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Law Offices of Elliott H. Stone

Published: Feb. 23, 2018 | Announced: Feb. 13, 2018


Elliott H. Stone as attorney

Stone specializes in business, construction, and real estate

Peter M. Williamson as of counsel

Williamson specializes in business cases, construction, real estate, and personal injury.

Details

The firm is based in Woodland Hills.

Address

20750 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 220 , Woodland Hills 9136491364- USA
T: (818) 854-3600
F: (818) 685-4360


Finch Thornton & Baird LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Daniel Paul Scholz was promoted to partner of Finch Thornton & Baird LLP in San Diego.

Scholz practices primarily in areas of construction law including federal procurement and claims; local agency, municipal, and state contracts; labor and employment; claims and disputes; collections; and as project counsel. He also handles general business and commercial litigation, transactions and general labor and employment matters.


Clark Hill LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Bradford Grice Hughes joined Clark Hill LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Hughes is a member of the firm's litigation practice. He focuses his practice on representing clients in commercial litigation and trucking and transportation matters.


Brown Rudnick LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Andrew Hardenbrook Struve joined Brown Rudnick LLP as partner in Orange County.

Struve will build and lead Brown Rudnick's new US health practice. His work includes class action, federal and state qui tam and antitrust, managed care contracting suits and earn out disputes. Struve has also handled intellectual property disputes, bad faith claims and payment disputes, fraud cases including RICO actions, and non-dispute work, including serving as national governance, regulatory and compliance counsel for large corporate clients.


Dykema Gossett PLLC

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


James Stephen Azadian joined Dykema Gossett PLLC as member in Los Angeles.

Azadian is a member of the firm's appellate practice. He specializes in complex federal and state court civil appeals raising cutting-edge and core business issues, the First Amendment to the Constitution, Article 1 of the California Constitution, and the application of California's anti-SLAPP statute in federal court.


Schiff Hardin LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Mauricio Salvador Beugelmans joined Schiff Hardin LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Beugelmans is a member of the firm's commercial litigation and financial markets and products practice groups. He advises financial institutions including brokerage firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and investment advisers on critical regulatory and compliance issues. Beugelmans also represents clients in securities and commercial litigation and arbitration.


Littler Mendelson PC

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Constance Elizabeth Norton was promoted to office managing shareholder of Littler Mendelson PC in San Francisco.

Norton is a member of the firm's governance committee and women's leadership initiative. She defends employers in wage and hour class and PAGA-only actions, lawsuits involving claims of employment discrimination and harassment and employee theft of trade secrets.

Gregory G. Iskander was promoted to office managing shareholder of Littler Mendelson PC in Walnut Creek.

Iskander’s practice covers a broad range of employment matters, including harassment, discrimination, whistleblower retaliation and wrongful termination, and class actions. He also has experience as a white-collar criminal defense attorney, specializing in computer-related crimes, and is a former lieutenant with the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps.


Fisher & Phillips LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Cheryl L. Schreck joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Schreck defends employers in state and federal court against discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, and wage and hour claims. She also advises and counsels employers on a full range of labor and employment workforce issues.


Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Carrie Melissa Leroy joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as partner in Palo Alto.

LeRoy's intellectual property and technology transactions practice focuses on complex IP licensing, cross-border and commercial transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions.


Andrade Gonzalez LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018 | Announced: Feb. 21, 2018


Damian J. Martinez joined Andrade Gonzalez LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

He specializes in complex civil litigation and white collar defense.

Address

634 South Spring Street, Top Floor , Los Angeles 90014 United States
T: (213) 986-3950


Hunton & Williams LLP

Published: Feb. 23, 2018


Michele Jane Beilke joined Hunton & Williams LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Beilke's practice focuses on the defense of state and national wage and hour class and collective actions, and single- and multi-plaintiff discrimination and harassment claims. She also counsels and trains employers on a wide range of employment law issues, including compliance with state and federal leave laws, accommodation requirements for workers with disabilities, sexual harassment prevention and managing reductions in force.

