Brian B. Kelly joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP as shareholder in San Francisco.

Kelly counsels companies of all sizes on the entire employment life cycle, including hiring, termination, wages and hours, incentive compensation programs, policies, investigations, leaves, discrimination/harassment/retaliation, and restrictive covenants, among other issues. He also will support the firm's Corporate Practice, advising clients on employment matters related to buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions and other transactional matters.

Tariq I. Boulad joined Rogers Joseph O'Donnell PC as associate in San Francisco.

Boulad focuses his practice on representing retailers, manufacturers and commercial property owners in a wide range of disputes arising under State and Federal law, including California's Proposition 65 and the federal CERCLA statute.

Nolan S. Armstrong joined Signature Resolution as neutral in Los Angeles.

Armstrong managed civil litigation cases across State and Federal courts, including personal injury, landlord-tenant disputes, and employment defense. He is recognized for leading the defense in a class action against a real estate investment trust over ADA violations. A Thurgood Marshall Scholar, Armstrong earned his juris doctorate from The George Washington University Law School in 2005 and has served as President of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada (ADCNCN).

Arthur J Harris was promoted to shareholder of Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. in San Francisco.

Harris has represented MPBF clients in commercial, business, professional liability, and real estate litigation matters, emphasizing legal malpractice, insurance and real estate broker defense, breach of contract claims, premises liability, elder law, and construction litigation.

Thomas F Mazzucco was promoted to shareholder of Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. in San Francisco.

Mazzucco concentrates his practice in the areas of white-collar defense and government investigations, intellectual property litigation, and business litigation. He represents businesses and individuals in all phases of civil litigation, as well as advising professionals, executives, and businesses in civil and criminal proceedings involving California and Federal agencies. He has represented executives and professionals in matters before numerous governmental agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as in both civil and criminal matters and before the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the State of California Department of Justice. He has also represented clients in federal court litigation, in disputes before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, and in arbitration proceedings involving domain names.

Patrick F. Veasy joined Stoel Rives LLP as partner in Sacramento.

Veasy advises and represents clients from public and private sectors in environmental compliance matters, enforcement actions, and litigation. His practice specializes in water quality issues, including under the California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act and federal Clean Water Act (CWA).

Steven H. Goldberg joined Stoel Rives LLP as partner in Sacramento.

Goldberg is a leading attorney in environmental litigation and compliance in California. With more than thirty-five years of experience, Goldberg is known as a strategic, effective, and responsive advocate with exceptional communication skills. He is known to negotiate and resolve complex disputes and is often selected by other attorneys and their clients as common counsel or liaison counsel for multiple-party lawsuits.

Melissa A. Thorme joined Stoel Rives LLP as partner in Sacramento.

Thorme counsels industrial and municipal clients in addressing environmental compliance challenges and negotiating or litigating regulatory enforcement actions. With nearly 35 years' experience, Thorme advises business entities, including food processors, lumber companies, agricultural companies, contractors, marinas and boat yards, auto dismantlers, small manufacturing companies, and oil field waste-produced water facilities, in addition to sanitation districts, counties, and cities throughout California on matters related to NPDES, wastewater, and recycled water discharge permitting and waivers, TMDLs, and enforcement actions brought by regulatory agencies or in Clean Water Act/Proposition 65 citizen suits.

Nicole E. Granquist joined Stoel Rives LLP as partner in Sacramento.

Granquist is among a select group of attorneys in California who specialize exclusively in water quality regulatory compliance, enforcement defense, and litigation. Described by clients as a “powerhouse” who has a “tremendous grasp of the complex scientific, legal, and political issues” involved in California water quality regulation and litigation, her tenacity, creativity, and pragmatic approach have consistently delivered exceptional results for her statewide municipal and industrial clients, earning her respect and credibility with both regulators and opposing counsel. She routinely negotiates NPDES Permits, waste discharge requirements (WDRs), and water reclamation requirements with the state board and regional water boards for municipal wastewater, industrial process water, and all types of stormwater discharges and reclamation projects.

