Three attorneys joined Buchalter's intellectual property practice. Shareholder J. Rick Tache and senior counsels Erikson Squier and Roger Scott will join the firm's Orange County office. Tache will serve as co-chair of the Buchalter's firmwide patent litigation group.

Silicon Valley Business Journal awarded Paul Davis the 2018 Bay Area Corporate Counsel Winner. Davis is general counsel and corporate secretary of Xperi, and previously served as general counsel at Tessera Technologies.