Torrey Jeanine McClary joined King & Spalding LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

McClary is a member of the firm's healthcare team. She specializes in representing health systems, academic medical centers, biotech companies and technology firms in a range of corporate and transactional matters.

Ellen H. Ehrenpreis joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as partner in Menlo Park.

Ehrenpreis advises companies on financings, M&A, corporate and securities matters, commercial transactions, intellectual property and litigation strategy.

Peng Chen joined Rimon PC as partner in San Diego.

Chen is a member of the firm's litigation and intellectual property groups. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution and strategic counseling. He also handles the areas of patent litigation, inter parties review, reexamination, interference, opposition, and licensing.

In addition, Chen leads his biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics clients through the technical and legal challenges involved in developing and protecting their critical IP assets.

Steven Charles Carlson joined Robins Kaplan LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Carlson is a member of the firm's intellectual property and technology litigation group. He focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, including commercial, patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition.

Stephen Thomas Toohill joined Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP as partner in San Diego.

Toohill is a member of the firm's real estate department. He focuses on the representation of commercial, retail, hospitality, industrial and biotech developers, owners and tenants, in regards to acquisition, development, leasing and sale of improved and unimproved property.

Olga Vitalyevna Mack joined California Law Revision Commission in Dublin.

Mack started her legal career as an IP litigator at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Most recently, she was general counsel at ClearSlide from 2015 to 2017.

Mack is a co-founder of SunLaw Network, an organization that helps the next generation of women general counsel and in-house leaders by providing peer mentoring and connecting with current general counsel.

She also founded the Women Serve on Board movement, which makes a fiscal and social case for gender equality on corporate boards of directors.

Simon Adams joined Nossaman LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Simon Adams is a partner in Nossaman's Real Estate Practice Group with more than 20 years of experience. He has handled leasing transactions and construction contract matters for a variety of commercial, retail and industrial spaces, including professional offices, technology laboratories, data centers, telecom towers, and brick and mortar stores. He also advises on acquisitions, dispositions and sale and leaseback arrangements and provides counsel on financing issues, as necessary.

Adams counts among his clients major information technology and telecommunications companies, pharmaceutical corporations, medical insurance providers, pension finance firms, and banks. He has counselled organizations on their strategic real estate investment programs as well as how to buy, build and shape a suitable headquarters for their operations.

Prior to joining Nossaman, Adams was a partner in the San Francisco office of an international law firm.

Representative Work
Negotiated the development of a $35 million call center.
Negotiated a $50 million construction contract for a new campus building on behalf of software company PeopleSoft, prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corp.
Counselled client and negotiated on its behalf the development of a campus building, keeping within its $330 million budget.
Negotiated the development of three campus buildings valued at $50 million in Hayward.
Negotiated construction contracts and an architect agreement totaling $100 million for a new cathedral.
Negotiated the lease of a 270,000 square foot headquarters for an insurance client in San Francisco.
Negotiated the Bay Area research and development headquarters of a European telecom company.
Negotiated a 273,000 square foot headquarters sublease arrangement that included three office buildings for a technology client in Sunnyvale.
Counselled clients on a $45 million technology laboratory development.
Negotiated and administered the sale of an $8 million transfer station.
Represented a Chinese public company in connection with its acquisition and concurrent entry into a joint venture with a U.S. logistics company operating in the Western United States.
Negotiated the lease with option to purchase of commercial space in Rancho Cordova.

Peter W. McGaw joined Buchalter as of counsel in San Francisco.

Peter McGaw will join Buchalter as of counsel in the litigation and environmental and natural resources practice, where he is an expert in environmental law. His practice includes regulatory, remediation, and property damage matters arising out of environmental legislation. McGaw also advises on legislative and regulatory drafting, and advocacy on environmental issues.

McGaw earned his J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law and his B.A. Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University.

Douglas C. Straus joined Buchalter as shareholder in San Francisco.

Douglas Straus focuses his practice on commercial litigation in the areas of financial services, real estate development and lending, solid waste management, health care, and insurance.

Mr. Straus represents both private and public sector clients in dispute resolution in business, real estate, and public sector conflicts. As a skilled litigator, Mr. Straus has prevailed in jury trials, court trials and arbitrations involving tens of millions of dollars.

Mr. Straus earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and his B.S. highest distinction, from Northwestern University.

Benjamin C. Ellis joined Buchalter as attorney in San Francisco.

Benjamin C. Ellis has joined Buchalter as an attorney in their litigation and environmental and natural resources practice. As a litigation attorney, Ellis' environmental law experience includes working on matters associated with water contamination, permitting disputes, CERCLA and toxic exposure. Ellis has worked alongside government groups: Department of Toxic Substances Control, California Public Utilities Commission, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California Air Resources Board, Regional Water Quality Control Boards and Caltrans.

Ellis earned his J.D. with a concentration in environmental law from Vermont Law School. Ellis received his B.A. from The Evergreen State College.

Zachary B. Young joined Buchalter as attorney in San Francisco.

