Vedder Price is pleased to announce its entry into the California market with an office in San Francisco.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Marc Fagel will join the San Francisco office as a partner. Most recently the Director of the San Francisco Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fagel will join the firm’s Securities Enforcement practice.

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DLA Piper announced today that Cedric Chao has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the San Francisco office.

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Today, Pillsbury welcomed Thomas A. Zimmer to the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Finance group. Zimmer, formerly a partner with Holland & Knight, will serve as co-leader of Pillsbury’s transportation finance team along with partner Mark Lessard in New York. He was previously Chair of Holland & Knight’s Finance group and was the Deputy Section Leader of its Business Law Section.

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Continuing with its planned strategic growth, Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP, the IP super boutique, announced that Pamela K. Fulmer joined the firm as a partner on March 18th. She will practice out of the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices where she will concentrate on intellectual property litigation as well as disputes related to trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing and other complex issues.

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DLA Piper announced today that Zhaoyang “Paul” Li has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice and Patent Prosecution group as a partner in the San Francisco office.

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Duane Morris is pleased to announce that James C. Krieg and Allison Lane Cooper have joined the firm’s Trial Practice Group as partners in its San Francisco office. The attorneys further strengthen Duane Morris’ trial practice in commercial litigation, particularly in the areas of professional liability defense, fiduciary liability, legal ethics and commercial disputes. Krieg and Cooper join the firm from Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Roman & Holland LLP.

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Arent Fox LLP, a leading national law firm, announced that its new San Francisco office will be located in the KPMG Building at 55 2nd Street in the city’s Financial District. The office is scheduled to open this June.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that James W. McTarnaghan has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a Partner in the Environment, Energy & Resources Practice Group. His clients include companies in the traditional energy, renewable energy and communications industries, as well as California-based municipalities and public agencies. McTarnaghan was most recently a partner at Duane Morris LLP.

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced today that Kari Erickson Levine has joined the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco Office, where she will be a member of Jones Day’s Labor & Employment Practice. Ms. Levine arrives from the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw, where she practiced for 18 years and was a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice.

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