Mary Beth Sipos, Claims Counsel for Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation, has returned to Haight Brown & Bonesteel as a Partner in the firm’s Risk Management & Insurance Law Practice Group (more…)
Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that John S. Gibson has joined the firm’s Antitrust Group as a partner. Gibson is a skilled antitrust practitioner with extensive experience in all aspects of litigation, including trial and appellate work, as well as merger review and other high-stakes dealings with the federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies (more…)
Bingham has expanded its Southern California presence and its corporate practice with the addition of Joshua Dean as a partner in the firm’s Orange County office (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announced today that it has completed its merger with California-based Luce Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward). The combined firm will continue to be known as McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA), and building on the Luce Forward legacy, will have more than 575 attorneys and public policy advisors in 13 offices and 11 markets (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced that Collie James—the lead trial lawyer defending Pepsi against a series of Erin Brokovich toxic tort suits brought in California regarding a subsidiary holding—will join the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice, resident in Irvine (more…)
Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Steven D. Allison has joined the firm’s Orange County office as a partner, where he will be a member of the Litigation Group (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Dr. Bhanu K. Sadasivan has joined the Firm as an IP Litigation partner, based in its Silicon Valley office. Additionally, the Firm named Nathan Smith and Dane C. Butzer as counsel in its Intellectual Property Prosecution, Transactions & Strategy Practice Group in its Orange County office (more…)
Two veteran water law attorneys joined Best Best & Krieger LLP, bringing with them several decades of legal experience in water planning and supply, renewable energy, desalination and construction projects for major water districts across Southern California (more…)
Baker Hostetler announced today that R. Scott Feldmann has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Group as a Partner in its Costa Mesa office. He comes to Baker Hostetler from Crowell & Moring LLP (more…)
Nossaman LLP announced today that Suzanne Tague has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group, with an emphasis in estate planning and probate and trust administration, including litigated matters. Joining Ms. Tague at Nossaman are associate Gianna Gruenwald and paralegal Jean Schulz. All three are based in the Orange County office (more…)
The international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) and the California-based law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward) have set a target merger date of March 1, 2012, following a recent vote by the firms’ partners (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Boot Barn, Inc., a leading western and work wear retailer with 85 stores in eight states, in its sale to Freeman Spogli & Co., a private equity investment firm (more…)

