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Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 21, 2022


Lisa H Lazarus as of counsel in San Francisco from Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP.

Lazarus focuses on toxic tort and product liability litigation and represents and defends corporate clients in all aspects of complex litigation from the pleading stage through mediation, trial, and settlement.


Morrison & Foerster LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 21, 2022


Teresa M.L. Tate as partner in San Francisco from Perkins Coie LLP.

Tate’s practice focuses on representing private and public companies in their acquisitions, dispositions, and other complex business combinations. She also represents investors and private companies in ECVC matters, spanning venture capital investments, strategic opportunities, liquidity events, and general corporate matters.

Daphne M Higgs as Partner in Palo Alto from Perkins Coie LLP.

Higgs represents clients in complex technology transactions, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, machine learning, open source, entertainment, cloud offerings, consumer products, eXtended reality, drones, and the transfer of technologies from universities. She also provides strategic IP, privacy, and data security advice on M&A and venture capital transactions.


Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 21, 2022


Christina Q. Bouchot as Partner in Los Angeles from Goodwin Procter LLP.

Bouchot counsels clients on their most critical employment and compliance issues, whether that means addressing founder disputes, drafting employment policies, making recommendations on the use of restrictive covenants, advising on compliance with wage-and-hour laws, or making recommendations on reductions in force. She also handles investigations and complaints involving allegations of sexual harassment, whistleblowing and discrimination. While she has experience representing companies in many industries, she has a particular focus on technology companies and private equity firms, and understands the nuances of their cultures and unique employment challenges.

Caroline E. Cherkassky as Partner in Santa Monica from Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP.

Cherkassky’s practice focuses on venture financings and corporate governance matters, and the general day-to-day legal needs of startups. She has also counseled companies on M&A, securities and technology transactions matters.


Proskauer Rose LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 21, 2022


Vinay Kohli as Partner in Los Angeles from King & Spalding LLP.

Kohli will focus his practice on clients across the healthcare industry.


Snell & Wilmer LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 21, 2022


Howard M. Privette as Partner in Orange County from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP..

Privette is an experienced trial lawyer and a member of the firm's commercial litigation practice group whose practice focuses on securities and corporate governance litigation


Maynard Cooper & Gale

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 28, 2022


Karen T Tsui as Associate in Los Angeles, CA from Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP.

Tsui is a litigator with experience in insurance coverage disputes, bad faith liability actions, and other contractual disputes. She focuses her practice on ERISA and employee benefits, including the representation of insurers in life, health, and disability litigation. Karen is an Associate in Maynard's Insurance & Financial Services Litigation Practice. She has substantial experience in all phases of civil litigation, including written and expert discovery, law and motion practice, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.

Address

1901 Sixth Avenue North, Suite 1700 , Birmingham 35203 United States
T: (205) 488-3627


Littler

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 22, 2022


Michelle Ann Clark as Shareholder in Fresno from Gerardo Hernandez .

Clark has extensive experience in technology-focused litigation, including representing clients in cases involving patent and trade secret claims, breach of contract allegations, and unfair competition matters.


Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 29, 2022


Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey as Shareholder in Los Angeles from Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP.

Weinberg-Fahey focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions. She represents and advises property owners, developers, tenants, lenders, and investors on acquisitions and dispositions, development, construction, joint ventures, secured loans, and workouts for retail, hospitality, office, aviation, and multifamily projects. She also advises clients on brokerage rules and regulations.


Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 29, 2022


Dennis Huang as Partner in Los Angeles from Glaser Weil LLP.

Huang's practice includes estate and gift planning for domestic and international clients, charitable giving, and probate and trust administration.

Address

One Wilshire Blvd, #2000 , Los Angeles 90017 United States
T: (213) 629-7633
F: (213) 624-1376


Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.

Published: Mar. 29, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 28, 2022


Tina Li as Associate in San Francisco from Rankin, Shuey, Ranucci, Mintz, Lampasona & Reynolds .

