Rajan Trehan as Partner in Los Angeles

Trehan focuses his practice on high-stakes matters oriented toward trial. He has experience litigating contract, fraud, intellectual property, and class action disputes on behalf of a diverse array of corporate and individual clients, including several in the entertainment and media space. Trehan has earned clients' trust by achieving noteworthy results in tough cases. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Sourabh Mishra as Partner in Orange County

Mishra focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and investigations. He represents individuals and companies in complex commercial litigation matters across a wide array of industries, including medical devices, information analytics, food and beverage, telecommunications, biopharmaceuticals, and technology hardware and equipment. In addition, he regularly represents individuals and corporations in connection with complex and sensitive internal investigations and governmental inquiries. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Christine Woodin as Partner in Los Angeles

Woodin focuses her practice on intellectual property and complex commercial litigation, including patent, antitrust, and breach of contract disputes. She has experience in all these cases, including counseling on pre-suit strategy, conducting effective offensive and defensive discovery, deposing witnesses and defending depositions, drafting dispositive and pre-trial motions, preparing for trial, presenting witnesses at trial, and handling appeals. She has managed and developed the strategy for cases of all sizes in various industries-from global licensing disputes to single patent assertions. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Brittani A. Jackson as Partner in Los Angeles

Jackson represents clients in a broad range of matters, including commercial contract disputes, trade secret misappropriation, shareholder activism, issues of corporate governance, antitrust, and securities litigation. She has experience litigating cases throughout every process stage--from writing pre- and post-trial briefs to conducting witness interviews, taking and defending depositions, leading discovery efforts, including representing client's interests in court hearings, and leading trial teams to favorable resolutions. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Caleb L.H. Marker as Managing Partner in Los Angeles

Marker has been instrumental in the opening and growing that office since 2015. He focuses his practice on consumer protection, employment, and privacy cases. In particular, he created the firm's plaintiff arbitration practice. He brought the first merits arbitration in the United States against a ridesharing company to trial, challenging its classification of a "gig economy" worker in 2016. Since then, he has represented clients in class actions and arbitrations against various technology companies involving worker misclassification, equal pay for women, and privacy rights. With his broad experience in various legal areas and focus on the technology field, He has spearheaded various technological advancements at the firm.

Filemon ("Phil") Carrillo as Partner in Irvine from Mulcahy Carrillo LLP.

Carrillo has handled various business disputes nationwide in state, federal, administrative, and arbitration forums. He has litigated cases involving fraud, trade secrets, statutory violations, trademark, competition, and contract disputes in various industries, including fitness, quick service restaurants (QSR), real estate, construction, and manufacturing equipment, to name a few. He also represents manufacturers, franchisors, licensors, and distributors in government investigations and administrative proceedings.

David Mainzer as Shareholder in Los Angeles from Ballard Spahr.

Mainzer joins the corporate practice group, bringing over 25 years of experience in advising investment management firms and funds. His expertise extends to industry participants on portfolio investments, M&A transactions, securities regulations, tax implications, and employment-related matters. A recognized authority in federal and state laws governing investment management and securities transactions, Mainzer provides comprehensive counsel on an array of domestic and offshore private funds and investment vehicles.

Mainzer previously served as the general counsel and chief operating officer of Amerindo Investment Advisors Inc. He oversaw legal affairs, risk management, regulatory compliance, and fund structuring for the firm's hedge funds, mutual funds, and separately managed accounts. Before his legal career, Mainzer served in the U.S. Army.

Natalie Schachner as Associate in Los Angeles from LA County District Attorney's Office.

Schachner's experience spans both civil and criminal law in state and federal court. As a former deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, she has a robust trial record, and was involved in a diverse array of criminal matters, encompassing all stages of litigation. She has experience conducting widescale internal investigations for Fortune 500 companies, as well as litigating securities class actions.

Sanaz (Sunny) K. Soltani as Managing Partner in Orange County

Soltani specializes in constitutional law and complex real property negotiations, with an emphasis on environmental justice and housing issues. She routinely assists her clients with legislative solutions. She has successfully secured the passage of several important legislative bills, significantly improving the regulatory position of her clients and preserving rent control in California.

