Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP
Jason E Grinnell
joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP as partner in Los Angeles (Century City).
Grinnell specializes in real estate transactions and financings. He handles acquisitions, dispositions and leasing
across multiple asset classes, with particular experience in the retail leasing.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Nathan O. Greene
was promoted to senior counsel of Lowenstein Sandler LLP in Palo Alto.
Greene focuses on U.S. and international intellectual property asset procurement, management, and protection, including patent preparation, prosecution, and opinion work (patentability, invalidity, and noninfringement). He is experienced with trademark searches, clearance, and registration, and with copyright registration and protection.
Madhumita Datta
was promoted to counsel of Lowenstein Sandler LLP in Palo Alto.
Datta specializes in U.S. and international patent prosecution, patent portfolio management and counseling, analysis of patent validity and potential infringement.
Baker Botts LLP
Dino T Barajas
joined Baker Botts LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Barajas focuses on domestic and international project development and finance, with emphasis on infrastructure
projects, debt financings and M&A deals. He has extensive experience in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.
Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP
Courtney R Arbucci
was promoted to partner of Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP in Los Angeles.
Arbucci is a member of the Public Entity, Product Liability, General Liability, and Transportation Law practice
groups.
Patrick F McIntyre
was promoted to partner of Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP in Los Angeles.
McIntyre is a member of the Fire Litigation, General Liability, Product Liability and Transportation Law practice
groups.
Bethsaida C Obra-White
was promoted to partner of Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP in San Diego.
Obra-White is involved in the Employment & Labor, Risk Management & Insurance Law, Transportation Law, General
Liability and Construction Law practice groups.
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Eric L Garner
was promoted to managing partner of Best Best & Krieger LLP in Los Angeles.
Garner, based in Los Angeles, specializes in water rights and supply law.
Scott W Ditfurth
was promoted to member of firm executive committee of Best Best & Krieger LLP in Riverside.
Ditfurth, based in Riverside, handles public entity defense litigation and real property-related disputes for private
and public clients.
Irell & Manella LLP
Andrew J Strabone
was promoted to partner of Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles.
Strabone specializes in complex business disputes, with an emphasis on intellectual property and securities litigation.
Anthony Q Rowles
was promoted to partner of Irell & Manella LLP in Newport Beach.
Rowles specializes in patent litigation at the trial level and on appeal, Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International
Trade Commission and prosecution and post-grant review proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office.
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Jeffrey D Diener
joined Baker & Hostetler LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Diener specializes in globally in the acquisition, finance, sale, development, management, restructuring and bankruptcy
of hospitality, life science, technology and other real estate assets and business.
Alston & Bird LLP
Alexander Akerman
was promoted to partner of Alston & Bird LLP in Los Angeles.
Akerman focuses on high-stakes complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on class action defense, antitrust,
breach of contract, trade secret and intellectual property espionage, privacy, and unfair competition disputes.
Anoush Garakani
was promoted to partner of Alston & Bird LLP in Los Angeles.
Garakani advises on mortgage banking and consumer finance, with a focus on counseling clients on compliance
with federal and state consumer financial protection laws and regulations, including the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau’s Mortgage Servicing Rules, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act, and Truth in Lending Act.
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Joelle A Berle
was promoted to partner of Baker & Hostetler LLP in Los Angeles.
Berle specializes in high-stakes commercial disputes including breach of contract, business torts, environmental,
real estate, health care and securities matters.
Christopher M. Habashy
was promoted to partner of Baker & Hostetler LLP in Los Angeles.
Habashy specializes in all types of employment disputes, including harassment, discrimination, retaliation and
wrongful termination cases.
David J Richardson
was promoted to partner of Baker & Hostetler LLP in Los Angeles.
Richardson is a member of the firm’s national bankruptcy and restructuring and litigation teams. He focuses on
actions against corporate insiders for pre-petition or post-petition violations of fiduciary duties and related claims.
Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP
Sabrina D Johnson
joined Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP as associate in San Diego.
Johnson focuses on business and real estate litigation and risk management.
Address
600 West Broadway, Suite 800 , San Diego
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Sandra N. Bignone
joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Bignone serves as general counsel for clients including a highly syndicated television talk show as well as a multimillion-dollar celebrity-consumer brand. Additionally, she regularly represents influencers in a variety of business deals and partnership opportunities.
McGuireWoods LLP
Kevin B Frankel
joined McGuireWoods LLP as partner in San Francisco.
White collar defense, investigations and complex litigation
Fitzgerald Knaier LLP
Keith Cochran
was promoted to partner of Fitzgerald Knaier LLP in San Diego.
Cochran has extensive experience in business litigation and intellectual property disputes. In addition, he serves as an arbitrator for the San Diego County Bar Association's fee dispute arbitration program. He also serves as a public arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Prior to joining Fitzgerald Knaier, Cochran practiced with Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP where he defended clients in complex civil litigation matters.
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Fitzgerald Knaier LLP is a San Diego boutique litigation firm, focused exclusively on trying cases and handling controversies for its clients.
Miller Barondess, LLP
David W. Schecter
was promoted to partner of Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles.
Schecter is a trial attorney and focuses on media, technology, entertainment and environmental litigation.
Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP
Andrew C. Myers
was promoted to partner of Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP in San Diego.
Myers' practice focuses on representing a diverse corporate client base in business- and employment-related matters. Experienced in all phases of civil litigation, he has litigated extensively in both state and federal courts.
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Founded in 1977, Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP provides a full range of legal services to individuals and businesses of all sizes. The firm has 36 attorneys and offers a comprehensive mix of transactional and litigation services ranging from business and corporate law, finance, real estate and construction law, employment law, international law, taxation, trust and estates, family law, bankruptcy and insolvency to most types of business litigation and even personal injury.
Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP
Sabrina D. Johnson
joined Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP as associate in San Diego.
Johnson's practice focuses on business and real estate litigation and risk management. She graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was a member of the San Diego Law Review. She served as a Judicial Extern for Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel on the Southern District of California.
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Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP, located in San Diego, has 16 attorneys focused on business law and all aspects of real estate law, including litigation and risk management.
Address
One America Plaza, 600 West Broadway, Suite 800 , San Diego 92101 United States
T:
(619) 239-3444
F:
(619) 232-6828
Irell & Manella LLP
Tony Rowles
was promoted to partner of Irell & Manella LLP in Newport Beach.
Rowles represents clients in district court patent litigation, appeals at the Federal Circuit, Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission and prosecution and post-grant review proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Andrew Strabone
was promoted to partner of Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles.
Strabone focuses his practice on complex business disputes, with an emphasis on IP and securities litigation.
Kutak Rock LLP
Brian J. Wagner
was promoted to partner of Kutak Rock LLP in Irvine.
Wagner joined Kutak Rock in 2021 as a transition partner. He focuses his practice on commercial, real estate, employment, and consumer finance litigation. He primarily represents lenders, real estate developers, property management companies, family offices, as well as small and mid-sized companies.
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Kutak Rock LLP has 550 attorneys in 19 offices in 14 states and the District of Columbia.
Foley & Mansfield PLLP
Dustin J. Priebe
was promoted to partner of Foley & Mansfield PLLP in Los Angeles.
Priebe is the chair of the firm's Transportation Practice Group. He has acted as the first-chair attorney in several multi-day trials and handled numerous appeals.
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Foley & Mansfield has more than 140 attorneys in 15 offices across the country.
Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP
Jason Grinnell
joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP as partner in Century City.
Grinnell uses his years of experience in leading real estate transactions and financings to help clients navigate the California real estate market. In the transactional sector, He handles acquisitions, dispositions and leasing across multiple asset classes, with particularly deep experience in the retail leasing. He represents global technology and video game clients in office and studio leases. He also has strong ties to the Los Angeles private equity and family office firms and assists these clients with their real estate needs.
