Hogan Lovells announced today that Edward Kwok, Jennifer Lantz, Steve Levitan, Christian Mammen, and Clark Stone have joined as partners in the Intellectual Property (IP) practice. Kwok, Lantz, Levitan, and Stone arrive from Haynes and Boone LLP, and will be based in the Silicon Valley office, while Mammen joins from a private practice and will be based in San Francisco.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Thad Davis and Michael Li-Ming Wong have joined the firm’s San Francisco office as partners. Both were previously with Ropes & Gray. Davis joins Gibson Dunn as Co-Chair of the Securities Litigation Practice Group, and Wong will serve as Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Enforcement Group and also be a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Group.

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Mark Mengelberg returned to where he previously practiced law when he was hired by California-based law firm Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis for a San Francisco legal job, according to a press release.

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Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a preeminent California-based real estate and full service business law firm, welcomes back Mark Mengelberg as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. He rejoins Allen Matkins’ Real Estate Department after six years as a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, with an emphasis on real estate transactions and finance. Mark had worked at Allen Matkins as an associate from 2004 through 2006.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Louise Adamson has joined the firm as Partner in the San Francisco office. She joins from K&L Gates.

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Joshua Hill has joined the firm as a litigation partner in the San Francisco office. For the past four years, Mr. Hill has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California. He is a member of the firm’s white collar, securities litigation and complex commercial litigation practice groups.

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International law firm Sidley Austin hired Joshua Hill for a San Francisco legal job, according to a press release.

Hill, who has devoted the past four years of his professional pursuits to serving the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, comes aboard as a litigation partner. He joins the white collar, securities litigation and complex commercial litigation practice groups of the law firm.

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U.S. law firm LeClairRyan augmented the staff in its San Francisco offices with three attorneys and one legal assistant, according to a press release. Bridget McInerney Harris and L. Randolph Harris joined as shareholders to assist the practices for corporate and taxes while D. Karen Maready comes aboard as an associate.

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Margaret A. Keane, formerly a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, has joined Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, as a shareholder in its San Francisco office. Signaling Littler’s continued growth nationally and internationally, Keane’s arrival comes on the heels of a number of recent additions to Littler’s expanding global practice, including the arrival of Michael Lotito to its Northern California office from Jackson Lewis.

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We are pleased to announce that Dan Wheeler has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco offices. He will practice with the firm’s Banking Client Service Group.

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