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.

Alex S. Kaufman joined Paul Hastings LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

Kaufman advises private equity funds and stand-alone technology companies on mergers and acquisitions transactions, including leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments and divestitures with an emphasis on the software and technology sectors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gene E. Berk joined Buchalter as of counsel in Sacramento.

Berk is a member of the firm's health care practice group. He represents major health care entities and has led significant acquisitions in the expansion, reconstruction and implementation of various hospitals, surgery centers and medical groups throughout the United States.

James Andrew Caprile joined Buchalter as shareholder in Sacramento.

Caprile is a member of the firm’s health care practice group. He represents clients in the healthcare sector on a wide range of issues, including business transactions, hospital and ambulatory surgical center syndications, and the formation, sale and merger of medical practices and management service organizations.

Kate S. Gold joined Proskauer Rose LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Gold is a partner in the firm's labor and employment department. She has represented clients in all types of employment-related suits, including class and collective actions, discrimination and harassment, non-compete and wage-hour matters. In addition to litigating, she routinely counsels clients on matters involving the full range of state and federal employment issues.

Beth J. Jay joined Horvitz & Levy LLP as of counsel in San Francisco.

Jay served as the principal attorney to three California chief justices and brings 35 years of Supreme Court and three years of federal appellate court insights to Horvitz & Levy's clients. In her role as senior adviser to the chief justice, Jay led and participated in numerous Supreme Court, Judicial Council, and State Bar committees focusing on judicial ethics issues such as multi-jurisdictional practice, insurance legislation, and court procedures.

Andrea L. Russi joined Horvitz & Levy LLP as senior counsel in San Francisco.

Russi has served as a staff attorney to Presiding Justice Ignazio Ruvolo (retired) in the 1st District Court of Appeal. She also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California, where she was a member of the criminal appeals section.

John W. Martin

Martin has more than 30 years of experience representing clients in mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, capital markets and complex technology transactions. In his new role, Martin said he aims to grow the firm in a strategically focused way.

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.

Tia Boatman-Patterson was promoted to senior adviser on housing of California Housing Finance Agency in Sacramento.

Boatman-Patterson will continue to serve as Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency, where she has served since 2014. Boatman-Patterson was general counsel at the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency from 2009 to 2014 and special assistant to California State Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez from 2004 to 2008 and to California State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass from 2008 to 2009.

Christina E. Snider was promoted to tribal advisor of The Native American Heritage Commission in Auburn.

Snider has been reappointed tribal adviser in the Office of the Governor and Executive Secretary to the Native American Heritage Commission. Snider is a member of the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians and has served as an Indian Child Welfare Act representative for the tribe since 2017. She was of counsel at Ceiba Legal LLP from 2016 to 2017, staff attorney at the National Congress of American Indians from 2015 to 2016, a legal fellow at the Wishtoyo Foundation in 2014 and a law clerk in the Office of Tribal Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice in 2012.

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.

John T. A. Rosenthal joined Klinedinst PC as senior counsel in Los Angeles.

Rosenthal represents clients in a wide variety of litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country as well as before various regulatory bodies, including the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office, and the Federal Trade Commission.

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.

Ranjini Acharya was promoted to partner of K&L Gates LLP in Palo Alto.

Acharya focuses on complex patent litigation, trade secrets misappropriation, and copyright disputes in federal courts and before the International Trade Commission.

Ruth Delaney was promoted to partner of K&L Gates LLP in Los Angeles.

Delaney counsels domestic and offshore private fund advisers on organizational, regulatory, and compliance issues, including forming hedge funds, negotiating agreements, and structuring of funds.

Alan J. Hart was promoted to partner of Ropers Majeski Kohn Bentley PC in Los Angeles.

Hart is a member of the firm's business and commercial litigation and intellectual property law practices. He represents and advises clients in commercial litigation and intellectual property matters involving issues including defense of business torts, contract disputes, false advertising, defamation, construction, products liability, trademark and patent litigation, labor disputes and insurance.

Spiros E. Fousekis was promoted to partner of Ropers Majeski Kohn Bentley PC in Redwood City.

Fousekis practices in the firm’s business and commercial litigation, employment law and corporate law practice areas. He works closely with employers, tackling labor and employment law issues such as harassment, discrimination and retaliation under the Fair Employment and Housing Act; wrongful termination, wage and hour matters; meal and rest period disputes; whistleblower retaliation claims; the California Private Attorneys General Act; and employee-independent contractor classification disputes.

German A. Marcucci was promoted to partner of Ropers Majeski Kohn Bentley PC in Los Angeles.

Marcucci practices in the firm's business and commercial litigation, employment law and insurance services areas. He regularly handles litigation involving personal injury and property damage claims occurring in commercial settings, including in relation to premises design and conditions, fire suppression systems and private security personnel. He also advises clients on liability, damages, insurance coverage and insurance bad faith matters.