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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The Los Angeles office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Charles E. Schwenck as a partner in the energy, infrastructure and resources practice. Schwenck arrives from Foley & Lardner LLP.

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Michael John Miguel has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Insurance Recovery Group in the Los Angeles office. Recognized as a Top 100 Lawyer in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Mr. Miguel is an active trial attorney with a diverse background in commercial litigation. He has a particular focus on insurance coverage matters, along with extensive experience in environmental, antitrust, intellectual property and toxic tort defense litigation. He has obtained insurance recoveries in excess of $1 billion for domestic and international clients. Mr. Miguel has litigated and won cases across the country, including in state and federal trial and appellate courts in 18 states, and has tried cases to verdict or judgment in 5 states.

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Robert Roginson as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. Roginson’s experience deepens the firm’s Litigation, Class Action, Wage and Hour, and Traditional Labor Relations practice groups. His arrival at Ogletree Deakins also demonstrates the firm’s commitment to growth in California. Since the start of 2013, the firm has added five shareholders throughout the state and opened an office in San Diego. Firm-wide, Roginson’s arrival makes him the 17^th shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins in 2013.

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Greenberg Glusker today announced that litigation attorney Glen A. Rothstein has joined the firm as a Partner, practicing in the areas of Entertainment Law, Entertainment Litigation and General Commercial Litigation.

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