Julia Yenha Trankiem joined Hunton & Williams LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Trankiem has represented employers in class, collective, representative and hybrid actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour laws. She also has defended employers in single and multi-plaintiff discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims.


D'Alessio Law Group

Published: Feb. 12, 2018 | Announced: Feb. 12, 2018


Omeed Tabiei joined D'Alessio Law Group as director of business development in Los Angeles.

An expert in scaling startups, Tabiei joins the award-winning firm as Director of Business Development

Global firm D'Alessio Law Group (DLG) announced today the addition of Omeed Tabiei as Director of Business Development. Tabiei brings experience with governmental affairs, technology, and immigration to the international team. DLG has offices in Los Angeles, San Jose, Toronto and London.

"Qualified labor is hard to come by for startups and having access to the global talent pool exponentially increases their chances of success," says Tabiei. "With a 99.9% visa approval rate, DLG remains one of the country's top-rated immigration firms and I'm honored to join the team and contribute to their creative and effective immigration strategies."

Tabiei has worked with top-tier companies including HYPERLOOP ONE where he acted as in-house counsel and spearheaded their expansion into governmental affairs. Additionally, Tabiei worked as counsel to numerous tech startups including the London wearable company McLear and Co., the personal emoji company Umojify, and the interactive real estate website LiveSmart among others. Through his work with innovative companies, Tabiei has mastered the startup space, leading startups through fundraising rounds, developing operational facilities, and advising their teams on matters of immigration, commercial contracts, risk management, and regulatory compliance. His work also spans into political affairs, where he managed a United States Senator's successful re-election campaign and served as the Senator's Chief of Staff.

Tabiei is the perfect addition to the team at D'Alessio Law Group which specializes in immigration and corporate law for the technology and entertainment industries. Lead by visionary founder Lorraine D'Alessio, the firm offers expertise to business of all sizes who seek to expand their operations and presence in the United States and engage with the entertainment and tech industries.

Details

Recently named the 22nd fastest growing law firm in the United States, D'Alessio Law Group was founded in 2010 and serves the technology industry by delivering innovative legal and immigration solutions that enables companies to gain a competitive advantage through capitalizing on global talent. Proudly comprised of 98% female attorneys with a success rate of 99.9%, D'Alessio Law Group's team of 25 attorneys and 60 paralegals provide top-level customer service, thinking outside the box bringing extraordinary talent and ideas to the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia.


Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Christopher Joseph Rizza was promoted to partner of Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP in Los Angeles.

Rizza focuses his practice on real estate transactions, including retail, office, industrial and telecommunications leasing transactions, acquisitions and dispositions transactions, development and construction matters, and real estate finance transactions.


Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Matthew Ryan Stewart joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Stewart is a member of the firm's private equity practice. He advises private equity funds, growth equity investors, and strategic investors on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and structured capital investments, and financing transactions.

Address

201 Redwood Shores Pkwy #400 , Redwood City 94065 United States
T: (650) 802-3000


Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Rebecca Van Loon was promoted to shareholder of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.

Van Loon practices in the areas of estate planning, trust and probate administration and taxation law.


Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Jason Ryan Faas was promoted to shareholder of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.

Faas' practice emphasizes taxation, business law, real estate and estate planning.


THEORORA ORINGHER PC

Published: Feb. 2, 2018 | Announced: Jan. 29, 2018


Shuchee A. Shah joined THEORORA ORINGHER PC as associate attorney in Costa Mesa, California.

Corporate and Transactional matters

Joseph Scott Schoeffel joined THEORORA ORINGHER PC as senior attorney in Costa Mesa, California.

Healthcare businesses, strategic development and regulation of integrated healthcare delivery systems, state and federal healthcare regulation, licensing and counseling of healthcare service plans, managed care contracting and dispute resolution, antitrust, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, administrative law, and government affairs

Jennifer J. McGrath joined THEORORA ORINGHER PC as senior attorney in Century City, California.