Edwin Hong as Partner in Los Angeles

Hong's practice focuses on personal injury.

Jason Sanchez as Partner in Orange County

Sanchez is an active member of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (OCTLA), and since 2012, has been a member of the Board of Governors for Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC). He is also very involved with Consumer Attorneys of the Inland Empire (CAOIE), where he is a member of the organization's Palm Springs Seminar Education Committee and the Board of Governors and was the organization's president from 2015-2018.

Deborah H. Petito as L&E Practice Group Leader in Los Angeles

With more than 35 years of experience and a leader of the firm's Los Angeles office, Petito has handled all types of employment counseling and litigation matters and acts as an outside employment counsel to several companies in various industries providing advice on an ongoing basis.

Jennifer L. Spaletta as Partner in Sacramento from Spaletta Law P.C. .

Spaletta is a seasoned water law attorney who offers clients more than two decades of experience. A member of the Stoel Rives' Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources team, she has extensive experience litigating commercial contract disputes and water, environmental, and constitutional law matters. Her experience also includes handling California Proposition 218 cases. She has been a lead trial counsel in court and jury trials throughout California and the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.

Devin H. Black as Associate in Orange County from Acumen Law LLP .

Black focuses his practice on workers' compensation matters, counseling and defending employers, insurers, and third-party administrators. His experience includes managing workers' compensation claims from referral through closure, including in-depth claim reviews and valuation analyses, conducting depositions and cross-examinations of claimants and medical professionals, drafting pleadings, motions, and settlements, and representing clients before the WCAB.

Heejoong Kim as Associate in Orange County from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP.

Kim is a multi-faceted litigator who represents clients in a wide array of commercial disputes. With experience ranging from premises liability, habitability, and motor vehicle accidents to claims involving false advertising, unfair competition, and employment disputes, he prides himself on building strong relationships with clients. He also litigates contractual, partnership, fraud, and fiduciary disputes.

Adam B Van Korlaar as Associate in Orange County from Gates O Doherty Gonter & Guy LLP.

Van Korlaar represents clients ranging from small businesses and homeowners associations (HOAs) to international corporations in business disputes, landlord/tenant issues, employment disputes, trade secrets, and other litigation. He has considerable experience defending client interests in matters involving serious personal injuries, premises liability, toxic torts, and “lemon law”/warranty disputes, and he has exposure to several elements of insurance defense and litigation.

Steve Christianson as Associate in Orange County from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP.

Christianson represents clients in matters ranging from personal injury to professional liability to business disputes. He has handled every element of case management, from e-discovery, legal research, and strategy development to pleadings, motions, and trial documentation. For clients in the real estate and transportation industries, he employs a well-rounded approach to risk evaluation and litigation strategy.

Debbie Y. Chin as Partner in San Francisco from Donahue Fitzgerald LLP.

Chin provides advice on estate and trust planning, implementation, and administration. This includes working with individuals and families to design sophisticated tax and estate plans using a combination of wealth preservation and transfer strategies. She also represents individuals and professional entities in all post-death trust and estate administration aspects. She also serves on the board of directors of the East Bay Trusts and Estates Lawyers and is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Diablo Valley.

Stephanie Herrera as Partner in San Francisco

Herrera's practice focuses on litigating cutting-edge copyright, antitrust, and civil rights issues for major movie studios and industry-leading technology companies. Her experience spans every phase of litigation, including significant summary judgment and trial victories. Ms. Herrera also has deep counseling and investigations experience in the tech industry and has represented tech clients in litigation and investigations involving the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and state attorneys general. Ms. Herrera maintains an active pro bono practice, emphasizing immigration and civil rights. She is also passionate about the arts and serves on the board of directors of California Lawyers for the Arts. Before joining the firm, Herrera clerked for Judge Michelle T. Friedland of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Juliana Yee as Partner in San Francisco

Yee focuses her practice on high-stakes disputes, including class actions, mass actions, and trials in state and federal court and across various industries, including technology, entertainment, higher education, and financial services. She helps companies navigate their most challenging and high-profile matters through all stages of litigation. Yee also maintains a pro bono practice on immigration matters and civil rights. She is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and currently serves as the co-chair of the Development Committee of the Utah Center for Legal Inclusion. Before joining the firm, Yee clerked for Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and Judge Jay Bybee of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Michael Adamson as Partner in Los Angeles

Adamson represents and has secured victories for his clients in various commercial disputes, including class action, patent, trade secret, unfair competition, environmental torts, and breach of contract suits. He is counsel in several different class actions against life insurance companies, alleging hundreds of millions in damages on behalf of thousands of policyholders. His promotion to partner is effective Jan. 1.

