On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers
New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
August 16, 2019 at 06:06 PM
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Oswald B. Cousins, formerly an attorney with The Miller Law Group, moved to Morrison & Foerster‘s Palo Alto office. He now serves as of counsel in the firm’s employment and labor group. He focuses his practice on high-stakes litigation and counseling in matters including discrimination, harassment, disability accommodation, wage and hour, whistleblower and retaliation, commission agreements, executive contracts, employee mobility and trade secrets.
Blank Rome added associate Scott T. Reigle to its consumer financial services group. Reigle previously worked at Anglin Flewelling Rasmussen Campbell & Trytten. He litigates consumer finance matters and advises clients on regulatory compliance, general business strategy and formulation and implementation of policies and procedures. Reigle is based in Los Angeles.
Wendel Rosen announced that Robert W. Selna, an attorney in the firm’s Oakland office, was promoted to partner. Selna practices in Wendel Rosen’s cannabis industry group, where he focuses on local and state regulations, real estate transactions, tax issues and litigation.
In Los Angeles, private dispute resolution services provider Judicate West added former Girardi Keese lawyer Amy Fisch Solomon as a neutral. Solomon has experience as a trial attorney representing clients in professional negligence, products liability and personal injury cases.
Fisher & Phillips brought on Christopher Jevsevar as an associate in its San Diego office. He joins the firm from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and represents employers in wage-and-hour class and Private Attorneys General Act actions.
The San Francisco office of Wilson Elser added Peter Catalanotti to its ranks. He joins as partner after leaving Freeman Mathis & Gary. He represents clients such as real estate brokers, lawyers, appraisers, accountants, engineers, architects and insurance brokers in professional liability insurance defense matters and employment law matters.
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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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