Gray Duffy LLP
Nathan Blackthorne Lee
was promoted to partner of Gray Duffy LLP in Encino.
Lee focuses on civil litigation related to personal injury, insurance coverage and business related disputes.
He is based in Encino.
Nossaman
Allison Callaghan
was promoted to partner of Nossaman in Sacramento.
Callaghan specializes in employment litigation and counseling.
She is based in Sacramento.
Miller Starr Regalia
Andrew Crowl
joined Miller Starr Regalia as associate in Walnut Creek.
Crowl represents common interest developments and homeowners associations in day-to-day management and operations, including negotiating and drafting contracts, advising boards of directors, representing associations before municipal bodies, working with municipalities on enforcement of maintenance agreements and working with municipalities in modifying conditions of approval for large developments.
He is based in Walnut Creek.
Address
1331 N. California Blvd. , Walnut Creek 94596 United States
T:
(925) 935-9400
F:
(925) 933-4126
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
Stephanie Sweat
joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) as associate attorney in Costa Mesa.
Sweat specializes in commercial real estate law with a focus on finance, sales and acquisitions, commercial leasing and development.
She is based in Costa Mesa.
Address
10940 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2200 , Los Angeles 90024 United States
T:
(424) 320-9276
F:
(424) 273-1067
Nossaman
Seth Goldstein
was promoted to partner of Nossaman in Irvine.
Goldstein specializes in representing employers in the transportation industry in class and collective employment actions.
He is based in Irvine.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Brandee L. Diamond
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Diamond focuses on complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, minority investments and joint ventures.
She is based in San Francisco.
Eric Chow
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as senior counsel in San Francisco.
Chow focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, in addition to cross-border and domestic corporate deals such as investment, financing and joint venture transactions.
He is based in San Francisco.
Alex Ravski Jr.
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as special counsel in San Francisco.
Ravski focuses on corporate transactions such as venture financing, mergers and acquisitions and entity formation, as well as corporate governance matters in the emerging technology space.
He is based in San Francisco.
Courtney D. King
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as associate in San Francisco.
King focuses on corporate law and advises clients in a range of transactions including private equity investments and corporate restructurings.
She is based in San Francisco.
Address
555 California Street Suite 1700 , San Francisco 94104-1520 USA
T:
(415) 434-4484
F:
(415) 434-4507
Foley & Lardner LLP
Natasha Allen
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.
Allen specializes in equity financing, venture capital financing and commercial and corporate matters within the artificial intelligence, financial technology, robotics and life sciences industries.
She is based in Silicon Valley.
Nicole Hatcher
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.
Hatcher specializes in venture capital investment deals, mergers and acquisitions,
capital markets and general corporate work.
She is based in Silicon Valley.
Louis Lehot
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Lehot advises companies, financial sponsors, venture capitalists, investors and investment banks in the formation, financing, governing and buying and selling of companies.
He is based in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Catherine Zhu
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as special counsel in Silicon Valley.
Zhu is a commercial and privacy lawyer with expertise in enterprise software, data sharing, artificial intelligence, consumer goods, transportation and mobility and marketplace platforms businesses.
She is based in Silicon Valley.
Ethan L. Floyd
joined Foley & Lardner LLP as associate in Silicon Valley.
Floyd advises investors, venture capitalists and investment banks in a range of corporate transactions.
He is based in Silicon Valley.
Address
975 Page Mill Road , Palo Alto 94304-1013 USA
T:
(650) 856-3700
JAMS
Brian C. Walsh
joined JAMS as neutral in San Jose.
Walsh previously presided over complex civil litigation, where he heard complex business, securities, employment, product liability, internet privacy and trade secret cases.
He is based in San Jose.
Address
160 W. Santa Clara St., Suite 1600 , San Jose 95113 USA
T:
(408) 346-0737
F:
(408) 295-5267
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Arti L. Bhimani
joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore as senior counsel in Los Angeles.
Bhimani specializes in litigation, particularly the representation of nonprofit institutions.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Address
6033 West Century Boulevard, 5th Floor , Los Angeles 90045 USA
T:
(310) 981-2318
F:
(310) 337-0837
Hicks Thomas LLP
Eric Grant
joined Hicks Thomas LLP as partner in Sacramento.
