C.B. Rome joined Bienert Katzman Littrell Williams LLP as an associate in Los Angeles. The move was Nov. 10, 2025.

C.B. focuses her practice on representing companies and executives in internal and government-facing investigations, white collar defense and regulatory enforcement matters, and complex commercial litigation. She has conducted internal investigations and defended inquiries led by a range of criminal and regulatory authorities, including the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

She has also worked on complex commercial litigation matters involving breach of contract, consumer protection, and intellectual property disputes. Her representative matters include advising a global auction house on an internal investigation of senior executive misconduct, representing a global manufacturer and distributor in connection with a criminal investigation by the DOJ pertaining to alleged consumer product safety violations, and defending a senior executive against a federal investigation regarding alleged conspiracy to circumvent FDA regulations.

C.B. earned her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and recognized as a Sayre Macneil Scholar. She served as chief note and comment editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, co-vice chair of Loyola's LGBTQ student organization, OUTlaw, participated in Loyola's Project for the Innocent, and was a research assistant to Professor Laurie Levenson. Before joining BKLW, C.B. practiced in the Investigations & White Collar Defense Group at Morrison Foerster.

Sarah E. Diamond joined Miller Barondess, LLP as a counsel in Los Angeles. The move was Oct. 27, 2025.

Diamond is a trial lawyer and business litigator with broad experience in civil litigation, including the entertainment and financial services industries, breach of contract cases, privacy class actions, IP disputes, securities class actions, and derivative cases.

Sarah G. Hartman joined Glaser Weil as a partner in Glaser Weil, Newport Beach and Century City Offices.

Hartman's practice spans a wide range of critical business and commercial litigation, including breach of fiduciary duty, partnership disputes, fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition, insurance coverage, products liability, employment litigation, class action defense and false advertising. She also advises clients in entertainment and media disputes, as well as in matters involving the hospitality sector.

With significant experience in intellectual property litigation, Hartman has handled patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret disputes in federal courts nationwide, before the U.S. International Trade Commission and in appeals to the Federal Circuit. Her work covers technologies ranging from computer networking and LED lighting to mobile applications and automotive audio systems.

Prior to joining Glaser Weil, Hartman practiced at leading national and international law firms, advancing from associate to partner while managing complex litigation across multiple jurisdictions. Hartman earned her J.D., Order of the Coif, from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she served as managing editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California.

Kimberly Carter joined Fisher Phillips as a partner in Woodland Hills. The move was Nov. 3, 2025.

Kimberly defends employers in all types and sizes of employment-related lawsuits, including wage and hour class and collective actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims, employee misclassification, trade secret disputes, retaliation, whistleblower, workplace safety (OSHA), discrimination, harassment, data privacy, and other complex employment matters.

Kari Krusmark joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as a partner in Los Angeles. The move was Nov. 12, 2025.

Krusmark joined the firm's global technology transactions, outsourcing, and commercial contracts team with nearly 20 years of experience counseling clients on complex commercial and technology-driven deals. She has led clients through the structuring and negotiation of strategic, cutting-edge transactions involving digital transformation, outsourcing, cloud services, robotic automation, artificial intelligence solutions, platform modernization, strategic alliances, and other technology-related matters.

She advises clients across a wide range of industries, including apparel, automotive, consumer products, energy, engineering and construction, entertainment, financial services, foodservice, healthcare, insurance, hospitality, logistics, marketing, semiconductors, technology, and utilities. Krusmark is recognized for her leadership in an evolving market, guiding clients through every stage of the outsourcing lifecycle--from RFP development to renegotiations and dispute resolution.

Bryan Corbaz joined Knox Ricksen LLP as an associate in Walnut Creek. The move was Nov. 10, 2025.

Corbaz has managed a diverse caseload of insurance defense litigation and appeals cases, including construction liability, product liability, construction defect, and complex property claims. He has drafted and responded to discovery requests, defended depositions and engaged in extensive motion practice across various jurisdictions.

Brian M. Metcalf joined Cappello & Noel LLP as an associate in Santa Barbara. The move was Nov. 10, 2025.

Brian Metcalf's practice includes representing corporate and individual clients in complex financial litigation, civil and business disputes, bankruptcy and restructuring matters, and litigation involving fraud, fiduciary duty, contractual, corporate governance, real estate, and other civil and business matters.

