McManis Faulkner
Abimael (AJ) Bastida
was promoted to partner of McManis Faulkner in San Jose, CA.
Bastida represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business, criminal and employment-related disputes. He also has experience with civil rights, probate and trust litigation and white-collar matters, representing high-level executives.
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP
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Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP, a national plaintiff side law firm, is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Los Angeles. The firm's new office - its second in California and fifth nationwide - will focus on complex litigation involving employment, consumer protection, and antitrust matters. The Los Angeles office is at 300 S. Grand Avenue. The office will be led by partner Jason H. Kim, who will oversee day-to-day office management and represent Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky in the Southern California legal community. Kim has led the firm's Business Litigation and Competition practice group since 2020, representing classes, municipalities, and several of the nation's largest health insurers in a wide variety of civil matters. The Los Angeles office will house two partners and six associates, bringing the total headcount for the firm to 67 lawyers. Partner Carolyn Cottrell, a member of the firm since 1995, will continue overseeing the firm's employment practice now expanding into the Los Angeles office and will be a part-time resident of that office. Cottrell has litigated hundreds of class actions and individual claims including wage and hour, employment discrimination and civil rights actions.
Address
300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 2700 , Los Angeles 90071
T:
(415) 472-7100
F:
(415) 421-7105
Miller Barondess, LLP
Molly C. Stephens
joined Miller Barondess, LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Stephens has 20 years of experience litigating complex commercial cases, including disputes involving investment contracts and funds, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, structured finance, and securities law. Representing plaintiffs, Stephens has achieved settlements and verdicts worth tens of millions to tens of billions of dollars. Representing defendants, she has obtained settlements before the plaintiffs ever filed a lawsuit, dismissals with prejudice at the pleading stage, and summary judgment disposing of all claims. Stephens continues to develop practice areas related to new industries and financial practices, including cryptocurrency, esports, and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
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Miller Barondess, LLP is a 40-lawyer litigation firm in Los Angeles. The firm handles high-stakes litigation, trial and appellate work in California and around the country; and represents clients ranging from celebrities to Fortune 500 companies to government, as well as providing pro bono assistance in the local community.
Address
1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067
T:
(310) 552-4400
F:
(310) 552-8400
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Colin G Conklin
joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as partner in San Francisco.
Conklin's practice focuses on public and private offerings of securities for issuers and underwriters, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate counseling of emerging growth technology and life sciences companies.
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
James "Jeb" Brown
joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore as senior counsel in Los Angeles.
Brown's practice specializes in civil litigation, and personal injury and construction defect matters.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Bianca Levin-Soler
joined Ropes & Gray LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Levin-Soler represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, SPACs and restructurings.
Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP
Kimberly M. Keen
joined Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP as associate in San Diego.
Keen will be a part of the firm's Family Law practice group.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Marjan Vaseghi
joined Latham & Watkins LLP as partner in Menlo Park.
Vaseghi advises clients on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits matters in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions. She also represents companies, board compensation committees, and senior executives with respect to executive compensation matters.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Paul Navarro
joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Navarro represents start-ups, emerging growth companies, and investors in a variety of corporate and technology transactions covering all stages of the ECVC life cycle, with a focus on Latin America.
Miller Barondess LLP
Wenfeng Su
joined Miller Barondess LLP as associate in Los Angeles.
Su is a commercial litigator who has experience in diverse matters from cross-border litigation, arbitration, and investigation, to advising foreign companies on complying with U.S. export control and sanctions laws.
Address
1999 Avenue of the Stars Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067 US
T:
(310) 552-4400
F:
(310) 552-8400
Whitney, Thompson & Jeffcoach
Kyle Hampton
joined Whitney, Thompson & Jeffcoach as partner in Merced.
Hampton represents individuals, small businesses, developers, banks, growers, dairies, and municipalities.
Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP
Leanne O. Vanecek
was promoted to partner of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP in Los Angeles.
Vanecek's practice encompasses all aspects of business litigation across a wide spectrum of industries, including health care, energy, technology, education, and entertainment.
Sally K. Saab
was promoted to partner of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP in Los Angeles.
Saab counsels businesses and individuals on a broad range of federal, state and local tax law topics.
Justin S. Glincher
was promoted to partner of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP in Los Angeles.
Glincher represents clients in a variety of commercial real estate matters throughout the United States. His work includes the acquisition, disposition, development and financing of commercial properties.
Eli S. Diller
was promoted to of counsel of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP in Los Angeles.
Diller provides comprehensive representation in connection with all aspects of real estate transactions and ventures. His practice is primarily focused on office, retail and industrial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants of all sizes and sophistication levels.
