Rebecca Cohen

June 14, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith snagged a five-lawyer team from Locke Lord in Sacramento led by corporate partner Scott Bartel. The group helped open Locke Lord's office in the Golden State capital in 2011.

By Rebecca Cohen

55 minute read

June 14, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

John Finston, a former deputy commissioner and general counsel at the California Department of Insurance, has joined Drinker Biddle & Reath as a partner in San Francisco. Finston will work with several former colleagues at the firm.

By Rebecca Cohen

24 minute read

June 13, 2017 | The Recorder

More than two months after adding a high-profile technology transactions team from Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Silicon Valley, Hogan Lovells has recruited Weil associate Christopher Moore as a partner in the Bay Area.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

June 09, 2017 | The Recorder

Two weeks after welcoming a six-lawyer team from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Morrison & Foerster has returned to its Bay Area-based rival for life sciences licensing attorney Scott Carter, who re-joins his former colleagues as of counsel in San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

June 08, 2017 | The Recorder

The San Francisco-based firm, which has a Napa Valley office in St. Helena, has hired a new estate planning partner from a large firm in Texas and a real estate and land use lawyer from the District Attorney's Office of Sonoma County.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

June 06, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Two months after longtime Fish & Richardson litigator Kathi Vidal took off to lead Winston & Strawn's Silicon Valley office, patent litigation partner Michael Rueckheim has followed her to the firm, along with two associates.

By Rebecca Cohen

33 minute read

June 06, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Kirtee Kapoor, head of the India practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell and a partner at the firm in Menlo Park, California, died Monday morning after being struck by a train at a crossing in nearby Atherton.

By Rebecca Cohen

2 minute read

June 06, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Sideman & Bancroft partner David Fermino has joined Kasowitz Benson Torres' white-collar defense and investigations practice in the Bay Area. The move comes two weeks after the New York-based firm's founding partner, Marc Kasowitz, was hired to lead President Donald Trump's personal legal team.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

June 05, 2017 | The American Lawyer

The firm has brought on Venable's Don Andrews as a partner in New York and leader of its new global risk and compliance practice, while also recruiting Morrison & Foerster partners William Veatch and Catherine Hagerty in San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

4 minute read

May 31, 2017 | The Recorder

Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, which acquired a Southern California-based IP boutique last year, has recruited IP litigation partners Terry Ahearn and Stuart Bartow from McDermott Will & Emery and Paul Hastings, respectively, to serve as co-managing partners of its office in Menlo Park, California.

By Rebecca Cohen

22 minute read