Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson brought on Emmanuelle Soichet as of counsel. She will work in the firm's municipal and special district law practice group in Oakland and has experience with government service to the municipalities, special districts and public agencies. Before joining the firm, she served as deputy city attorney for the City Attorney's Office of the city of Berkeley.

Litigator Alexis Coll-Very left Simpson Thacher & Bartlett for Goodwin Procter's Silicon Valley office. Working as a partner at Goodwin, Coll-Very represents technology and private equity industry clients in securities and commercial litigation as well as internal investigations.

Orinda-based Hartog, Baer & Hand added Ryan V. McHugh as an associate in its trusts and estates litigation group. He previously worked at Peterson, Martin & Reynolds and also served as deputy district attorney for Alameda County.

Julie M. Philips, an entertainment lawyer with experience handling business affairs and legal matters for theatrical, television and new media productions, joined Beverly Hills-based Donaldson + Callif as partner. She previously worked as a solo practitioner with a clientele that includes Netflix and Hasbro.

Former Duane Morris litigator Heather Zacharia moved to litigation finance firm Legalist, where she will serve as general counsel. Zacharia has experience litigating employment, insurance and products liability disputes. She is based in San Francisco.

Two new associates, Lyle Chan and Kari Gibson, joined Fisher & Phillips' Irving office. Chan handles matters related to wage-and-hour disputes, discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination, and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and joins from Wolfe & Wyman. Gibson focuses her practice on employment litigation and general employment and compliance issues and joins from the Public Law Center.

The Los Angeles office of Blank Rome grew with the addition of associate Neeru Jindal. Jindal focuses her practice on complex business litigation and joins the firm's corporate litigation group. Prior to the move, she was a senior litigation associate at Yu Mohandesi.