Kevin C. Trock has joined the Schiff Hardin LLP San Francisco office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group from Alston & Bird LLP.

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Commercial trial lawyer Patrick M. Ryan has joined Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) as a partner and will head the Firm’s Antitrust Practice Group. Previously with Morgan Lewis, Ryan has significant expertise in complex commercial litigation including antitrust, class action, intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting/supply chain, and constitutional matters.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Allan E. Low has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Real Estate practice.  Low was most recently a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP.

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Douglas Bria has joined Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, as a shareholder in the San Francisco office. Bria, previously a partner in Jackson Lewis LLP’s San Francisco office, has extensive experience in employment litigation matters, including class actions and complex litigation, e-Discovery, general employment litigation and wage and hour compliance. Bria’s arrival coincides with the addition of another former Jackson Lewis partner, JoAnna Brooks, who also joined Littler last week.

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Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on Epizyme, Inc.’s recent IPO. Epizyme, now trading on the NASDAQ Global Stock Market under the symbol “EPZM,” is a Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and plans to commercialize innovative personalized therapeutics for patients with genetically defined cancers.

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Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added JoAnna Brooks as a shareholder in the San Francisco office. Brooks, previously a partner and head of the Class Action Practice in Jackson Lewis LLP’s San Francisco office, brings extensive class action litigation experience to the firm. Her arrival reflects Littler’s continued attraction of high-profile lateral shareholders. In the past year, the firm has added a number of prominent attorneys to its shareholder ranks, across multiple practice areas and geographic regions to further expand the firm’s national and global platform.

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Real Estate partner James O’Brien to the firm’s San Francisco office, continuing the national Real Estate department’s steady growth as the fourth largest Real Estate practice in the United States. O’Brien joins Seyfarth from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, following the recent arrival of a group of six real estate attorneys in Seyfarth’s New York office.

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Reed Smith today announced the addition of L. Julius M. Turman as a partner in its Labor & Employment practice in the firm’s San Francisco office.

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Michael Durkee to the firm’s Real Estate Land Use practice in California. Based in San Francisco, Durkee is experienced in in the creation and implementation of complex entitlement strategies, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), planning and zoning laws, the Subdivision Map Act, negotiation of development agreements and government relations, all of which will complement the highly acclaimed MLA team of land use attorneys, who were among the first in California to focus on and develop the area of land use law.

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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added shareholder Bradley R. Marsh to its Tax Practice Group in San Francisco. Marsh’s practice is concentrated in the areas of federal, state and local tax controversy matters, including payroll, property, business license, employment, franchise, parcel, district, sales, documentary transfer, transient occupancy, utility user, income, parking, gift and estate taxes.

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