Yue Joy Wang joined Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP as associate in Silicon Valley.

Wang has nearly a decade of experience in intellectual property litigation. Focusing on patent matters in district courts and before the ITC, her technical background and former career as an engineer enable her to advise clients across various products and technologies

Patrick Colsher joined Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Colsher focuses on intellectual property and other complex commercial litigation and counseling. A registered patent attorney with a technical background in electrical and biomedical engineering, he is frequently called upon to guide clients through their toughest IP issues. Patrick has significant trial experience, having litigated numerous patent, trade secret, and other IP cases in federal courts throughout the country and Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission. He has also developed a track record for success in post-grant inter partes review and covered business method review trials before the US Patent & Trademark Office, acting as lead counsel for both petitioners and patent owners in dozens of trials.

Matthew Berkowitz joined Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Berkowitz has nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes patent infringement disputes in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as in post-grant proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Berkowitz has argued and won numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He previously launched and spearheaded Shearman & Sterling's intellectual property litigation practice.

Jason Altieri joined Scale LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Altieri has served as general counsel and chief compliance officer in the highly regulated and complex industries of lending, mortgage, real estate investing, and insurance, including eight years as a public company general counsel and chief compliance officer at LendingClub. As a GC, he has led and overseen billions of dollars in private debt and equity fundings, fund capitalizations, consumer and business lending, public equity capital, and strategic acquisitions.

Michael J. Fisher joined Miller Barondess, LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Fisher is a litigator with experience in state and federal court and domestic and international arbitration. He has represented clients in the entertainment, finance, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as in government enforcement proceedings.

Caitlin M. Jolley joined Miller Barondess, LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Jolley is an experienced attorney with litigation and appellate experience at the state and federal level. She has represented clients in a myriad of industries, including automotive, finance, solar, and healthcare.

Jeffery McFarland joined Eisner LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

McFarland is a veteran litigator who represents entertainment clients in their high-profile, high-stakes business disputes. For nearly three decades, he has served as a dedicated advocate for clients on the talent side, including actors, producers, directors, and screenwriters, as well as studios, production companies, television networks, and video game publishers.

Andrew Martin Klimenko joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as partner in San Francisco.

Klimenko is a member of the Product & General Liability, Commercial Litigation, and Trial practice groups. He has successfully defended and prosecuted a broad spectrum of matters including commercial claims, breach of contract, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, real estate, and professional error and omissions liability claims. He has completed more than 55 jury trials to verdict, as well as numerous binding arbitrations. Klimenko is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates ("ABOTA"). He is also a certified mediator.

Edward Farrell joined Stuart Kane LLP as partner in Stuart Kane LLP.

Farrell's practice focuses on civil disputes in the areas of real estate, construction, and employment. He is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney focused on representing professional individuals as well as regional, national and international entities in both California state courts and U.S. District Courts.

Jane Davidson joined Munck Wilson Mandala as associate in Los Angeles.

Davidson will support MWM's award-winning litigation section and the firm's growing entertainment practice. She previously worked as an associate at Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Davidson represents a wide variety of clients in intellectual property disputes, product liability, employment law, entertainment, and real estate matters. She has an impressive record of handling litigation for trademark and copyright infringement suits for large portfolios held by music festivals, sports teams, and jewelry designers. Davidson is also known for her sound counsel on compliance with emerging privacy legislation and advises businesses on California's CCPA, and she is also a certified CIPP-US Data Privacy Professional.

A music aficionado herself, Davidson has counseled musicians and influencers on entertainment agreements, and she enjoys speaking and writing about legal issues in entertainment, social media, and privacy as well as the ethics and inclusion issues woven into those industries. Among her notable cases, Davidson was a member of a team that successfully terminated the conservatorship for a high-profile musician, and she successfully recovered dozens of domain names infringing on a famous music festival's trademarks.

Davidson is an adjunct professor at her alma mater, University of Southern California, where she teaches an undergraduate course in USC's Music Industry program focused on copyright law, record deals, music licensing, and marketing regulations.

Negin Taleb was promoted to managing attorney of Shegerian & Associates in San Diego.

Taleb specializes in employment law cases, including those involving discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Alfred W. "Chip" Sloan joined Stradling as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Sloan represents entrepreneurs and corporations in forming new entities, financings, and general corporate services. He extends his services to entertainment and production companies, as well as individuals in the entertainment, sports, and brand industries, throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He also advises professional athletes and teams from leagues across the globe in team contract negotiations, endorsement deal procurement, arbitration, licensing and naming rights. Since 2001 he has serviced contracts, prepared arbitration cases, and negotiated performance terms and endorsement deals for some of the sports world's biggest stars.

Sloan is the founder of TRUE Equity, a minority owned private equity group that invests in sports assets globally. TRUE Equity is positioned as the world's leading sports private equity group, with its principals having successfully executed over 50 transactions with a primary focus around assets in prominent leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, as well as global motorsports properties, global football, rugby, and emerging media. He is a member of the Sports Lawyers Association and Beverly Hills Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in California state and federal courts.

