Ashley Lynn Shively joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Shively is a partner in the firm's West Coast litigation group. She represents financial institutions and businesses in consumer class and individual actions, including fair lending, privacy, credit reporting, debt collection, false advertising and unfair business practices.

James Egan Sell was promoted to equity partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP in San Francisco.

Sell is the managing partner of the firm's Northern California office and leads a multi-attorney litigation team. He has extensive experience in construction, public works, products liability, catastrophic injury, personal injury, wrongful death, and professional liability litigation.
He also serves as "general counsel" to a number of Bay Area contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in hundreds of construction matters and disputes.

Craig Arthur Menden joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

Menden focuses on the representation of technology and life sciences companies in a broad range of deal structures, including classic public company acquisitions and VC-backed private acquisitions.

Steven Frederick Werth was promoted to senior counsel of SulmeyerKupetz in Los Angeles.

Werth's practice focuses on representing Chapter 11 debtors in bankruptcy and the rights of creditors and creditors' committees in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. His experience includes representing clients in industries as diverse as entertainment, import-export and real estate.

Assaf S. Hami was promoted to senior counsel of SulmeyerKupetz in Los Angeles.

Hami has extensive experience representing debtors, creditors, trustees, and asset purchasers in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructurings. He has represented a broad range of clients, including real estate finance companies, national retailers, and professional services firms.

David John Richardson was promoted to partner of SulmeyerKupetz in Los Angeles.

Richardson devotes his practice to corporate restructuring, commercial litigation and appellate practice. He has represented corporate debtors, creditors’ committees, liquidating trusts, financial institutions, insurance companies and entrepreneurs in a variety of litigation and insolvency matters.

Jeffrey Michael Pomerance was promoted to partner of SulmeyerKupetz in Los Angeles.

Pomerance represents individuals and businesses seeking assistance in creating, maximizing, protecting and retaining their value proposition throughout the business “life cycle.”

Cathy Ta was promoted to senior counsel of SulmeyerKupetz in Los Angeles and Riverside.

Ta focuses on all aspects of chapter 7, 9, 11 and 12 bankruptcy, bankruptcy litigation and general litigation.

Nicholas Ryan Transier was promoted to partner of Patterson & Sheridan LLP in San Diego.

Transier focuses on building international patent portfolios for clients, especially in the areas of data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, software, telecommunications, automotive technologies, and consumer electronics. He has also defended mechanical and electrical innovations, including consumer electronic devices, computer software systems, display technologies, and medical devices.

Erin Marie Bradrick was promoted to co-principal of NEO Law Group in San Francisco.

Bradrick provides corporate, governance, charitable trust, and tax counsel solely to nonprofits and exempt organizations.

Ryan Michael Leaderman joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Leaderman is a partner in the firm's West Coast land use and environmental practice group. He focuses on obtaining and negotiating land use entitlements for complex land use planning and mixed-use developments and securing project approvals for all types of major developments in Southern California. He also represents clients in all aspects of the California Environmental Quality Act, including CEQA litigation.

Kristen Amy Baracy joined Tucker Ellis LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Baracy represents both privately held and public companies. She has worked on public and private offerings of securities, compliance with rules and regulations enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters.

Jina Choi joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Choi is a partner in the firm's securities litigation, enforcement, and white-collar defense group. She previously served as head of the SEC's San Francisco regional office for five years and developed a reputation for her work on high-profile, complex, and novel enforcement actions.

Kenneth D. Askin was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles.

Askin is a member of the firm's banking practice in the finance department. He advises on domestic and cross-border acquisition financing, structured financing, and other secured and unsecured leveraged financial transactions. Askin's clients include financial institutions, gaming entities, private equity sponsors, real estate investment trusts and other institutional investors.

Ghaith Mahmood was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles.

Mahmood is a member of the firm’s technology transactions practice in the corporate department. His practice focuses on technology and intellectual property-related transactions, advising companies and investors in technology and digital media sectors, including software, video games, virtual and augmented reality, social media, digital media, digital health, e-commerce and information technology.

Yoo Jin Elizabeth Oh was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Oh is a member of the firm’s banking practice in the finance department. She advises on debt financing for direct lenders in the late stage growth and lower middle market space, including technology and life sciences companies. She also represents private equity sponsors and public companies in leveraged financial transactions, with a focus on domestic and cross-border acquisition financings.

Patricia Young was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Silicon Valley.

Young is a member of the firm’s intellectual property litigation practice in the litigation and trial department. She represents clients in intellectual property litigation matters spanning the technology, life sciences and industrial sectors. She has experience litigating and managing high-stakes, complex, multi-patent, multi-defendant and multi-jurisdictional cases, and she also counsels clients on patent and intellectual property issues arising in mergers and acquisitions.

Lisa M. Simonetti joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Simonetti focuses her practice on the defense of complex litigation, including financial services class actions and mass actions.

F. Phillip Hosp joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Hosp represents directors, officers, investment firms, public and private companies, family offices, and other parties in mergers and acquisitions litigation, and other cases involving fiduciary duties, unfair competition, and corporate law claims.

M. Kathleen Smalley joined Foley & Lardner LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Smalley’s practice includes sophisticated real estate transactions and disputes, complex corporate transactions, corporate and family business governance, and matters relating to family wealth.

Paul P. Chen joined Mayer Brown as partner in Northern California.

Chen focuses on complex transactions in the insurance, financial services and health care sectors, especially deals involving technology and innovation. He also advises clients on U.S. securities law matters, including tender offers, going private and raising capital.

