The global law firm Jones Day has announced today that Kari Erickson Levine has joined the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco Office, where she will be a member of Jones Day’s Labor & Employment Practice. Ms. Levine arrives from the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw, where she practiced for 18 years and was a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice (more…)
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. continues to expand its San Francisco office with the addition of Robert E. Burwell, who joins the firm’s Corporate & Securities Section as a Member (more…)
SNR Denton is pleased to announced that Fletcher Alford, Laura Geist and Doug Scullion have joined the firm’s San Francisco office as partners in the Litigation practice (more…)
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the establishment of the Firm’s second California office with the addition of seven attorneys and other professional staff from San Francisco’s Ongaro Law Firm. Opening on March 1, the office will be led by longtime San Francisco litigator David R. Ongaro and will remain in its current Financial District location. Thompson & Knight opened a Los Angeles office in October 2012 (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it represented client Cylex Inc., a Maryland-based life sciences company, whose diagnostic test kit detects immune function in organ transplant patients, in a highly successful sale of the company’s assets through a distressed M&A process (more…)
Philip Albert, an IP attorney with two decades of experience, has joined the expanding IP practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Albert joins the firm as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Thornridge Holdings Limited, a significant stockholder of Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (ALC), in connection with ALC’s US$280 million proposed sale to TPG, a global private investment firm (more…)
Robert J. Guite has joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Trial practice group. Guite joins from Squire Sanders, where he was hiring partner for that firm’s Northern California offices (more…)
King & Spalding has recruited veteran intellectual property lawyer Kenneth Steinthal as a partner in its San Francisco office. Steinthal joins King & Spalding from Greenberg Traurig, where he served as head of its San Francisco office, and prior to that, as co-head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ IP/media practice. Also joining King & Spalding’s San Francisco IP practice, as counsel, is Joseph R. Wetzel, who practiced with Steinthal at Steinthal’s previous two firms (more…)
Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that David W. Deal has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as senior counsel. Mr. Deal, formerly the General Counsel of Fairfield-based GeoVera Insurance Group, will be a key member of the firm’s Insurance Industry Team (more…)
On March 1, the attorneys from the top-tier trial and litigation defense firm of Brown Eassa & McLeod LLP will join Sedgwick LLP. Brown Eassa is a well-known civil defense firm, with a breadth of experience in product liability, class action, commercial litigation, mass tort, labor and employment, and environmental matters. Seven partners and their team of associates will be based in Sedgwick’s San Francisco office, and one partner and one associate will work out of Sedgwick’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that the Firm has expanded its West Coast corporate practice with the hiring of leading attorneys Michael S. Ringler and Rick C. Madden. Mr. Ringler will join the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco office and was previously a mergers and acquisitions partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Madden will join as a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and was previously a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (more…)