Rajiv Dharnidharka joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Dharnidharka navigates business disputes and potential disputes, focusing on intellectual property, technology, and general corporate matters through counseling, negotiation, litigation, arbitration, and mediation. His main practice areas are trade secret and software copyright litigation, and he is an established thought leader on domestic and international technology issues.

Jeanette Barzelay joined Foley & Lardner LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Barzelay is an experienced commercial litigator focusing on complex business disputes involving various sectors and legal issues. With a demonstrated track record representing and advising clients in commercial pre-litigation and litigation matters in state and federal court, Barzelay represents clients in commercial matters involving trade secret and technology disputes, contractual disputes, employment mobility, unfair competition, and related business torts.

Heather W. Habes was promoted to partner of Covington & Burling LLP in Los Angeles.

Habes focuses on complex insurance recovery for corporate policyholders under a variety of policies, including directors and officers liability, commercial general liability, professional liability, media liability, property, and employment practices. Working closely with in-house counsel and senior executives, she maximizes insurance protection and recovery in both informal negotiations and litigation against insurers.

Gregory Oleson joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP as partner in San Diego.

Oelson specializes in commercial real estate, handling acquisitions, sales, entitlements, and development for developers at local, regional, and national levels across all stages of transactions. He provides counsel to both lenders and borrowers on loan modifications, workouts, and the preparation of commercial loan documentation.

Ebony A Koger was promoted to director of Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. in San Francisco.

Koger counsels clients in business, professional liability, and other forms of civil litigation. She principally represents attorneys, real estate brokers, property owners, accountants, funeral home owners, veterinarians, non-profit organizations, and employers. She is the Vice Chair of the firm's Association of Professional Women.

Laura Rose Grealish was promoted to director of Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. in San Francisco.

Grealish's practice includes the defense of professional liability matters involving lawyers and real estate professionals, construction defect, corporate disputes, personal injury, and wrongful death. Last month, she successfully obtained a defense verdict for her client in the face of a $36 million demand following a jury trial.

Adriana R. Ochoa joined Snell & Wilmer as partner in San Diego.

Ochoa will be part of the firm's Special Litigation and Compliance practice group, where she will concentrate on providing guidance to private clients and public agencies, including healthcare districts and water and wastewater authorities, regarding governance, operational, and other public law matters, including the acquisition and negotiation of public services. Her experience incorporates the Ralph M. Brown Act, California Public Records Act, Political Reform Act, Government Code 1090, California Voting Rights Act, Proposition 218, public works contracting, operational and business issues, as well as litigation.

Nathan Dooley was promoted to shareholder of Cozen O'Connor in Los Angeles.

Dooley serves as counsel on high-profile complex commercial litigation matters filed in California. He represents some of the firm's most prominent clients and his successes include a string of victories in consumer class action cases brought in state and federal court.

Dana Meyers was promoted to shareholder of Cozen O'Connor in San Diego.

Meyers focuses her practice on subrogation. As sole chair in subrogation and consumer collection actions, she has conducted more than 20 civil bench trials to verdict. She has litigated hundreds of state and federal cases throughout California from inception to settlement or trial, covering a broad range of legal issues, including subrogation, construction defects, product liability, and consumer collections.

Bianca Levin-Soler joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Levin-Soler advises on leveraged buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, SPACs and restructurings in a range of industries, including technology, software, healthcare, retail, food and beverage and consumer products. In addition to advising TPG in the sale of its majority stake in Creative Artists Agency to Artémis last fall, Levin-Soler has advised firms including TPG Growth, Clearlake Capital Group, Industrial Growth Partners and Lion Capital on numerous deals. Levin-Soler also has in-house experience.

Nicole Cadman joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Cadman's practice will focus on advising emerging companies and their founders across the corporate lifecycle, including on formation and governance, equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counseling.

Zach P. Hutton joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Hutton's practice spans all aspects of employment law, including discrimination and harassment, family and medical leaves, and wage and hour issues. He has successfully represented employers in numerous class and collective actions, agency investigations, individual plaintiff cases, and administrative hearings.

Alec C. Stone joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as senior counsel in Los Angeles.

