Morgan Lewis announced today that Daniel Grunfeld—an accomplished commercial litigator with deep public sector experience—has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice, resident in Los Angeles. Mr. Grunfeld will serve as leader of Morgan Lewis’s West Coast Litigation Practice. He most recently served as co-managing partner of the Los Angeles and Palo Alto offices and as co-chair of the Los Angeles office litigation department of Kaye Scholer.

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Experienced prosecutor and intellectual property attorney Priya Sopori has joined Locke Lord’s Los Angeles Office as a Partner in the IP Litigation Practice. She is the fourth new attorney hired in Los Angeles in recent months and one of many new California additions as the international law firm continues to bolster its litigation and transactional capabilities on the West Coast.

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BuckleySandler LLP, a leading financial services and criminal and civil enforcement defense law firm, announced today that Richard E. Gottlieb, a highly regarded class action defense litigator with over 25 years of experience, has joined the firm as a Partner.  Fredrick S. Levin, a notable class action and securities litigator, and Brett J. Natarelli, a consumer financial services litigator, will be joining the firm as a Partner and an Associate respectively. Gottlieb and Levin will be co-located in BuckleySandler’s Los Angeles and soon-to-be-opened Chicago office and Natarelli will be resident in the firm’s Chicago office.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Jonesh (Jon) G. Daryanani has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice.  He was most recently a partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Sustainable Power Group (sPower), a Utah-based owner and operator of utility and distributed electrical generation systems, in its acquisition of the assets of Tioga Energy Inc.

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Winston & Strawn LLP has announced that six attorneys have joined the firm from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF), expanding its labor and employment capabilities. Marcus A. Torrano, Michael S. Chamberlin, and Julie Capell join the firm as partners in Los Angeles. Amy McGinnis Gillinger, Julie Chen, and Olivia N. Tran join as associates. Mr. Torrano formerly served as the head of NRF’s Los Angeles labor and employment practice, and he joins as co-chair of Winston & Strawn’s Los Angeles practice. Mr. Chamberlin will assume a role on various firm wide committees. Messrs. Torrano and Chamberlin have practiced together for 19 years. The addition of the group brings the total count for 2013 lateral hires in Winston & Strawn’s West Coast offices to 15.

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Cozen O’Connor continues to grow with the addition of two senior lateral attorneys: corporate transactions attorney Jahan S. Islami, who joins the firm as a partner in the Florida office, and commercial litigator Matthew S. Steinberg, who joins the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Islami previously was with K&L Gates. Mr. Steinberg previously was with Greenberg Traurig, and was the founding partner of that firm’s Los Angeles office.  With the addition of Messrs. Islami and Steinberg, Cozen O’Connor has acquired 35 lateral attorneys, and has opened two new offices in West Palm Beach, Florida and Minneapolis, Minnesota since January 2013.

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Pepper Hamilton LLP announced today that Mark A. Kadzielski will join the firm on July 1, 2013. He will head Pepper’s Health Care Industry Group from its Los Angeles office, giving Pepper a national platform for its growing Health Care practice.

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Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Vincent S. Green, a trial attorney with 35 years of experience in both federal and state courts, has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Dan Burnham has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Corporate Department. He has extensive experience representing emerging companies and venture capital investors in Los Angeles and across the country in financings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. He joins from Strategic Law Partners in Los Angeles.

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