Angie S. Lee joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in Sacramento.

Lee has more than 15 years of experience representing clients in state and federal courts, focusing her practice on bankruptcy, commercial litigation, and trust and estates. Her bankruptcy experience includes the representation of debtors, debtors-in-possession, secured and unsecured creditors, Chapter 7 trustees, and creditors' committees. Lee has represented businesses and financial institutions in matters involving fraud, commercial torts, copyright, trademark, and trade dress infringement, and breach of contract

Stephen A. Watkins joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in Sacramento and Los Angeles.

Watkins focuses his practice on complex commercial disputes, including class actions. He represents companies in high-stakes litigation and advises businesses on risk management, operational strategy, and key legal matters affecting their day-to-day operations.

Vannessa Pouladian joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in Sacramento.

Pouladian focuses her practice on complex civil litigation. She has more than a decade’s experience handling high-stakes disputes, including catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, real property, landlord-tenant, ADA, insurance bad faith, and contractual matters.

Rebecca Martino joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Martino focuses her practice on bad faith litigation, real estate, catastrophic injury, and complex insurance coverage matters. With more than two decades of experience, she represents individuals, insurers, and companies of all sizes in state and federal courts. Martino also handles appeals in bad faith litigation and insurance coverage cases, offering counsel at every stage of the legal process. In addition, she prepares coverage opinions, advises insurers on fraud investigations, and drafts insurance policy language.

Derek H. Lim joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in Walnut Creek.

Lim focuses his practice on business disputes and complex civil litigation matters, including transportation, employment, premises and product liability, construction, and commercial litigation. He represents and counsels his clients in areas ranging from discrimination, harassment, unfair competition, trade secrets, and breach of contract to catastrophic personal injury matters.

Allison B. Friedman joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in Walnut Creek.

Friedman focuses her practice on litigation defense matters involving medical malpractice, long-term care facilities, healthcare agencies and correctional facilities.

Janelle Covington joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Covington's practice focuses on commercial litigation, business disputes, insurance coverage, professional liability, personal injury, and complex civil litigation. She represents businesses, insurers, healthcare organizations, transportation network companies, and other corporate clients in high-exposure disputes involving contracts, business torts, professional negligence, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and other complex civil claims. Covington develops practical, business-focused litigation strategies to help clients manage risk, resolve disputes efficiently, and protect their long-term interests.

Brett A. Baer joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in San Francisco.

Baer focuses his practice primarily on environmental & toxic tort matters. He brings additional experience across a broad range of practice areas, including government contracts, business transactions, real estate, and construction disputes.

Kaitlin Kines joined Venable LLP as a partner in Irvine. The move was June 22, 2026.

Kines advises private equity sponsors, growth equity investors, financial institutions, family offices, and emerging and late-stage companies on corporate transactions. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, strategic partnerships, buyouts, financings, joint ventures, and other complex transactions. She also serves as outside corporate counsel to portfolio companies and management teams across a range of industries, including technology, health and wellness, beauty, sports, entertainment, and hospitality.

Tricia Legittino joined Eisner LLP as a partner in Beverly Hills.

Legittino is a trial attorney with more than 20 years of experience in federal and state courts. Before entering private practice, she served as an assistant Illinois attorney general, trying jury and bench cases and later becoming the youngest deputy bureau chief of the Sexually Violent Persons Bureau. Her practice focuses on employment, commercial, securities and entertainment litigation, as well as employment counseling.

Nicholas Medellin joined Eisner LLP as an associate in Beverly Hills.

Medellin represents clients in entertainment, employment and intellectual property disputes. He also has experience in the business and legal affairs departments of a major entertainment studio and in television production, providing insight into the legal and business issues facing media and entertainment clients.

Marsha N. Levinson was promoted to partner of Withers in San Francisco.