Li counsels clients in a variety of matters relating to medical malpractice, professional liability, general liability and personal injury defense. She has represented hospitals, doctors, general contractors, commercial property owners, and professional athletic teams in all phases of litigation.

Address

580 California Street Suite 1100 , San Francisco 94104 United States
T: (415) 788-1900


Blank Rome LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Saul Breskal as Partner in Los Angeles from Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP.

Breskal represents commercial real estate investors, developers, and high-net-worth individuals in the entertainment and hospitality sectors on a range of commercial and residential real estate transactions. He has represented film studios, hotels, and casinos in connection with the purchase, finance, and construction of complex projects, including as lead counsel for Las Vegas CityCenter.


Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP.

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 1, 2022


Jonathan E. Shardlow as Partner in Irvine, CA from Gresham Savage.

Shardlow represents commercial real estate owners and developers in the industrial, retail, and multifamily sectors on a variety of land use issues including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance and related litigation and transactional matters. Jonathan's experience extends throughout California, with particular focus in the Inland Empire.

Address

1900 Main Street, 5th Floor , Irvine 92614-7321 USA
T: (949) 851-5422


Nossaman

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Anna C. Tang as Co-Chair, Corporate Group in Los Angeles

Tang will serve as co-chair of the firm's Corporate Group . Tang represents and advises emerging and established companies across a broad range of industries as transactional and general corporate counsel with respect to a wide variety of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements and negotiations and corporate governance.

Raja Sékaran as Co-Chair, Healthcare Group in San Francisco

Sékaran will serve as co-chair of the Firm's Healthcare Group. He represents healthcare delivery systems, health plans, hospitals, a major academic medical center, a county Local Health Authority, Federally Qualified Health Centers, medical groups, medical device companies, other providers, private equity investors, trade associations and California's private exchange for purchasing small group insurance.


DLA Piper

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Stephen Taeusch as Partner in San Francisco from Goodwin Procter LLP.

Taeusch represents employers in state and federal courts in a wide variety of employment-related matters, including wage and hour, wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, unfair business practices and retaliation claims in single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff and class action litigation.


Allen & Overy LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Lisa Nguyen as Partner in Silicon Valley from Latham & Watkins LLP.

Nguyen represents cutting-edge technology companies in intellectual property matters, particularly in litigation against non-practicing entities.


Goodwin Procter LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


David McFarlane as Partner in Los Angeles from Crowell & Moring LLP.

McFarlane advises clients on a broad range of matters under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, and other laws related to retirement, health, and welfare benefits, as well as executive compensation.


Haynes and Boone, LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Kenneth Gerald Parker as Partner in Orange County/San Francisco from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Parker represents industries, including life sciences (for example, research tools, analytical instrumentation/software, medical devices, diagnostics, biomanufacturing systems, etc.), software (encryption, predictive algorithms, AI), electronics and semiconductors, and consumer products. He prides himself on leading or working with teams to best serve clients, making complex issues understandable for clients, judges, and juries, and obtaining superior results for clients.


McManis Faulkner

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 8, 2022


Abimael (AJ) Bastida as Partner in San Jose, CA

Bastida represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business, criminal and employment-related disputes. He also has experience with civil rights, probate and trust litigation and white-collar matters, representing high-level executives.


Snell & Wilmer LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 7, 2022


Howard M. Privette as Partner in Orange County from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP.

Privette is an experienced trial lawyer and a member of the firm's commercial litigation practice group. He focuses his practice on securities and corporate governance litigation. Drawing upon the invaluable experience gained from more than 30 years of trial experience representing national and international clients in a wide range of complex business disputes in courts throughout the United States, he develops innovative strategies for resolving the most challenging cases. His cases have involved disputes over business ownership issues, director and officer (D&O) liability, corporate governance, trade secrets, privacy and cybersecurity, False Claims Act and whistleblower issues, alleged corrupt practices (FCPA), price-fixing and market power, and alleged violations of regulations affecting the financial, technology, and life sciences industries.

Privette is also a noted thought leader in the areas of shareholder and fiduciary duty litigation and has represented dozens of clients with the defense of class actions involving claims by consumers and shareholders.

