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New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
February 21, 2020 at 12:29 PM
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Matthew A. Richards, a San Francisco-based partner at Nixon Peabody, was appointed to serve as the firm's pro bono partner. In the new position, he will oversee the pro bono initiatives in all of the firm's offices. Richards works in Nixon Peabody's complex commercial disputes practice, and his pro bono practice is primarily focused on immigration law and LGBT civil rights.
San Francisco-based Lewis & Llewellyn brought on Brad Estes. Estes litigates business tort, breach of contract, fraud, trade secret and employment mobility disputes and represents victims of sexual abuse. He joins the firm after clerking for U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill of the Eastern District of California.
Sheppard Mullin promoted a class of 21 attorneys to partner, effective March 1. The firm's California promotions include Farha Chowdry in Palo Alto; Frances M.K. Hernandez and Jacqueline Gottlieb Luther in Orange County; Alexander L. Merritt, Keahn N. Morris, Brooke S. Purcell and Robert K. Sahyan in San Francisco; Alejandro Moreno and Mark G. Rackers in San Diego; Heather L. Plocky and Matthew A. Tobias in Los Angeles; and Dylan Price, Jay Ramsey and Golnaz Yazdchi in Century City.
Former Fidelity National Financial in-house counsel Jill Battilega Rowe is now a commercial litigation partner at Venable. She is based in the firm's San Francisco office, where she will assist clients with disputes related to commercial real estate and contract and fraud. While at Fidelity National Financial, she handled mergers and acquisitions, employment and general corporate matters.
Stacie Neroni and Hope Levy-Biehl left their positions as co-managing partner and partner, respectively, at Nelson Hardiman to join Davis Wright Tremaine. Neroni and Levy-Biehl join the firm as partners in the firm's health care industry team in Los Angeles. They have experience advising health care providers on regulatory issues related to mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and bankruptcies.
Litigation boutique Greenberg Gross promoted Matthew S. Ingles to partner. Ingles handles complex business litigation, arbitration and appeals and has worked on cases involving breach of contract, fraud, unfair competition, defamation, real estate, class action defense and intellectual property. He is based in Los Angeles.
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