Zachary B. Young has joined Buchalter as an Attorneys in their Litigation Practice. Litigation Attorney Zachary Young advises clients on matters involving contract disputes, fraud, intellectual property rights, including trade secret misappropriation, class action matters, and other complicated business disputes. Young has been successful in cases in both federal and state court, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Young earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Young received a double major, magna cum laude, from Santa Clara University, including a B.S. in Political Science and a B.S.C. in Business Management.

Walter Wu joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

A licensed physician, Wu focuses his practice on patent prosecution and portfolio strategy for life sciences clients and patent due diligence for life sciences investors. He represents companies in the digital health, medical diagnostics, bioinformatics, ophthalmic and wound care industries.

Joseph C. Kracht joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP as partner in San Diego.

Kracht joins Gordon & Rees' employment law and commercial litigation practice groups. He focuses his practice on complex civil litigation, writs and appeals. He has experience in state and federal civil rights claims, patent litigation, partnership disputes, securities fraud and wage and hour disputes.

Timothy C. Brugh joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as partner in San Francisco and Palo Alto.

Brugh, who formerly served as vice president and West Coast director of fiduciary services at the Goldman Sachs Trust Company, joins Pillsbury's estates, trust & tax planning/private wealth practice in Palo Alto and San Francisco.

"Pillsbury's a top-tier firm with a global presence," he said. "I was excited by all of the resources and people that I thought would support the type of clients that I'd like to represent."

Brugh works with high-net-worth clients on wealth management, trust and estate planning and philanthropic strategies. He also has experience handling fiduciary administration for trusts, estates and private foundations.
Brugh began his career practicing law before transitioning to trust services in the finance industry. In his practice, he said he often worked with Pillsbury estates attorneys Kim T. Schoknecht and Jennifer Jordan McCall, representing mutual clients. Brugh served as senior vice president at Wells Fargo Private Bank before moving to Goldman Sachs. He said leaving Goldman Sachs was a "tough decision."

"I always thought I'd return to the practice of law, and I wanted to return to law while I still had enough of my career left to build out a substantial practice," he said.

Robert J. Kovacev joined Norton Rose Fulbright LLP as partner in San Francisco and Washington, D.C..

A tax controversy attorney, Kovacev handles tax disputes before the IRS and in trial and appellate courts. He has experience in tax and transfer pricing controversies, tax incentives and the economic substance doctrine. He also advises companies on research tax credits, particularly in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. He has previously served as lead trial counsel for the IRS.

Sharon Collier joined Severson & Werson APC as partner in San Francisco.

Collier represents international corporations, regional and local businesses and insured in commercial litigation matters. She has experience in contract disputes and claims for discrimination, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, unfair competition, intellectual property and personal injury.

Nandor B. Krause joined Severson & Werson APC as partner in San Francisco.

Krause has nearly 30 years of experience in litigation. He has handled matters involving commercial business disputes, asbestos exposure claims, motor vehicle and construction site accidents, product liability claims and medical malpractice claims. He has represented general contractors, subcontractors, premises owners, product manufacturers, hotel owners and operators and real estate investment trusts. He also advises businesses during formation and acquisition.

Kenneth C. Ward joined Severson & Werson APC as partner in San Francisco.

Ward handles a broad range of matters, including insurance bad faith, inverse condemnation, spinal cord injuries and foodborne pathogens. He has tried more than 100 cases to verdict over his career.

William Hughes joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Hughes will co-head Orrick's capital markets practice. He specializes in securities offerings, counseling public and late-stage private companies and advising companies on securities law compliance. He has extensive experience handling initial public offerings and other registered offerings. He has represented technology industry clients, including Sonos, Adesto Technologies, Cisco Systems and Symantec

Victoria Hassid was promoted to chief deputy director of California Department of Industrial Relations in San Francisco.

At the California Department of Industrial Relations, Hassid has served as deputy director of legislation and policy since 2015 and special counsel from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, she was a deputy appointments secretary in the Office of the Governor and a summer law clerk at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Thomas Hill joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Hill focuses his practice on management-side employment law, specializing in the defense of complex wage and hour litigation. He has served as lead counsel in more than 600 civil lawsuits as well as more than 250 adversarial proceedings.

Christina Tellado joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

An employment and labor lawyer, Tellado has experience in wage and hour, discrimination and harassment and trade secret and non-compete matters. She counsels clients on workforce issues and handles litigation, representing employers in class and collective actions and claims brought under federal and state statutes.

Siegmar Pohl joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Dr. Siegmar Pohl, with nearly two decades of experience, focuses his practice on cross-border M&A and technology transactions, including deals involving particularly complex or expansive intellectual property assets. He represents U.S. clients with their domestic corporate and restructuring transactions, as well as investments and acquisitions in Germany and Europe. Siegmar also counsels European and Asian clients in acquisitions, venture capital, and technology transactions in the U.S.

J. David Bournazian joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as shareholder in Orange County and Los Angeles.

Bournazian is a trial litigator and adviser. He represents national and international clients, including well-known and publicly traded companies, in both litigation and transactional matters.