Stephen Toohill joined Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith as a partner in the firm's real estate group. His practice focuses on the representation of developers, owners, and tenants regarding acquisition, development, leasing and sale of property. Previously Toohill was a partner at Dentons.

Pepper Hamilton brought on two partners in its corporate securities practice group. David Allen joins from K&L Gates, where he was a partner. Allen's practice focuses on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate securities matters. Derek Dundas previously was a partner at Rutan & Tucker and focuses his practice and corporate counseling and mergers and acquisitions in emerging growth business and venture capital areas. Both partners will be based in the Orange County office.

Lisa Lenherr joined Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean in the firm's bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors rights practice group. Lenherr joins from Tiemstraw Law Group in Oakland and represents debtors, landlords, lenders and creditors in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcies. She will be based in Oakland.

Torrey McClary joined King & Spalding's Los Angeles office as a partner in its healthcare practice. McClary's practice focuses on healthcare transactions and representing clients in complex health system transactions.  Previously, McClary was a partner at Hogan Lovells.

The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers has elected appellate attorneys Peter Stris and Scott Reddie into the Academy's membership. Stris is a partner at Stris & Maher in Los Angeles. Reddie is a partner at McCormick Barstow in Fresno.

LexInsight has brought on Jennifer Roberts as its director of marketing. LexInsight provides in-house counsel and large law firms with a source of contract legal professionals, and Roberts joined the company in January. She will be based in San Jose.

Peng Chen joined Rimon Law as a partner in the San Diego office. Chen will be part of the firm's litigation and intellectual property groups, and focus his practice on patent prosecution and strategic counseling. He previously was partner at Morrison & Foerster.

Robins Kaplan brought on Steven Carlson as a partner in its Silicon Valley office. Carlson will be part of the firm's intellectual property and technology litigation group, and specializes in intellectual property litigation.

Blank Rome hired Julianna Simon as an associate in its corporate litigation group. Simon will be based in the Los Angeles office and joins from Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear.