Judicate West
Timothy Michael Casserly
as neutral
in San Diego
from San Diego County Superior Court.
Casserly presided over criminal and
civil trials.
He is based in San Diego.
Address
402 W Broadway, , San Diego 92101 USA
T:
(619) 814-1966
F:
(619) 814-1967
U.S. Department of Labor
Julie Ann Su
as deputy secretary
in Washington
from California Department of Labor .
Su was California labor secretary
and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate
on July 13.
She is based in Washington, D.C.
Address
200 Constitution Ave NW Suite S-2312 , Washington 20210 USA
T:
(202) 693-5959
F:
(202) 693-6111
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Brenton R Babcock
as partner and chair of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board trials practice
in Los Angeles
Babcock focuses on intellectual
property disputes.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 2200 , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T:
(310) 282-2000
F:
(310) 282-2200
Jamra, Jamra & Hanasab LLP (formerly Jamra & Jamra LLP)
Michael B. Hanasab
as partner
in Beverly Hills
He specializes in family law matters,
including divorce, paternity, child custody, spousal and child support and
domestic violence.
He is based in Beverly Hills.
Meyers Nave APC
Palmer Hilton
as associate
in Sacramento
from Somach Simmons & Dunn.
Hilton focuses on public agency, environmental, land use and water rights law.
He is based in Sacramento.
Address
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1200 , Sacramento 95814 USA
T:
(916) 556-1531
F:
(916) 556-1516
Spaulding McCullough & Tansil LLP
Ashlee M. Hellman
as associate
in Santa Rosa
Hellman focuses on estate planning and estate administration.
She is based in Santa Rosa.
Address
90 South E St Ste 200 , Santa Rosa 95404-6500 USA
T:
(707) 524-1900
Noonan Lance Boyer & Banach LLP
Sara Noonan
as associate
in San Diego
Noonan focuses on general civil litigation, complex business disputes, professional liability litigation and employment cases.
She is based in San Diego.
Address
701 Island Ave, Ste 400 , San Diego 92101-7143 USA
T:
(619) 780-0880
CaseyGerry
Eric Ganci
as Associate Attorney
in San Diego
CaseyGerry has promoted Eric Ganci to associate attorney. Ganci previously worked as a staff lawyer for CaseyGerry's complex litigation team and now joins its serious personal injury practice group.
He is based in San Diego.
Miller Barondess, LLP
Jamie D. Vogel
as Associate
in Los Angeles, CA
from Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Vogel is a litigator with experience representing clients in complex civil litigation matters, including commercial business, real estate and entertainment disputes, and contested probate and trust litigation.
Address
1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067 United States
T:
(310) 552-4400
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Joshua Hill Jr
as patner
in San Francisco and New York
from Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Hill specializes in investigations, white collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation.
He is based in San Francisco and New York.
Address
943 Steiner St , San Francisco 94117-1619 USA
T:
(628) 432-5123
F:
(628) 232-3090
Withers
Kevin T. Keen
as partner
in San Diego and Houston.
Keen specializes in tax and private client matters such as wealth transfer, family governance, business succession and estate, gift and generation skipping transfer tax.
He is based in San Diego and Houston.
Kimberly Pallen
as partner
in San Francisco
Pallen specializes in complex civil litigation related to art, employment and trade secrets.
She is based in San Francisco.
Yin T. Ho
as partner
in San Francisco
Ho focuses on real estate transactions and litigation involving acquisitions and sales, title matters, financing, leasing, joint ventures,
mixed use projects, land use entitlements, environmental law and real estate taxation.
He is based in San Francisco.
Jones Day
Abradat Kamalpour
as partner
in San Francisco and London
from Ashurst LLP.
Kamalpour specializes in financial technology, structured finance and financial transactions.
He is based in San Francisco and London.
Address
555 California Street 26th Floor , San Francisco 94104 USA
T:
(415) 626-3939
F:
(415) 875-5700
Mayer Brown LLP
John Nadolenco
as managing partner
in Los Angeles
Nadolenco specializes in civil litigation with a focus on high stakes disputes and class action defense. He has served on Mayer Brown's partnership board and led the litigation and dispute resolution practice.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Irell & Manella LLP
Andrei Iancu
as partner
The office will be led by partner Andrei Iancu, former undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
He will split his time between Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Michael Fleming
as of counsel
Fleming will join Iancu and split his time between the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. He is a former chief administrative patent judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and has been with the firm since 2015.
Ballard Spahr LLP
Tracy Rane
as of counsel
in Los Angeles
from Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP.
Rane specializes in litigation and settlement negotiations related to copyright and trademark infringement, defamation, right of publicity and privacy and breach of contract.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Address
2029 Century Park E, Ste 1400 , Los Angeles 90067-2915 USA
T:
(424) 204-4400
F:
(424) 204-4400
Buchalter
Marlene J. Williams
as shareholder
in San Francisco
from Nixon Peabody LLP.
Buchalter bolstered its intellectual property practice with the addition of shareholder Marlene J. Williams in San Francisco.
The firm announced her addition on Thursday from Nixon Peabody LLP, where she worked for 10 years and helped to develop the West Coast trademark practice.
"I am really impressed by the level of expertise of the Buchalter attorneys and its model that allows for efficient service to clients by experienced attorneys," Williams said of her decision to move. The firm's platform will not only benefit her clients, but allow her to grow and expand her practice, she said.
She looks forward to helping continue the build out of the intellectual property practice, which she said is a strong focus for Buchalter.
Williams specializes in building and protecting clients' trademark and copyright assets. She gives clients advice on how to maximize the value of their brands and copyrights and avoid risks when developing new assets and creative works. Her clients range in size in the entertainment, performing arts, technology, wine and alcoholic beverage, apparel and food sectors.
