Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis will open a new office in Walnut Creek, CA this May. This office will be its second in the San Francisco Bay area; the real estate firm’s five other offices are in Southern California. The 6,600 square foot office will accomodate up to 11 attorneys, and will hopefully attract new clients. San Francisco land use partners Michael Durkee and David Blackwell and associate Thomas Tunny will work in Walnut Creek initially, but the firm will be recruiting new partners and associates with real estate experience.
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Washington-based Covington & Burling recently made two lateral partner hires, expanding its litigation team. David Bayless, joining the San Francisco office, is a securities litigation partner from Morrison & Foerster. In D.C., Michael Schlanger rejoins the firm from Sonnenschein after a 30-year absence. Covington has just under 500 attorneys and actually rarely does lateral hiring; last year only six new partners joined the firm.
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Los Angeles has become a center of recruiting activity over the past nine months, as at least seven mid-sized East Coast firms have opened or expanded offices in LA. Duane Morris; Dreier; Goodwin Procter; Hunton & Williams; McGuireWoods; Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and Venable are some of the firms that have made a move on the West Coast. The new offices tend to be in Century City, a pricier area, where clients are often involved in new media, entertainment, and technology. Several of the firms have gained large groups of lawyers from local firms; Goodwin Proctor, for example, recruited a group of real estate lawyers from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
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David Bayless has joined Covington & Burling’s San Francisco office from Morrison & Foerster. Bayless comes to the Washington-based firm as a partner after more than seven years with MoFo’s securities litigation practice. Sources from MoFo’s San Francisco office speculate that in moving, Bayless is seeking to pursue his regulatory practice. Covington’s securities and enforcement practice is based mainly in Washington and New York, and is known for its former government lawyers.
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Four litigators have joined the New York and Los Angeles offices of Winston & Strawn. Jeffrey P. Rosenstein, Robert J. Saville and Kenneth D. O’Reilly have joined its New York office, and Rebecca L. Calkins joins the firm’s Los Angeles office. All four attorneys were formerly with Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP; they follow a group of eight lawyers that moved to Winson in February. Joining as partner, Rosenstein focuses on construction, infrastructure, and engineering matters. Saville will be of counsel, dealing with a variety of commercial litigation and abitration issues. The other two attorneys join the firm as associates.
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