Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli announced today the addition of two shareholders and one associate to its Los Angeles office. The new hires further supplement the firm’s strategic expansion of its West Coast footprint bringing the total number of attorneys in its three California offices to 72. More >>

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Goodarz (Goody) T. Agahi as a corporate partner in both the firm’s Orange County and Los Angeles offices. He joins K&L Gates from Baker & Hostetler LLP. More >>

McDermott Will & Emery today announced the growth of the firm’s West Coast Private Client bench with the arrival of partner Elizabeth Glasgow in the Los Angeles office. Elizabeth enhances McDermott’s service offerings with over a decade of experience preserving wealth and protecting assets for high net worth individuals and their closely held businesses. More >>

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome accomplished IP litigation attorney Lawrence R. LaPorte as a partner to its national Intellectual Property & Technology Practice. Mr. LaPorte will be based in Los Angeles but will handle matters throughout the country. Mr. LaPorte, who joins from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, has over three decades of experience focusing on intellectual property law and litigation for a wide variety of high-tech clients. More >>

Class action defense lawyer Eric Troutman has joined Squire Patton Boggs as partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice, based in the Los Angeles office. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that Edward (Ed) Prokop has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Ed joins Winston from Sidley Austin LLP. More >>

Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Leslie Helmer will join the firm’s Los Angeles office as a shareholder. Helmer joins Ogletree Deakins from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she practiced in the firm’s Labor and Employment Department for 27 years. More >>

Holland & Knight announced today that Ryan M. Leaderman has joined its Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s West Coast Land Use and Environmental Practice Group. Mr. Leaderman focuses on obtaining and negotiating land use entitlements for complex land use planning and mixed-use developments and securing project approvals for all types of major developments in Southern California. He also represents clients in all aspects of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), including CEQA litigation. Most recently, he was a partner at DLA Piper in Los Angeles. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to expand its Litigation Practice in California with the addition of Lisa M. Simonetti as shareholder in the Los Angeles office. Simonetti, who joins the firm from Vedder Price, focuses her practice on the defense of complex litigation, including financial services class actions and mass actions. More >>