Stone is an insurance regulatory attorney. As the former head of the California Department of Insurance's Rate Enforcement Bureau, he is uniquely positioned to advise insurers and other entities subject to California's extensive regulatory framework, including prior approval applications, market conduct issues, enforcement actions, proposed regulations, and further matters related to Proposition 103.

Tami Kay Lee joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Lee has more than twenty years of experience as defense counsel, assisting clients in complex insurance matters, including policy analysis, coverage opinions, and commercial general liability. Her work encompasses reinsurance, excess liability, errors and omissions, directors and officers, cyber liability, and data breach losses. In addition to her legal background, she is a Certified Public Accountant, providing clients with critical insight into financial and accounting aspects that arise in litigation.

Quyen L. Ta joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

Ta is a high-stakes trial and complex civil litigation lawyer focusing nationwide on consumer class actions, business disputes, and international and U.S. arbitrations. Her clients include publicly traded and venture-backed companies in various industries and regions worldwide.

April Kim joined Akin as partner in Irvine.

Kim's practice is focused on the energy sector, advising investors, sponsors, developers, and other renewable energy stakeholders in tax equity and tax credit transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project development and debt financings.

Lee M Mendelson as mediator in Valley Village

Mendelson has more than 25 years of experience as a litigator and has been trained as a mediator at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation and Pepperdine Law School's Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and is licensed to practice in California, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Lee served as the managing attorney of Mendelson Law Group, APC from 2006 to 2023, and received the Certified Subrogation Recovery Professional designation from the National Association of Subrogation Professionals. He is a member of the Board of Associate Editors for the Commercial Law League of America and is a sought out presenter on various topics including subrogation, business litigation, tort liability, and legal ethics.

Honieh Udenka joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as associate in Orange County.

Udenka represents clients' interests across the country in complex disputes in various fields, including brand, reputation, and crisis management, as well as commercial and business litigation.

Hector Almaguer joined Newell Law Group as senior counsel in Los Angeles and New York.

Almaguer specializes in music, television, and new media. His practice focuses a wide array of complex commercial matters and intellectual property across multiple English, Spanish, and Portuguese countries. He has over 30 years of experience as an attorney, musician, writer, record producer, and content creator whose work has won a Clio Award and has been Grammy-nominated. He's worked for and with some of the biggest names in media, including Universal Music Group, Paramount/Viacom, Warner/Discovery, Warner Music Group, HBO, and artists like Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, J Balvin, and Fat Joe.

Oscar G. Jimenez joined Goldberg Segalla as partner in San Francisco.

Jimenez has managed and litigated cases involving construction defects, professional liability, employment and labor, and personal injury claims in state and federal courts throughout California. He represents a variety of businesses and licensed professionals in the construction industry in million-dollar construction defect and professional liability lawsuits, including developers, general contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals, including architects and engineers.

Jeff Kiburtz joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Kiburtz has helped clients across industries to recover more than $1 billion from insurers over his career. He has handled all aspects of policyholder insurance and indemnification--with significant work in connection with business interruption losses, directors and officers coverages and data breaches--as well as wide-ranging experience representing insured parties operating in the technology, finance, real estate and construction, life sciences, health care, industrials, retail, higher education, sports, and media and entertainment sectors.

Leo Norton joined Jackson Lewis P.C. as principal in Orange County.

Norton has extensive experience defending against both nationwide and statewide consumer class actions under a range of statutes, including the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act, California Unfair Competition Law, California False Advertising Law, the Song Beverly Credit Card Act, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FACTA). He also handles cases related to the Americans with Disabilities Act, California's Unruh Act, California wage and hour class actions, and PAGA.

Anne M. Voigts joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Voigts has represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, state and federal appellate courts, and trial courts. In addition to her appellate practice, Voigts advises clients on critical motions and partners with trial teams on complex legal issues. She leads Pillsbury's Appellate practice and has argued over 70 cases in federal and state appellate courts.

Leslie A Brueckner joined Singleton Schreiber as partner in San Diego.

Brueckner is key in enhancing Singleton Schreiber's ability to manage complex appeals and develop successful litigation strategies. Her extensive track record in high-stakes cases across various legal areas continues to solidify the firm's standing as a leader in precedent-setting litigation for plaintiffs nationwide.