Entertainment and business clients, intellectual property litigation, copyright, trademark and breach of implied contract matters.

Erika L. Georgiou Cumbee joined THEORORA ORINGHER PC as associate attorney in Century City, California.

Complex Commercial Litigation

Details

Theodora Oringher is a legal powerhouse known for being the go-to firm for sophisticated, high stakes litigation, and for providing sound and wise counsel to businesses on transactions and operations issues. Our client list includes many of the nation's best and most well known names. We have offices in Los Angeles and Orange County, California, and are staffed and sized to provide the resources and expertise of a larger international firm, while maintaining the flexibility and personalized attention of a midsize firm. We are proud of our reputation for being "lawyers' lawyers," regularly receiving referrals from the nation's largest and best known firms. Indeed, most of the firm's attorneys practiced at a national firm before joining Theodora Oringher. We are recognized for our sub-specialty of trying bet-the-company, high profile cases, oftentimes involving hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure. In addition, another fact makes us unique: we are frequently referred cases just before trial to serve as lead trial counsel on matters previously handled by other firms. Many of our attorneys appear regularly on the "best" lists published by the organizations that announce the top lawyers practicing in California. One of our key strengths is our diversity. We are proud of the men and women of Theodora Oringher, representing diverse national origins, creeds, and religions. We are indeed fortunate; and, we believe in the adage, "to whom much is given, much is expected." This view has led to a firm culture of charitable giving, public service and mentoring. Theodora Oringher is dedicated to being one of Southern California's best places to work, and to treating all of our attorneys and staff with respect and dignity. Theodora Oringher PC has a reputation for providing top quality representation in complex litigation and transactional matters and in recruiting the best legal minds in the business. It is a legal powerhouse firm known for being the go-to for sophisticated, high stakes litigation, and for providing sound and wise counsel to businesses on transactions and operations issues. Their client list includes many of the nation's best and most well known names. Theodora Oringher PC has offices in Los Angeles and Orange County, California, and are staffed and sized to provide the resources and expertise of a larger international firm, while maintaining the flexibility and personalized attention of a midsize firm.

Address

1840 Century Park East, Suite 500 , Los Angeles 90067 U.S.
T: (310) 557-2009
F: (310) 551-0283


Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018 | Announced: Jan. 24, 2018


Darin J. Lang joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as partner in Denver.

Lang represents numerous automotive and other manufacturers, self-insured businesses, and individuals. His practice is concentrated in the areas of products liability defense and commercial trucking, although he handles a wide variety of matters on behalf of his clients.

Deborah J. Goldman joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Goldman retired from Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. after 26 years. Initially, she focused on automotive product liability, creating Toyota's National Rollover Program and establishing Toyota's first discovery database. For the past 20 years, she focused on automotive franchise law and dealer relations, supporting Toyota and Lexus sales divisions and a wide variety of corporate functions ranging from product quality to marketing, distribution, warranty, and licensing.

Stephen A. Lending joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Lending has worked in the automotive industry and on automotive-related issues for more than 40 years and is currently focused on areas related to automotive safety. He has worked in-house at Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A Inc. , Nissan North America, Inc. and Nissan Motor Corp.

Details

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 575 attorneys and government relations professionals with offices in 10 states and Washington, DC. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com.

Address

1320 Main Street , Columbia 29201
T: (803) 799-2000


Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018 | Announced: Feb. 5, 2018


Joel J Berman joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Berman is a member of the firm's corporate practice and assists clients in preparing for, implementing and completing sales and other capital events, such as equity capital raises and debt borrowings. He is a specialist in secured transactions with an emphasis on asset-based lending, creditors' remedies and loan workouts, and has extensive experience in structuring and implementing mergers and acquisitions; negotiating stock and asset acquisitions; structuring and documenting all elements of financial transactions; and exercising all forms of creditor's remedies. In addition to his transactional experience, Berman has extensive experience in conducting and supervising commercial litigation in the state and bankruptcy courts. At Jeffer Mangels, Berman was Vice Chair of the Corporate Department, Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Co-Chair of the Lateral Hiring Committee, and a member of the Management Committee.

