Brian C. Fish joined Buchalter APC as shareholder in San Diego.

Fish is a member of the firm's real estate group. His expertise covers all aspects of real estate development, including land use, permitting and entitlements, public and private partnerships, public contracting, and environmental matters.

Daniel H. Wu joined Buchalter APC as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Wu is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group. His litigation practice focuses on financial institutions, commercial and business litigation as well as intellectual property litigation.

Michelle L. Landry joined Vedder Price PC as shareholder in San Francisco.

Landry focuses her practice on prosecuting and defending complex civil litigation across a wide array of industries for individuals, partnerships, and private and publicly traded companies. She has represented clients in breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair business practices, commercial lease disputes, trademark and trade secrets, defamation, invasion of privacy cases and price-fixing.

Lisa M. Simonetti joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Simonetti focuses her practice on the defense of complex litigation, including financial services class actions and mass actions.

Brian Tsu joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack as partner in San Diego.

Tsu is a partner in the firm's trusts, estates and estate planning practice group.

Linda L. Miller joined JAMS as arbitrator and mediator in Orange County.

Miller will serve as an arbitrator and mediator in a wide variety of disputes, including business and commercial, employment, family law, personal injury, torts and real property.

Tamara L. Osborne joined Ballard Spahr LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Osborne is known for her work representing syndicators, investors, and developers in all phases of affordable multifamily property acquisition, ownership, and financing, with emphasis on tax credit-driven transactions. She negotiates all financing documents and reviews and oversees borrower due diligence and closing documents for institutional and tax-exempt bond financing, as well as for funding from government sources such as HUD/FHA and the USDA's Rural Development program.

Mark D. Hauser joined Reed Smith LLP as counsel in San Francisco.

Hauser will serve as co-vice chair of the firm's cannabis law team. He represents business and investors throughout the cannabis and hemp industries, where he advises on transactions and risk, including public and private companies, multi-state operators and startups, as well as advising companies in other industries and disciplines working in cannabidiol and cannabis.

William "Buddy" Rowell joined Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP as partner in Oakland.

Rowell has nearly 25 years of litigation experience, representing public entities, including several of the region's school districts and utilities, and businesses, including major retailers and property owners and developers.

Frederick M. Heiser was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Heiser is a member of the firm's business and commercial litigation, commercial general liability, and employment practice groups. His clients include local entrepreneurs, small family businesses, and Fortune 500 companies.

David M. Majchrzak was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in San Diego.

Majchrzak is a seasoned ethicist, civil litigator, and certified specialist by the State Bar of California in legal malpractice law with motion, trial, and appellate experience. He counsels his clients on how to achieve their professional goals in an ethical way.

Robert M. Shaughnessy was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in San Diego.

Shaughnessy represents clients in all phases of litigation from the outset of a case through trial, judgment, and the appeal process. His law and motion experience allows him to resolve many cases early in the litigation process. His appellate experience allows him to protect a client’s successful trial-court outcome on appeal or to spot appellate issues.

Keith D. Taylor was promoted to shareholder of Klinedinst PC in Santa Ana.

Taylor focuses on the identification and control of risks. His trial experience includes general liability, products liability, premises liability, public entity liability, transportation liability, and catastrophic construction loss.

F. Phillip Hosp joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Hosp represents directors, officers, investment firms, public and private companies, family offices, and other parties in mergers and acquisitions litigation, and other cases involving fiduciary duties, unfair competition, and corporate law claims.

M. Kathleen Smalley joined Foley & Lardner LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Smalley’s practice includes sophisticated real estate transactions and disputes, complex corporate transactions, corporate and family business governance, and matters relating to family wealth.

Paul P. Chen joined Mayer Brown as partner in Northern California.

Chen focuses on complex transactions in the insurance, financial services and health care sectors, especially deals involving technology and innovation. He also advises clients on U.S. securities law matters, including tender offers, going private and raising capital.

Kenneth D. Askin was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles.

Askin is a member of the firm's banking practice in the finance department. He advises on domestic and cross-border acquisition financing, structured financing, and other secured and unsecured leveraged financial transactions. Askin's clients include financial institutions, gaming entities, private equity sponsors, real estate investment trusts and other institutional investors.

