Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce 13 attorneys from California’s Miller Law Group — one of the largest woman-owned employment law firms in the country — have joined its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. The new hires represent yet another milestone in the expansion of the firm’s highly regarded Labor & Employment practice, as well as the continued development of its West Coast presence.
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O’Melveny announced today that Anna Pletcher, former Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in San Francisco, has joined the firm as a partner. Pletcher will advise clients on a broad range of antitrust issues, as well as sensitive white collar and corporate investigations. She will be based in O’Melveny’s San Francisco office.
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Eric Strain has joined Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in the Firm’s Aviation Industry Group. With more than two decades of experience representing aviation companies from North America, Europe and Asia, including defending against wrongful death, personal injury and commercial claims, Strain and Paul Stinson, who joins the Firm as Senior Counsel in the San Francisco office, will further strengthen Locke Lord’s national aviation litigation capabilities. The pair will join the firm from Nixon Peabody LLP. More >>
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Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Mark Mao will join the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner, helping to expand and lead the firm’s data privacy practice nationally and internationally. Mao is one of the country’s leading experts in the privacy field, particularly in emerging technologies. He is well-known for helping organizations worldwide at all stages of growth leverage their intellectual property while mitigating their privacy risks. Mao joins Boies Schiller Flexner from Troutman Sanders LLP, where he led the Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Information Governance practice. More >>
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli announced today that Joshua Reynolds has joined the firm’s Corporate and Transactional Group in the San Francisco office as a principal. Reynolds counsels private equity sponsors, strategic purchasers and sellers who buy and sell middle market companies that extend across a diverse number of industries with a primary focus on healthcare provider services and technology transactions. Reynolds joins the firm from the San Francisco office of McGuireWoods, LLP. More >>
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DLA Piper announced today the addition of a six-partner group whose members will be part of the firm’s Corporate, Intellectual Property and Technology, and Litigation practices. The partners will be based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and New York. The team joins from Nixon Peabody and includes managing partners from the San Francisco and Palo Alto Offices. More >>
Tags: DLA Piper | Los Angeles | New York | San Francisco | Silicon ValleyDLA Piper announced today that Vivek Chavan has joined the firm’s Real Estate practice as a partner in Northern California, based out of the San Francisco office. Chavan joins from Greenberg Traurig LLP. More >>
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Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced today that Krista Schwartz and Patrick Michael have joined the San Francisco office as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology (IPMT) practice. They both joined the firm from Jones Day. More >>
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Kalama Lui-Kwan has joined Troutman Sanders LLP as a partner in the firm’s Financial Services Litigation practice in San Francisco. Lui-Kwan was previously the vice chair of Severson & Werson’s Financial Services practice group. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that Jina Choi has joined the firm in the San Francisco office as a partner in its Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White–Collar Defense group. Ms. Choi spent the last 16 years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she was head of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office for five years and developed a reputation for her work on high-profile, complex, and novel enforcement actions. More >>
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