Janine F Cohen was promoted to partner of Isaacs • Friedberg • Zill LLP in Los Angeles.

Cohen represents companies and individuals in a wide variety of civil actions, including breach of contract, fraud, financial mismanagement, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark counterfeiting, RICO, employment, personal injury, professional malpractice, commercial leasing, insurance coverage and class actions.

Stacey L Zill as name partner in Los Angeles

Zill's practice is national in scope and focuses on acting in a general counsel role to nursing and rehabilitation centers and the representation of corporate and individual providers in complex healthcare litigation and transactions involving a wide range of matters and issues, including corporate governance, fraud, breach of contract and fiduciary duty, unfair competition, false claims act investigations and litigation, payment disputes, and regulatory compliance.

Michael Burshteyn joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP as shareholder in San Francisco.

Burshteyn litigates complex commercial disputes and class actions involving privacy, crypto, data security, AI, and other novel technology issues as well as startup controversies. He is lead counsel in multiple cases involving more than $100m in controversy. He also represents clients in cybercrime, crypto, and consumer protection investigations and regulatory inquiries.

Jeremy E. Beal joined Everett Dorey LLP as partner in Irvine, CA.

Beal specializes in first-party and third-party insurance coverage matters, complex insurance litigation, and property damage litigation. He provides counsel to insurers nationwide. He has extensive experience representing general contractors and insurers of general contractors in all manner of litigation and insurance coverage related matters. He also represents a wide range of businesses, providing counsel on contractual issues, formation, and litigation on public and private works projects.

Hans C. Ruschke joined Everett Dorey LLP as partner in Irvine, CA.

Ruschke is a seasoned civil litigator who represents businesses and corporations in catastrophic injury and property damage litigation. He also counsels and advises general contractors, construction-related businesses, and their insurance carriers in all types of litigation and risk management. Additionally, Hans has experience representing businesses in product liability matters. Hans is highly accomplished in defending major insurance companies and corporate clients in state courts, as well as in ADR proceedings, and has successfully tried cases in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Kristen Paolucci joined Everett Dorey LLP as senior associate in Irvine, CA.

Paolucci's practice includes construction defect (SB-800 claims, risk management, insurance issues, contract and subcontract issues and evaluation, construction defect defense, WRAP policy projects, under-insured projects, carrier exhaustion issues, and material and product supplier issues); product liability; personal injury (wrongful death and injury cases); nuisance; trespass; and inverse condemnation. She has extensive experience representing general contractors, geotechnical engineers, civil and structural engineers, and other construction-related businesses in all types of litigation. She has successfully defended major insurance companies and corporate clients in both state and federal court.

Jill H. Ratner joined Sony Pictures as general counsel in Los Angeles.

Beginning May 28, Ratner will assume responsibility for Sony's legal functions, compliance and labor relations, music affairs, government/external affairs, and corporate social responsibility activities. She will report directly to CEO Tony Vinciquerra.

Andrew A. Razma joined Zelms Erlich Lenkov & Mack as associate in Los Angeles.

Razma's practice is focused on product liability, in the retail, restaurant, and hospitality litigation field. He has worked on a variety of insurance defense cases involving premises liability, product liability, and motor vehicle accidents.

Halley B. Thiel joined Zelms Erlich Lenkov & Mack as associate in Los Angeles.

Thiel has worked exclusively with businesses and corporations, from startup assistance to litigation. Currently, her focus is on representing retail entities in state and federal court.

Tiffany E. Sohrabian joined Zelms Erlich Lenkov & Mack as associate in Los Angeles.

Sohrabian has spent most of her career in the entertainment and sports industries, representing top MLB talent at a premier baseball agency, as well as cases for entertainment venues, sports teams and organizations, and retail and hospitality companies. Her practice now primarily focuses on defending premises liability, products liability, and general negligence cases for the Retail, Restaurant and Hospitality Team as well as the Entertainment and Sports Team.

Martin Stratte joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Stratte is a natural resources and project development attorney who helps clients with permitting, rezonings, and related litigation throughout the US, including defense of permits that are challenged in court. He focuses his practice on the mining industry; his experience covers a wide variety of projects and land uses, including shopping centers, freight terminals, brownfields redevelopment, mitigation and conservation banking, and some of the largest distribution centers in Southern California. He is currently permitting offshore wind and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects. He also helps clients with due diligence, transactional work, and the resolution of alleged violations.

Thomas Andrew Schultz was promoted to partner of Panish Shea Ravipudi LLP in Los Angeles.