Chen Chen was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, Menlo Park. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice, Chen represents public and private life sciences companies in strategic and commercial transactions involving complex intellectual property issues, with a focus on licensing, partnering, and collaboration transactions.

Zuzanna (Zuza) Gruca was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, Menlo Park. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Capital Markets Practice, Gruca advises public and private companies and investment banks on capital-raising transactions, including IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, notes offerings, and financings, and on securities, disclosure, and corporate governance matters.

Thomas Alcorn was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Banking & Private Credit Practice, Alcorn represents institutional arrangers, lenders, and equity sponsors in cross-border financing transactions, restructurings, and acquisition and recapitalization, asset-based, NAV, recurring revenue-based, subscription line, and working capital financings.

Kathryn Harrington was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Transactional Tax Practice, Harrington advises clients on the US federal income tax consequences of structured financings, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and bank and private credit financings.

Greg Swartz was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, Swartz represents clients in commercial disputes and regulatory enforcement proceedings, including contract disputes, unfair competition claims, corporate governance and partnership disputes, government investigations, and antitrust litigation across a range of industries.

Katherine Webb was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles, New York. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Banking & Private Credit Practice, Webb represents direct lenders, banks, and other financial institutions, as well as corporate borrowers and other private and public entities in financing transactions, including cross-border and domestic facilities, investment grade facilities, direct lending transactions, acquisition financings, syndicated loans, secured transactions, asset-based loans, and margin loan financings.

Roland Young was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Structured Finance Practice, Young represents asset managers, business development companies, and financial institutions in financing transactions, including fund financings, asset-backed lending facilities, collateralized loan obligations, direct lending and origination platforms, asset securitizations, and joint venture financings.

Laura Zabele was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles, Boston. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, Zabele advises and represents clients in litigation involving employment law matters, pay equity, whistleblower retaliation, discrimination and harassment, breach of contract and wrongful termination, employee mobility and IP, leave and accommodation, wage/hour issues, and the California Private Attorneys General Act.

Yanyan Zhou was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice, Zhou advises private equity firms, physician practices, life sciences and digital health companies, hospitals, and strategic investors on transactions and regulatory matters in the healthcare industry, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic affiliations, joint ventures, regulatory approvals, licensing, and compliance.

Melanie Grindle was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Diego. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, Grindle represents clients in IP disputes, with a particular focus on trademark, trade dress, and trade secret litigation, across industry sectors.

Corey McGehee was promoted to counsel of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Diego. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, McGehee represents clients in insurance coverage disputes, bad-faith litigation, and environmental and regulatory disputes, including first- and third-party insurance disputes, business interruption, commercial general liability, director and officer liability, product liability, toxic tort, and complex commercial matters.

Daniel Gherardi was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, Menlo Park. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Securities and M&A Litigation Practice, Gherardi represents and advises public and private companies, executives, and boards of directors in securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, contract disputes, government investigations, and other complex litigation matters.

Robin Gushman was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, Menlo Park. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Antitrust & Competition Practice, Gushman represents public and private companies in antitrust litigation, government investigations, and complex commercial disputes, including consumer class actions and matters involving monopolization, conspiracy, unfair competition, and merger-related claims.

Lauren Lefcoe was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, Mednlo Park. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the M&A and Private Equity Practice, Lefcoe represents publicly traded and privately held companies at all stages on M&A, dispositions, carve-outs, controlling and minority investments, and other strategic corporate transactions across a range of industries, with a particular focus on the technology and life sciences sectors.

Shane Alexander was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Banking & Private Credit Practice, Alexander represents private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in complex domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including syndicated and private credit financings, acquisition and carve-out financings, asset-based and cash flow facilities, liability management transactions, debt restructurings, and workouts.

Harris (Hai) Pham was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Banking & Private Credit Practice, Pham represents banks, direct lenders, and corporate borrowers on a range of complex financing transactions, including acquisition financings, recurring-revenue based financings, cross-border transactions, and restructurings.

Will Schildknecht was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Connectivity, Privacy & Information Practice, Schildknecht advises companies on managing risk in the development of innovative technology, maintaining effective compliance programs, and navigating government and internal investigations, with a focus on AI, privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection.

