Moez Kaba was promoted to managing partner of Hueston Hennigan in Los Angeles and New York.

Kaba took the helm of the firm the same day Hueston Hennigan announced it had opened an office in New York. Kaba, who is gay and South Asian, has a perfect trial record, including obtaining the largest-ever trademark award and the largest Lanham Act Award in 2022 and a landmark trial win in 2021.

LaVonne D. Lawson joined Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, LLC as counsel in Los Angeles.

Lawson counsels small businesses, entrepreneurs and start-ups, as well as large businesses and established companies, in state, federal, and international tax matters. She focuses her practice on tax reporting and compliance, tax controversy and litigation, and estate planning.

Philippa J. Balestrieri was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in San Francisco.

Balestrieri brings her international experience to national and multinational business matters, advising clients on corporate governance, automotive regulatory compliance and licensing, acquisition and investment strategy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance and general business transactions.

Jessica M. Brown was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in San Francisco.

Brown possesses a deep understanding of corporate governance, board and shareholder disputes and regulatory counseling. Her primary practice areas include high-stakes business litigation and pre-litigation counseling, as well as alcohol beverage regulatory compliance.

John H. Haney was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in Los Angeles.

Haney represents employers in a variety of matters involving wage and hour compliance, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, leave and reasonable accommodation laws, workers' compensation, employee/independent contractor classification, exempt/nonexempt employee classification, trade secret protection, reductions in force, union matters, internal investigations, executive compensation, benefits, payroll and staffing agency vendors.

David I. Holtzman was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in San Francisco.

Holtzman focuses his practice on general commercial litigation, healthcare litigation and intellectual property litigation. He has extensive experience representing hospitals, healthcare systems and technology companies in a broad array of civil disputes in state and federal courts nationwide, as well as arbitrations and mediations.

Daniel P. Kappes was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in San Francisco.

Kappes focuses his practice in the areas of commercial liability, healthcare litigation and intellectual property litigation. He also has extensive experience representing financial institutions and businesses in consumer class and individual actions, including false advertising, unfair business practices, and Rosenthal Act claims in both state and federal court.

Emily Lieban was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in San Francisco.

Lieban helps natural resources, manufacturing and energy clients navigate and manage environmental challenges that arise in project development, regulatory compliance and litigation.

Lydia Lee Lockett was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in Los Angeles.

Lockett is a member of the firm's Private Wealth Services practice and focuses on complex trusts and estates litigation, contested conservatorship proceedings and elder abuse matters.

Alyssa Keon was promoted to partner of Holland & Knight LLP in Los Angeles.

Keon advises on multijurisdictional secured lending transactions in a wide range of industries. She acts on behalf of lenders and borrowers in various corporate and commercial lending transactions, including senior, second lien and mezzanine financings on an asset-based, cash-flow and leverage basis.

Ankush R. Israni was promoted to partner of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in Los Angeles.

Israni advises on a broad range of commercial real estate matters, including joint ventures, senior debt and mezzanine financing, purchase and sale, loan sale agreements, fintech issues and leases. He represents institutional and non-institutional investors, including private equity funds, real estate investment companies and real estate investment trusts, in all aspects of transactions and property management.

Dustin A. Linden was promoted to partner of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in Los Angeles.

Linden represents financial institutions and individuals in a variety of high-stakes litigation, regulatory, and enforcement matters in state and federal courts throughout the country, including class actions, complex commercial cases, and white-collar and government enforcement actions.

Caitlin M. Jones was promoted to shareholder of Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin PC in San Diego.

Jones is an experienced trial and litigation attorney who focuses her practice on professional liability and complex business and commercial litigation. She has handled a broad range of lawsuits representing individuals, attorneys, and business clients in state and federal courts. She is skilled in all aspects of litigation and has an outstanding record of successful resolutions in defending professional malpractice cases.

Matthew C. Smith was promoted to shareholder of Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin PC in San Diego.

Smith represents individuals, attorneys, law firms, business clients, and community associations in a variety of complex litigation matters. He has significant experience in all aspects of civil litigation, including trials, arbitrations, and mediations and has served as lead and co-counsel in more than a dozen trials and arbitrations. He is also a speaker on issues including professional ethics in litigation and legal best practices.

