Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Andrew D. Thorpe has joined the firm as a partner in its Capital Markets Group, resident in San Francisco.  Mr. Thorpe served for almost six years at the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including serving as Special Counsel in the Office of Rulemaking within the Division of Corporation Finance, and was most recently a partner with Morrison & Foerster (more…)

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BuckleySandler LLP, a leading financial services and criminal and civil enforcement defense law firm, announced today that Richard E. Gottlieb, a highly regarded class action defense litigator with over 25 years of experience, has joined the firm as a Partner.  Fredrick S. Levin, a notable class action and securities litigator, and Brett J. Natarelli, a consumer financial services litigator, will be joining the firm as a Partner and an Associate respectively. Gottlieb and Levin will be co-located in BuckleySandler’s Los Angeles and soon-to-be-opened Chicago office and Natarelli will be resident in the firm’s Chicago office (more…)

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Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the addition of intellectual property litigation partner Arthur S. Beeman, counsel Joel T. Muchmore, and health care administrative law counsel Steven V. Schnier to its new San Francisco office and its nationally recognized Intellectual Property, Complex Litigation, and Health Care practices (more…)

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Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Peter Obstler has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Litigation, Financial Services, and Securities and Enforcement practices. Also joining the firm with Mr. Obstler as counsel are Jee Young You and Marjory Gentry (more…)

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that David Chiappetta has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Litigation practice. Chiappetta returns to Perkins Coie from Corrs Chambers Westgarth in Melbourne, Australia, where he prosecuted antitrust and consumer protection cases on behalf of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government’s competition watchdog (more…)

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Jonesh (Jon) G. Daryanani has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice.  He was most recently a partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP (more…)

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Farella Braun + Martel LLP welcomes San Francisco exempt organizations and tax attorney Cynthia R. Rowland to its partnership effective July 1 (more…)

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Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Karen A. Spindler has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Life Sciences Practice. She will focus on advising life sciences companies and investors on a variety of intellectual property transactions. Spindler joins Goodwin from Kirkland & Ellis where she was a partner in its Palo Alto and San Francisco offices (more…)

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Kevin C. Trock has joined the Schiff Hardin LLP San Francisco office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group from Alston & Bird LLP (more…)

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Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that Administrative Law Judge Robert Rogers, who recently retired from the International Trade Commission (ITC), has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department as senior counsel.  He will be based in Steptoe’s Century City and Washington, DC offices (more…)

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