Luma Khabbaz as Legal Fellow in San Francisco

Khabbaz received a J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2023. Prior to attending law school, she worked at the United Nations Population Fund, working to advance global sexual and reproductive health and rights. She received a B.A. in International Studies and a B.A.J. in Journalism from Indiana University in 2019.

Adam J. Weaver as Partner in San Francisco & Houston

Weaver's practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate and real estate finance. He has experience drafting purchase and sale agreements, real estate joint ventures and related documents for office, retail, multi-family, industrial, large-scale residential and mixed-use developments. His diverse client base and experience representing both purchasers and sellers as well as borrowers and lenders enables him to provide a balanced understanding that is key to successful negotiations. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Colleen E. Lamarre as Partner in San Francisco & Silicon Valley

Lamarre assists clients with government audits, investigations, reporting and employer disclosure obligations. She regularly advises clients on health and welfare plan design and compliance with ERISA, EEOC requirements, and the ACA. Colleen counsels clients on fiduciary matters in connection with the investment of employee benefit plan assets and employee benefits issues arising in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. She also regularly advises clients in executive compensation matters, such as compensation and incentive arrangements, including compliance with Internal Revenue Code §409A. Her promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Brock S. Weber as Partner in San Francisco

Weber's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent litigation and trade secrets disputes. He handles matters through trial, but takes pride in developing strategies for successful early resolution. His technical background includes industry experience as a software engineer, a systems analyst and web developer. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Megan L. Jones as Partner in Los Angeles

Jones's practice focuses on complex tax issues, emphasizing individuals and entities owning assets and businesses in multiple jurisdictions. Her work spans income and estate tax planning and extends to family office advisory work. Megan has extensive experience advising on crypto assets, blockchain technology, NFTs, and related tax issues. Her promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Aaron S. Ralph as Partner in Los Angeles

Ralph helps government contractors and grant recipients navigate IP concerns, cost and pricing issues, internal investigations and compliance obligations, bid protests, and contract claims litigation. He also advises clients contemplating mergers and acquisitions involving government contractors. Before joining Pillsbury, Ralph served on active duty in the U.S. Army as a Judge Advocate and was an attorney for the U.S. Air Force. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Paul Casas as Partner in San Francisco

Casas advises entrepreneurs, investors, and startup companies across a variety of industries through all stages of their life cycle, including formation, seed and venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and fund formation. Paul also advises both strategic acquirers and target companies in their mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, joint ventures, and other transactional matters. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Stacie O. Kisner as Partner in San Francisco

Kisner represents clients in all stages of complex commercial litigation, from early phases of discovery through trial. She also has substantial experience responding to civil enforcement actions and criminal investigations initiated by various state and federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office for Civil Rights, the Department of Justice Tax and Antitrust Divisions, and local District Attorney Offices. Her promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Patrick Burns as Partner in San Francisco

Burns' practice focuses on appeals and law and motion in the state and federal courts. Before joining Hanson Bridgett, Burns worked at a global law firm where he focused on commercial litigation. He has litigated complex and high-stakes disputes in bankruptcy, class actions, product liability, and multi-district actions. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Nancy E. Dollar as Partner in San Francisco

Dollar's practice focuses on tax planning, counseling, and transactional matters and includes advising founders, investors, and companies on specialty tax incentives and federal income tax matters. She has also helped clients resolve federal tax audits and controversies in appeals. Her promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Sean G. Herman as Partner in San Francisco

Herman's practice focuses on advising clients including public agencies like water agencies, sanitation districts, reclamation districts, cities, and counties, as well as residential and commercial developers, private sector manufacturers, and agricultural companies. His experience includes environmental laws at the Federal, State, and local levels, with a concentration on water quality, water use, water rights, endangered species, property contamination, and environmental review compliance. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Kaylen Kadotani as Partner in San Francisco

Kadotani serves clients in a variety of settings, including business and commercial disputes, product liability and other tort and injury claims, real estate, public entity litigation, among others. He also assists clients in responding to subpoenas and other third-party inquiries, and provides advice with respect to internal policies and procedures. His promotion is effective Jan 1.

