Nixon Peabody’s strong Labor & Employment practice in California just got stronger with the addition of Charles Dyke to lead the firm’s national ERISA Litigation team. This is a return to Nixon Peabody for Chuck, who previously practiced with the firm from 2008 until 2011.
Chuck is an ERISA litigator with trial experience. His representations have ranged from class-action breach of fiduciary duty litigation to pension plan termination litigation against the PBGC and unions to complex appellate matters. He has handled or participated in a number of ERISA matters before the U.S. Supreme Court and in several U.S. Courts of Appeals. (more…)
Doris A. Kaelin has joined Gordon & Rees as a partner in the San Francisco office. She is a member of the firm’s Business Transactions and Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Practice Groups.
Kaelin has 20 years of experience in the areas of bankruptcy, business reorganization, and debtors’ and creditors’ rights. In addition to representing bankruptcy trustees and debtors and creditors in bankruptcy, she represents companies in the wind down and dissolution of businesses, and assignees in assignments for the benefit of creditors. She also serves as a bankruptcy trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. (more…)
Goodwin Procter, a leading Am Law 50 and Global 50 law firm, announced today that Shane Brun has joined the firm as a partner in its IP Litigation Group in its San Francisco office. Brun comes to Goodwin from K&L Gates, where he was a partner in that firm’s San Francisco office.
Brun is a PTO-registered patent litigator with a background in industrial engineering and semiconductor manufacturing. He has extensive experience representing major technology companies, both as plaintiffs and defendants, in patent litigation and other intellectual property and technology-related matters. His IP practice involves a wide range of technologies, including Internet security, computer networking, wireless communications, microlithography, plasma displays, optical alignment, inspection systems and digital imaging. Brun has a national practice and regularly represents clients before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and U.S. District Courts in California, Texas and Delaware. (more…)
Cooley advised Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. on its $63 million initial public offering. Atara is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics for serious unmet medical needs, with an initial focus on muscle wasting conditions and oncology. The company now trades on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “ATRA.” (more…)
Maynard Cooper & Gale continues to attract high level talent in its San Francisco office with the addition of attorney Sasha G. Rao, who will join the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation & Technology practices. Rao was recently recognized as a “Top 75 IP Litigator in California” by the Daily Journal and an “IP Star” and one of the “Top 250 Women in IP” by Managing IP magazine.
Rao brings nearly 20 years of experience and a long history of success in intellectual property litigation, primarily for innovative companies in the areas of technology and life sciences. Her work includes representing some of the most well-known technology companies in Silicon Valley in both bench and jury trials, Markman hearings and post-grant invalidity challenges in the Patent Office. (more…)
Renowned litigators Darryl Woo and Mortimer Hartwell have joined Vinson & Elkins in San Francisco, expanding the firm’s capabilities in intellectual property, complex product liability, toxic tort and environmental cases.
Woo joins V&E from Fenwick & West LLP, where he previously served as chair of the firm’s Patent Litigation Practice and more recently headed its firmwide Litigation Practice. He concentrates his practice on intellectual property litigation and other complex technology litigation, principally in the areas of semiconductors, information technology, life sciences and biotechnology. (more…)
Cooley advised the underwriters on Dermira, Inc.’s $125 million initial public offering. Dermira is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on bringing innovative and differentiated medical dermatology products to dermatologists and their patients. The company now trades on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “DERM.” (more…)
Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the largest workplace law firms in the world representing management, is pleased to announce the addition of three new attorneys to the firm’s San Francisco office. Lisa Sween and Natalja Fulton have joined the firm as Shareholders. Stephanie Yang has joined as an Associate. All attorneys were formerly with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.
“The ability to attract such a strong team speaks volumes about Jackson Lewis’ presence in today’s market,” said Fraser A. McAlpine, Managing Shareholder of Jackson Lewis’ San Francisco office. “We are excited to welcome Lisa, Natalja and Stephanie, whose combined experience further strengthens our footprint in San Francisco and throughout the Northern California region. Their capabilities will be an excellent addition to our growing office.” (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Scott Nonaka has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Litigation and International Arbitration practices. Because of his extensive experience representing Asia-based clients, Mr. Nonaka will also collaborate closely with the firm’s Asia-based litigators and arbitration specialists across Asia. (more…)
Fenwick & West announced today that Michael Dicke, most recently the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Associate Regional Director for Enforcement in San Francisco, is joining the firm as a partner in its securities litigation practice. Dicke will co-chair the Securities Enforcement group to focus on advising boards and management on SEC defense, compliance and internal investigations and to represent regulated entities and individuals in SEC and other government investigations and litigation.
During his 17-year tenure at the SEC, Dicke supervised or conducted hundreds of investigations involving every major subject area of the SEC’s enforcement program, including financial reporting and disclosure, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), insider trading, Regulation FD, and regulation of hedge funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers. As the head of enforcement for the San Francisco office since 2008, Mike led over 40 professionals in investigating and litigating SEC matters in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. (more…)
Continuing to grow its intellectual property practice, Rimon, P.C. has added Neil A. Smith as a partner in its San Francisco and Palo Alto offices.
Prior to joining Rimon, Mr. Smith was a partner at several prominent firms, including IP boutique firm Limbach & Limbach. He most recently served as the first Administrative Patent Judge on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for the US Patent & Trademark Office’s Silicon Valley Satellite Office. The PTAB handles appeals within the Patent Office and a host of post-grant patent proceedings, Post Grant Reviews, and Business Method Patent challenges, which are increasingly important in patent enforcement and defense strategy. Under the American Invents Act, defendants or those accused of infringing patents have the opportunity to go before the PTAB and challenge the validity of the patents. (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Randy Luskey, former Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, will rejoin Orrick’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Group. (more…)
