The New York-based law firm of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass announced today the opening of a new office in the San Francisco Bay Area. New Partner Jonathan Gross will be resident in the office, located at 1900 Powell Street, 6th Floor, Emeryville, California 94608. Jonathan can be contacted at (510) 900-9371 (tel), (510) 900-9381 (fax) and gross@moundcotton.com. He will be joined in Mound Cotton’s new California office by his colleagues Victor Jacobellis, Sheila Addiego and Elaine Videa. (more…)
Polsinelli enters San Francisco and adds 18 lawyers to its Los Angeles office with the addition of a large group of attorneys from a national firm with offices in California effective this week. Twenty-one attorneys, including nine shareholders, join Polsinelli’s Los Angeles’ financial services, real estate, health care and commercial litigation attorneys and open Polsinelli’s new San Francisco office. The attorneys include some of California’s most highly respected and experienced Toxic & Mass Tort defense attorneys including Farah Nicol and Stephen M. Nichols. (more…)
Fisher & Phillips LLP, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, adds Jason Geller as a partner in its San Francisco office. Representing employers in litigation in both federal and state courts, Geller was most recently a partner at Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP. (more…)
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Kamran Mirrafati has joined the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice as a partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
Mirrafati has extensive experience in labor and employment law with a focus on management-side labor relations, including labor arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, representation proceedings and Section 301 cases. Mirrafati provides counsel on a wide range of labor issues such as union organizing, employee discipline, and contract interpretation and administration, among others. He also regularly conducts collective bargaining negotiations on behalf of clients and is often called upon to advise on the interpretation or application of collective bargaining agreements. (more…)
Dentons announced today that Russell Tonkovich, MD has joined the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice as a partner in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. He brings extensive technical experience in the medical and biological sciences and a long history of representing high-profile clients in patent infringement cases in both district courts and the International Trade Commission. Tonkovich’s move to Dentons enhances the Firm’s formidable Intellectual Property and Technology group, a top-tier practice consisting of more than 100 lawyers and technically trained professionals. (more…)
In a noteworthy addition to its national team of first-chair trial lawyers – and to its growing San Francisco office – Venable LLP announced that Jessica L. Grant, a prominent litigator who has won some of the biggest product liability decisions in recent years, has joined as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office.
Ms. Grant joins the firm from Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, where she was a partner. (more…)
Phillip Warren, former chief of the San Francisco office of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, has joined Covington & Burling as a partner. He will practice in the firm’s global antitrust and competition law practice and be resident in the San Francisco office. (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today it advised the underwriters in Zendesk, Inc.’s $115 million IPO. Zendesk is a San Francisco-based customer service platform designed to bring organizations and their customers closer together. The company now trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “ZEN.” (more…)
Pillsbury today welcomed Clark Thiel as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Section in San Francisco. With significant experience in construction disputes, Thiel bolsters Pillsbury’s capabilities in litigation, mediation, and domestic and international arbitration. Thiel also brings a unique perspective as a licensed contractor and registered architect. (more…)
Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to announce Ray Sheen has joined the firm as a partner in its San Francisco office.
Ray joins the firm’s insurance recovery practice group. Ray represents policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes. He has obtained recoveries of over $100 million for a wide range of alleged liabilities and losses, including product liability/consumer class actions, data breach, patent and copyright infringement, antitrust injury, pollution, and securities claims. In addition, Ray has expertise in insurance for data breach and other cyber liabilities. He also has considerable experience in litigating class actions and other complex commercial disputes. (more…)
Andrew Bell has joined Marten Law PLLC as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, where he will further enhance the firm’s reputation as a national leader in energy, environmental and natural resource law. Bell is the latest partner to jump from a general practice firm to Marten Law’s dedicated platform. Bell joins Marten Law from the San Francisco office of Downey Brand LLP, where his work focused on complex energy and land use matters. (more…)
Continuing the expansion of its highly-regarded Intellectual Property Practice and life sciences capabilities, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that Terri Shieh-Newton has joined the firm as a Member. She will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Dr. Shieh-Newton was most recently the co-chair of the stem cell and regenerative medicine practice at Morrison & Foerster. The news comes on the heels of the recent addition of a trio of IP attorneys with extensive medical technology experience to the firm’s Boston office. (more…)