Ellis S. Raskin as Partner in Los Angeles

Raskin represents clients in matters involving CEQA, NEPA, the California Coastal Act, the Subdivision Map Act, and other environmental and land use legislation. He also advises clients regarding Political Reform Act compliance. His work has involved a range of large-scale development projects in high-stakes administrative proceedings and litigation. His promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Nicole S. Witt as Partner in Walnut Creek

Witt's practice focuses on government and public agency law. She serves as general counsel to West County Wastewater District and as deputy general counsel to Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, San Joaquin Regional Transit District, and Menlo Park Fire Protection District. She assists the firm's public agency clients with various legal issues such as public contracts and procurements, legislation, revenue measures, governance laws, and ethics issues, including conflict of interest analyses. She regularly attends client board meetings and advises on the preparation of board agendas, staff reports, resolutions, ordinances, and meeting minutes. Her promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Dakota Hickingbottom as Associate in San Diego from Judicial Law Clerk in the U.S. District Court Southern District .

Hickingbottom brings litigation experience and a unique vantage point of the judicial system from her two-year judicial clerkship with the Judge Ruth Bermudez Montenegro of the Southern District of California.

Austin S. Prewitt as Associate in Del Mar, San Diego from Withersworldwide.

Prewitt is in the firm's Business Trial practice group, Tax practice group and Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer team. He focuses his practice on trust, estate and inheritance disputes, including trust contests, contested accountings and breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims. He also assists with estate and tax planning for individuals and families, estate and trust administration and charitable planning. Prewitt helps clients understand the tax consequences of their transactions as well as various estate planning and gifting techniques to help achieve their goals.

Mariah Lohse as Associate in Del Mar, San Diego from Withersworldwide.

Lohse is in the Tax practice group and Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer team. She focuses her practice on a variety of private client capacities, including estate planning and family office structuring and transfers.

Allison M. Hirsch as Special Counsel in Del Mar, San Diego from Withersworldwide.

Hirsh is in the Tax practice group and Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer team. She works with high-net-worth individuals in estate planning, estate and trust administration, estate and gift taxation, business succession planning and charitable giving.

Matthew R. Owens as Partner in Del Mar, San Diego from Withersworldwide.

Owens is in the Business Trial practice group and Private Wealth and Fiduciary Litigation team. He focuses on trust, estate and inheritance disputes, having prosecuted and defended a wide range of matters in probate court including trust contests, elder abuse actions, accountings, contested conservatorships and claims involving breach of fiduciary duty. His clients include high net worth individuals and families, corporate trustees and private professional fiduciaries. He has handled numerous trials and arbitrations of trusts and estates disputes as well as appeals, including two cases that resulted in published opinions. Owens is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Jenny Hill Bratt as Partner in Del Mar, San Diego from Withersworldwide.

Bratt is in the Tax practice group and Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer team. She focuses on U.S. and international estate and income tax planning, trusts and estates administration, family and closely held business planning and charitable planning and exempt organizations. She advises U.S.-based individuals who own foreign assets on the manner in which such assets should be structured as well as their tax compliance obligations, routinely employing transfer tax mitigation techniques. Bratt also advises clients in planning and implementing charitable gifts and assists with the formation of private foundations and private operating foundations. Bratt is a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Maisie C. Sokolove as Managing Partner in Walnut Creek

Sokolove assumes the role from long-time managing partner Thomas E. Fraysse. Sokolove focuses on insurance fraud litigation, with an emphasis in healthcare. She represents insurers and other payors in affirmative civil actions to redress false, fraudulent, or misleading insurance and benefits claims. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Jennifer F. Scharre as Partner in San Francisco from Temmerman, Cilley & Kohlmann, LLP.