Grant specializes in energy and environmental litigation.
He is based in Sacramento.
Address
400 Capitol Mall Ste 2530 , Sacramento 95814-4421 USA
T:
(916) 447-4900
F:
(916) 447-4904
Nixon Peabody LLP
Benjamin J. Kim
was promoted to deputy practice leader of the labor and employment group of Nixon Peabody LLP in Los Angeles.
Kim also leads the occupational safety and health team and defends clients in employment litigation.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl Inc.
Bruce J. McNeil
joined Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl Inc. as partner in Los Angeles.
McNeil specializes in employee benefits, including tax-qualified plans, executive and nonqualified deferred compensation plans, as well as the tax aspects of equity, phantom equity and employee benefits litigation.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
2041 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 300 , El Segundo 90245 USA
T:
(424) 738-4400
Mayer Brown LLP
Vivek K. Mohan
joined Mayer Brown LLP as partner in Palo Alto and San Francisco.
Mohan specializes in cybersecurity and data privacy. He previously led the information security law team at Apple. He is based in Palo Alto and San Francisco.
Address
3000 El Camino Real # 2-300 , Palo Alto 94306 USA
T:
(650) 331-2054
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks LLP
Justin C. Adofina
joined Pircher, Nichols & Meeks LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Adofina is a member of the real estate department and is a former federal sector clerk in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Hearings Unit.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
1901 Avenue Of The Stars, Ste 1200 , Los Angeles 90067-6013 USA
T:
(310) 201-8985
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Aileen McGrath
joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as senior counsel in San Francisco.
Aileen McGrath, the former co-chief of appellate litigation in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in San Francisco.
"I've been familiar with Pratik Shah's work from his very earliest days," said McGrath of her decision to move. "Pratik was an assistant to the Solicitor General when I was a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer and I remember watching him do some of his very first arguments many years ago at the court. So I had followed his career with interest over the years and this past fall, when I first began thinking about possible next steps, a mutual acquaintance of ours mentioned that he thought that I might be a natural fit for Pratik's Supreme Court and appellate group at Akin Gump."
McGrath added, she and Shah discussed the opportunity further in terms of what opportunities there were for her to leverage her state and federal experience litigating in the California courts as part of the practice group.
"I started thinking about next steps in the fall," she added. "During my last few years at the city attorney's office, I focused heavily on the office's lawsuits against the federal government, against the Trump administration in particular. My old office filed lawsuits on a range of topics ranging from sanctuary city issues to LGBT issues to health care and the like and with the election in the fall it became clear that kind of work would naturally start to transition and so I began thinking about next steps that would enable me to do that same kind of high stakes, high importance rapid pace litigation in the federal appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court as I had been doing."
Her move to Akin Gump is McGrath's return to private practice, she formerly was an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP before joining the city's attorney's office in 2012.
She had been with the office until her move to Akin Gump except for a year stint in 2015, where she served as a chambers attorney for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the Supreme Court of California.
She also served as a law clerk to U.S. Court Appeals Judge Michael Boudin of the 1st Circuit in Boston and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer following her graduation from Harvard Law School.
Address
580 California St, Ste 1500 , San Francisco 94104-1036 USA
T:
(515) 765-9553
JAMS
Keith D. Koeller
joined JAMS as neutral in Irvine.
Koeller was a founding partner of the firm and specialized in litigation. At Jams, he will focus on business and commercial, construction, construction defect, insurance, personal injury and torts and real property disputes.
He is based in Irvine.
Address
5 Park Plaza, Suite 400 , Irvine 92614 USA
T:
(714) 937-8256
F:
(714) 939-8710
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Jorge Arciniega
joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Arciniega focuses on complex trademark and copyright matters including the registration and enforcement of global intellectual property portfolios and licensing and co-branding endorsement agreements.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 2200 , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T:
(310) 282-2262
F:
(310) 282-2200
Fisher Phillips LLP
Krystle D. Meyer
joined Fisher Phillips LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Krystle Meyer specializes in representing employers in litigation brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Christina M. Vier
joined Fisher Phillips LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Vier specializes in defending clients in representative and class actions related to allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower claims, wrongful termination and wage and hour violations.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Address
444 South Flower Street Suite 1500 , Los Angeles 90071 USA
T:
(213) 330-4500
F:
(213) 330-4501
Fisher Phillips LLP
Megan Clark
joined Fisher Phillips LLP as associate in San Francsico.