Shannon Cheng was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Costa Mesa. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the M&A and Private Equity Practice, Cheng advises public and private companies in the technology, healthcare and life sciences, and aerospace industries on M&A transactions and corporate governance matters.

Christian Hollweg was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Diego. The promotion is effective Jan. 1, 2026.

A member of the Emerging Companies & Growth Practice, Hollweg advises emerging growth companies and venture capital investors on transactional and operational matters throughout the company life cycle, including formation and structuring, equity and debt financings, corporate governance, and exit strategies.

Naumann Law Firm, PC, has a new office space in San Diego

The new office is at 10890 Thornmint Road, Ste. 200, San Diego, 92127. The phone number is (858) 792-7474

Naumann Law Firm specializes in insurance, construction-defect, and government-claim litigation. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in damages on behalf of homeowners associations and individual homeowners. Its attorneys have litigated against some of the nation's largest insurers, municipalities, and developers, handling claims arising from major disasters in Malibu, Studio City, San Clemente, Oceanside, Ventura, Carlsbad, San Diego, Cathedral City, and Palm Desert.

Andrew E. Westley joined Signature Resolution as a neutral in San Fransisco, CA. The move was Nov. 3, 2025.

Westley has been recognized for his thoughtful, people-centered approach to resolving complex landlord-tenant, business, employment, and real estate disputes. During his time as a lawyer, Westley represented clients in a wide range of civil disputes, from commercial contract and employment matters to landlord-tenant and real estate cases. In 1994, he founded his own law practice dedicated to housing justice and tenant advocacy, giving him unique insight into the challenges facing renters and property owners across Northern California.

Amanda C. Fitzsimmons joined Jones Day as a partner in San Diego.

Fitzsimmons is a privacy and cybersecurity litigator who represents technology companies, consumer platforms, and organizations operating in data-intensive and highly regulated environments. She handles high-stakes disputes and investigations involving data practices, biometrics, and AI-enabled products and systems. Her work includes defending class actions alleging unlawful data collection and biometric privacy violations, as well as advising companies responding to cybersecurity incidents and data breaches.

Hillary Arrow Booth joined Wilson Elser as a partner in Los Angeles.

Booth is a seasoned litigator and advisor who represents clients in jury trials, court trials, administrative hearings, arbitrations, and business transactions throughout California. Booth devotes much of her practice to serving the transportation industry, with clients ranging from large national companies to small local trucking businesses. Her broad experience includes handling claims involving the transport of goods, lost or damaged freight, commercial vehicle accidents, heavy equipment accidents, and commercial lease disputes. Booth's transportation work also includes advising and preparing contracts and agreements for shippers, brokers, and motor carriers related to freight transportation equipment leases, warehouse agreements, and service agreements used across multiple industries. Additionally, Booth has extensive experience litigating disputes over complex financial agreements, particularly those used in the logistics industry.

Joshua N. Levine joined Wilson Elser as a partner in Los Angeles.

Levine has more than 30 years of experience representing clients in all stages of the litigation process, including jury and court trials, arbitrations, mediations, and appeals. Levine is known for constructing supportable and understandable narratives out of cases that have complex histories and present highly technical issues. Levine has used those skills to guide clients through complicated environmental matters, including claims involving turn-of-the-century waste dumps, chlorinated solvent distribution centers, aerospace and semi-conductor manufacturing operations, eutrophic lakes, dry-cleaners, and recycling facilities.

Joseph R. Finnerty was promoted to partner of ACTS Law in Los Angeles.

Finnerty has successfully represented clients against individuals, government entities, and multi-billion-dollar companies. His practice is motivated by his desire to serve the community and protect consumers against injustice.

Kevin Pollack was promoted to partner of ACTS Law in Los Angeles.

Pollack manages the firm’s insurance bad faith litigation practice. He exclusively represents insurance policyholders in both residential and commercial insurance claims against insurers and insurance agents/brokers. His practice also overlaps with the firm’s wildfire practice group, where he helps pursue those responsible for playing a role in causing ’ fire victims’ harms and losses.

Susan M. Natland joined BakerHostetler as a partner in Orange County.

