The lawyers of the boutique law firm Wyman & Isaacs LLP have joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, bringing expanded expertise and services to Davis Wright’s nationally renowned entertainment and media practice.
Bruce Isaacs and Bob Wyman come to the firm’s L.A. office as partners, and Cheryl Nelson has joined as counsel. The three lawyers have represented many of the largest motion picture production studios and TV networks, as well as many other leading players in the entertainment industry. (more…)
Nossaman LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Ashley Dunning and Michael Toumanoff to the Firm’s Public Pensions and Investments Practice Group. Ms. Dunning will be based in the Firm’s San Francisco office as a Partner and Co-Chair of the Public Pensions and Investments Group, and Mr. Toumanoff will be based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office as Of Counsel. Both join from Manatt Phelps & Phillips. (more…)
Edward T. Schultz has joined the Los Angeles office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the Corporate & Securities Practice.
Schultz’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law and corporate finance. He counsels corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, debt and equity offerings and secured lending. He represents privately-held and public companies and serves as outside general counsel for various companies and private equity funds. (more…)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C., announced today that Yousuf I. Dhamee has joined the firm’s Investment Management practice as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Jonathan A. Loeb and Jeffrey Rosenfeld have joined the Firm’s Corporate Litigation group as Partner and Of Counsel, respectively. Mr. Loeb brings more than twenty years of complex litigation experience to the Firm, with a practice that ranges across several industries, including entertainment, real estate, and healthcare law. Mr. Rosenfeld also has a breadth of experience, with a practice that includes litigation involving corporate governance, entertainment, intellectual property, and bankruptcy. Both Mr. Loeb and Mr. Rosenfeld join Blank Rome’s Los Angeles office from Bingham McCutchen LLP, where Mr. Loeb served as Managing Partner of the firm’s Santa Monica office and Chair of the Entertainment, Media and Communications group. (more…)
Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Sandra Lee Montgomery has joined the Los Angeles office as a partner in its Finance Group. Her addition deepens the bench of Proskauer’s nationally recognized Multi-Tranche Finance Group and enhances the firm’s transactional capabilities on the West Coast. (more…)
Reed Smith today announced the addition of Shigehito (Shig) Onimura as counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Onimura joins the firm from Lamb & Kawakami LLP, where he was a partner.
“Shig has substantial experience in international business and compliance, further strengthening the firm’s corporate capabilities for its Japanese contacts and clients,” said John Iino, Global Co-Chair of Reed Smith’s Japan Business Team and Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office. “We are delighted to have him join our team.” (more…)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Frank Kaplan, Partner, and Ken Meyers, Of Counsel, have joined the Firm in the Corporate Litigation group. Mr. Kaplan’s complex litigation experience spans class action, securities, insurance, unfair competition, partnership, and professional liability matters at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Meyers practices complex civil litigation and appellate work primarily in the areas of insurance coverage and business litigation. Prior to joining Blank Rome, Mr. Kaplan and Mr. Meyers practiced at Bingham McCutchen LLP. Both are based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. (more…)
Philip Graves, a nationally recognized patent and intellectual property litigation attorney, announced today that he has joined the Los Angeles office of the class-action and large-scale litigation firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro.
According to managing partner Steve Berman, Graves’ experience in intellectual property will be a strong addition to Hagens Berman. (more…)
Barnes & Thornburg announced today that Peter Morris has joined the firm’s Litigation Department as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Previously, Morris was at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, where he was partner in the Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade Practice Group. (more…)
John J. Harris, who has more than 30 years of extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of oil and gas, environmental and energy law – including the wide range of operational problems faced by producers doing business in California and other states – has joined Locke Lord as a Partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office.
Harris is a member of the Firm’s nationally recognized Energy Practice Group. Prior to joining Locke Lord, he was a partner at Dentons and a part of its Energy sector team. (more…)
WilmerHale is pleased to announce today that Timothy Perry, a former federal prosecutor, has joined the firm as a counsel in the Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm’s Securities and Litigation/Controversy Departments.
Mr. Perry brings extensive trial and investigative experience to the firm, having prosecuted and tried a wide range of complex white collar criminal matters in six years at the United States Attorney’s Office in San Diego. Among other accolades, Mr. Perry received the Attorney General’s Award-the Department of Justice’s highest honor-for his work. (more…)
