International law firm Davis Wright Tremaine announced the recruitment of Erica Wilson to its Bay Area office, according to a press release.

The partner focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, particularly for the software and biotech industries.  This continues a growth trend for the group,  which also hired Eric Walters within the past year.

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Duane H. Mathiowetz has joined the Schiff Hardin LLP San Francisco office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco.

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Erica Wilson, an experienced litigator with a track record of success representing clients in complex patent and other technology-related matters, has joined the expanding IP litigation practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLC. Wilson joins the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, represented salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, in leasing an approximately 230,000-square-foot office space at One Rincon in San Francisco. This deal immediately follows salesforce.com’s announcement that they will lease the entirety of a 450,000-square-foot highrise planned for 350 Mission Street and expand their presence in 50 Fremont by another 100,000 square feet.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented middle market private equity firm GI Partners acquire a San Diego data center and office building leased to American Internet Services and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has advised Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp. in its initial public offering (“IPO”), making it the first publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) focused on the single-family rental market. The Company raised $245 million in its IPO and its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “SBY.” The IPO closed on December 19, 2012.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative (PICI) in a pro-bono effort to establish regulations that create a shark sanctuary in the Cook Islands. The regulations prohibit certain commercial fishing activities within the Cook Island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ)—an area of ocean approximately 1.9 million square kilometers (756,000 square miles) in size—that threaten sharks, and ban the possession, sale, and trade of shark and shark products. This newly established protected area neighbors the shark sanctuary recently announced by Tahiti Nui (French Polynesia), and will connect with the EEZs of American Samoa and Tokelau to create the largest contiguous shark conservation area in the world—an area over 6.7 million square kilometers (2.6 million square miles) in size.

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Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Labor & Employment partner Charles Thompson and senior counsel Nicole Bolson to the firm’s San Francisco office, bolstering the bench strength of the firm’s National Trial Team and robust West Coast presence. Both attorneys previously practiced at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, where Thompson was in charge of the San Francisco group and a vice chair of the firm’s L&E practice. He is also very active in the San Francisco legal community as a member of PLUS, the San Francisco Hotel Counsel and the IADC.

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International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Aisha Hunt has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Financial Services practice. Hunt was most recently with Cole-Frieman Mallon & Hunt LLP, where she headed the ’40 Act Practice with a focus on alternative mutual funds.

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IP litigation partner Laura Chapman has joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard Mullin.  The partner brings a wealth of experience in intellectual property, breach of contract, trade secrets, unfair competition, and more.  She makes the legal job move from Foley & Lardner.
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