Glaser Weil LLP
Doron M. Tisser
as partner & co-chair of the trusts & estates department
Tisser has been designated as a certified specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, and as a certified specialist in Taxation Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He is one of less than approximately 100 attorneys in California who has earned both these Board Certifications. He has authored over 65 articles and chapters in books on various estate and tax planning subjects, including booklets on A Guide to Planning Your Estate, A Guide to Trust Administration, and A Guide to Advanced Estate Tax Planning Techniques. He has published articles and materials for Estate Planning Magazine and for California Continuing Education of the Bar. In addition, Tisser has authored chapters on "Corporate Buy-Sell Agreements" and "Partnership Buy-Out Agreements" for Counseling California Corporations, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.
Robert W. Heaven
as associate
Heaven practiced as a solicitor (transactional attorney) in Australia at a large international corporate law firm where he worked in copyright and civil litigation as well as assisting foreign companies fundraise and get listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. He then practiced as a barrister (trial attorney) at Mitchell Chambers specializing in criminal defense. Throughout his legal career in Australia he worked as an associate lecturer in the law schools of The University of Adelaide and The University of South Australia, where he taught Evidence, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Foundations of Law.
Heaven is the barrister liaison of the Trusts and Estates Committee and the Criminal Law Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He also completed trial advocacy training programs at LACBA to allow him to serve as a volunteer prosecutor at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
In addition to his legal career, Robbie served on Active Duty in the United States Army and is now serving in the 442nd Infantry Regiment 100th Battalion in the U.S. Army Reserve and is trained as an infantryman. He is also studying for a Master's Degree in Special Operations and Irregular Warfare on a part-time basis at the University of New South Wales run in conjunction by the Australian Defence Force.
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Glaser Weil, based in Los Angeles, is one of the country's premier full-service law firms. Advising 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 -- Glaser Weil represents clients' interests with an unprecedented level of dedication and commitment.
Address
10250 Constellation Blvd. , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T:
(310) 282-6294
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
E. Martin Estrada
was promoted to partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles.
Estrada has been named a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. Estrada, whose practice focuses on complex litigation and investigations, was inducted at a ceremony on Feb. 26, during the ACTL's spring meeting in Coronado. A former federal prosecutor, he has tried more than 30 federal and state trials and arbitrations, argued over a dozen appellate matters before U.S. courts of appeal, and conducted hundreds of investigations.
Founded in 1950, the ACTL comprises the best of the trial bar from the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Fellowship in the college is given by invitation only to experienced trial lawyers of diverse backgrounds, who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose careers are marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility, and collegiality. Membership in the college does not exceed 1 percent of the total lawyer population of any state or province.
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Founded 60 years ago, Munger, Tolles & Olson has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., the firm maintains a national and international practice. Our principal areas of practice include litigation, corporate, labor and employment, environmental, real estate, financial restructuring and tax.
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Ron S. Grace
joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.
Grace serves as general corporate counsel and transactional counsel with respect to a wide variety of business transactions. He represents emerging and established companies, including those in the healthcare industry, on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, private placements of equity securities, and general contract, securities, and health care law.
Address
1840 Century Park E, #1900 , Los Angeles 90067 United States
T:
(310) 586-7875
Smith Entertainment Law Group
Henry W. Root
joined Smith Entertainment Law Group as partner in Los Angeles.
Root serves as counsel to major and independent entertainment, media companies, recording artists, songwriters, composers, producers, consumer product companies, and large purchasers of music catalogs and name imagine and likeness rights.
Address
12400 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 810 90025 , Los Angeles, CA 90025 United States
T:
(310) 395-6800
First Amendment Coalition
John David Loy
joined First Amendment Coalition as legal director in San Diego.
Loy is a veteran civil liberties litigator who has defended the First Amendment rights of reporters, photographers, bloggers, students, teachers, activists, protesters, musicians, Marines, and motorcycle club members and has fought for public disclosure and governmental transparency for over 20 years.
Latham & Watkins
Nikki Buffa
was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins in Costa Mesa.
Buffa is a member of the Environment, Land & Resources Practice in the Corporate Department. She provides environmental counseling in all areas of environmental law, with a particular focus on the siting of major infrastructure projects, energy transition and renewable energy, stakeholder engagement, and crisis management. She counsels clients on a wide range of relevant state and federal regulatory regimes and has previously served in senior positions in the Obama Administration at the Department of the Interior and the White House, and on the Biden-Harris transition team.
Heather B. Deixler
was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins in Bay Area.
Deixler is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice in the Corporate Department. who counsels public and private companies operating in the healthcare industry and digital health sector on regulatory compliance, transactional matters, and data privacy and security. With a practice at the intersection of healthcare and technology, she advises a range of cutting-edge clients on emerging regulatory regimes, including innovative healthcare delivery systems, value-based payment programs, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare.