In his real estate finance practice, he advises financial institutions in construction, permanent and mezzanine debt financing. Jason also represents both financial institutions and investors in loan workouts, forbearances, and other distressed debt transactions. Jason's practice includes a special emphasis on renewable energy project finance, including construction and permanent debt financing and tax credit investments for solar and wind portfolios.
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Glaser Weil, based in Los Angeles, is a full-service law firm. The firm's lawyers advise a roster of diverse, selective clients -- from start-ups and large global corporations, to local and national landlords and developers, to high-profile entertainers and other well-known individuals.
Address
10250 Constellation Blvd, 19th floor , Los Angeles 90067 United States
T:
(714) 322-4443
Jones Day
Kendra L Marvel
was promoted to partner of Jones Day in Los Angeles.
Marvel works in federal court litigation, white collar criminal proceedings and Department of Justice investigations. She also represents clients facing civil and criminal charges abroad, and has helped obtain asylum for unaccompanied minors fleeing abuse in Central America.
Robert TS Latta
was promoted to partner of Jones Day in San Diego.
Practicing in the life sciences, software and technology industries, Latta advises clients on intellectual property and data transactions, and has technical experience in electrical engineering, bioinformatics, gaming, data management systems and robotics.
Paul A Gilbert
was promoted to partner of Jones Day in San Francisco.
Gilbert focuses on commercial real estate finance transactions, including construction, permanent and mezzanine financing as well as unsecured financings
and loan syndications. He has closed transactions totaling millions of dollars, including a $500 million syndicated unsecured facility for a California developer and the restatement of a $225 million syndicated term loan for a Los Angeles retail center.
Peter A Julian
was promoted to partner of Jones Day in San Francisco.
Julian specializes in complex antitrust matters involving mergers, acquisitions and government investigations. He has also defended clients in class actions and has practiced in the digital economy, semiconductor, social media, life sciences, health care and chemical industries.
Bing Liang
was promoted to partner of Jones Day in Silicon Valley.
Focusing on intellectual property procurement and protection for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, Liang has a doctorate in biomedical sciences from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Evan M McLean
was promoted to partner of Jones Day in Silicon Valley.
Litigating in district courts across the U.S. and at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, McLean focuses his practice on intellectual property matters related to telecommunications infrastructure, distributed software architecture, web-based services, payment systems, smartphone apps and web conferencing.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Brandon G Howald
joined Ropes & Gray LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Howald practices in private equity and has overseen middle-market and large cap transactions in the technology, software, data, health care, fitness, food, beverage, and consumer products industries.
Address
Three Embarcadero Center , San Francisco 94111-4006
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Timothy W Lohse
joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as partner in Palo Alto.
Lohse specializes in patent and intellectual property prosecution, international trade, government affairs, mergers, acquisitions, capital markets and arbitration. He also has experience in patent re-examinations and inter partes reviews.
Michel C Narganes
joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Guiding startups and other clients through corporate law, financing matters, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and commercial transactions, Narganes has worked in cryptocurrency, non-fungible token and blockchain.
Address
One Embarcadero Center 30th Floor , San Francisco 94111
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Christine E Ellice
was promoted to partner of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in Los Angeles.
Having worked at the firm since graduating from law school 15 years ago, attorney Christine E. Ellice has been promoted to partner at the Los Angeles office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.
"I've dedicated my legal career to Stroock, and I obviously believe in the firm and am appreciative of the culture," Ellice said in an interview.
"Christine is a true Stroock success story," said a statement from co-managing partner Alan M. Klinger. "Her career with us began as a summer associate in the New York office, and she joined us there as a firstyear after graduating from law school. Christine later transferred to our LA office as a third-year associate and now has made partner based on her fine legal work, commitment to clients and firm citizenship."
Ellice has developed a strong reputation in trial litigation, thanks in part to a forward-looking approach to her work.
