Founding Member, Marc Marmaro, will be leaving Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP. Marmaro was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He has been with the firm since day one, in 1981.

The Los Angeles office of Lathrop & Gage has seen the addition of Carole Handler. Handler leaves Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon and joins Lathrop’s intellectual property and business litigation practice groups.

Seyfarth Shaw has taken on two Labor & Employment attorneys. Jeffrey A. Berman has joined as a partner and Joan E. Smiles joins as Of Counsel in Los Angeles. Both formerally practiced with Sidley Austin.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has hired a new partner in its Los Angeles office. Jon Atzen joins the firm’s Corporate practice. He was previously a partner with DLA Piper.

Foley & Lardner’s San Francisco office has seen the addition of a new partner. Robert B. Anderson has joined the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice and the Energy Industry Team. He left Nixon Peabody for this opportunity.

Sidley Austin LLP has hired boosted its Palo Alto and China offices with the hire of Yabo Lin. Lin joins the firm as a partner in the corporate department. He will split his time between Palo Alto and China.

Howard Rice IP has lost a intellectual property Partner, who had been with the firm for 19 years. Bobbie Wilson, who was the head of Howard’s IP litigation practice, has joined Perkins Coie. She practice out of both the San Francisco and Menlo Park offices as an equity partner.

Venable has boosted its Los Angeles office with a hire from Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP. Hamid R. Rafatjoo has joined the firm as a Bankruptcy partner. Rafatjoo specializes in insolvency and corporate restructurings.

Chadbourne & Parke has just hired two big names for its intellectual property practice. Stephen Manetta, previously the IP executive at General Electric is joining the firm after 15 years of experience in the field. Also joining is Rajappan (