Three Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell attorneys were promoted to partner—Patricia DeSantis Belton and Neill Brower in Los Angeles and Joe Mellema in Orange County. Belton works in the firm's labor and employment department and handles management-side labor and employment matters. Brower is in the firm's government, land use, environment and energy department, where he focuses on issues such as permitting and regulatory compliance. Mellema practices in the firm's litigation department and assists clients with intellectual property rights matters.

Bart Flood and Lisa Lenherr, attorneys with Wendel Rosen, were promoted to partnership within the firm. Flood focuses his practice on estate and wealth transfer planning, and Lenherr focuses her practice on business insolvency and restructuring issues. Both attorneys are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld promoted associates Kara J. Janssen and Jenny S. Yelin to senior counsel. Janssen assists clients in complex litigation and pre-litigation matters, primarily in areas related to class action litigation, constitutional and civil rights law, and disability rights. Yelin handles complex civil litigation in state and federal courts related to individual and class action employment law and constitutional and civil rights class actions.

Six of Clark Hill's recent promotions are based in California. Alison P. Hitz, now a member in the firm's immigration practice, and Matthew Brand, now a senior associate in litigation, are based in San Francisco. David Taran, a member in the real estate practice; Autumn Moore, a labor and employment senior associate; and Armineh Yousefian, a litigation senior associate, are based in Los Angeles. Erin Hanson is now a litigation senior associate and is based in San Diego.

Irvine-based Dhruv M. Sharma is among McGlinchey Stafford's 2020 partner promotions. He works in the firm's commercial litigation section and primarily litigates consumer financial services cases on behalf of banks and financial institutions. He also has experience with bankruptcy and immigration matters.

Real estate-focused law firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson promoted Daniel M. Engler, Linda C. Klein, Cathy T. Moses and Jake Storms to partner. Engler, Klein and Storms work in the firm's San Francisco office, and Moses works in the firm's Orange County office.

One of Dykema Gossett's nine lawyers promoted to membership is Gregory K. Jones, a Los Angeles-based attorney in the firm's bankruptcy and restructuring practice group. Jones represents lenders, creditors' committees, debtors, assignees for the benefit of creditors, purchasers of assets in bankruptcy cases, lessors and defendants in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings and preference and fraudulent transfer lawsuits.

Sanford Heisler Sharp made several promotions in California, including Felicia Gilbert, who was named partner and San Francisco managing partner. Gilbert represents clients in cases involving race, gender and pregnancy discrimination. Also in the firm's San Francisco office, Ella Zheng was named chair of the firm's Asian American litigation and finance practice, and John McKnight was named co-chair of the whistleblower and qui tam practice.

Hilary Weddell, an attorney with McManis Faulkner in San Jose, is now a partner with the firm. Weddel focuses her practice on employment law and litigation, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, employee misconduct and theft of trade secrets.

Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger's Daphne P. Bishop, Corey J. Cabral, M. Leah Cameron and Nicole Legrottaglie Wohl were promoted to partner, and Denisha P. McKenzie was promoted to senior counsel. Bishop is based in Los Angeles, Cabral and Legrottaglie Wohl are based in Sacramento, Cameron is based in San Francisco, and McKenzie is based in Orange County.

Three of Alston & Bird's 17 2020 newly elected partners are based in the firm's Los Angeles office. Hidetada James Abe is in the intellectual property litigation group, Kimberly K. Chemerinsky is in the litigation and trial practice group, and Matthew Wickersham is in the environment, land use and natural resources group.