borrowers, and banks and other financial institutions as lenders, in a broad range of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, bridge loans, first and second lien financings, debtor-in-possession financings and asset-based loans. Her work with corporate and private equity clients has included PayPal, Inc., Intel Corporation, Quiksilver, Inc., EMC Corporation, Permira Advisers, Veritas Capital, Oaktree Capital Management, Calera Capital and The Gores Group. Financial institutions she has advised include Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America.

She also serves as a pro bono coordinator in Skadden's Los Angeles office and regularly advises nonprofit clients.

Michael R Guerrero joined Ballard Spahr LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Guerrero counsels companies in a wide range of industries on matters of consumer protection and financial services, including point-of-sale financing, personal property financing, rent-to-own products, and installment financing.

Clare Ellis was promoted to counsel of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in San Francisco.

Ellis's practice focuses on environmental issues impacting the transportation and energy sectors, with emphasis on air quality and climate change. She is also well-versed in both federal and California air quality and greenhouse gas emission regulations impacting vehicle, equipment, and parts manufacturers, as well as all energy producers, distributors, and transportation companies.

Anne E. Villanueva was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.

Villanueva counsel's clients on a broad range of employment matters, including employment-related issues arising out of U.S. and multinational corporate transactions, executive employment agreements and separation agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, reductions-in-force, discrimination charges and lawsuits, collective bargaining agreements and internal investigations.

Christopher J. Bors was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.

Bors represents public and private companies in complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs and joint ventures, as well as a broad variety of other commercial and contractual matters. He has represented clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, health care, private equity, food and retail companies.

Glen Mastroberte was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.

Mastroberte represents investors, investment funds, independent production companies, distribution companies, financial institutions and producers in all legal and business aspects of the media and entertainment industries. He also handles general corporate matters related to the financing, production, licensing, distribution and use of motion pictures, television programs and other intellectual property assets. He also represents buyers and sellers of music companies, labels, catalogs and other music assets.