On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers
New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
July 09, 2020 at 09:58 PM
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Real estate lawyer Mitchell Poole joined Cozen O'Connor as a shareholder in the firm's Santa Monica office. He handles real estate joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, and workouts on behalf of investors. He previously served as partner in Sidley Austin's real estate practice.
Newmeyer & Dillion announced that it formally created a bankruptcy and restructuring practice within the firm. Partners Michael Krueger and James Ficenec will lead the practice, which will assist clients with a range of insolvency matters. Krueger and Ficenec are both based in Walnut Creek.
San Francisco-based Philip Albert left Davis Wright Tremaine to become a partner at Haynes and Boone. Albert, who's previous experience includes a stint as a design engineer in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will work in Haynes and Boone's intellectual property practice group. His patent prosecution experience includes technologies such as streaming, network protocols, network security, artificial intelligence, blockchain, animation and the Internet of Things.
Buchalter brought on former Greenberg Gross attorney Joshua M. Robbins to chair its white-collar and investigations practice. Robbins will split his time between the firm's Los Angeles and Orange County offices. Robbins lead Greenberg Gross' white-collar defense practice and largely focuses his practice on fraud, corruption and theft claims. He also previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
O'Melveny & Myers partner Rich Goetz was elected co-chair of the Pacific Council on International Policy board of directors, alongside Rob Lovelace, vice chairman and director of the Capital Group Cos. Goetz, who will continue to co-chair O'Melveny's litigation department in Los Angeles, is set to assume the role Jan. 1. He co-leads the Pacific Council's Guantanamo Bay task force and serves as a director of the council.
Paul Grewal left his position as Facebook's vice president and deputy counsel to take on the role of chief legal officer at San Francisco-based cryptocurrency platform Coinbase. Prior to joining Facebook, where he worked for about four years, Grewal served as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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Rebecca Maller-Stein and Kent A. Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer have entered their appearances for Hanaco Venture Capital and its executives, Lior Prosor and David Frankel, in a pending securities lawsuit. The action, filed on Dec. 24 in New York Southern District Court by Zell, Aron & Co. on behalf of Goldeneye Advisors, accuses the defendants of negligently and fraudulently managing the plaintiff's $1 million investment. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, is 1:24-cv-09918, Goldeneye Advisors, LLC v. Hanaco Venture Capital, Ltd. et al.
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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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Crown Castle International, a Pennsylvania company providing shared communications infrastructure, has turned to Luke D. Wolf of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani to fend off a pending breach-of-contract lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 25 in Michigan Eastern District Court by Hooper Hathaway PC on behalf of The Town Residences LLC, accuses Crown Castle of failing to transfer approximately $30,000 in utility payments from T-Mobile in breach of a roof-top lease and assignment agreement. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Susan K. Declercq, is 2:24-cv-13131, The Town Residences LLC v. T-Mobile US, Inc. et al.
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Wilfred P. Coronato and Daniel M. Schwartz of McCarter & English have stepped in as defense counsel to Electrolux Home Products Inc. in a pending product liability lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 26 in New York Eastern District Court by Poulos Lopiccolo PC and Nagel Rice LLP on behalf of David Stern, alleges that the defendant's refrigerators’ drawers and shelving repeatedly break and fall apart within months after purchase. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack, is 2:24-cv-08204, Stern v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
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