Levinson works closely with founders, senior executives, fund managers, and closely held business owners, often in connection with funding rounds, liquidity events, and sophisticated investment structures. Her practice focuses on designing and implementing tailored, tax‑efficient strategies, including lifetime gifting and advanced estate, gift, and income tax planning.

Vahe Mesropyan was promoted to partner of Withers in Los Angeles.

Mesropyan’s practice spans a wide range of civil and commercial litigation, including securities class actions, contract disputes, antitrust matters, employment disputes, real estate matters, trade secret misappropriation, and fiduciary duty matters. He also frequently advises companies on unfair competition issues in the employment context, including the enforceability of restrictive covenants, and assists clients in protecting and recovering confidential and proprietary information.

Sara A. Pike was promoted to partner of Withers in San Diego.

Pike is a California and Nevada attorney who assists clients in all aspects of estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration, and charitable planning. Sara focuses on intra-family wealth transfers through lifetime gifting to irrevocable trusts, QSBS and income tax planning techniques, and complex trust administrations. She also advises individuals and organizations regarding the charitable split-interest trusts, private foundations, and other charitable vehicles.

Kat Peters-Miller was promoted to partner of Shartsis Friese in San Francisco. The promotion is effective June 25, 2026.

Peters-Miller advises private fund managers on the regulatory and transactional issues affecting domestic and offshore investment funds. Her practice focuses on the formation and operation of hedge, venture capital, private equity, fund-of-funds and hybrid funds, as well as investment adviser formation, registration, mergers and acquisitions, seeding arrangements, separately managed accounts, business continuity planning and regulatory compliance. She also counsels clients on the ongoing legal and operational issues arising throughout the life cycle of investment management businesses.

Stephanie Kang joined Arnold & Porter as a counsel in Los Angeles. The move was June 22, 2026.

Kang previously spent more than eight years at Arnold & Porter, representing clients in complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts. She has extensive experience in all stages of litigation, including case strategy, discovery, depositions, motions, trial preparation, settlements, and appeals. Stephanie has since served as deputy general counsel, litigation at City of Hope, a non-profit NCI-designated cancer research and treatment center. In that role, she directed and managed all aspects of the organization's legal claims, disputes, and litigation portfolio, including defending against cases spanning multiple jurisdictions.

Ben Fackler joined WilmerHale as a partner in San Francisco.

Fackler regularly supports entrepreneurs and investors in building new businesses and technologies, advising over the full lifecycle of those endeavors. His multidisciplinary background -- spanning law, investment banking, principal investment and operating experience -- enables Fackler to provide integrated, business-oriented advice to boards, management teams, founders and investors across a wide range of strategic situations.

John Lord joined Munck Wilson Mandala LLP as a partner in Los Angeles. The move was June 16, 2026.

Lord focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, including patent, trademark, and copyright litigation, trade secret misappropriation, and false advertising claims. He also advises clients on intellectual property transactions, including patent due diligence for litigation funding companies and strategic counseling on a wide range of IP issues.

Laurie DeYoung joined ADR Services, Inc. as a neutral in Century City. The move was Jun. 29, 2026.

With more than 35 years of litigation experience, DeYoung has focused her practice on employment and commercial disputes, handling matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower claims, wage and hour issues, executive contracts, and other workplace disputes throughout California.

DeYoung most recently was of counsel at Jackson Lewis P.C. She previously was a senior partner at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, where she led an employment litigation team and resolved numerous disputes through negotiation and mediation.

She joins ADR Services Inc. after a career representing employers in litigation and counseling clients on workplace issues.

JoAnne McCracken joined JAMS as a neutral in Silicon Valley. The move was June 22, 2026.

Judge McCracken (Ret.) brings nearly four decades of legal experience, including more than 15 years on the bench. Judge McCracken served on the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, from 2010 to 2026, where she presided over a wide range of civil matters, including commercial, real estate, probate and family law cases. In recent years, she was the court's primary civil settlement conference judge. In this role, she handled mediations and settlement conferences, earning a reputation for her high settlement rate. Based in the Silicon Valley Resolution Center, Judge McCracken will serve as a mediator, arbitrator, neutral evaluator and court-appointed neutral (special master/referee), handling business and commercial, family law, real property and real estate, personal injury, insurance, professional liability, employment, and estate, probate and trust matters.