Kristin N. Murphy
was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins in Costa Mesa.
Murphy is a member of the Securities Litigation & Professional Liability Practice in the Litigation & Trial Department. She advises clients on complex business litigation, with an emphasis on M&A, securities fraud, and class action litigation. Her recent representations include special committee engagements in controlling stockholder transactions, multi-jurisdictional litigation arising out of solicited and hostile takeover attempts, and lawsuits related to special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Kevin C. Reyes
was promoted to partner of Latham & Watkins in San Diego.
Reyes is a member of the mergers & acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department. He represents public and private companies on a range of corporate matters, including M&A transactions, debt and equity capital markets offerings, venture capital financings, corporate governance, and securities law compliance, particularly in the life sciences, technology, consumer products, and real estate sectors.
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Allison Mallick
was promoted to partner of Baker Botts L.L.P. in San Francisco.
Mallick advises clients facing complex environmental challenges, focusing on litigation, regulatory advocacy, and compliance counseling. She represents companies and industry coalitions across multiple sectors, including energy, cement, manufacturing, chemical processing, and agricultural processing.
Nicholas F. Frey
was promoted to partner of Baker Botts L.L.P. in Palo Alto.
Frey focuses on executive compensation, benefits, deferred compensation, ERISA, and mergers and acquisitions due diligence matters, and has substantial experience in advising venture capital and emerging growth companies on compensation and benefits issues with respect to their key employees.
Latham & watkins
Robert Blamires
was promoted to partner of Latham & watkins in San Francisco.
Robert Blamires is a member of the Data & Technology Transactions Practice in the Corporate Department who advises clients on data privacy practices, risks, and compliance, particularly in the context of M&A, capital markets, and other corporate transactions, as well as on proactive compliance, the use of data assets, and contracts governing data sharing and processing. He also has substantial experience with the firm's Data Privacy & Security Practice.
Mayer Brown
Andrew J. Demko
as partner
in Los Angeles
Demko joins the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation and Consumer Litigation & Class Actions practices. He has represented companies in a variety of industries, including financial services, media, entertainment, technology and securities. He also has experience with environmental and employment litigation, including ERISA lawsuits and wage and hour class actions.
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Mayer Brown is a distinctively global law firm, uniquely positioned to advise the world's leading companies and financial institutions on their most complex deals and disputes. With extensive reach across four continents, we are the only integrated law firm in the world with approximately 200 lawyers in each of the world's three largest financial centers--New York, London and Hong Kong--the backbone of the global economy. We have deep experience in high-stakes litigation and complex transactions across industry sectors, including our signature strength, the global financial services industry. Our diverse teams of lawyers are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. Our "one-firm" culture--seamless and integrated across all practices and regions--ensures that our clients receive the best of our knowledge and experience.
Address
350 South Grand Avenue, 25th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071-1503 , Los Angeles 90071-1503 United States of America
T:
(213) 229-9500
McGuireWoods
Nicholas J Hoffman
was promoted to partner of McGuireWoods in Los Angeles.
Hoffman Joins International Association of Defense Counsel. He is a trial attorney who handles a wide range of matters, including product liability, mass tort, intellectual property, unfair competition, business tort and other complex commercial disputes. He represents clients in the technology, biotechnology, medical devices, consumer products and entertainment industries.
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP
Maxwell A. Blum
was promoted to partner of Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP in Oakland CA.
Max Blum is a member of the firm's Litigation and Public Law practices.
Eli Jacob Flushman
was promoted to partner of Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP in San Rafael.
Eli Flushman is a member of the firm's Public Law practice.
Kristin E. Charbonnier
was promoted to partner of Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP in San Francisco.
Kristin Charbonnier is a member of the firm's Litigation and Real Estate practices.
Temitayo Opeoluwa Peters
was promoted to partner of Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP in Oakland.
Temitayo ("Ope") Peters is a member of the firm's Constitutional Law, Employment Law & Litigation, Litigation, and Public Law practices.
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Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is a California limited liability law partnership with 137 member attorneys. Our mission is to provide clients with creative, results oriented, and cost effective legal services within the complex environment in which they function. We view ourselves as problem solvers and legal strategists, not simply compliance monitors and reciters of the law. Burke has nine practice groups: Public Law; Labor and Employment Law; Construction Law; Litigation; Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources; Real Estate and Business Law; Insurance Coverage and Litigation; Intellectual Property; and Education Law. Each practice focuses on professional development of member attorneys and advisory services tailored to the needs of both public and private clients. With regional offices in the Inland Empire, Palm Desert, Los Angeles, Marin County, Oakland, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Ventura County, as well with the added support of advanced communications technology, Burke can easily be where our California situated clients need us to be. For more information, please visit www.bwslaw.com.
