Christopher Khoo Pelham joined Norton Rose Fulbright as partner in Los Angeles.

Pelham's work involves highly sensitive matters, such as money laundering, healthcare fraud, allegations of embezzlement, conflicts of interest and commercial and public bribery involving employees, contractors and joint venture partners as well as other compliance and anticorruption issues.
He is based in

Tashayla Billington joined CDF Labor Law LLP as associate in Sacramento.

Billington has experience representing clients in NLRB unionizing matters, unfair labor practices, and employment claims relating to wrongful termination.
She is based in Sacramento

Aimee Hamoy joined Kaufman Dolowich & VoluckLLP as partner in San Francisco.

Hamoy defends law enforcement officers in civil rights, excessive force and wrongful death cases.
She is based in San Francisco.

Spencer B. Kallick was promoted to operating partner of Allen Matkins in Century City, CA.

Spencer focuses on land use entitlement and real estate transactions for the nation's key real estate and business players.
He is based in Century City

Rick Richmond joined Larson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Richmond is a complex commercial litigator and specializes in trade secrets and other high stakes intellectual property and compliance matters.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Caroline G. Glennie-Smith joined Larson LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Glennie-Smith focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and white collar defense matters.
She is based in Los Angeles

Nate Wright joined Larson LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Wright has extensive experience handling internal investigations, government enforcement actions, regulatory inquiries, complex commercial and securities litigation matters for individuals and corporations.
He is based in Los Angeles

Keith M. Rozanski was promoted to partner of Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP in Los Angeles.

Rozanski works with the food safety, general liability, product liability and transportation law practice groups.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Leah B. Mason was promoted to partner of Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP in Los Angeles.

Mason is involved in the business solutions, product liability and transportation law practice groups.
She is based in Los Angeles

Stephen Weiss was promoted to securities & capital markets chair of Michelman & Robinson, LLP in Los Angeles.

Weiss specializes in corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, public offerings and private placements.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Claudia Martorell joined Ogletree Deakins as shareholder in San Diego.

Martorell focuses on employment related immigration matters.
She is based in San Diego.

Amanda Mullane joined Ogletree Deakins as shareholder in San Diego.

Mullane specializes in employment related immigration matters.
She is based in San Diego.

Jenni Krengel joined Buchalter PC as shareholder and chair of the employment benefits and executive compensation group in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Former Reed Smith partner Jenni Krengel joined Buchalter PC's San Francisco and Sacramento offices on Aug. 4 as a shareholder. She will chair the employee benefits and executive compensation group.
"Buchalter has a really strong bench of benefits and executive compensation lawyers who are solution oriented and efficient and that really resonated with me," Krengel said. "The team also has a number of subspecialties that compliment my practice."
The firm has "a very sophisticated, full service corporate practice," she said. "And so to have both of those, the opportunity to work with this strong bench of benefits lawyers and also a strong corporate group, was really kind of the best of both worlds. The opportunity to lead the benefits and executive compensation group and expand it is really exciting."
Krengel advises clients in all aspects of benefits and executive compensation such as the design, compliance and operation of health, welfare plans and retirement plans. The bulk of her work focuses on advising public employee retirement systems on tax and fiduciary issues. She also handles the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Over the course of her career she has practiced at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and been assistant chief counsel and acting deputy general counsel for the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
"A lot of my work is helping clients find solutions and opportunities in an area of law that tends to be complex and nuanced, and so at times it can be daunting for clients," she said. "I really enjoy counseling clients through that and finding solutions and opportunities for them."
Krengel is a graduate of UC Davis School of Law and is a member of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys and the American Bar Association.