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New hires from across the California legal market.
August 02, 2019 at 03:00 PM
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Duane Morris added Tracy A. Gallegos as partner in its corporate practice group. She will be working out of both the firm’s Las Vegas and San Francisco offices. Gallegos joins from Fox Rothschild and focuses her practice on corporate, real estate and cannabis law.
Former BSH Home Appliances Corp. vice president, general counsel and secretary Jason Weintraub was hired to be chief legal officer at El Pollo Loco. He is set to begin in his new role at the Costa Mesa-based company Aug. 29. Weintraub has had several in-house roles since 2005, including as senior director of business and legal affairs at Taco Bell.
Three attorneys joined Farella Braun + Martel‘s technology industry group in San Francisco. Raymond H. Sheen, who focuses his practice on insurance recovery disputes, was brought on as a partner. Sushila Chanana, who handles intellectual property and business litigation, will serve as special counsel, as will Mary H. Fong, who focuses on California employment laws. Sheen joins from Hanson Bridgett, Chanana joins from Bunsow De Mory, and Fong joins from The Mitzel Group.
Saxena White, which represents institutional investors in complex securities litigation, is opening its first California office in San Diego. Joining in the new office as a director is former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann attorney David Kaplan. In addition to Kaplan, Brandon Marsh is also joining the firm from Berstein Litowitz. Kaplan focuses his practice on investor litigation, and Marsh focuses on securities ligation.
Anna Pletcher is starting a new role as partner at O’Melveny & Myers after serving as assistant chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division for over a decade. She will advise clients on antitrust matters and white-collar and corporate investigations from O’Melveny’s San Francisco office.
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