"I approach every case as if it is going to trial," she said. "I'm always working backwards from the assumption that I'm going to eventually have to prove the case to a jury, a judge or, as is often the case, an arbitrator."
Among the many cases Ellice has tried, the class action TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 141 S. Ct. 2190 stands out as exemplifying her no-stone-unturned approach.
"What's interesting about that case is it actually went up all the way to the Supreme Court," she said. "While Stroock didn't handle the appeal, many of the arguments we had raised leading up to trial, that we had made and preserved, were the ones that we ultimately prevailed on at the Supreme Court."
"That was a great experience because those cases so rarely go to trial, and a class action is such a different beast that having that experience is so rare," she added. "It was very valuable to me to be able to work up a class action case for trial as opposed to an individual case."
Some of the work Ellice has been most proud of has been litigating pro bono cases in immigration law, which she said she's always been passionate about.
"One of the things that really drew me to Stroock was that it has this amazing pro bono platform called the Public Service Project," she said.
Ellice worked pro bono cases from her first summer at the New York office, and since then has dedicated herself to immigration cases involving asylum.
"It's been one of the most rewarding aspects of my legal career," she said. "It's something I feel passionately about, and it gives me an opportunity to make an actual real world impact on a family's life."
As a newly-minted partner at Stroock, Ellice says she looks forward to continuing to work with what she calls the firm's "extremely talented legal minds."
"Two maternity leaves, moving cross-country and all the ups and downs of life -- it's all happened at Stroock. So I'm just very excited to be promoted to partner and to be able to hopefully do more in that position at the firm," she added.
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Katherine L Lucero
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as director of the office of youth and community restoration at the california health and human services agency in San Jose.
Lucero was a judge at the Santa Clara County Superior Court for 20 years, and most recently served as the presiding judge of the court's juvenile division. She is a member of the California Judges Association, California Latino Judges Association and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
Justin R Paddock
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as chief of the bureau of household goods and services at the department of consumer affairs in Sacramento.
Before serving as chief of licensing and examinations at the Contractors State License Board, Paddock worked as an attorney with Shaw Law Group and as a lobbyist at the California Association of Realtors.
Patricia A Wynne
joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as member of the california board of registered nursing in Aptos.
Wynne is a former deputy state treasurer in the Office of the State Treasurer, and has also served as a special assistant attorney general as well as policy director for former State Senate President Pro Tempore Bill Lockyer, D-Oakland.
Address
1021 O Street, Suite 9000 , Sacramento 95814
Gov. Gavin Newsom
Amarik K Singh
was promoted to inspector general of Gov. Gavin Newsom in Placerville.
Formerly the senior assistant inspector general since 2019, Singh has also served as commissioner on the Board of Parole Hearings and as a deputy district attorney in Kern County.
Jackson Lewis PC
Jack P Schaedel
joined Jackson Lewis PC as principal in Los Angeles.
Representing employers throughout California and the U.S., Schaedel advises clients in the manufacturing, professional services and hospitality industries.
Address
725 South Figueroa Street Suite 2500 , Los Angeles 90017
Klinedinst PC
Address
777 S. Figueroa St Suite 4000 , Los Angeles 90017
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP
William J Emanuel
joined Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP as senior strategist.
A respected labor relations attorney, Emanuel worked at Jones Day, Musick, Peeler, & Garrett LLP, Littler Mendelson PC and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP before his four years at the National Labor Relations Board.
Address
2029 Century Park East Suite 1100 , Los Angeles 90067
Carlton Fields PA
Ellyn S Garofalo
joined Carlton Fields PA as shareholder in Los Angeles.
Garofalo focuses on breach of conduct, securities and investor claims, as well as partnership disputes and real estate litigation. Recently she secured a defense verdict in a $100 million partnership dispute, and a $32 million judgment in a cyber theft case.
Address
2029 Century Park East Suite 1200 , Los Angeles 90067-2913