Robert M Steinberg joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Steinberg is a member of the firm's corporate practice. He comes to Elkins Kalt after having served as a member of Jeffer Mangels' Management Committee and as co-Chair of its Mergers and Acquisitions group. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, equity/debt financings and private placements, restructurings, as well as general outside counsel to early stage and established middle-market companies. Steinberg also has extensive experience in securities law, including assisting publicly-traded companies and their executives on SEC compliance, corporate governance, securities offerings, and compensation and incentive plans.

Address

2049 Century Park East, Suite 2700 , Los Angeles 90067 USA
T: (310) 746-4431
F: (310) 746-4499


Foley & Lardner LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018 | Announced: Feb. 1, 2018


Bonnie Galt Sinclair joined Foley & Lardner LLP in Foley & Lardner LLP (Los Angeles).

Sinclair has nearly 30 years of experience as a corporate health care lawyer. With a background as both in-house and outside counsel, her practice focuses on various sectors of health law, including board governance and support; corporate compliance and governance; corporate transaction structuring and general contracting; hospital operations involving HIPAA compliance, media relations, marketing and fundraising; and licensure, accreditation and other regulatory issues. She also handles issues related to insurance and risk management, and she has experience overseeing health care litigation and responding to governmental investigations and inquiries.

Details

Foley & Lardner has 900 lawyers in 19 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Address

555 SOUTH FLOWER STREET, SUITE 3500 , LOS ANGELES 90071-2411 USA
T: (213) 972-4500
F: (213) 486-0065


NEWSPROS

Published: Feb. 2, 2018 | Announced: Feb. 2, 2018


Courtney Curtis-Ives was promoted to partner of NEWSPROS in Los Angeles.

Curtis-Ives focuses her practice on representing attorneys in malpractice actions and fee disputes.

Details

Headquartered in Woodbury, New York (Long Island), Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP has offices in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boca Raton, Ft. Lauderdale and Chicago.


DLA Piper LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Michael Brian Garfinkel joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Garfinkel represents motion picture studios, television networks, production companies and talent agencies in a wide variety of matters, including disputes involving profit participations, commis-sions and trade secrets. He also counsels and litigates on behalf of media, advertising, commercial production and hospitality clients concerning copyright, trademark and right of publicity matters, as well as libel, slander and related First Amendment issues.

Miles Michael Cooley joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Cooley is a member of the firm’s media, sports and entertainment practice. He focuses his practice on litigation for major corporations, high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and thought innovators in the sports, entertainment and media industries.


Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Nicolas A. Jampol was promoted to partner of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Los Angeles.

Nicolas Jampol provides litigation, pre-broadcast review, and IP counseling services to clients that create, use, or distribute all forms of content. His pre-broadcast and IP counseling practice includes film ("Kong: Skull Island," "Beatriz at Dinner"), television ("Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," "Stranger Things"), podcasts ("Missing Richard Simmons"), websites (Grindr, Yahoo), books ("Beyond the Wall"), and art (Mucha Foundation). His litigation practice focuses on copyright, trademark, right-of-publicity, idea submission, unfair competition, and breach of contract disputes for clients in entertainment (BBC Worldwide, NBCUniversal, Nerdist, Netflix, Red Bull Media House, Showtime), technology (Avvo, Hulu, Sharp Electronics, Yelp), publishing (Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Us Weekly), and music (Beyoncé, Live Nation, Sony Music). Nicolas has devoted significant time to pro bono work on behalf of nonprofit organizations and is the author of several articles on intellectual property, technology, and advertising.

Jonathan Segal was promoted to partner of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Los Angeles.

