The global law firm Jones Day has announced that S. Christian Platt has joined the Firm’s San Diego Office as a partner in its Intellectual Property Practice. Mr. Platt comes to Jones Day from the San Diego office of Paul Hastings, where he was a partner in that firm’s Intellectual Property Practice. (more…)
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Kamran Mirrafati has joined the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice as a partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
Mirrafati has extensive experience in labor and employment law with a focus on management-side labor relations, including labor arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, representation proceedings and Section 301 cases. Mirrafati provides counsel on a wide range of labor issues such as union organizing, employee discipline, and contract interpretation and administration, among others. He also regularly conducts collective bargaining negotiations on behalf of clients and is often called upon to advise on the interpretation or application of collective bargaining agreements. (more…)
Dentons announced today that Russell Tonkovich, MD has joined the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice as a partner in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. He brings extensive technical experience in the medical and biological sciences and a long history of representing high-profile clients in patent infringement cases in both district courts and the International Trade Commission. Tonkovich’s move to Dentons enhances the Firm’s formidable Intellectual Property and Technology group, a top-tier practice consisting of more than 100 lawyers and technically trained professionals. (more…)
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the arrival of partner Michael T. Clark to the firm’s Corporate department in Los Angeles. Clark joins Seyfarth from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was a partner in the Corporation, Banking and Business department. (more…)
In a noteworthy addition to its national team of first-chair trial lawyers – and to its growing San Francisco office – Venable LLP announced that Jessica L. Grant, a prominent litigator who has won some of the biggest product liability decisions in recent years, has joined as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office.
Ms. Grant joins the firm from Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, where she was a partner. (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that David Hernand, a prominent lawyer for technology, media and entertainment companies, has joined the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice in Los Angeles as a partner. He joins from Cooley LLP. (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Heather Meeker, a leading intellectual property transactions lawyer, is joining the Firm’s Silicon Valley office as a partner and member of the Technology Transactions Group.
Meeker focuses on intellectual property and technology transactions with a specialty in open source licensing requirements. She has represented clients ranging from some of the world’s largest software and technology companies to innovative, venture-backed start-ups in the software, communications, computer equipment, and medical device industries. Her wide-ranging experience includes advising clients on acquisitions, dispositions, and licensing of critical intellectual property assets; handling intellectual property aspects of M&A transactions; and counseling on strategic issues relating to open source business models, software copyrights and patents, and IP litigation. (more…)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Klyman is joining the firm as a partner. Klyman joins the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. He will be based in the Los Angeles office and will spend substantial time in the New York office. He was formerly a partner with Latham & Watkins. (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised longtime client CardioMEMS, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a proprietary wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body, on its acquisition by St. Jude Medical, Inc. (more…)
Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented BofA Merrill Lynch, as financial advisor to The Sterling Family Trust, in the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise to Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft Corp. (more…)
Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP proudly announces the relocation of its growing Mountain View, California, office to Menlo Park in the heart of Silicon Valley.
In the last three years, Lewis Roca Rothgerber added a sizable patent practice to its already thriving trademark and intellectual property group, which first opened its doors in Northern California in 2009. The attorneys of the newly relocated Menlo Park office now focus on a broad range of intellectual property offerings including patent prosecution; post-grant review and derivation proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; application, licensing, registration and protection of trade and service marks in the U.S. and in international jurisdictions and intellectual and commercial property litigation in state and federal courts as well as before the International Trade Commission. (more…)
Covington & Burling advised Steve Ballmer on his agreement to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers from The Sterling Family Trust for $2 billion. (more…)
