On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers
New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
November 08, 2019 at 03:01 PM
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Otis McGee, former chief assistant city attorney and head of the litigation division for the Oakland City Attorney's Office, joined the panel of JAMS's San Francisco Resolution center. He will act as an arbitrator, mediator, special master/referee and neutral evaluator in employment, government/public agency, business/commercial, personal injury/torts, civil rights and construction disputes.
The Palo Alto office of Baker Botts grew with the addition of trial, technology and commercial litigator Cheryl Cauley. Cauley joins the firm from boutique firm Taylor & Patchen. Her litigation practice primarily involves complex commercial litigation and intellectual property issues.
Carlton Fields brought on Scott L. Menger as an associate in its national trial practice business litigation section. Menger represents clients in commercial litigation disputes involving breach of contract, conversion, fraud, unfair business practices, civil rights violations and medical malpractice. He is based in Los Angeles.
Two attorneys left Arent Fox for Reed Smith, with Sarah Bruno joining as a partner and Casey Perrino joining as an associate. Bruno will be a part of Reed Smith's intellectual property, tech and data group. In her former position, she led Arent Fox's privacy, cybersecurity and data protection group and also practiced in the advertising and promotions and IP groups. Perrino focuses her practice on data privacy and security counseling and has in-house experience serving as privacy counsel for LinkedIn. Both attorneys will work out of the firm's San Francisco office.
Longtime Hogan Lovells partner Yarmela Pavlovic joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' digital and technology group in San Francisco. She advises companies in medical device, digital therapeutics, diagnostics and life sciences fields on FDA oversight and focuses her practice on premarket review, FDA jurisdictional and postmarket compliance issues, advertising and promotion compliance, clinical trial guidance and advisory panel preparation.
Adam Stock left his position as chief information officer at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis to take on the role of vice president of product strategy at Foundation Software Group, a law firm intelligence platform developer. Stock has experience with law firm technology and is a founder of the Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry Alliance. He is based in San Francisco.
Boies Schiller Flexner left its Oakland location for a new Northern California location in San Francisco. Partners Quyen Ta and Kathleen Hartnett co-lead the new office.
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