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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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. continues to expand its San Francisco office with the addition of Robert E. Burwell, who joins the firm’s Corporate & Securities Section as a Member.

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SNR Denton is pleased to announced that Fletcher Alford, Laura Geist and Doug Scullion have joined the firm’s San Francisco office as partners in the Litigation practice.

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The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the establishment of the Firm’s second California office with the addition of seven attorneys and other professional staff from San Francisco’s Ongaro Law Firm. Opening on March 1, the office will be led by longtime San Francisco litigator David R. Ongaro and will remain in its current Financial District location. Thompson & Knight opened a Los Angeles office in October 2012.

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Cooley LLP announced today that it represented client Cylex Inc., a Maryland-based life sciences company, whose diagnostic test kit detects immune function in organ transplant patients, in a highly successful sale of the company’s assets through a distressed M&A process.

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Philip Albert, an IP attorney with two decades of experience, has joined the expanding IP practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Albert joins the firm as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office.

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Thornridge Holdings Limited, a significant stockholder of Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (ALC), in connection with ALC’s US$280 million proposed sale to TPG, a global private investment firm.

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