Downey Brand has added Elizabeth Bridges as an environmental law associate. Bridges, who was previously with Ellman Burke Hoffman & Johnson and Buchalter Nemer, received her J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 2006.

Vedica Puri was appointed to The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Foundation Board. Puri, a partner at Pillsbury & Levinson , focuses on bad faith insurance coverage claims. She graduated from from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1994.