The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that preeminent attorney Charles S. Birenbaum has joined the firm as its Chair of Northern California. Birenbaum will be based out of the firm’s San Francisco office and will be a shareholder in the Labor and Employment Practice. Birenbaum joins the firm from Winston & Strawn, LLP, where he was a senior member of the Labor and Employment Practice, former Managing Partner of the San Francisco office, and former member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added shareholder Alejandro M. Ruiz to the Tax Practice Group in San Francisco. Ruiz joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he was a tax partner in the San Francisco office.

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Shartsis Friese LLP announced today that Richard S. Kinyon, Patrick McCabe, April Hopkins Rox, and Danielle T. Zaragoza, all formerly of Morrison & Foerster, have joined the firm to establish one of the premier family wealth planning practices in San Francisco. Kinyon and McCabe will be partners; Rox and Zaragoza will be Of Counsel.

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Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Timothy W. Moppin has joined the firm as a litigation partner in its San Francisco office. Moppin has 25 years of experience in labor and employment, environmental and construction law.

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The San Francisco office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Paul C. Lacourciere as a partner in the energy & infrastructure projects practice. Lacourciere joins K&L Gates from Greenbridge Corporate Counsel.

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Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Jared G. Jensen has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Private Equity Practice. Jensen joins Goodwin from Amazon.com where he was Senior Corporate Counsel.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Charles J. Stevens has returned to the firm in its San Francisco office as a partner.  Stevens, a former Gibson Dunn partner, U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney, was the founding partner of Stevens, O’Connell & Jacobs, a litigation boutique focused on government investigations.

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Schiff Hardin welcomes Paula Leibovitz Goodwin as a partner in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Goodwin has more than 30 years of experience in estate planning and decedent estate administration, with an emphasis on tax planning for both large and small estates.

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Lawyer M.J. Pritchett has taken a new job with Arent Fox in San Francisco.  The partner, who joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, focuses his legal practice on Real Estate matters.  Pritchett has extensive experience in  acquisition, disposition, secured lending, public finance, leasing, and more.

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Shearman & Sterling is advising Western Digital Corp. in the acquisition by its subsidiary, HGST, of Virident Systems, Inc. in a transaction valued at $685 million. Closing of the acquisition, which is subject to customary conditions, is expected to occur in the fourth calendar quarter of 2013.

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