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Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing in 16 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Dallas, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit swlaw.com.

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Address

Plaza Tower, 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1400 , Costa Mesa 92626-7689 United States


Freedman Taitelman LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 14, 2022


Sean Hardy as Partner in Los Angeles

Hardy is a seasoned litigator, representing clients in multiple industries across all stages of the litigation process. As a dealmaker, Hardy has applied his litigator's knowledge to close difficult exit packages for high-level executives and talent in the entertainment industry. Hardy has a proven record of courtroom success at both the trial and appellate levels, resulting in several published opinions.

Benjamin Marsh as Partner in Los Angeles

Marsh is a dedicated advisor and aggressive advocate for clients engaged in high-stakes corporate, entertainment, employment, real estate, and business disputes. He has proven himself adept at quickly understanding his clients' unique concerns and implementing efficient strategies to achieve their desired objectives.

Brian Elliot Turnauer as Partner in Los Angeles

Turnauer is an experienced civil litigator whose practice focuses on issues related to entertainment, sports, employment and celebrity threat assessment. He works closely with the FBI and LAPD's Major Crimes, Celebrity Protection and Cyber-Crime divisions. He serves as counsel to athletes, actors, musicians, Youtubers, social media influencers and production companies. Turnauer is certified as a player agent by the National Basketball Players' Association (NBPA).

Miles Cooley as Partner in Los Angeles

Cooley serves as counsel to a variety of entertainers and celebrities, entertainment and media entities, major multi-national, mid-size and start-up businesses in various industries in both dispute resolution matters and in commercial transactions. Cooley has earned a reputation for being a resolution-oriented, practical problem-solver and has a record of winning solutions both in and out of the courtroom.

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Freedman + Taitelman, LLP is a litigation law firm located in Century City, which opened in 1997.


Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 14, 2022


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Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP, a national plaintiff side law firm, is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Los Angeles. The firm's new office - its second in California and fifth nationwide - will focus on complex litigation involving employment, consumer protection, and antitrust matters. The Los Angeles office is at 300 S. Grand Avenue. The office will be led by partner Jason H. Kim, who will oversee day-to-day office management and represent Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky in the Southern California legal community. Kim has led the firm's Business Litigation and Competition practice group since 2020, representing classes, municipalities, and several of the nation's largest health insurers in a wide variety of civil matters. The Los Angeles office will house two partners and six associates, bringing the total headcount for the firm to 67 lawyers. Partner Carolyn Cottrell, a member of the firm since 1995, will continue overseeing the firm's employment practice now expanding into the Los Angeles office and will be a part-time resident of that office. Cottrell has litigated hundreds of class actions and individual claims including wage and hour, employment discrimination and civil rights actions.

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Address

300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 2700 , Los Angeles 90071
T: (415) 472-7100
F: (415) 421-7105


Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 14, 2022


David C. Leimbach as Partner in Emeryville

Leimbach's practice focuses on complex litigation, with an emphasis on employment and consumer protection class actions. He has successfully litigated numerous novel legal issues in trial and appellate courts, both procedural and substantive, including a series of class actions that led to the nationwide elimination of on-call scheduling policies in the retail industry.

Ryan Hicks as Partner in Houston

Hicks has practiced civil litigation since 1998 and has represented a variety of clients in products liability, negligence, commercial, and breach of fiduciary cases against corporate and individual clients including ATV manufacturers, airlines, premises owners, banks, investment firms, public utilities, and insurance companies.

Nathan B. Piller as Partner in Emeryville

Piller is an experienced litigator focusing on complex civil litigation in the areas of employment and consumer law. He has litigated numerous class and collective action cases, including Julian, et al. v. Swift Transportation, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:16-CV-00576-ROS (D. Ariz.) (represented trainee truck drivers in a nationwide wage-and-hour collective action against the largest trucking company in United States and achieved a $14,000,000 settlement); and Shaw, et al. v. AMN Services, LLC, et al., Case No. 3:16-cv-02816-JCS (N.D. Cal.) (represented traveling nurses in a wage-and-hour class action against a large healthcare staffing company and multibillion dollar hospital system, and achieved a $20,000,000 settlement).