Oliver J. Richards was promoted to principal of Fish & Richardson in San Diego.

Richards is an intellectual property litigator who works with companies of all sizes and encompassing a wide range of technologies. From representing clients in high-stakes cases before the Federal Circuit to taking on non-practicing entities in high-volume litigation, Richards approaches all his matters with a formidable blend of efficiency and creativity.

Jared A. Smith was promoted to principal of Fish & Richardson in San Diego.

Smith has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation with an emphasis on patent litigation in the consumer electronics sector. His practice includes litigation in both U.S. District Court and the U.S. International Trade Commission across a diverse array of technologies, including consumer electronics, software, cyber security, and medical devices. 

Daniel J. Belke was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Belke focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, including domestic and cross-border public company M&A (buy-side and sell-side), joint ventures, carve-out transactions, tender offers, and equity investments.

Sarah A. Hemmendinger was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in San Francisco.

Hemmendinger focuses on securities and shareholder litigation, antitrust litigation, and ERISA class actions. She primarily represents clients in the life sciences, technology, and clean energy spaces. Sarah is an author of Sidley's annual review and analysis of developments in securities litigation in the life sciences sector, a resource used by in-house counsel, insurers and securities litigators.

Sheri Porath Rockwell was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Rockwell focuses on privacy and cybersecurity law. She advises companies on privacy compliance and corporate data protection programs, including compliance with federal and state privacy laws.

Sean Raven was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles.

Raven focuses on discovery within complex civil litigation in both federal and state courts, as well as white collar and internal investigations. He advises clients on information management and preservation, working with expert and fact witnesses, drafting substantive discovery motions, analysis of expansive data sets, and managing large-scale electronic discovery.

Genevieve G. Weiner was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles.

Weiner focuses her practice on representing debtors and lenders in various bankruptcy matters, general assignments, receiverships, and out of court restructurings and work-outs. She has represented clients across multiple industries including healthcare, retail, hospitality, and real estate.

Luke R. Ashworth was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Ashworth represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as acquisitive strategics, in acquiring, operating and, in the case of sponsors, exiting their company and asset investments.

Todd Gilbert was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles.

Gilbert focuses on U.S. securities offerings and a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. He has experience representing issuers, borrowers, and investment banks in debt and equity capital markets transactions, syndicated bank lending transactions, and secured lending transactions.

Sara M. Carian was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Palo Alto.

Carian focuses on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, stock and asset acquisitions and sales, carve-out transactions, and cross-border transactions. Sara also advises clients on general corporate and governance matters.

Rita M. Leong was promoted to partner of Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP in San Diego.

Leong helps employers of all sizes, and across industries, navigate California's intricate labor and employment laws. In her practice, she skillfully represents employers involved in complex workplace disputes involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims as well as wage-and-hour and class-action lawsuits.

Elizabeth Chiba Rein was promoted to partner of Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP in San Diego.

Rein has a reputation for obtaining favorable settlements for her clients by thoroughly analyzing the merits of cases at the early stages of litigation, effectively managing her time and aggressively advocating in informal settlement negotiations, mediations and court.

Jennifer Oliver joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as counsel in San Diego.

Oliver focuses her practice on complex litigation, specifically data breaches, defending consumer class actions, and antitrust. She has played active roles in several high-profile jury trials, serving as lead counsel in complex mediations, and arguing before courts at both the trial and appellate levels. She also often counsels clients on antitrust matters related to mergers and acquisitions. She has experience litigating monopolization claims, trade secrets, RICO conspiracies, securities fraud, unfair trade practices, breaches of contract and privacy matters. She holds an International Association of Privacy Professionals Certification and is a longtime privacy professional.

Timothy K. Daveler joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as associate in San Diego.

Daveler represents commercial clients and healthcare providers in complex litigation. His clients include healthcare corporations and health systems, long-term care providers, assisted living facilities, and health systems across a broad spectrum of litigation matters, including corporate veil piercing litigation.

