Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP is pleased to announce that it has opened an office today in Silicon Valley at 333 Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood Shores, California. Douglas E. Lumish, chair of the firm’s intellectual property group, will serve as managing partner of the office (more…)

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National Intellectual Property super boutique Novak Druce + Quigg LLP has announced the addition of Partner Jason D. Lohr and Senior Associate Justas Geringson to its San Francisco office. Lohr comes to Novak Druce from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP and Geringson joins from Fliesler Meyer LLP (more…)

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Bringing a combined total of nearly four decades’ experience in land use and environmental law, Patricia Curtin and Todd Williams join Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP as partners.  Curtin will lead the firm’s Land Use practice.  Formerly principals with Walnut Creek’s Morgan Miller Blair, Curtin and Williams represent both private and public sector clients throughout the state and contribute to the breadth and depth of Wendel Rosen’s core practice areas (more…)

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Jenner & Block is representing News Corporation’s Fox Sports as litigation counsel, in a dispute between the broadcaster and the Los Angeles Dodgers over the planned sale of the team and its assets, including media rights (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Mozilla, a company that creates the FireFox open-source web browser, in leasing a new data center in Santa Clara, California (more…)

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Duane Morris is pleased to announce that David A. Charapp has joined the firm’s Corporate Practice Group as a partner in its San Diego office. Charapp’s arrival adds to Duane Morris’ growing corporate practice group on the West Coast and nationally, particularly in the areas of life sciences and technology. He joins Duane Morris from Foley & Lardner LLP, where he was chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Collaborations & Licensing Practice (more…)

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Duane Morris is pleased to announce that Jarrett Fugh has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Fugh’s arrival adds to Duane Morris’ growing Real Estate Practice Group on the West Coast and nationally. He joins Duane Morris from Winston & Strawn (more…)

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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Dana S. Treister has joined its Los Angeles office as a shareholder in the Real Estate Practice Group. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Treister was a partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (more…)

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Hogan Lovells announced today that Dr. Song Zhu has joined its Intellectual Property practice as a partner in its San Francisco office. Zhu represents multinational, automotive, and technology clients in IP litigation and other matters, particularly in U.S., European, and Chinese markets (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), in its role as agent and a lender in a financing for the acquisition of Sage Software Healthcare, LLC, a leading global supplier of medical business management software and services, by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, LLC (more…)

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Jenner & Block has expanded its Los Angeles office and its representation of clients in the media and entertainment industries with the addition of six new partners. Highly experienced courtroom attorneys Richard L. Stone, Kenneth D. Klein, Julie A. Shepard, David R. Singer, and Amy M. Gallegos join the Firm’s Litigation Department, while noted transactional attorney Carissa C. W. Coze joins the Firm’s Corporate Department (more…)

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Locke Lord today announced the addition of another new Partner to its Corporate Insurance Practice Group, welcoming experienced attorney Elizabeth A. Tosaris to its San Francisco Office. She is the third high-caliber insurance regulatory attorney added recently to a practice that counts more than 50 lawyers who devote a substantial portion of their transactional, corporate, securities, investment management, tax and regulatory practices to representing the insurance industry. Tosaris’ colleagues, Partner Paige Waters and Of Counsel Stephanie M. O’Neill Macro, joined Locke Lord’s Chicago Office late last month (more…)

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