On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers
New hires from across the California legal market.
May 03, 2019 at 06:18 PM
2 minute read
Dennis Childs joined Koning Zollar as a partner in the employment law practice. Previously a partner at Cooley, Childs has three decades of experience representing employers and management. He will be based in Encinitas.
Duane Morris brought on Terry Ahearn and Stuart Bartow as partners in the intellectual property practice group. Both attorneys were previously partners at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie. They will be based in the Silicon Valley office.
Jing Liu and Paul Chang joined the intellectual property practice group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Liu joins the firm as a partner and Chang joins the firm as an associate. Previously, both attorneys were at Knobbe Martens. They are based in the San Diego office.
Rose Sorensen joined Snell & Wilmer as a partner in the corporate and securities practice group. Previously, she was a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, and also served as general counsel of a private cable operator and internet service provider. She is based in Los Angeles.
Spaulding McCullough & Tansil brought on Carmen Sinigiani as a partner in estate planning and estate and trust litigation. Singiani counsels clients on litigation prevention and family relationship preservation. She will be based in Santa Rosa.
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Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.
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Crown Castle International, a Pennsylvania company providing shared communications infrastructure, has turned to Luke D. Wolf of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani to fend off a pending breach-of-contract lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 25 in Michigan Eastern District Court by Hooper Hathaway PC on behalf of The Town Residences LLC, accuses Crown Castle of failing to transfer approximately $30,000 in utility payments from T-Mobile in breach of a roof-top lease and assignment agreement. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Susan K. Declercq, is 2:24-cv-13131, The Town Residences LLC v. T-Mobile US, Inc. et al.
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