Ghaith Mahmood was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles.

Mahmood is a member of the firm’s technology transactions practice in the corporate department. His practice focuses on technology and intellectual property-related transactions, advising companies and investors in technology and digital media sectors, including software, video games, virtual and augmented reality, social media, digital media, digital health, e-commerce and information technology.

Yoo Jin Elizabeth Oh was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Oh is a member of the firm’s banking practice in the finance department. She advises on debt financing for direct lenders in the late stage growth and lower middle market space, including technology and life sciences companies. She also represents private equity sponsors and public companies in leveraged financial transactions, with a focus on domestic and cross-border acquisition financings.

Patricia Young was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in Silicon Valley.

Young is a member of the firm’s intellectual property litigation practice in the litigation and trial department. She represents clients in intellectual property litigation matters spanning the technology, life sciences and industrial sectors. She has experience litigating and managing high-stakes, complex, multi-patent, multi-defendant and multi-jurisdictional cases, and she also counsels clients on patent and intellectual property issues arising in mergers and acquisitions.

James E. Sell was promoted to equity partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP in San Francisco.

Sell is managing partner of the firm's Northern California office and leads a multi-attorney litigation team. He is a trial attorney with experience in construction, public works, products liability, catastrophic injury, wrongful death and professional liability litigation. He also serves as general counsel to a number of Bay Area contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, handling a full scope of construction matters and disputes.

Barbara Spector joined JAMS in Silicon Valley.

Spector will serve as an arbitrator, mediator, special master and neutral evaluator in disputes including appellate, aviation, business-commercial, employment, government-public agency, insurance, real property,personal injury and other tort.

Andrew M. Ouvrier joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Ouvrier represents landlord and tenant clients, including institutional investors and entrepreneurial individuals and entities. He has represented landlords in office leases totaling more than 10 million square feet across the nation and represented numerous office tenants as well, including a more than 2 million square foot office portfolio for one of the world's largest e-commerce companies.

Michelle M. McCarthy joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

McCarthy's works on federal and state taxation issues pertaining to individuals and entities, and she represents them in Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Labor audits, corrective programs and determination requests.

Noelle M. Natoli joined Clark Hill PLC as member in Los Angeles.

Natoli previously chaired Foley & Mansfield's elder law and transportation practices. She represents long-term and residential care facilities, adult family homes, hospitals, doctors, nurses and other employees of nursing facilities. Her experience in the transportation industry includes service as national counsel for a transportation insurance company, defending personal injury claims including catastrophic losses, conducting emergency response investigations, and litigating trucking matters through trial.

Renée Delphin-Rodriguez joined Crowell & Moring LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Delphin-Rodriguez has represented both public and private companies, as well as private equity funds, in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and joint ventures. She also advises clients on corporate governance.

Kelly D. Gemelli was promoted to principal of Jackson Lewis PC in San Diego.

Gemelli provides advice and counsel to management on a wide range of employment issues. She is a certified leave of absence specialist and is an active member of the California Advice and Counsel Resource Group.

Alyssa D. Bell joined Cohen Williams LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Bell is a criminal defense attorney and appellate specialist. She brings extensive federal litigation experience at all stages of proceedings and wide-ranging expertise in criminal matters, including extradition, financial fraud, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act conspiracy, narcotics offenses, and Fourth and Fifth Amendment challenges to government overreach.

Gabriel L. Pardo joined Cohen Williams LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Pardo brings a combination of criminal trial and civil litigation experience to the firm. He has achieved results for his clients at all stages of criminal cases, including favorable pre-indictment resolutions, dismissals and multiple jury acquittals.

Jennifer Resnik joined Cohen Williams LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Resnik has experience in sophisticated criminal and civil litigation. She has successfully handled a wide variety of cases at all stages of litigation, including health care and other criminal fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, environmental and narcotics crimes.

David J. Sutton joined Cohen Williams LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Sutton represented people charged with complex federal crimes, including cryptocurrency offenses, financial fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, structuring, insider trading, health care fraud, and foreign corrupt Practices Act violations. He now represents clients in matters ranging from complex white-collar cases to driving under the influence misdemeanors.