Amy Eskin as Partner in Emeryville

Eskin has more than 30 years of trial experience in personal injury, products liability and complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases to the firm. She was elected into the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been honored as a top attorney of Northern California by San Francisco Magazine, and received the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Civil Justice Award among other honors.

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Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky has been established in California with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. The firm represents both individuals and institutional clients such as health insurers and municipalities in complex civil litigation. In addition to the Los Angeles office, the firm maintains a nationwide practice with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Texas, North Carolina and Puerto Rico. Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky handles class actions in the areas of employment, disability access, civil rights, and consumer protection. It also litigates cases in the fields of antitrust law, ERISA, and qui tam. The firm's practice focuses on impact litigation with a goal of remedying systemic violations of the law in employment, civil rights, public accommodations, consumer fraud, antitrust, and ERISA cases.

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Miller Barondess, LLP

Published: Mar. 11, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 7, 2022


Molly C. Stephens as Partner in Los Angeles from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

Stephens has 20 years of experience litigating complex commercial cases, including disputes involving investment contracts and funds, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, structured finance, and securities law. Representing plaintiffs, Stephens has achieved settlements and verdicts worth tens of millions to tens of billions of dollars. Representing defendants, she has obtained settlements before the plaintiffs ever filed a lawsuit, dismissals with prejudice at the pleading stage, and summary judgment disposing of all claims. Stephens continues to develop practice areas related to new industries and financial practices, including cryptocurrency, esports, and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).

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Miller Barondess, LLP is a 40-lawyer litigation firm in Los Angeles. The firm handles high-stakes litigation, trial and appellate work in California and around the country; and represents clients ranging from celebrities to Fortune 500 companies to government, as well as providing pro bono assistance in the local community.

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Address

1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067
T: (310) 552-4400
F: (310) 552-8400


Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Feb. 14, 2022


Leanne O. Vanecek as Partner in Los Angeles

Vanecek's practice encompasses all aspects of business litigation across a wide spectrum of industries, including health care, energy, technology, education, and entertainment.

Sally K. Saab as Partner in Los Angeles

Saab counsels businesses and individuals on a broad range of federal, state and local tax law topics.

Eli S. Diller as Of Counsel in Los Angeles

Diller provides comprehensive representation in connection with all aspects of real estate transactions and ventures. His practice is primarily focused on office, retail and industrial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants of all sizes and sophistication levels.

Justin S. Glincher as Partner in Los Angeles

Glincher represents clients in a variety of commercial real estate matters throughout the United States. His work includes the acquisition, disposition, development and financing of commercial properties.


Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Kimberly M. Keen as Associate in San Diego from Butler Law PC.

Keen will be a part of the firm's Family Law practice group.


Liebert Cassidy Whitmore

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


James "Jeb" Brown as Senior Counsel in Los Angeles from Riverside County Counsel.

Brown's practice specializes in civil litigation, and personal injury and construction defect matters.


Morrison & Foerster LLP

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Paul Navarro as Partner in Los Angeles from Perkins Coie LLP.

Navarro represents start-ups, emerging growth companies, and investors in a variety of corporate and technology transactions covering all stages of the ECVC life cycle, with a focus on Latin America.


Ropes & Gray LLP

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Bianca Levin-Soler as Partner in Los Angeles from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Levin-Soler represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, SPACs and restructurings.


Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Colin G Conklin as Partner in San Francisco from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP.

Conklin's practice focuses on public and private offerings of securities for issuers and underwriters, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate counseling of emerging growth technology and life sciences companies.


Latham & Watkins LLP

Published: Mar. 7, 2022 | Announced: Mar. 2, 2022


Marjan Vaseghi as Partner in Menlo Park from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

Vaseghi advises clients on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits matters in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions. She also represents companies, board compensation committees, and senior executives with respect to executive compensation matters.