Henry Daniel Gradstein joined King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Gradstein litigates a wide variety of entertainment, intellectual property and complex business cases.

Harvey Wayne Geller was promoted to shareholder of Carlton Fields in Los Angeles.

Geller has experience in intellectual property, technology, Internet, digital media, and entertainment matters and has litigated on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts around the country.

Dawn Knepper joined Buchalter as shareholder in Orange County.

Knepper representing employers in all aspects of employment law including litigation and counseling in federal and state court.

Donald Lee Morrow joined JAMS as mediator in Orange County.

Morrow will serve as an arbitrator, mediator and special master in a variety of disputes including Antitrust/Competition, Business/Commercial, Class Action/Mass Tort, Construction, Intellectual Property and Professional Liability.

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

He specializes in complex civil litigation and white collar defense.

Albert W. Stemp joined Proskauer Rose LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Stemp advises clients in a broad array of real estate transactions, including private equity funds, REITs, institutional capital sources and hospitality companies. In addition, he represents lenders and borrowers in all types of real estate finance transactions, including mortgage, mezzanine and construction loans.

Virginia Palmer was promoted to management committee of Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP in Oakland.

Palmer most recently served as co-chair of the firm's trusts & estates practice group. She focuses her practice on estate planning, trust administration, probate, mediation and elder law.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oleg "Alex" Stolyar joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Stolyar has represented plaintiffs and defendants in all phases of complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings. He focuses on disputes between majority and minority shareholders, limited and general partners, founders and investors, joint venturers, trustees and beneficiaries, and other principals and their fiduciaries.

Stephen Reed Isbell was promoted to partner of Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP in Orange County.

Isbell primarily practices in the areas of banking and real estate litigation, with a focus on breach of contract, commercial loan collections, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, trade secret, unfair competition, and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Joel Michael Athey joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Athey is a member of the firm's litigation practice. He focuses his practice on white collar criminal defense, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement, private securities litigation, internal corporate investigations, banking and regulatory investigations and litigations, consumer protection matters and complex civil litigation.

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.

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.

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.

Stuart Alexander Johnson joined Kesselman Brantly Stockinger LLP as partner in Manhattan Beach.

Johnson will head the firm's commercial real estate and partnership matters practice group.
Johnson and his team represent family-owned companies and large institutional clients in the acquisition, sale, development, and financing of a variety of real estate assets, including retail centers, office buildings, multifamily developments and industrial space.

Neil A. Warren was promoted to principal of Fish & Richardson PC in Redwood City.

Warren focuses his practice on both federal district court litigation and practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board with client technologies relating to semiconductors, integrated circuits, medical devices, and computer software.

Michael Paul Shepherd was promoted to principal of Fish & Richardson PC in Redwood City.

Shepherd focuses his practice on client counseling and patent prosecution in the areas of software and other computer-related technologies.

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.