Emilie Woodhead joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in Los Angeles. The move was June 10, 2026.

Woodhead focuses her practice on employment law, representing employers in litigation and advising on workplace compliance issues. Her work includes wage-and-hour class and collective actions, as well as disputes involving employee and independent contractor classification, meal and rest breaks, off-the-clock work, expense reimbursement, vacation pay, seating requirements, calculation of regular rates of pay, and claims brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act.

Woodhead also handles individual employment cases involving allegations of discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination. In addition to litigation, she advises employers on labor and employment compliance, including workplace policies, employment agreements and regulatory developments.

Scott E. Galbreath joined Hall Benefits Law, LLC. as a partner in Sacramento.

Galbreath is an executive-level ERISA and employee benefits attorney with more than 30 years of experience advising employers, executives, tax-exempt organizations, governmental entities, and plan fiduciaries on complex compensation and benefits matters. Known for his ability to navigate nuanced compliance challenges across both qualified and nonqualified plans, Galbreath brings deep technical expertise paired with practical business judgment to his work at Hall Benefits Law.

Rachel Jordan Zacuto joined Friedland Cianfrani LLP as an associate in Irvine. The move was Jun. 2, 2026.

Zacuto focuses her practice on trademark counseling, prosecution, enforcement and litigation. Her experience spans all aspects of U.S. and international trademark law, including clearance, filing, licensing, brand protection and disputes before courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Before attending law school, Zacuto worked as an environmental planner. She previously was a litigation associate at Atabek & Co. in Newport Beach and a trademark associate at Knobbe Martens in Irvine, California.

Zacuto earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2022 and her bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in 2016.

Gracie Tran joined Johnson Criminal Law Group as an associate in Irvine. The move was May 27, 2026.

Johnson Criminal Law Group offers aggressive criminal defense and representation in complex CPS cases.

Gracie Tran joins the firm after representing indigent families in juvenile dependency proceedings and brings a strong commitment to client advocacy, criminal defense, and child welfare law.

As demand for high-quality criminal defense and CPS defense representation continues to increase throughout California, Johnson Criminal Law Group remains committed to building a team of talented attorneys who share their dedication to strategic, aggressive, and compassionate advocacy.

Diana L. Winfrey joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Winfrey represents insurance companies in insurance coverage and related matters, involving multiple primary and excess policies. She provides nationwide coverage analysis for third‑party commercial general liability claims, with an emphasis on construction defect claims. She advises insurers on underwriting, claims‑handling strategy, and policy development, helping manage coverage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and align claims practices with broader business and risk‑management objectives.

Thomas Song joined Buchalter as a partner in Orange County.

Song's practice includes defending employers against claims involving wage and hour violations, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, failure to accommodate, and related employment claims in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. He has extensive experience defending clients in Cal/OSHA and Fed/OSHA compliance matters, including appeal and contesting of OSHA citations through trial. He also represents clients in trade secret litigation, breach of contract, unfair competition, and other business torts.

Madhumita “Mita” Datta joined Buchalter as a partner in San Francisco.

Datta brings extensive experience managing emerging portfolios of startups and overseeing large domestic and international patent portfolios for institutional clients. She is widely valued for her ability to expedite patent prosecutions by leveraging the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) fast‑tracking provisions and special pilot programs. She also advises on intellectual property issues in corporate mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and other complex disputes.

Andrew Haas joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in San Diego.