"I have several recording artist clients and I really enjoy working with them and helping shape their creative ideas into concrete business and IP protection. It's really a lot of fun," she said.
President and chief executive officer Adam Bass, said in a news release, "With her impressive background and significant intellectual property expertise, she will be a perfect fit for our San Francisco office."
Address
55 2nd St, Ste 1700 , San Francisco 94105-3493 USA
T:
(415) 227-0900
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Rachel M. Sanders
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Sanders represents landlords, purchasers, sellers and developers in commercial real estate matters and litigation.
Derek G. Weisbender
as Partner
in Irvine
Weisbender specializes in design, construction and other development agreements for international projects.
Maxwell B. Shapiro
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Shapiro advises clients in complex acquisitions and dispositions and commercial leasing with a focus on build-to-suit purchase agreements and large portfolio transactions.
Jessica Chu
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Chu structures, negotiates and documents complex joint ventures and business transactions for equity investors, financial institutions and developers.
Steven M. Farenbaugh
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Farenbaugh specializes in acquisitions and dispositions of commercial office, industrial and retail properties, as well as leasing transactions.
Hueston Hennigan LLP
Christina Von der Ahe Rayburn
as partner
in Los Angeles
Rayburn represents technology companies in high stakes litigation related to patent, copyright and trade secrets.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Padraic Foran
as partner
in Los Angeles
Foran focuses on complex civil litigation involving fraud, trade secrets and professional liability.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Alston & Bird LLP
Chaka Patterson
as partner
in San Francisco
from Adtalem Global Education Inc..
Patterson specializes in litigation, investigations and corporate governance. At Adtalem, he was senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.
He is based in San Francisco.
Address
560 Mission Street Suite 2100 , San Francisco 94105-0912 USA
T:
(415) 243-1025
Judicate West
Norman P. Tarle
as neutral
in Los Angeles
from Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Tarle served on the bench for 20 years and presided over a calendar of personal injury, professional malpractice, contract, real property, warrant of habitability and landlord/tenant cases.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
601 S Figueroa St #3400 , Los Angeles 90071 USA
T:
(310) 442-2100
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Daniel Bryant
as cyber defense forensic lead at the Office of Emergency Services
in Loomis
Bryant has been an FBI task force leader since 2018 and has been with the bureau since 2003.
He is based in Loomis.
David Scribner
as director of the California Department of Community Services and Development
in Sacramento
Scribner has been the acting director and chief counsel for the department since 2017 and a sole practitioner since 2003.
He is based in Sacramento.
Cappello & Noël LLP
Richard Lloyd
as Associate
in Santa Barbara
Lloyd joined Cappello & Noël LLP in 2015 as a paralegal. After relocating to the U.S. in 2010, he provided consulting services to legal fee experts and litigation finance providers in both the U.K. and U.S.
He is based in Santa Barbara.
Matthew Liam Hofer
as Associate
in Santa Barbara
from King & Spalding LLP.
Hofer has experience in all stages of civil litigation and has experience with regulatory agencies including the California Coastal Commission, California Air Resources Board, Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Water Replenishment District of Southern California and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
He is based in Santa Barbara.
Address
831 State St. , Santa Barbara 93101 United States
T:
(805) 564-2444
Michelman & Robinson, LLP
Mehmet Baysan
as Chair of Cross-Border Litigation and Arbitration
in New York (Firm headquartered in Los Angeles)
Baysan advises entities, individuals and governments in cross-border disputes and arbitrations, as well as in investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, export violations and U.S. economic sanctions.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC
Ursula L. Clemons
as special counsel
in Orange County
Clemons is the former presiding judge of California's Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board's Southern
California office.
She is based in Orange County.
Address
695 Town Center Drive Suite 1500 , Costa Mesa 92626 USA
T:
(714) 800-7900
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
Eric Landau
as partner and co-chair of the securities litigation department
Landau specializes in corporate governance and will lead the firm's Newport Beach office.
He is based in Newport Beach.
Travis Biffar
as partner
Biffar specializes in high stakes litigation and corporate governance disputes.
He is based in Newport Beach.
Address
18101 Von Karman Avenue Suite 230 , Irvine 92612 USA
T:
(212) 370-1300
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Address
3655 Nobel Dr., Suite 600 , San Diego 92122 USA
T:
(858) 434-5020
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Juan F. Cornejo
as deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Motor Vehicles
in Sacramento
Cornejo was assistant general counsel at McClatchy Company LLC since 2003.
He is based in Sacramento.
Kelly X. Ranasinghe
as member of the Board of Behavioral Sciences
in El Centro
Ranasinghe has been on the board since 2020 and previously was deputy county counsel in Imperial County.
She is based in El Centro.
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Ruth Spillane
as partner
in San Diego
Spillane, who has been with the firm since 2008, advises corporate clients on immigration matters including employment based nonimmigrant visa petitions and adjustment of status applications.
She is based in San Diego.
Andrea Rush
as of counsel
in Silicon Valley
Rush focuses on employment and family immigration matters including visa petitions and related labor certification processes.
She is based in Silicon Valley.
Arent Fox LLP
Scott Adamson
as partner
in Los Angeles
from Alston & Bird LLP.
Adamson specializes in corporate transactions ranging from leveraged buyouts to going private deals.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
555 West Fifth Street, 48th Floor , Los Angeles 90013 USA
T:
(213) 443-7595
F:
(213) 629-7401
Ballard Spahr LLP
Grant H. Dowd
as partner
in Los Angeles
Dowd specializes in real estate finance and investment
transactions.
He is based in Los Angeles.