Michael J. Shuster joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Shuster provides strategic intellectual property legal services to biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical companies. His practice includes patent prosecution, portfolio analysis, due diligence, litigation and opinion work. His clients include start-up and established biotechnology companies, venture capital firms, research universities and hospitals.

Kevin Kabler joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Kabler builds and manages patent portfolios for companies and institutions in the life sciences industry in the fields of immuno-oncology, antibodies, personalized medicine, vaccines, genetics, biologics, RNA interference, stem cells and immunotherapy. He provides strategic patent counseling and due diligence to clients at all stages of the business cycle, and also analyzes and evaluates third-party patents for risk reduction from assertions as well as investment purposes.

Deepa M. Rich joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Rich practices general securities and corporate law, with an emphasis on private and public companies and venture capital funds primarily in the life sciences and health care industries.

G. Samuel Zucker joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Zucker focuses on corporate transactions for high growth, life sciences and health care companies around the world, including representation of investors and portfolio companies in biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, and digital health. His practice covers mergers and acquisition, financings, capital markets and general corporate matters. Zucker advises clients’ management and boards of directors on corporate governance and critical strategic matters.

Dominique Y. Tauzin joined Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.

Tauzin advises individuals, couples and family-owned and small business owners in the areas of estate planning, trust administration, probate and business succession planning. She also has extensive experience with trust administrations, including disputes involving fiduciaries, beneficiaries, charitable organizations and probates.

Matthew A. Portnoff joined Venable LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Portnoff is a member of the firm's corporate and business transactions tax practices. He focuses on federal, state, and local tax matters as well as a broad range of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, real estate taxation, tax credits and tax-exempt financing, nonprofit taxation, and general business planning. In addition to his transactional practice, Portnoff regularly handles tax controversy issues in judicial and administrative forums at the federal, state, and local levels. He also has significant experience representing clients investing and operating in the commercial cannabis industry in accordance with applicable state laws.

Brian T. Seltzer was promoted to chairman of the board of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.

Seltzer is a longtime shareholder and also chief operating officer of the firm. His practice encompasses real property, business law and commercial financing with a particular emphasis in real property transactions.

Rebecca B. Hoyes was promoted to partner of Nossaman LLP in San Francisco.

Hoyes is a member of the firm's healthcare practice group. She has an extensive background in the healthcare sector, with a primary focus representing hospitals and their medical staffs in a variety of issues, such as peer review and investigations; corrective action, hearings, and appeals; privileging and credentialing; development of bylaws, rules, and policies; compliance with accreditation, licensure and regulatory requirements; disruptive behavior, disability, and impairment issues; and mandatory reporting obligations.

Jill N. Jaffe was promoted to partner of Nossaman LLP in San Francisco.

Jaffe is a member of the firm’s real estate practice group. She is a litigator who specializes in disputes between adjacent property owners as well as those involving public procurements and infrastructure projects. She also litigates intellectual property/privacy and data protection matters in addition to professional liability actions.

Anna C. L. Tang was promoted to partner of Nossaman LLP in Los Angeles.

Tang is a member of the firm’s corporate practice group. She represents and advises emerging and established companies as transactional and general corporate counsel with respect to a wide variety of business transactions including mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions and corporate governance. She also provides counsel on offerings of equity and debt securities and private equity investments.

Elyse W. Whitehead was promoted to shareholder of Keesal, Young & Logan in San Francisco.

Whitehead represents employers in all aspects of employment law and litigation, including discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and hour, disability, unfair competition and class action matters. She also has exten-sive experience defending financial services firms in state and federal courts and before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Todd A. Lorenz joined Squire Patton Boggs as partner in San Francisco.

Lorenz is a member of the firm's intellectual property and technology practice. He has extensive experience in the life sci-ences sector with a particular focus on patent prosecution, counseling and IP transactions.

Peggy Dayton was promoted to partner of Scheper Kim & Harris LLP in Los Angeles.