Nossaman
Randy Boyer
was promoted to partner of Nossaman in Irvine, CA.
Boyer assists clients in resolving disputes regarding wage and hour class actions, products liability class action, complex contractual and real estate matters and individual employment matters.
Nossaman
Elinor Eizdi
was promoted to partner of Nossaman.
Eizdi specializes in real estate transactional law. She represents real estate developers, government agencies and independent oil and gas companies in all phases of real estate acquisitions and dispositions.
Willis Hon
was promoted to partner of Nossaman in San Francisco.
Hon focuses on serving water industry clients across California on a broad range of administrative and regulatory matters.
Frank Liu
was promoted to partner of Nossaman in Los Angeles.
Liu helps public agencies use innovative procurement methods to deliver highly complex and large-scale airport, highway, bridge, tunnel, transit and social infrastructure projects. His work spans every step of the procurement process.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Emily Stephens
joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.
Emily Stephens concentrates her practice on fund formation and investment management and has a deep institutional knowledge of virtually all aspects of the investment management business.
Address
1840 Century Park East, #1900 , Los Angeles 90067 United States
T:
(310) 586-7875
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Rebecca J. Winthrop
was promoted to partner of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP in Los Angeles.
Winthrop's practice focuses on representing financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors, and purchasers of distressed assets in complex restructurings and Chapter 11 bankruptcies in multiple industries, including energy, manufacturing, construction and entertainment. She also advises healthcare providers in out-of-court workouts and as non-debtor counterparties to third party vendor and joint venture agreements in the event of bankruptcy, and counsels both borrowers and bondholders on their rights in municipal bankruptcies.
Joseph H. Drapalski
was promoted to partner of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP in Los Angeles.
Drapalski focuses on environmental law and litigation, including federal and state Superfund, enforcement, compliance counseling and transactional matters. His litigation practice involves toxic exposure, CERCLA cost recovery and contribution, natural resource damages, groundwater and sediment contamination lawsuits and environmental citizen suits. Drapalski's regulatory and compliance practice focuses on federal and state Superfund, the Clean Water Act, RCRA, National Contingency Plan, CEQA and NEPA. He frequently advises clients on environmental aspects of business transactions, including transactions involving real property.
Yoka & Smith LLP
Martin S. McMahan
was promoted to partner of Yoka & Smith LLP in Los Angeles.
McMahan worked in business for several years before getting a law degree from Loyola Law School. His practice includes catastrophic injury/wrongful death defense, class-action and complex tort actions, commercial litigation, premises liability and product liability.
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Yoka & Smith LLP represents businesses in high-exposure lawsuits in a variety of legal practice areas. The firm has offices in Los Angeles and Irvine.
Tyson & Mendes LLP
Alla Shabun Policastro
was promoted to partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP in Los Angeles.
Policastro's practice focuses on defense of general liability and personal injury matters on behalf of individuals and businesses. Over the course of the past thirteen years, her litigation experience has included high exposure and catastrophic personal injury cases in the insurance and hospitality industries. Policastro also has significant experience in risk assessment and mitigation for her clients and handling all aspects of litigation to trial. She has an exceptional track record for resolving high exposure cases through negotiations and mediation even in the most adverse of circumstances
Emily Clare Meeson
was promoted to partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP in San Diego and Orange County offices.
Meeson's practice focuses on employment practices litigation defense, including wrongful termination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour claims. She has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and businesses in state courts throughout Southern California. She has successfully prepared multiple cases and witnesses for trial through completion, resulting in favorable jury verdicts
Christopher Howard Schon
was promoted to partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP in San Diego.
Schon specializes in high exposure, catastrophic personal injury and general liability defense. He also assists privately held businesses in state regulatory and compliance matters. Schon has prepared and argued numerous trial and pre-trial motions that disposed of causes of action and resulted in significantly reduced exposure against his clients. His jury trial experience includes a defense verdict and jury verdicts substantially below plaintiffs' settlement demands prior to trial.
Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP - Los Angeles, CA
Karen Ahearn
was promoted to partner of Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP - Los Angeles, CA in Century City.
Karen Ahearn, a partner in Glaser Weil's Real Estate Department, provides clients with a full range of real estate and development services. She assists clients with financing acquisitions, developments, leasing and land use. Her diversity of experience includes shopping centers, mixed-use projects and residential developments.
Before joining the Firm, Ms. Ahearn specialized in insurance coverage matters. Thus, Ms. Ahearn is in a unique position to advise clients on an entire range of ancillary issues that arise in real estate transactions, including insurance needs and indemnification agreements.
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Glaser Weil, based in Los Angeles, is one of the country's premier full-service law firms. Advising 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 -- Glaser Weil represents clients' interests with an unprecedented level of dedication and commitment.