Scharre's practice focuses on sophisticated wealth transfer strategies for high-net-worth clients, including founders, individuals at startups, and clients with large real estate portfolios. Her estate planning practice includes working with clients to develop and execute their legacy goals, including drafting estate planning and entity documents. She also represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in all aspects of trust and estate administration, including preparation of trust accountings and estate and gift tax returns.

Caroline O. Van Wagoner as Partner in San Diego

Van Wagoner represents companies in complex civil litigation and government and internal investigations. She has experience in all stages of litigation and in a variety of matters, including antitrust and unfair competition, class actions, fraud, commercial disputes, and intellectual property. She also regularly defends clients in investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Her promotion becomes effective Jan. 1.

Joseph J. Boylan as Partner in Los Angeles

Boylan is an experienced litigator who represents corporations and financial institutions in a variety of complex civil disputes and regulatory matters. He regularly advises corporate clients regarding both affirmative claims and civil defenses in connection with multijurisdictional litigation, securities class actions, and private arbitrations. His promotion becomes effective Jan. 1.

David J. Feder as Partner in Los Angeles

Feder focuses on legal issues in whatever tribunal they arise. He has particular experience in areas such as products liability (especially public nuisance law), tort law more generally, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Unfair Competition Law (UCL), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), federal preemption, and many others. His promotion becomes effective Jan. 1.

Benjamin Chouka as Partner in Orange County

Chouka has advised a variety of clients in M&A and private equity transactions as well as venture capital and growth equity financings. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, cross-border transactions, restructurings, and corporate governance matters. He represents public companies, middle-market private companies, and start-up companies alike and is most active in the technology (including software, semiconductor, and fintech), health care, life sciences, and energy industries. His promotion becomes effective Jan. 1.

Jon Walter Gurka as Partner in Orange County from Knobbe Martens Olsen & Bear LLP.

Gurka's intellectual property practice spans patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and breach of contract matters. He handles cases that involve complex technologies, including blockchain, semiconductor processing and manufacturing, computer hardware and software systems, microprocessor control systems, electro-mechanical control systems, complex digital signal processing techniques, computer numerical control machines and systems, telecommunications, medical devices and surgical procedures, and thermodynamic systems and processes.

Jason C. Ford as Partner

Ford helps venture capital and private equity firms with the formation, organization and operation of funds and their general partner and related management company entities. He advises funds in all aspects of their operations, including compliance with securities laws and ERISA requirements, and related reporting obligations. Additionally, Ford counsels firms on governance matters, including the admission and withdrawal of managers, hiring and departure of employees, and the issuance of carried interest. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

David S. Moore as Partner in Los Angeles

Moore represents technology and other companies in mergers and acquisitions. He advises sellers, buyers and investors in mergers, stock purchases, asset sales and other strategic transactions. His clients have included consumer internet, software, defense technology, telecommunications and entertainment companies, as well as venture capital firms, financial institutions and industrial companies. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Christopher R. Partin as Partner in Silicon Valley

Partin's practice focuses on the formation and structuring of venture capital and growth equity funds and their related general partner and management company entities, as well as all aspects of their day-to-day operations. He also counsels clients on corporate governance matters, securities laws and regulations and other aspects of the regulatory framework applicable to the formation and operation of investment funds. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Sogoal A. Salari as Partner in Silicon Valley

Salari represents emerging growth companies in various sectors, including consumer internet, software, health care and financial technology. She provides corporate and governance advice to founders throughout the growth lifecycle, including managing venture capital financings and M&A and other transactions. She also represents several leading venture capital firms. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.

Jennifer Sayles Okorn as Partner in Los Angeles

Okorn represents technology, emerging growth and other companies in mergers and acquisitions. She advises sellers, buyers and investors in mergers, stock purchases, asset sales and other strategic transactions. She also advises clients on general corporate and governance matters. Her clients include high-growth companies in the consumer internet, software, telecommunications and entertainment sectors, as well as venture capital firms. The promotion is effective Jan. 1.