Knox Ricksen, a civil litigation firm specializing in complex health care fraud cases, has added Mark Heisey as a senior associate in its Walnut Creek office. He joins the firm from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani's San Francisco office. With nearly a decade of experience, Heisey has managed cases in a variety of industries through all stages of litigation, including responding to discovery, analyzing liability and damages, negotiating settlement of claims and trial advocacy.

Barnes & Thornburg announced that Brian L. Schall has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner in the entertainment, media and sports practice group. He joins from Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin. He has advised and guided the careers of various multi-platinum musicians, songwriters, electronic artists, social content creators, music publishers, record companies, management companies, music industry executives and record producers in connection with their various legal needs. He counsels clients on virtually all aspects of the music industry, including, negotiating and drafting recording agreements; producing agreements; distribution agreements; endorsement agreements; catalogue sales agreements; music licensing agreements; merchandising agreements; touring agreements; worldwide residency agreements; management agreements; and executive employment agreements.