Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce the Firm’s most recent lateral addition, promotions, as well as new associates (more…)

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DLA Piper today announced that a team of five prominent Silicon Valley lawyers will join the firm as partners. Rich Scudellari, Armando Castro and Matt Oshinsky join the Corporate and Securities Group, while David M. Lisi joins the Litigation practice and Craig P. Opperman will join the Intellectual Property Group, effective January 11 (more…)

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Fenwick & West represented Skagen Designs Ltd. and its affiliated companies in its acquisition by Fossil, Inc. (Nasdaq: FOSL) for $225 million in cash and 150,000 shares of Fossil, Inc. common stock (more…)

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Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Bernard (Barney) R. Given II has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditor’s Rights Practice. He joins from the Los Angeles office of Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, L.C., where he was a shareholder specializing in bankruptcy and commercial litigation (more…)

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Alston & Bird LLP today announced the expansion of its corporate practice in California with the addition of Lior Nuchi as a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office (more…)

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced that Eric J. Schwartzman has joined the firm as a partner in its Silicon Valley office. Mr. Schwartzman joins Weil’s Private Equity/Mergers & Acquisitions practice from Latham & Watkins LLP where he was a partner and former co-chair of its corporate department in New York (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Thomas Brown will join the Antitrust and Global Competition and the Global Banking and Payments Systems practices in San Francisco as partner in 2012. Mr. Brown, an antitrust lawyer with nationally recognized payment systems expertise, will join from O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he is a partner (more…)

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Howard D. Fabrick has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department and Entertainment and Music Practice Group. Fabrick was previously a partner in the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (more…)

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) is pleased to announce that Raymond O. Aghaian has joined the law firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office.  Aghaian will focus on white collar crime, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance, internal investigations, civil litigation and cyber security crimes (more…)

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Jill M. Pietrini has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s 70 attorney Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Los Angeles/Century City office (more…)

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, welcomes Alexandra Bodnar as a shareholder to the firm’s Los Angeles office. Bodnar joins Ogletree Deakins from the Los Angeles office of Squire Sanders where she was a partner and head of the office’s labor and employment group (more…)

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