Schultz focuses his practice on representing plaintiffs in a variety of complex civil cases involving claims of catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, product liability and financial loss, as well as pharmaceutical and medical device cases. During his career as a plaintiff's attorney, Schultz has represented approximately 4,000 clients with $2 billion in settlements and verdicts on behalf of his clients.

David T. Hayek joined Hinshaw & Culbertson as partner in Los Angeles.

Hayek represents domestic insurers, syndicates, and consortiums in the London and European insurance markets. He handles first and third-party insurance coverage matters for clients in a broad range of industry sectors, including the sharing economy, aviation, real estate, environmental, and construction. He also represents companies in product liability and toxic tort liability cases and has an active appellate practice. Prior to entering private practice, Hayek served as a law clerk to former California Supreme Court Justice John A. Arguelles.

Brian A. Paino joined Hinshaw & Culbertson as partner in Los Angeles.

Paino has almost 20 years of experience successfully representing mortgage servicers, lenders, and other financial services companies in litigation related to a wide range of state and federal consumer protection laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Truth-in-Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, and California's Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. He also handles commercial litigation involving complex business disputes, bankruptcy matters, and federal, state, and bankruptcy appeals.

Esther E. Cho joined Stradley Ronon as partner in charge in Long Beach.

Cho is a seasoned litigator with a particular focus on securities and regulatory matters. She regularly represents financial services firms in state and federal court and before arbitral tribunals in proceedings involving violations of state and federal securities laws and related rules and regulations.

David D. Piper joined Stradley Ronon as partner in Long Beach.

Piper has over two decades of experience advising individuals and global companies in commercial disputes, securities arbitration proceedings, privacy and cybersecurity matters, residential and commercial real estate issues, and all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency.

Neal S. Robb joined Stradley Ronon as partner in Long Beach.

Robb brings over three decades of experience representing financial services firms and their executives in a broad array of complex and high-stakes commercial and general business litigation. He routinely defends securities firms, investment banks, credit card issuers, lenders, brokers and financial advisers in judicial and arbitration proceedings.

Melanie L. Ronen joined Stradley Ronon as partner in Long Beach.

Ronen represents employers across a broad array of industries, advising on all aspects of employment law, including hiring, promotion, termination, privacy, wage and hour, disability and protected leave, and retaliation and whistleblower issues. She also litigates single-plaintiff employment disputes in state and federal courts and arbitration, as well as complex, class and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions.

Bentley P. Stansbury joined Stradley Ronon as partner in Long Beach.

Stansbury focuses on financial services litigation, handling proceedings in state and federal court and arbitration. He represents clients in securities, employment, commercial, real estate and probate disputes and has secured large defense awards on behalf of broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, clearing firms, investment banks and financial advisers.

Will Wagner joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP as shareholder in Sacramento.

Wagner focuses his practice in the areas of consumer product defense and regulatory compliance in California. His practice centers on the defense of consumer claims involving California's unique Proposition 65 and consumer false advertising class actions. He defends companies such as personal care product brands, food and beverage producers, and textile companies in lawsuits relating to chemicals of concern including heavy metals, PFAS, titanium dioxide, hexavalent chromium, and phthalates.

Roslyn Soudry joined Offit Kurman as principal in Los Angeles.

Soudry's practice focuses on the dissolution of marriage, spousal and child support matters-marital agreements, post-marital agreements, and paternity matters. She works with high-net-worth individuals, wealthy business owners, sports and entertainment clients, television producers, attorneys, physicians, investment advisors and owners of substantial real estate.

Patrick Harder joined Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Harder is the firm's North American co-head of Infrastructure. Public agencies actively seek his guidance in procuring some of the nation's largest, most important projects. Clients have confidence that Harder can mitigate risks, solve problems and advance their projects smoothly and successfully - often through cutting-edge approaches. His deep private sector background broadens his perspective in assisting public clients. Earlier in his career, he served as general counsel and executive manager for two of the world's largest construction and engineering firms, both based in Japan.

Daniel Wu joined Thompson Coburn LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Wu joins the Business Litigation practice, where he represents national and regional banks, financial institutions, software companies, and business entities across many different industries in complex commercial litigation.

Lily N. Chinn joined Hogan Lovells as partner in San Francisco.

Chinn advises clients in the tech, energy, and manufacturing sectors on environmental concerns, workplace safety, trust and safety protocols, and corporate governance. Whether addressing these matters individually or collectively, she assists companies in strengthening their compliance frameworks to mitigate risks while negotiating advantageous resolutions to multifaceted government inquiries. She has extensive experience as a trial attorney for the DOJ's Environmental Defense Section and as a prosecutor in the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section.