Monica Bachner joined Judicate West as neutral in Los Angeles.

Appointed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002, Bachner served on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench for more than 20 years, presiding over a variety of cases, including commercial, employment and real property matters. Throughout her judicial tenure, Bachner served on numerous court committees, including chairing the Judicial Education Seminars Governing Committee, a group charged with creating judicial education policy and facilitating educational seminars. Bachner is affiliated with the Los Angeles office and available statewide as a mediator, arbitrator and private judge.

Rachel A. Baker joined Everett Dorey LLP as senior associate in Irvine.

Baker specializes in general liability and business law matters. She is a registered patent attorney licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Travis Robert Eagan was promoted to partner of MLG Attorneys at Law in Costa Mesa.

Eagan handles a variety of cases, including automotive products liability and personal injury. In his tenure, Eagan has litigated cases against nearly every automotive manufacturer in the world and has been involved in nationwide class actions. Among his notable victories is a defamation case that resulted in a substantial trial verdict. In the upcoming year, Eagan is scheduled to take on litigation involving car manufacturers such as FCA, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, Lexus, and Toyota.

W. Chad Shear joined Cooley LLP as partner in San Diego.

Shear represents pharmaceutical companies in high-stakes patent litigation in the U.S. and abroad. He is known globally for successfully protecting the intellectual property rights and assets of his clients in make-or-break disputes that determine returns on multibillion-dollar investments and decades of research.

Geoffrey Biegler joined Cooley LLP as partner in San Diego.

Biegler is a seasoned life sciences litigator with a particular focus on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, including Hatch-Waxman cases, Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) cases, competitor pharmaceutical and biotechnology cases, and life sciences-related post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

Nina Golshan as associate in Pasadena

Golshan is an associate in the firm's business practice group. She has a background in complex corporate and commercial financing transactions as well as private investment fund formation and structuring. She has experience representing financial institutions and public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including software, energy, healthcare, and retail.

Adam C. Abrahms joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as partner in Century City.

Abrahms provides employers with sophisticated counsel on strategic labor-management relations in both organized and nonunion operations. He guides employers through collective bargaining and other complex labor negotiations and counsels on matters related to union organizing, representation/decertification elections, corporate campaigns, unfair labor practices, and union contract administration and management.

Justin Thompson joined BH Properties as general counsel in Los Angeles.

In private practice for more than 25 years at several of the nation's most prestigious law firms, Thompson has represented many of the industry's leading developers, investors and property owners. During his career, Thompson has been involved in a wide variety of transactions including acquisitions/dispositions, financings, development, leasing, loan restructurings, land exchanges, sale-leasebacks, and joint ventures, across all property types.

Jayni F. Hein joined Covington & Burling LLP as of counsel in San Francisco.

During her tenure at CEQ, she oversaw the Biden Administration's ambitious environmental and clean energy agenda, leading work on low-carbon projects and climate disclosure and advancing the successful implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021) and Inflation Reduction Act (2022). She has extensive experience advising clients on NEPA, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act issues, as well as energy development on public lands. As the former senior political appointee spearheading work to revise NEPA regulations and issue guidance on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, she offers clients first-hand experience with infrastructure projects that require federal and state permits and authorization. She helps clients identify new funding opportunities and successfully advance clean energy and other infrastructure projects, including onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydrogen, transmission, semiconductor, and carbon, capture, sequestration, and utilization (CCUS) projects.

Matthew D. Umhofer as managing partner in Los Angeles

A recipient of the California Lawyer of the Year Award, Umhofer has thrived in handling challenging matters, helping clients navigate rough waters, and finding creative ways to solve complicated legal problems. He took on the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles--and compelled the city and the county to commit $3.5 billion in services, shelter, and housing subject to five years of federal court enforcement as well as defending Planned Parenthood affiliates and employees from False Claims Act cases and violent assaults.

Elizabeth Mitchell as partner in Los Angeles

Mitchell has litigated thousands of cases in multiple jurisdictions. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation, spanning a wide range of substantive areas, including constitutional, commercial disputes, trade secret allegations, the False Claims Act, and legal malpractice. She pioneered a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the City and County of Los Angeles, demanding beds, services, and treatment for thousands of homeless individuals and clean and safe streets for the community. The lawsuit prompted swift and dynamic action by the Federal Court during the COVID-19 crisis, which ultimately resulted in a $4 billion commitment for an additional 20,000 beds with services and treatment for homeless Angelenos by the City and County of Los Angeles and commitment to encampment reduction.

J. Anthony King as partner in Los Angeles

King has been a complex civil and employment trial lawyer in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration forums, for more than 19 years on both coasts and has been privileged to represent Fortune 500 companies and their individual officers, executives of Southern California community colleges and school districts, and a variety of other companies, large and small, in numerous high-stakes cases.

Dolly K. Hansen as partner in Los Angeles

Hansen is an experienced attorney whose practice includes both complex, large-scale civil litigation and a wide range of criminal defense matters. Hansen represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual pro bono clients.

