Rebecca Cohen

August 03, 2017 | Legaltech News

Elliot Katz is leaving the connected and self-driving car practice at DLA Piper to join McGuireWoods as a partner in San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

33 minute read

August 02, 2017 | The Recorder

Elliot Katz, a former global co-chair of the connected and self-driving car practice at DLA Piper, has joined McGuireWoods' new Bay Area base as a partner.

By Rebecca Cohen

4 minute read

July 31, 2017 | The Recorder

Latham & Watkins has hired Page Mailliard as a partner in the firm's emerging companies practice, as Mailliard herself re-emerges into the practice of law after taking a step back in 2014 to nurse her mother through an illness.

By Rebecca Cohen

2 minute read

July 28, 2017 | The Recorder

A team of Bay Area patent prosecutors, including three partners, has left Morrison & Foerster for Dentons.

By Rebecca Cohen

27 minute read

July 26, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Jones Day has continued building out labor and employment bench, bringing on Winston & Strawn partner Amanda Sommerfeld in Los Angeles and Dorsey & Whitney partner Joseph Hammell in Minneapolis, where Jones Day opened an office last year. The duo are the latest laterals lured to the growing legal giant's ranks so far this year.

By Rebecca Cohen

66 minute read

July 25, 2017 | The Recorder

Baker Botts has recruited environmental partner Christopher Carr in San Francisco from Morrison & Foerster, where he was chair of the latter's environment and energy group and co-chair of the firm's unmanned aerial systems and drone group.

By Rebecca Cohen

26 minute read

July 25, 2017 | The Recorder

The State Bar of California issued a consumer alert Monday for Dax Yeophantong Craven, a San Francisco-based entertainment lawyer that is has charged with pocketing $100,000 he was supposed to use for a real estate transaction.

By Rebecca Cohen

1 minute read

July 25, 2017 | The Recorder

Baker McKenzie has appointed compensation and employment partner Barbara Klementz as its California managing partner, the firm announced Tuesday. She will oversee more than 250 lawyers across the global legal giant's offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

62 minute read

July 25, 2017 | The Recorder

Barbara Klementz, managing partner of Baker McKenzie's offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco and a regional leader of the global legal giant's global equity services group and compensation and employment law practice, has been named its new California managing partner.

By Rebecca Cohen

4 minute read

July 21, 2017 | The Recorder

Foley & Lardner has hired intellectual property litigators Duane Mathiowetz and Rick Chang as partners in the firm's San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.

By Rebecca Cohen

2 minute read