Natland's practice covers domestic and foreign trademark selection and clearance, trademark prosecution, ex parte and inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), licensing, trademark audits, domain name disputes, trademark strategy and procurement, counterfeit enforcement, customs matters, entertainment law, rights of publicity and intellectual property issues involving artificial intelligence. She also handles copyright protection, enforcement and litigation.

Jessica Sganga joined BakerHostetler as a partner in Los Angeles.

Sganga focuses her practice on domestic and international trademark law, unfair competition, copyright and advertising law. Known for her practical approach to brand protection and her responsive client service, Sganga is consistently recognized for providing clear, business-focused legal guidance.

Kate McMorrow joined BakerHostetler as a partner in Los Angeles.

McMorrow represents a diverse range of clients in all areas of intellectual property and advertising law, including with respect to trademarks, false advertising, unfair competition, copyrights and patents. Her practice includes both domestic and international brand protection and enforcement, from trademark selection, clearance, prosecution, and enforcement to providing strategic guidance on IP licenses and assignments, marketing and distribution agreements, branding guidelines, social media marketing, endorsements and advertising matters.

Josh McLane joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

McLane focuses his practice on the tax aspects of complex transactions and reorganizations, with an emphasis on private equity, LBO, merger, acquisition and liability management transactions. He previously served as the general counsel and secretary of CareTrust REIT, Inc. (NYSE: CTRE).

Kimberly C. Carter joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Carter represents employers - including Fortune 500 companies - in single-plaintiff actions, complex class actions, and PAGA representative matters. She has extensive experience handling claims involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour violations. Her litigation practice spans state and federal courts, arbitration, and appearances before agencies such as the EEOC, California Civil Rights Department, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, and Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Clients value her ability to align legal strategy with their business goals, whether pursuing an early resolution or mounting a vigorous defense.

David C. Codell joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Codell brings decades of high-stakes litigation experience to his representation of employers in labor and employment matters. His distinguished background spans trial and appellate courts, complex business disputes, constitutional issues, and class actions. Employers turn to Codell for strategic advocacy in appeals, litigation, and counseling, particularly when cases involve intricate constitutional or statutory questions.

Joshua Halen joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Halen defends and advises employers in a wide range of workplace-related litigation matters in state and federal courts, with a focus on appellate matters. Halen's experience includes employment litigation, commercial disputes, trade secret and antitrust matters, and intellectual property disputes.

Teresa K. Goebel joined Mayer Brown as a partner in San Francisco.

Goebel represents many of the world's leading hotel companies, focusing particularly on the acquisition, development, financing, management, and sale of hotels and mixed-use hospitality properties. She regularly negotiates, structures, and documents management agreements and equity and debt investments for hotels, resorts, and other mixed use hospitality projects throughout the world.

Benjamin T. Tschann joined Mayer Brown as a partner in San Francisco.

Tschann represents clients in real estate transactions across asset classes with intense operating business that are dependent on the real estate, including hotels and resorts, senior housing/assisted living, sports facilities, and industrial projects. His work covers structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, debt financings, preferred equity and mezzanine financings, work-outs and restructurings, and short-sales. Ben also advises clients on key operating agreements such as hotel management agreements, franchise and strategic affiliations, operating agreements, asset management and project management agreements.

Dustin Calkins joined Mayer Brown as a partner in San Francisco.

Calkins leverages his significant experience in representing leading public and private, and national and international real estate investors, developers, operators and sponsors on a broad array of commercial assets, including industrial, mixed-use, multifamily, office, hospitality, sports venues, and retail properties.

Daniel D. Douglas joined Miller Barondess, LLP as an associate in Los Angeles. The move was Oct. 20, 2025.

Douglas is a litigator experienced in representing clients in state and federal courts across a range of complex commercial litigation matters, including contract disputes, real property, fraud, and employment.

Brian Lee joined Baker Botts as a partner in Palo Alto. The move was Nov. 5, 2025.

Lee advises private and public companies, venture capital and private equity firms and investment banks, across a broad range of industries. His practice centers on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, start-up companies and company representation. In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Lee represents financial buyers, strategic buyers and sellers in numerous acquisitions and dispositions of both public and private companies. He also represents clients in joint ventures, strategic alliances and partnership transactions.

Judge Timothy Taylor joined Judicate West as a neutral in San Diego. The move was Oct. 22, 2025.

