Shortly after becoming Winston & Strawn's new managing partner in Silicon Valley earlier this year, Katherine Vidal said she was interested in wooing women and minority lateral candidates.

Vidal, who is a board member at ChIPs, an organization that works to further the cause of women in technology law, has now seen those efforts come to fruition. Shortly before Labor Day, Winston & Strawn welcomed two more female intellectual property litigators to its ranks in California.

Esha Bandyopadhyay, who joined Winston & Strawn from Redwood City, California-based IP boutique Turner Boyd, will be a partner at the firm and head of its litigation group in nearby Menlo Park. Meanwhile, Kirkland & Ellis partner Nimalka Wickramasekera has joined Winston & Strawn in Los Angeles.