McDermott Will & Emery, a leading international law firm, announced that Jeffrey M. Reisner has joined the Firm’s Transactions and Restructuring & Insolvency groups as a partner, based in Los Angeles and New York. Jeff will become co-chair of the Restructuring & Insolvency group. He joins McDermott from Irell & Manella LLP, where he served as the Chair of their bankruptcy practice. (more…)

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hook, Hardy & Bacon is pleased to announce the opening of a Los Angeles office, spearheaded by new Partners Michael Mallow, Mark Campbell and Rachel Straus. As members of Shook’s Business Litigation and Class Action and Appellate practices, the attorneys bring decades of experience defending complex commercial litigation and consumer class actions to the firm’s roster of automotive, consumer products, cosmetics, energy, and food and beverage clients. (more…)

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Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Leslie Helmer will join the firm’s Los Angeles office as a shareholder. Helmer joins Ogletree Deakins from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she practiced in the firm’s Labor and Employment Department for 27 years. (more…)

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Venable LLP announced today the addition of four high-profile entertainment and media litigation partners to its growing national Commercial Litigation Practice in the Los Angeles office—Lee S. Brenner, David E. Fink, Michael J. O’Connor, and Sarah L. Cronin—who are coming from Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. In addition, five associates are joining the Commercial Litigation Practice—Sarah E. Diamond, Cary L. Finkelstein, Ken D. Kronstadt, Michael C. Godino, and Christina Nordsten. Besides the entertainment and media industry, several of the attorneys represent policyholders in claims to recover against insurance companies. (more…)

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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to expand its Litigation Practice in California with the addition of Lisa M. Simonetti as shareholder in the Los Angeles office. Simonetti, who joins the firm from Vedder Price, focuses her practice on the defense of complex litigation, including financial services class actions and mass actions. (more…)

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Stephen A. Cazares, a former federal prosecutor with two decades of experience handling complex corporate and securities fraud investigations and litigation, has joined the renowned white collar and government investigations team at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, as a partner. He will serve clients across the country from the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. (more…)

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Buchalter is pleased to welcome both Daniel Wu, Litigation Shareholder in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and Brian Fish, Real Estate and Land Use Shareholder in the San Diego office. Wu joins from Squire Patton Boggs and Fish was previously with Dentons. (more…)

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Morgan Lewis today welcomes Michelle McCarthy, who has worked extensively with multiemployer and single employer pension and welfare plans, as a partner resident in Los Angeles. She arrives from a large national law firm. (more…)

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the arrival of partner Richard Y. Chen to the Labor & Employment department in Los Angeles – Century City. Chen joins from Ogletree Deakins, where he was a shareholder in its Employment Law practice group in Orange County. (more…)

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Leading litigator and SEC enforcement lawyer Randall Lee has joined Cooley as a partner in Los Angeles. He arrives from WilmerHale, where he founded its Los Angeles office and served as the office’s partner-in-charge for a decade. (more…)

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Deborah L. Stein has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Stein, formerly with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, will continue representing clients in their most significant commercial litigation matters. (more…)

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2019, five attorneys and additional professional staff from one of Los Angeles’ most prominent family law firms, Buter, Buzard, Fishbein & Royce LLP, joined the Firm in its Matrimonial and Family Law group, bringing its nationally recognized practice to nearly 35 attorneys and making it the largest family law practice among the Am Law 100. Joining the Firm are Kristina Royce, Partner; Ashley Silberfeld, Partner; Glenn Buzard, Of Counsel; Ali Fishbein, Associate; and Jacqueline Combs. (more…)

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