Clyde & Co is pleased to announce that Shain Wasser has joined as a Partner, bringing a rapidly expanding defense practice and a proven track record of building high-value insurance relationships across the United States. Shain joins from Kennedys, where she played an instrumental role in the opening of the Los Angeles office and oversaw significant growth in her practice. Wasser joins from Kennedys.
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irsten C. Jackson, a complex commercial litigator who represents policyholders in a wide range of insurance recovery matters, has joined Pillsbury’s nationally ranked Insurance Recovery & Advisory practice as a partner in Los Angeles. Jackson, who is recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” in the Legal 500:US guide and was named a 2023 Law360 Insurance Rising Star, comes to the firm from Latham & Watkins.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Carlos Jimenez to the firm’s Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety practice as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Jimenez joins the firm from Protection Law Group, LLP.
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Sheppard is pleased to announce that partner Jonathan D. Moss is rejoining the firm’s Business Trial practice group in Los Angeles. Moss returns after serving as president and general counsel of boutique family office Point Break Capital LLC (PBC), where he oversaw investments in technology, entertainment and real estate.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Jennifer Yoo has rejoined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice. Yoo advises healthcare, life sciences, and technology clients on regulatory, transactional, and day-to-day compliance matters, with a particular focus on digital health, AI-enabled healthcare solutions, and emerging health data privacy regimes. Yoo rejoins Latham from Fenwick & West LLP.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that energy and project finance attorney Scott A. Snyder has joined the Firm as a partner. He is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. He joins Willkie from O’Melveny & Myers.
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Morgan Lewis is pleased to welcome Brian Buckley and Melissa Lawton as partners in the firm’s global litigation practice, resident in Seattle and Los Angeles, respectively. Joining from Fenwick & West, Brian and Melissa enhance the firm’s litigation capabilities in key West Coast and technology markets, bringing a wide-ranging litigation background spanning intellectual property disputes, consumer class actions, securities and corporate governance matters, and high-stakes commercial litigation across a range of industries. The team will be joined by Armen Nercessian, who starts on March 2 as of counsel in San Francisco.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce the addition of nationally recognized hospitality lawyers Jim Butler, David Sudeck, Mark Adams, Jeff Myers, and Joe Mellema as partners. The group previously practiced at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, where Jim Butler was a founding partner and established and built its market-leading hospitality group, for which he and David most recently served as co-chairs.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Schulte is pleased to announce that Caroline (Cary) Robbins has joined as a partner in the firm’s Private Client Practice Group, based in Los Angeles. Cary brings extensive experience advising ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals, families, and family offices on sophisticated estate and tax planning strategies, multigenerational wealth transfer, and fiduciary administration. She joins from Proskauer.
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Brian Klein has joined Cooley as a litigation partner in the firm’s Business Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations practice groups in Los Angeles. Brian has a broad civil and white collar criminal defense practice, with an emphasis on representing crypto and fintech companies in government investigations and commercial litigation. At Cooley, Brian will expand the litigation department’s representation of those clients and its broader litigation practice in Los Angeles.
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