Michelle L. Landry joined Vedder Price PC as shareholder in San Francisco.

Landry focuses her practice on prosecuting and defending complex civil litigation across a wide array of industries for individuals, partnerships, and private and publicly traded companies. She has represented clients in breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair business practices, commercial lease disputes, trademark and trade secrets, defamation, invasion of privacy cases and price-fixing.

Alex S. Kaufman joined Paul Hastings LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

Kaufman advises private equity funds and stand-alone technology companies on mergers and acquisitions transactions, including leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments and divestitures with an emphasis on the software and technology sectors.

Linda L. Miller joined JAMS as arbitrator and mediator in Orange County.

Miller will serve as an arbitrator and mediator in a wide variety of disputes, including business and commercial, employment, family law, personal injury, torts and real property.

William "Buddy" Rowell joined Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP as partner in Oakland.

Rowell has nearly 25 years of litigation experience, representing public entities, including several of the region's school districts and utilities, and businesses, including major retailers and property owners and developers.

Brian Tsu joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack as partner in San Diego.

Tsu is a partner in the firm's trusts, estates and estate planning practice group.

Tamara L. Osborne joined Ballard Spahr LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Osborne is known for her work representing syndicators, investors, and developers in all phases of affordable multifamily property acquisition, ownership, and financing, with emphasis on tax credit-driven transactions. She negotiates all financing documents and reviews and oversees borrower due diligence and closing documents for institutional and tax-exempt bond financing, as well as for funding from government sources such as HUD/FHA and the USDA's Rural Development program.

Brian C. Fish joined Buchalter APC as shareholder in San Diego.

Fish is a member of the firm's real estate group. His expertise covers all aspects of real estate development, including land use, permitting and entitlements, public and private partnerships, public contracting, and environmental matters.

Daniel H. Wu joined Buchalter APC as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Wu is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group. His litigation practice focuses on financial institutions, commercial and business litigation as well as intellectual property litigation.

Frederick M. Heiser was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Heiser is a member of the firm's business and commercial litigation, commercial general liability, and employment practice groups. His clients include local entrepreneurs, small family businesses, and Fortune 500 companies.

David M. Majchrzak was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in San Diego.

Majchrzak is a seasoned ethicist, civil litigator, and certified specialist by the State Bar of California in legal malpractice law with motion, trial, and appellate experience. He counsels his clients on how to achieve their professional goals in an ethical way.

Robert M. Shaughnessy was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in San Diego.

Shaughnessy represents clients in all phases of litigation from the outset of a case through trial, judgment, and the appeal process. His law and motion experience allows him to resolve many cases early in the litigation process. His appellate experience allows him to protect a client’s successful trial-court outcome on appeal or to spot appellate issues.

Keith D. Taylor was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in Santa Ana.

Taylor focuses on the identification and control of risks. His trial experience includes general liability, products liability, premises liability, public entity liability, transportation liability, and catastrophic construction loss.

Mark D. Hauser joined Reed Smith LLP as counsel in San Francisco.

Hauser will serve as co-vice chair of the firm's cannabis law team. He represents business and investors throughout the cannabis and hemp industries, where he advises on transactions and risk, including public and private companies, multi-state operators and startups, as well as advising companies in other industries and disciplines working in cannabidiol and cannabis.

Barbara Spector joined JAMS in Silicon Valley.

Spector will serve as an arbitrator, mediator, special master and neutral evaluator in disputes including appellate, aviation, business-commercial, employment, government-public agency, insurance, real property,personal injury and other tort.

Andrew M. Ouvrier joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Ouvrier represents landlord and tenant clients, including institutional investors and entrepreneurial individuals and entities. He has represented landlords in office leases totaling more than 10 million square feet across the nation and represented numerous office tenants as well, including a more than 2 million square foot office portfolio for one of the world's largest e-commerce companies.

Kelly D. Gemelli was promoted to principal of Jackson Lewis PC in San Diego.

Gemelli provides advice and counsel to management on a wide range of employment issues. She is a certified leave of absence specialist and is an active member of the California Advice and Counsel Resource Group.

James E. Sell was promoted to equity partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP in San Francisco.

Sell is managing partner of the firm's Northern California office and leads a multi-attorney litigation team. He is a trial attorney with experience in construction, public works, products liability, catastrophic injury, wrongful death and professional liability litigation. He also serves as general counsel to a number of Bay Area contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, handling a full scope of construction matters and disputes.

Dominique Y. Tauzin joined Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Tauzin advises individuals, couples and family-owned and small business owners in the areas of estate planning, trust administration, probate and business succession planning. She also has extensive experience with trust administrations, including disputes involving fiduciaries, beneficiaries, charitable organizations and probates.

Michelle M. McCarthy joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

McCarthy's works on federal and state taxation issues pertaining to individuals and entities, and she represents them in Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Labor audits, corrective programs and determination requests.

Noelle M. Natoli joined Clark Hill PLC as member in Los Angeles.

Natoli previously chaired Foley & Mansfield's elder law and transportation practices. She represents long-term and residential care facilities, adult family homes, hospitals, doctors, nurses and other employees of nursing facilities. Her experience in the transportation industry includes service as national counsel for a transportation insurance company, defending personal injury claims including catastrophic losses, conducting emergency response investigations, and litigating trucking matters through trial.

Renée Delphin-Rodriguez joined Crowell & Moring LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Delphin-Rodriguez has represented both public and private companies, as well as private equity funds, in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and joint ventures. She also advises clients on corporate governance.