Jon is an attorney with a passion for digital and traditional media, who has worked on award-winning productions in film, television, and the interactive space. His practice naturally focuses on intellectual property, communications, First Amendment, and other issues that affect the companies and technologies that make what we watch, amuse and delight us, and inform all of our worldviews. He provides counseling for feature films and for programming produced or distributed by HBO, Legendary Television, Netflix, Seeso, Funny or Die, CNBC, E!, USA Networks, AETN, ABC, Comedy Central, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Participant Media, MTV, VH1, Adult Swim, IFC, TruTV, Showtime Networks, PBS, Discovery Communications, SuperDeluxe, Crackle, and YouTube, with an emphasis on programming with intensive social-media engagement, documentaries, and content that is based on true events. He also advises print publications, including US Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter.

Details

Davis Wright Tremaine is dedicated to providing excellent legal services and to delivering them in a manner customized to each client's particular needs and preferences. This commitment has remained intact for decades as the firm has grown across the nation and to China. Today, Davis Wright is a full-service firm with approximately 550 lawyers in nine offices on the East and West Coasts of the United States and in Shanghai. We are recognized for excellence in a broad number of areas, with more than 100 of our attorneys cited as leaders in their fields in the most recent Chambers USA guide, and more than 150 of our attorneys included in the 2018 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America."


Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Joel Jay Berman joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Berman is a member of the firm's corporate practice and assists clients in preparing for, implementing and completing sales and other capital events, such as equity capital raises and debt borrowings. He also conducts and supervises commercial litigation in the state and bankruptcy courts.

Robert Mark Steinberg joined Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Steinberg is a member of the firm's corporate practice. He handles mergers and acquisitions, equity/debt financings and private placements, restructurings, as well as general outside counsel to early stage and established middle-market companies. Steinberg also has experience in securities law, including assisting publicly-traded companies and their executives on SEC compliance, corporate governance, securities offerings, and compensation and incentive plans.


Rimon PC

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Lillian G. Stenfeldt joined Rimon PC as partner in San Francisco & Silicon Valley.

Stenfeldt represents secured creditors, hedge funds, creditors' committees, trustees and receivers in all areas of insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings and strategy. Her work includes assisting companies in purchasing intellectual property from bankruptcy estates and efficiently structuring business transactions and licenses to prevent losses and protect assets due to potential future insolvencies of others.


CohnReznick LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Natalie Tronkina was promoted to managing director of CohnReznick LLP in Los Angeles.

Tronkina is a member of the firm's restructuring, litigation and transaction advisory group. Her areas of focus include performing quality of earnings, net assets, and working capital assessments, preparing pro-forma financial statements, performing profitability and bridging analyses, evaluating financial reporting infrastructures, and recommending best practices in industries such as energy, manufacturing, business and financial services, distribution, and entertainment.


Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Sarah Evelyn Christine Wolf was promoted to partner of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP in Los Angeles.

Wolf has worked as an attorney in private practice and at the Internal Revenue Service. Her practice focuses on estate planning, trust administration, and tax.


Littler Mendelson PC

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Anne S. LaWer joined Littler Mendelson PC as shareholder in San Jose.

LaWer counsels employers on matters related to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Her practice includes advising on Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor compliance programs, health care privacy and security, executive compensation matters, and employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions.


Kahana & Feld LLP

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Yaron Shaham joined Kahana & Feld LLP as partner in Santa Ana.

Shaham is a general litigator with a focus on banking and financial services, and bankruptcy in the mortgage and lending industries.

Address

3 Hutton Centre Dr Ste 685 , Santa Ana 92707-8754 United States
T: (949) 812-4781
F: (949) 281-2105


Lowthorp, Richards, McMillan, Miller & Templeman

Published: Feb. 2, 2018


Cristian Raul Arrieta was promoted to managing partner of Lowthorp, Richards, McMillan, Miller & Templeman in Oxnard.

Arrieta succeeds Patrick T. Loughman. Arrieta focuses his practice on trusts and estates, business and property law.