Clark represents employers in claims of sexual harassment, wrongful termination, discrimination, disability accommodation and retaliation.
She is based in San Francisco.
Address
One Embarcadero Center Suite 2050 , San Francisco 94111-3712 USA
T:
(415) 490-9000
F:
(415) 490-9001
CDF Labor Law LLP
Corey J. Cabral
was promoted to chair of cdf's paga litigation practice group of CDF Labor Law LLP in Sacramento.
Cabral focuses on defending employers in high stakes PAGA lawsuits.
He is based in Sacramento.
Blank Rome LLP
Anthony (Tony) R. Callobre
joined Blank Rome LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Callobre specializes in representing lenders and borrowers in commercial loan transactions particularly asset-based lending and fund finance.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
1000 Wilshire Blvd Ste 1500 , Los Angeles 90017-1730 USA
T:
(213) 891-5024
F:
(213) 630-5773
Roberts Disability Law
Michelle L. Roberts
as founding partner
in Oakland
Roberts specializes in ERISA litigation with a focus on representing employees in benefit disputes.
She is based in Oakland.
Address
66 Franklin Street, Suite 300 , Oakland 94607 USA
T:
(510) 230-2090
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Thomas N. McCormick
as managing partner
McCormick specializes in employment litigation, complex commercial disputes and class action litigation.
He is based in Newport Beach.
Cory D. Catignani
as partner
Catignani previously practiced vin Ohio and will now practice out of the Newport Beach office. He specializes in advising employers in employment matters related to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the Family and Medical Act Leave and various other employment laws.
He is based in Newport Beach.
Jocelyn Hoffman
Hoffman represents employers in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge and wage-and-hour litigation.
She is based in Newport Beach.
Address
4675 MacArthur Court Suite 700 , Newport Beach 92660 USA
T:
(949) 526-7900
F:
(949) 526-7901
Judicate West
Robert J. O'Hair
joined Judicate West as neutral in Sacramento.
O'Hair is a certified family law specialist and has been a private judge for 15 years for settlements and trials in Northern California. He is also a former judge pro tem for both the Sacramento County.
He is based in Sacramento.
Address
980 9th Street Suite 2200 , Sacramento 95814 USA
T:
(916) 394-8490
F:
(916) 394-8495
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Michael R. Guerrero
joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Guerrero specializes in advising clients in consumer protection and consumer financial services issues.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
350 S Grand Ave Ste 3600 , Los Angeles 90071-3476 USA
T:
(213) 614-7384
Fisher Phillips LLP
Andrew Saxon
joined Fisher Phillips LLP as of counsel in Irvine.
Saxon advises employers in employment, class action and commercial matters.
He is based in Irvine.
Albert Lin
joined Fisher Phillips LLP as associate in Irvine.
Lin focuses on defending employers in workplace claims.
He is based in Irvine.
Address
2050 Main Street Suite 1000 , Irvine 92614 USA
T:
(949) 798-2194
F:
(949) 851-0152
East Bay Trust and Estate Lawyers
Ryan J. Szczepanik
was promoted to president of East Bay Trust and Estate Lawyers in Orinda.
Szczepanik is a principal at Hartog, Baer & Hand APC and is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust, and probate law.
He is based in Orinda.
Nixon Peabody LLP
Richard L. Shamos
joined Nixon Peabody LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.
Shamos specializes in private investment products and fund formation.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
300 South Grand Avenue Suite 4100 , Los Angeles 90071-3151 USA
T:
(213) 629-6157
F:
(833) 720-2061
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Jeremy A. Avila
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as chief counsel at the department of aging in San Jose.
Avila has been deputy county counsel at the Santa Clara County Counsel's office since 2019.
He is based in San Jose.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Scott F. Gautier
joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Gautier specializes in creating and structuring transactions related to distressed financial situations.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
1800 Century Park East, Suite 1500 , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T:
(310) 500-2165
F:
(310) 229-1285