Haas focuses his practice on complex civil and criminal litigation, representing individuals and business entities in state and federal courts. As a fourth-generation attorney, Haas brings a deeply rooted commitment to advocacy across a wide range of matters, including catastrophic injury, wrongful death, personal injury, product liability, employment disputes, and class action litigation. He also handles business litigation, general liability, insurance defense, family law, and matters involving education and juvenile law. He is admitted to practice in California, New York, the U.S. District Court for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California, and the U.S. 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kevin J. Heitz joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as a partner in San Diego.

Heitz focuses his practice on construction litigation, commercial injury claims, and personal injury litigation. He represents insurance companies, national developers, general contractors, and subcontractors in residential and commercial construction disputes and other complex civil matters. He has extensive experience handling all phases of litigation, including discovery, motion practice, depositions, and mediation. His work involves analyzing contracts and insurance endorsements for coverage determinations and advising clients on litigation strategy in high-exposure matters.

Tiffani McCoy joined Potomac Law (PLG) as a partner in Walnut Creek. The move was May 11, 2026.

McCoy advises technology companies and other businesses on regulatory, commercial and operational matters. Her practice focuses on companies operating in technology, fintech, digital assets, data privacy and consumer protection, as well as clients in industries including beauty and real estate management.

She counsels clients on product development, commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, marketing, money movement, blockchain and digital assets, and data privacy issues.

Before joining PLG, McCoy served as general counsel of HBUS, the U.S. operator of a digital asset platform. She also held in-house legal positions at Intuit, Google and Yahoo!, where she advised on commercial transactions, product launches and regulatory matters.

David Alan Patton joined ADR Services, Inc. as a neutral in San Jose. The move was Jun. 16, 2026.

Patton, a Certified Family Law Specialist with more than 30 years of experience, handles complex family law disputes involving high-net-worth individuals, business owners, executives, and custody and support matters.

He co-founded the firm now known as Lonich, Patton, Ehrlich & Policastri and led its family law division. He has also served as a mediator, settlement officer, judge pro tem and arbitrator for the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Patton is a former commissioner and vice chair of the State Bar of California's Family Law Advisory Committee. His recognitions include an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and selection to Super Lawyers each year since 2012.

Philip M. Dutton joined Peter Law Group as a counsel in El Segundo. The move was Jun. 11, 2026.

Dutton's practice focused on structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements; advising on intellectual property, licensing, and rights management; and supporting executive leadership with strategic decision-making and long-term growth initiatives. He also advises clients on regulatory compliance and legal risk management across a range of business operations. Prior to joining Peter Law Group, Dutton was general counsel of MeTV, where he oversaw all corporate legal matters, including corporate governance, compliance, and regulatory frameworks, and directed the company's intellectual property and media rights strategy. Earlier in his career, he held corporate counsel positions with Clinton Reilly Holdings in San Francisco and American Gaming and Entertainment Limited, advising on corporate transactions and regulatory compliance in domestic and international markets.

Deborah J. Rotenberg joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as a shareholder in Sacramento.

Rotenberg advises health care providers on Medicaid, Medicare, facility licensure, scope-of-practice issues, and provider billing and reimbursement matters. Her clients include clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, individual providers, durable medical equipment suppliers and clinical laboratories. She also provides ongoing compliance and reimbursement guidance to health care organizations.

Her practice includes counseling on enrollment and licensure, record retention, billing audits and investigations, public program participation requirements, payor disputes, patient privacy, pharmaceutical regulation and clinical operations.

Rotenberg also advises private organizations and policymakers on health care legislation and administrative proposals. Her work includes reproductive health care issues, including abortion and family planning services, and compliance issues related to abortion and transgender care. She serves on the board of the California Abortion Alliance.

She frequently speaks and writes on health care regulatory issues and has presented at California Primary Care Association conferences on topics including reproductive health care access, patient confidentiality, licensure and enrollment. She is a contributing co-author of the Federally Qualified Health Centers chapter in the California Physicians Legal Handbook, published by the California Medical Association in 2025.

Lauren E. Barker joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as a counsel in Sacramento.