Over his two decades on the San Diego County Superior Court bench, Judge Taylor presided over 189 civil jury trials to verdict and hundreds more bench trials and settlement conferences, and his decisions have been affirmed by reviewing courts more than 170 times. He has presided over all kinds of civil matters, including real estate, employment, personal injury, product liability and professional malpractice. He served as the Civil Supervising Judge from 2013-2017. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Taylor spent 21 years with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, trying securities, environmental, defamation, civil rights and antitrust matters. He served as chair of the firm's Compensation Committee and was instrumental in establishing its Washington, D.C. and San Diego offices. Judge Taylor has received the State Bar of California's Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services four times.

Brian Procel forms Procel Levine LLP in Santa Monica.

Procel has been a trial lawyer for more than two decades, prevailing in complex commercial disputes involving investor and consumer fraud, class actions, breach of fiduciary duty, lender liability, intellectual property, entertainment and real estate. He has received awards from the State Bar of California, Los Angeles County Bar Association and Bet Tzedek Legal Foundation for his dedication to pro bono work. Procel graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law.

Jeremiah Levine forms Procel Levine LLP in Santa Monica.

Levine previously served as a federal prosecutor, where he prevailed in numerous jury and bench trials and indicted the largest white supremacist case in the history of the Justice Department. He also prosecuted complex RICO matters and white-collar crime, including bank fraud and COVID benefits fraud. Before his work as a federal prosecutor, Levine was an award-winning civil and white-collar litigator at a top 20 global law firm. There, he ran internal investigations that he completed on time and under budget, won dismissal of government investigations before charges, and won not guilty verdicts at trial for corporate defendants. In the civil arena, Levine won injunctions in favor of Fortune 500 companies suffering from expressive activity on their property; resolved complex disputes in the areas of securities litigation, financial services, and intellectual property, and prevailed in numerous class actions. He also achieved appellate victories at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and California state courts of appeal. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Jennifer L. Campbell joined Venable LLP as a counsel in Los Angeles.

Campbell focuses her practice on estate planning, trust and probate administration, lifetime gifting, and related tax matters. She counsels high-net-worth individuals, families, fiduciaries, and business owners on strategies for preserving wealth and managing risk across generations. She regularly advises clients on the design and implementation of sophisticated estate plans, including revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and customized gifting strategies involving charitable vehicles, intentionally defective grantor trusts, and spousal lifetime access trusts.

Sean Monroe joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in Los Angeles.

Monroe's corporate work is focused on media companies, guiding clients through, for example, motion picture financing, television business acquisitions, and digital and new media venture formations. He also advises owners and investors involved in professional sports franchises and Esports leagues. Beyond the entertainment space, Monroe advises owners and investors across various industries, including financial services, private equity and venture capital, fashion and retail, ad-tech and other technology businesses through investments, financings, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and more. Monroe regularly advises startups and emerging companies on early-stage financing transactions as well as strategic investors regarding their corporate venture capital investments in various industries, including artificial intelligence.

Tom Osborn joined Knox Ricksen LLP as an associate. The move was Oct. 21, 2025.

Osborn has several years' experience trying corporate litigation and insurance defense matters in the areas of civil rights, constitutional and employment law. He has managed litigation from intake through resolution and handled all aspects of the litigation process. Osborn earned his J.D. (2020) and his B.A., summa cum laude, (2018) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He served on the UMKC Law Review and received the law school's "Pro Bono Honors" award. Before his legal career, Osborn spent 20 years in the hospitality industry, as well as a short time as a paralegal.

Jonie Ing Kondracki joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner in San Francisco.

Kondracki represents companies through all stages of growth, from private companies to established public companies, as well as investment banks and investors. Jonie has advised clients on a wide range of transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary offerings, private placements, tender offers, direct listings, and debt offerings, with significant experience in the technology and life sciences industries. She also counsels clients on corporate governance, reporting obligations, and other compliance matters.

Danny Wan joined Donahue Fitzgerald as a of counsel in Bay Area.

Wan has dedicated his career to the economic development of communities, particularly of Oakland and the East Bay region. Most recently, he served as the general counsel and then executive director of the Port of Oakland, overseeing a portfolio including the maritime port facilities, the Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport and over 875 acres of waterfront properties.