Dayton represents clients in both civil litigation and white collar criminal defense. Her practice encompasses all phases of litigation, including appeals, in both state and federal court. In civil matters, Dayton has represented clients in fraud actions, contract disputes, business tort matters, legal malpractice cases, class action litigation, False Claims Act litigation, and securities matters, including actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Charles K. Kolstad joined Withers as partner in Los Angeles.

Kolstad is a member of the firm's private client, tax and corporate teams. He focuses his practice on international tax, corporate and partnership matters, assisting clients in tax and corporate planning relating to the acquisition, disposition and restructuring of businesses, corporations and partnerships both domestically and internationally.

S. Eva Wolf joined Withers as partner in Los Angeles.

Wolf is a member of the firm’s private client and tax team. She brings tax planning knowledge from spending four years as an attorney at the Internal Revenue Service.

Hector A. Agdeppa was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego.

Agdeppa is a member of the firm's intellectual property practice group. He specializes in patent preparation and prosecution in the electrical, mechanical and computer software arts and is well-versed in the management and monetization of patent portfolios.

Gregory L. Berk was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in Orange County.

Berk leads the firm’s immigration practice and is a member of the labor and employment practice group. He has more than 20 years of experience advising on all aspects of U.S. immigration matters. Berk assists employers worldwide with the hiring and retention of foreign national talent. He also works with investors on E-2 and EB-5 matters, as well as I-9 and other immigration compliance matters.

Jennifer L. Chavez was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego.

Chavez is a member of the firm’s real estate, land use and environmental practice group. Her practice focuses on land use and development matters, including purchase and sale transactions and compli-ance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the Subdivision Map Act, the Coastal Act and plan-ning and zoning laws as well as other general real estate transactional matters.

Erinn M. Contreras was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Francisco.

Contreras is a member of the firm’s business trial practice group. She is also leader of the construction team. Contreras represents owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors and construction lenders in all stages of construction projects.

John F. Golembesky was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego.

Golembesky is a member of the firm’s corporate practice group. He regularly represents healthcare providers, private equi-ty firms and strategic investors in connection with the purchase and sale of healthcare businesses. He also serves as out-side general counsel to many large, multi-specialty medical groups and advises them on complex hospital affiliations, phy-sician compensation plans, corporate governance, and operational matters.

Justin J. Hepworth was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in Orange County.

Hepworth is a member of the firm’s tax, employee benefits, and trusts and estates practice group. He handles a range of state and local tax matters, from planning, compliance, and transactional matters to controversy matters in audit and through litigation. He also regularly advises clients on state and local tax implications of restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs and asset sales.

Whitney A. Hodges was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego.

Hodges is a member of the firm’s real estate, land use and natural resources practice group. Her practice focuses on advising and representing major residential, industrial, commercial and mixed-use development projects as well as Native American Indian tribes and renewable energy developers through all phases of the land use regulatory process and environmental compliance.

Rachel T. Hudson was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Francisco.

Hudson is a member of the firm’s intellectual property practice group. She focuses her practice on clients in the retail, food and beverage, and technology sectors. She advises clients conducting advertising campaigns, contests and sweepstakes, and cause marketing campaigns on substantiation, clearance, and legal compliance. Hudson also counsels clients on compliance with e-mail, telephone, and SMS marketing regulations.

Siraj Husain was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in Palo Alto.

Husain is a member of the firm’s intellectual property practice group. He focuses his practice on intellectual property and patent strategy in various technical areas with an emphasis in software and computer science. He specializes in building and managing patent portfolios, both in the United States and internationally.

Jonathan D. Moss was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in Los Angeles.

Moss is a member of the firm’s business trial practice group. His practice entails handling complex business disputes, class action defense, securities litigation, shareholder derivative lawsuits, corporate dissolution actions, entertainment litiga-tion, real estate disputes and defending allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and fraud.

Adam A. Shipley was promoted to partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Diego and New York.

Shipley is a member of the firm’s corporate practice group. His practice focuses on representing clients in a variety of complex transactions in several industries, including energy, manufacturing, healthcare, industrials, life sciences and information technology. Shipley has extensive experience negotiating and managing company sale transactions, having advised many private equity and strategic buyers and sellers in buyout transactions.