Barker advises community health centers, primary care clinics and clinic consortia on regulatory and compliance matters affecting safety-net health care providers. She counsels Federally Qualified Health Centers on participation in federal health care programs, facility licensure and enrollment, HIPAA compliance, payor contracts, audits, overpayment investigations and legislative developments.

Her practice also includes advising clients on telehealth regulations, patient privacy, 340B Program requirements, mergers, acquisitions and dissolutions. Barker frequently speaks at California Primary Care Association conferences on clinic licensing, enrollment and regulatory compliance issues and has written on primary care clinic licensing for California Health Law News. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Maggie Boyadjian joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as a counsel in Sacramento.

Boyadjian advises health care providers on licensing, regulatory compliance, privacy, risk management and contractual matters. Her clients include Federally Qualified Health Centers, reproductive health care providers, clinics and children's hospitals. She counsels providers on participation in federal health care programs, audits, overpayment investigations, payor contracts, HIPAA and California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act compliance, and legislative developments.

Her regulatory work involves matters before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the California Department of Health Care Services, the California Department of Public Health, the Board of Pharmacy, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the federal Office for Civil Rights, the Office of Family Planning and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Before entering private practice, Boyadjian served as senior manager of compliance, privacy and risk at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, where she oversaw licensing, compliance, privacy and risk-management programs for more than 50 clinic sites. She previously worked as a regulatory compliance analyst in the legal affairs department of a Southern California children's hospital, handling business associate agreements, conflict-of-interest policies and physician contracting.

Marjorie C. Soto Garcia joined Morrison & Foerster LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Soto Garcia represents employers in employment-related disputes in state and federal courts, including defending actions involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, class and representative actions involving wage and hour claims, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims, and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) allegations. She also represents employers in collective bargaining matters, union election proceedings, and unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Paul F. Rugani joined Jones Day as a partner in Irvine.

Rugani brings more than 17 years of experience representing financial institutions, technology companies, accounting firms and public companies in their most significant litigation and regulatory matters. He has established a multi-faceted practice spanning securities class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, commercial contractual disputes, consumer class action litigation, and other complex matters at the trial and appellate levels. He also advises clients with navigating internal, government and regulatory investigations, as well as counseling domestic and international accounting firms on state CPA licensing and board regulation matters.

Josh Strathman joined Dechert LLP as a partner in Los Angeles.

Strathman's practice spans industries, including automotive, fintech, healthcare and life sciences, and retail and consumer products. Drawing on experience representing both lenders and investors, Strathman anticipates client needs and delivers confident counsel in high-stakes, fast-moving situations.

Justin Scott Reinus joined Paul Hastings LLP as a partner in Orange County.

Reinus advises clients on initial public offerings and other equity offerings, as well as high yield, investment-grade and convertible debt offerings, tender offers, exchange offers, spin-offs and other capital markets transactions. Additionally, he counsels companies on corporate governance issues and compliance with reporting obligations under U.S. federal securities laws and stock exchange rules. Reinus works extensively with REITs and other real estate-focused companies, and he has experience in the construction, restaurant, manufacturing, retail and technology industries.

Yalda Vahdani joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) as a partner in San Franciso.

Vahdani is widely recognized for her work in complex leasing and purchase and sale transactions as well as her practical, business-minded approach to navigating high-value deals. Her addition further enhances CGS3's growing statewide platform and deep bench of real estate talent. Vahdani launched her legal career practicing corporate and commercial law in Kuwait for the largest international law firm in the Middle East advising Fortune 100 companies and large international clients on corporate structuring, agencies, distributorships and franchising, and she negotiated and drafted the relevant transaction documents.

Daniel Contreras joined Watstein Terepka LLP as an associate in San Francisco.

Contreras advises clients in high-stakes, complex litigation across the country. He has represented a variety of clients–from individuals to multi-billion dollar companies–across nearly every type of civil case, including civil rights, complex commercial disputes, consumer protection, copyright infringement, fraud, personal injury, and trade secret misappropriation.