Maureen Gorsen joined Sidley Austin LLP as partner in Century City.

Gorsen specializes in defending federal and state environment enforcement actions, including those related to air quality, waste and stormwater, chemical regulation, product liability and food packaging.
She is based in Century City.

Key Shin joined Fenwick & West LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Shin focuses on technology transactions related to the life sciences industry.
He is based in San Francisco.

Moorari K. Shah joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Shah specializes in corporate transactions related to the financial technology industry such as bank partnership arrangements and loan purchase and servicing agreements.
He is based in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Elizabeth A. Heidig joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as deputy director at the office of administrative law in Sacramento.

Heidig was assistant chief counsel at the office, where she has worked since 2006.
She is based in Sacramento.

Victor E. Salazar joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as member of the commission on judicial performance in Fresno.

Salazar has served on the commission since 2020 and has been a sole practitioner since 1993.
He is based in Fresno.

Priscila Ocen joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as member of the committee on the revision of the penal code in Los Angeles.

Ocen has been a professor at Loyola Law School since 2012 and previously taught at UCLA Law.
She is based in Los Angeles.

Rishi Sodhi was promoted to partner of DLA Piper in Los Angeles.

Sodhi specializes in tax matters related to business and corporate transactions.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Kevin Harlow was promoted to partner of DLA Piper in San Diego.

Harlow specializes in employment and labor litigation including wage and hour class actions and claims of wrongful termination and employment discrimination.
He is based in San Diego.

Shehzad K. Huda was promoted to partner of DLA Piper in San Diego.

Huda advises emerging growth and venture capitalists in corporate and securities matters.
He is based in San Diego.

Jeanette Barzelay was promoted to partner of DLA Piper in San Francisco.

Barzelay is a commercial litigator with a focus on complex business disputes.
She is based in San Francisco.

Blake William Jackson was promoted to partner of DLA Piper in Silicon Valley.

Jackson prosecutes patent cases and counsels clients in intellectual property matters for companies of all sizes in industries such as computer software, aeronautics, e-commerce and clean energy.
He is based in Silicon Valley.

Alan Prescott joined Luminar Technologies Inc. as chief legal officer in Palo Alto.

Prescott was general counsel at Tesla and a senior counsel at Uber.
He is based in Palo Alto.

Sheryl Rosenberg joined Tyson & Mendes LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Rosenberg focuses on representing clients in litigation involving product liability, personal injury, harassment, abuse and bullying.
She is based in Los Angeles.

Todd E. Lundell joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in Costa Mesa.

Lundell is a certified specialist in appellate law and is an elected member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
He is based in Costa Mesa.

Margaret Holm joined Tyson & Mendes LLP as partner in Orange County.

Holm is a trial and appellate litigator for large health care entities in complex civil disputes.
She is based in Orange County.

Elizabeth A. Reese joined Stanford Law School as assistant professor of law.

Reese specializes in American Indian tribal law and constitutional law.
She is based in Palo Alto.

Matthew D. Taggart joined Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Taggart specializes in litigation and is the former general counsel of Haliburton International Foods Inc.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Lisa Peterson joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as of counsel in Irvine.

Peterson advises, counsels and represents employers in workplace disputes.
She is based in Irvine.

Victor Xu joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as of counsel in Irvine.

Xu specializes in employment litigation including complex wage and hour class and PAGA actions.
He is based in Irvine.

Ashley Pham joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as associate in Irvine.

Pham defends employers in labor and employment related disputes.
She is based in Irvine.

Caroline Scala joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as associate in Irvine.

Scala is an employment litigator.
She is based in Irvine.

Lee Seale joined Sacramento Superior Court as court executive officer in Sacramento.

Seale is the Sacramento County chief probation officer and will replace Lloyd Connelly effective June 1.
He is based in Sacramento.

James L. Stoelker joined JAMS as neutral in Silicon Valley.

Stoelker served on the bench 10 years and will be handling real property, insurance, family law, personal injury, torts, business and commercial disputes.
He is based in Silicon Valley.

David I. Brown joined JAMS as neutral in Sacramento.

Brown will handle insurance, personal injury, tort, construction, real property, professional liability, business, commercial and employment disputes.
He is based in Sacramento.

Julia Montgomery joined Gov. Gavin Newsom as general counsel of the california agricultural labor relations board in Sacramento.

Montgomery has served in the role since 2016 and was previously with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
She is based in Sacramento.

Brian M. Hom joined Clark Hill as member in Los Angeles.

Hom specializes in commercial, securities and antitrust litigation.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Celeste M. Brecht joined Jones Day as partner in Los Angeles.

Brecht specializes in representing pharmaceutical, health care, consumer products, media, entertainment and transportation companies in civil disputes.
She is based in Los Angeles.

Ramanda Luper joined Jones Day as associate in Los Angeles.

Luper specializes in business litigation.
She is based in Los Angeles.

Thomas W. Michael joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Michael was co-chair OF the startup practice at Dentons and specializes in advising venture backed companies throughout their life cycles.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Hogan Lovells announces relocation of Silicon Valley office

The firm has signed an 11-year lease for an office in Redwood City and will be an anchor tenant in the new building at 855 Main in the first half of 2022.

David A. Barksdale joined Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Barksdale is a veteran real estate attorney and specializes in financing and transactions.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Kevin P. Mytruk Garland joined Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP as senior counsel in Los Angeles.

Garland represents lenders in real estate transactions.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Joseph R. Bini joined Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Bini focuses on representing real estate clients in debt financing transactions.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Gary L. Ogden joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Ogden specializes in real estate law with an emphasis on transactional matters involving commercial properties.
He is based in Los Angeles.

Stephen T. Kong joined Winston & Strawn LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Winston & Strawn added significant intellectual property experience to its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices with the addition of Stephen T. Kong as a partner in Los Angeles.
Kong joined the firm's corporate practice on April 20 from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP.
"Winston has a fantastic reputation and a very active and growing corporate practice," Kong said in an interview. "But what really drew me to make the move was Winston's approach to how they wanted to view intellectual property counseling within merger and acquisition transactions."
"Winston, and in particular Becky Troutman, who's a partner in the San Francisco office, have a vision of wanting to centralize and be systematic about how the firm approaches and handles intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions," he explained.
The goal, according to Kong, is for not only the firm's corporate strengths to be recognized in its mergers and acquisitions transactions, but also the way the firm handles the intellectual property aspects of those deals.
"This opportunity was very good for me at a personal level because of the role I would get to play in terms of leadership and in terms of shaping the intellectual property practice within mergers and acquisitions firm wide," he said.
Kong has experience advising clients in intellectual property licensing, technology development and the commercialization of content and media. He spent the bulk of his career in the Bay Area before relocating to Los Angeles four years ago.
"I always had an interest in technology," said Kong. "I studied computer science in college and worked in software development before I went to law school. I really came of age as a lawyer during the first dot com boom so I got to see the very early developments of the law and the internet. And it's been fantastic to continue to work in that field as the internet and the web has only become even more pervasive in our lives. To be able to be one of the fairly early lawyers in that field and continue to build upon the foundation of how the law has changed has been very personally rewarding," he said.