Thomas Whitelaw has added Jeffrey Commisso as a partner. Commisso, who was previously with Schiff Hardin, focuses on business litigation, including matters involving unfair competition, class actions, trade secret misappropriation, antitrust and securities violations. He earned his J.D. from University of San Francisco School of Law in 1997.

Beth Pennington and Lisa Lawson have founded real estate and employment law firm Pennington Lawson . Pennington and Lawson were most recently at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Pennington is a 1992 graduate of Boston University School of Law and Lawson graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1993.