Diane H. Bang as counsel in Los Angeles

Bang litigates complex civil and criminal cases at both the state and federal levels and has been named a 2019 and 2020 California Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine. She has experience in a range of matters, including fraud, breach of contract, shareholder derivative claims, 1983 claims, and internal investigations. She also has defended executives and businesses against criminal charges, including wire fraud, healthcare fraud, and securities fraud.

Adam Snyder as senior associate in Los Angeles

Snyder litigates complex civil and criminal cases with a focus on securities, cryptocurrency, financial services, and white-collar defense. He has experience in a wide range of matters, including fraud, breach of contract, RICO commercial bribery, trade secret misappropriation, and internal investigations.

Jonas P. Mann as senior associate in Los Angeles

Mann is a seasoned attorney with over 15 years of complex litigation experience.

Susan Leader joined Paul Hastings LLP as partner in Century City.

Leader litigates and tries cases in high-stakes commercial matters and class actions in federal and state courts. She has chaired more than a dozen trials, arbitrations, and international arbitrations and has represented clients in a variety of industries, including entertainment and media, hospitality, funds, and renewable energy sectors. Ms. Leader's broad base of experience includes handling a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, employment disputes, product liability disputes, franchise law violations, False Claims Act, and RICO and Sherman Act violations.

Kenneth Deutsch joined Paul Hastings LLP as partner in Century City.

Deutsch is global co-chair of the Entertainment and Media practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Century City office. He represents a broad array of operating entities in the entertainment and media industries, including film and television studios, streaming platforms, and independent media companies, advising on their most significant corporate transactions as well as on a variety of film, television, and other commercial ventures.

Su Da was promoted to counsel of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.

Da advises public and private clients on a variety of internal and third-party transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisition, disposition, and restructuring transactions, debt and equity financings, initial public offerings, and international planning.

Christopher P. Hammond was promoted to counsel of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.

Hammond represents public and private clients in complex strategic transactions and corporate governance matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and restructurings, as well as situations involving challenges to corporate control.

Hillary A. Hamilton was promoted to counsel of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.

Hamilton represents a wide variety of clients in commercial litigation disputes in federal and state courts across the nation. She has extensive experience in complex litigation matters, particularly in consumer class actions.

Anoush D. Sarkissian was promoted to counsel of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.

Sarkissian represents clients in a range of complex real estate matters. Her practice includes portfolio and single-asset acquisitions, dispositions of various classes of real estate assets, joint ventures, financings, developments and leases. Her clients include institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, lenders, borrowers, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and developers. She also has been involved in various alternative energy transactions involving wind and solar farms, and the development and financing of transmission facilities.

Bryn E. Jedlic joined Miller Starr Regalia as of counsel in Walnut Creek.

Jedlic is in the Land Use Department at Miller Starr Regalia, focusing on land use matters. He led the real estate team at Mubadala Real Estate and Infrastructure, overseeing the development of more than three million square feet of retail, residential, hospitality, and office projects on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE, while also leading Mubadala's international real estate investments and partnerships.

Paul Fraidenburgh joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as partner in San Diego.

Fraidenburgh has tried to conclusion numerous high-stakes business disputes. He has prevailed on behalf of clients in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and at the state Supreme Court level. Paul represents clients ranging from government agencies to Fortune 100 companies across a wide range of industries, including technology, aviation, real estate, energy, sports, and entertainment.

Sonia Salinas joined Hanson Bridgett as partner in Los Angeles.

Salinas represents clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including litigation of wrongful discharge; race, gender, and disability discrimination/harassment; retaliation; wage and hour claims (including class actions and FLSA collective actions); and claims involving non-compete agreements. Salinas also provides advice and counsel to clients on employee discipline, leaves of absence, employee handbooks, and personnel policies.

David Downing was promoted to partner of Pearlman, Brown & Wax, LLP in Los Angeles.

Downing specializes in the defense of complex workers' compensation matters, having litigated cases from file inception through trial and appeal, focusing on quick and cost efficient resolution.

Corinne Spencer was promoted to partner of Pearlman, Brown & Wax, LLP in Los Angeles.

Spencer's practice encompasses single-party discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination cases, most often arising out of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), wage-and-hour class actions, and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) Representative Actions. She has defended numerous clients across all industries including food service, healthcare, sporting goods, and entertainment. In addition to conducting independent investigations of workplace misconduct, she has extensive experience drafting law and motion, responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, and arguing substantive and dispositive motions. She also zealously advocates for employers and management in mediations, arbitrations, trial and appellate courts.

Bret H. Hunter joined Blank Rome LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Hunter has significant experience representing high-profile and high-net-worth individuals in family law, custody, domestic violence, and paternity cases. He has served as lead counsel in over a hundred long and short cause trials, orders to show cause, procedural and discovery motions, and requests for order in both the family law and civil departments of the Superior Court of California. He is also a well-respected mediator in high-net-worth and high-conflict divorce cases and has served as an expert witness on California family law topics in other jurisdictions.