Ofelia M. Olmedo joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as associate in San Diego.

Olmedo counsels and represents clients on a range of healthcare-related issues, including litigation and regulatory compliance matters. She has experience conducting internal investigations, drafting policies and agreements to facilitate regulatory compliance, and providing guidance on HIPAA and privacy laws.

Eric H. Geffner was promoted to partner of Sidley Austin LLP in Century City.

Geffner serves as a trusted advisor to clients, representing public and private companies and investors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, co-investments, joint ventures, and other general corporate matters, with a focus on sports, entertainment, and media.

John Lee was promoted to partner of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Lee joined Larson in 2020 and represents clients across a wide range of high-stakes cases in state and federal courts. His practice focuses on complex commercial disputes - including class actions, trade secret lawsuits, and securities cases - and white collar defense matters.

Andrew J. Bedigian was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Bedigian joined Larson in 2016. His practice focuses on complex civil and commercial disputes and white collar criminal defense. His experience includes defending oil and gas companies and financial institutions against federal and state investigations.

Jonathan Gershon was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Gerson joined Larson in 2021. His practice includes financial services litigation, intellectual property disputes, and high-stakes class actions. Jonathan also represents clients in white collar defense matters.

Daniel R. Lahana was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Lahana joined Larson in 2020. He has represented a wide range of clientele, from publicly traded businesses to individual physicians and hospitals.

Catherine S. Owens was promoted to counsel of Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Owens joined Larson in 2021. She represents clients in complex commercial litigation and white collar defense, ranging from class actions to patent litigation and business disputes. .

Naomi A. Igra was promoted to counsel of Sidley Austin LLP in San Francisco.

Igra focuses her practice on a diverse range of civil and criminal matters, including antitrust and securities litigation, white collar criminal proceedings, consumer class actions, cases brought under the federal False Claims Act, and internal investigations.

Trevor Byron Countryman was promoted to partner of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP in Los Angeles.

Countryman advises clients in all aspects of real estate transactions including property acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing, development and construction. His clients range from large funds to individual developers and opportunistic investors, engaged in deals involving office, retail, multi-family, single-family, mixed-use and hotel properties.

Megan Ferkel Earhart was promoted to partner of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP in Los Angeles.

Earhart focuses her practice on estate planning, tax planning, probate, trust administration and related income, gift and estate tax matters.

Lara R. Leitner was promoted to partner of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP in Los Angeles.

Leitner has experience with a broad range of complex commercial litigation matters with particular expertise litigating land use disputes involving entitlements, the California Environmental Quality Act, the Housing Accountability Act, and other planning and zoning matters. She also has government-related litigation experience, including government bidding, public contracting, prevailing wages, and municipal affairs.

Jessica Lewis was promoted to partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in San Francisco.

Lewis' practice focuses on securities litigation and enforcement matters, as well as general commercial litigation. She represents public companies, financial institutions, and their officers and directors in complex individual, class action and derivative cases in federal and state court.

William R. Sears was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Los Angeles.

Sears focuses his practice on antitrust, competition, and class-action litigation. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants at every stage of litigation and has tried cases in both federal and state court.

Margaret Shyr was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Silicon Valley.

Shyr is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Before attending law school, she prosecuted patent applications before the U.S.P.T.O. as a patent agent.

Emily Kapur was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Silicon Valley.

Kapur’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, particularly cryptocurrency and finance cases featuring the operation of traditional and nascent trading markets. In the cryptocurrency arena, she has defended numerous securities litigation matters filed against crypto companies, litigated commercial disputes among cryptocurrency-focused companies in court and arbitration, and advised numerous crypto projects considering securities liability issues.

Zach Summers was promoted to partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Los Angeles.

Summers’ practice focuses on technology-related litigation, with an emphasis on complex patent trials. He has represented clients such as the Broad Institute, VIZIO, Samsung, Google, Motorola, Cree, and Everlight Electronics at trial and in the ITC

Sean Hanle was promoted to partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Los Angeles.

Hanle represents clients in complex business and trust and estate litigation matters, as well as employment matters and consumer class actions.