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 >>

DLA 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Holland & Knight announced today that Ashley L. Shively has joined the firm as a partner in its West Coast Litigation Group. Ms. Shively, who will reside in the San Francisco office, previously was a partner at Reed Smith. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs has added life sciences partner Todd Lorenz to its Intellectual Property & Technology Practice (IP&T) in San Francisco. Mr. Lorenz has extensive experience in the life sciences sector with a particular focus on patent prosecution, counseling, and IP transactions. He joins from Arnold & Porter. More >>