Katherine A. Tuohy joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as associate in San Diego.

Tuohy served as a judicial extern for Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire. In this role, she conducted legal research and provided analysis and proposed dispositions for motions and proceedings in both criminal and civil cases. Additionally, she gained litigation experience as a student attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender, assisting in representing criminal clients in all phases of felony and misdemeanor cases.

Gabriela M. Vasquez joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as associate in San Diego.

Vasquez represents high-net-worth individuals in dissolution actions and complex family law cases and regularly consults with forensic accountants, prepares clients for mediation, and drafts marital settlement agreements. Previously, Vasquez practiced civil litigation, handling premise liability and product liability cases.

Clifford D. Sethness joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Sethness handles and oversees the full range of employment litigation in federal and state court, and arbitrations. His cases range from a federal court wage-hour class action alleging over $1 billion in damages, to multiplaintiff discrimination and retaliation claims, to contentious single-plaintiff termination and failure to promote claims.

Kent M. Roger joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP as senior counsel in San Francisco.

Roger represents clients in labor and employment law matters, as well as antitrust litigation and investigations, with a focus on the maritime, energy, high-technology, automotive and mobility, and transportation industries. He litigates class action and complex business disputes at trial, on appeals, and in arbitrations involving alleged cartels, monopolies, predatory pricing, and other unfair competition matters.

Taylor D. Horn joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP as counsel in San Francisco.

Horn provides employers with advice and representation, helping them navigate California’s employment laws and avoid litigation. When litigation is inevitable, Taylor guides his clients through all phases. He helps employers with a range of matters, from single-plaintiff wrongful termination suits to large wage-and-hour class and representative actions.

Gina Binder joined Goldberg Segalla as special counsel in Los Angeles.

Binder is a workers' compensation litigator and advisor, providing counsel to insurers, employers, and third-party administrators across California. With over 12 years of dedicated focus on workers' compensation defense, she has a wealth of experience managing cases from inception to settlement or trial. Binder excels in developing discovery, settlement, and litigation strategies tailored to the unique needs of each case and client. She is a skilled negotiator with a record of accomplishing favorable outcomes for her clients. In addition to her legal skills, she empowers her clients through education, equipping employers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of California workers' compensation.

Ellyn Garofalo was promoted to office managing shareholder of Carlton Fields in Los Angeles.

Garofalo is an experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on the defense and prosecution of complex civil matters including breach of contract claims, partnership disputes, securities and investor fraud claims, real estate litigation, and other business disputes. Her practice also includes a wide range of criminal and regulatory matters, including white collar criminal defense and SEC enforcement actions. In her three decades of courtroom experience, she has defended clients in matters involving allegations of securities, bank, mortgage, health care, internet, and tax fraud. She joined the firm in 2021.

Jason J. Kim was promoted to partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Los Angeles.

Kim focuses his practice on class action defense and other complex commercial litigation in the data breach, financial services and consumer contexts. He has represented clients at trial and on appeal in all manner of business disputes and has litigated multiple highly publicized data breach class actions, financial services class actions and consumer class actions for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 companies.

Nare Kupelian joined Zimmerman Reed LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Kupelian represents consumers and misclassified employees. She brings thoughtful analysis and creative thinking to her practice, which focuses on employee rights, consumer protections, and privacy and data breaches.

Bryan Kirsh was promoted to managing trial attorney of Shegerian & Associates in Los Angeles.

Kirsh specializes in employment law. He assisted in securing several notable verdicts on behalf of his clients.

Johanna Bracy joined Judicate West as neutral in Los Angeles.

In her mediation career, Bracy has successfully settled hundreds of disputes and has expertise with employment, real estate and business matters. In 2020, she founded her own mediation firm, Bracy Mediation. She has also worked as a corporate attorney representing regulated industries, a public interest lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and as a management-side labor relations executive.

Laura M. Franco joined Mintz as member in San Francisco.

Franco's practice encompasses trademark prosecution, brand enforcement and protection, and IP licensing. She represents start-ups to Fortune 500 companies across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, technology, video games, entertainment, and consumer products. She leverages her extensive knowledge of global brand protection and in-house experience with a video game developer, Laura provides guidance on all aspects of trademark portfolio development and management. Clients also seek her counsel on intellectual property matters related to financing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.