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Weitz & Luxenberg Plants Flag in Los Angeles

joshua — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:37:09 +0000

Plaintiff’s litigation firm Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. has expanded its national presence with the opening of a new office in Los Angeles, California. In addition to the firm’s headquarters in New York City, Weitz & Luxenberg also maintains offices in Cherry Hill, NJ and Aspen, CO.

The Los Angeles office will be managed by Joseph C. Maher II, a litigator with more than 17 years of experience before the California courts at the state, federal and appellate levels. The Weitz & Luxenberg Los Angeles office will handle all varieties of legal matters on behalf of those who have been injured, both physically and financially.

“We are pleased that Joe Maher has chosen to join forces with Weitz & Luxenberg to provide the firm with a bi-coastal presence,” said Perry Weitz, firm Co-Founder and Senior Partner. “Joe’s significant experience litigating difficult cases on behalf of injured consumers and workers, especially in the asbestos litigation and defective product arenas, will add considerable depth and breadth to our firm’s national capabilities.”

Weitz & Luxenberg founded in 1986, is one of the leading plaintiffs’ litigation law firms in America. The firm has played leading roles in national and local litigations involving mesothelioma and asbestos-related lung cancer, as well as defective medicines and medical devices.

Drinker Biddle Jump Starts Los Angeles Office

joshua — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:40:19 +0000

Drinker Biddle first opened its doors in Los Angeles back in 2001 but the office never picked up steam and had dwindled down to one partner, two associates, and one of counsel. Now the firm is jump starting their LA presence with six new laterals, including four partners. George Caplan, Henry Shields, Kristopher Davis and Paul Gelb have moved from Epstein Becker & Green. Caplan, Shields and Davis have joined as partners, and Gelb comes aboard of counsel. Also moving to Drinker Biddle are Kate Gold, who joins as partner after being of counsel for Kaye Scholer, and Pamela Graham, an associate who is moving from Irell & Manella.

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP was founded in Philadelphia in 1849. The firm has more than 650 attorneys in 12 offices in the US. Its largest offices are in Philadelphia, Chicago, Florham Park, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.

Blank Rome Opens Los Angeles Office

Erik Even — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:29:23 +0000

Blank Rome LLP today announced the Firm will open an office in Los Angeles, California with five new partners, Lawrence C. Hinkle, Andrew F. Kim, Warren A. Koshofer, Glen A. Rothstein and William S. Small.

In addition to complementing the Firm’s corporate and commercial litigation, dispute resolution, product liability, toxic tort defense, environmental, insurance coverage, real estate, and labor and employment practices, Blank Rome hopes to use the Los Angeles office to expand their presence in entertainment law and new media.

“California is one of the most dynamic markets in the country. Our Los Angeles office will provide the initial launch for our West Coast growth strategy, as well as natural synergy with our growing office in Hong Kong, as we continue to build our national and international platform,” noted Carl M. Buchholz, Managing Partner and CEO. “Blank Rome is already serving more than 200 clients with a California presence, and we are pleased to welcome this team of exceptional lawyers to Blank Rome. Their reputations and experience will add to the depth and breadth of our well-established national litigation and real estate practices, providing additional value and service to our clients across the Firm.”

McKenna Long Adds 17 Attorneys to LA Office

Erik Even — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:24:18 +0000

McKenna Long & Aldridge has added 17 real estate and litigation attorneys to its Los Angeles office.

The laterals came from the Los Angeles firm of Brown Winfield Canzoneri Abram, which closed its doors this week.

McKenna Long Chairman Jeff Haidet said that the two firms are not merging, but most of the Brown Winfield attorneys are moving over.

Eleven of the laterals will become part of McKenna Long’s real estate practice, which now has a national headcount of 65 attorneys. Steven Abram, James Camp, Tony Canzoneri, Gordon Eng, Wendy Glenn, Geoff Mitchell, Bill Pham, Dennis Roy and Mark Steres are all joining the real estate practice as partners. Ken Brown is joining the practice as senior counsel, and Donald Ries comes aboard as of counsel.

McKenna Long’s litigation practice also will get boost from the lateral group. Wayne Grejewski, Michael Wallenstein and Thomas Winfield III are joining McKenna Long as partners, while Adrian Guerra, Diana Vernazza and Aimee Wong are joining as associates.

Atlanta-based McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP was ranked the 100th largest law firm in the country by the National Law Journal in 2007. The firm also ranked 141st in profit per attorney on the 2007 AmLaw 200 survey.

McKenna Long is known for its political connections and its pioneering work in the area of government contracting.

Dreier Stein Lawyers to Found New Snell & Wilmer Office

Erik Even — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:18:42 +0000

At least eight lawyers from Dreier, Stein, Kahan, Browne, Woods, George are joining Phoenix, Arizona’s Snell & Wilmer, to open the latter firm’s first Los Angeles office.

The group consists of partners Marshall Horowitz, Susan Grueneberg, Jason S. Kim and Henry S. David, so far. Four associates from Dreier Stein will also join the new office on February 1st.

The Los Angeles office is looking for new business lawyers, litigators and intellectual property attorneys.

The move is the latest involving Dreier Stein, the Santa Monica-based affiliate of Dreier LLP, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month after its founder, Marc Dreier, was charged with investment fraud.

Last week, a group of entertainment litigators joined Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi’s Los Angeles office; while name partner Larry Stein, along with a few other partners and associates, jumped to what is now Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor.

Another name partner, Bob Kahan, left with up to eight lawyers for what is now Eisner, Frank & Kahan.

Snell & Wilmer was founded in 1938 by Frank Snell Jr. and Mark Wilmer. The firm is the largest in the state of Arizona and the 99th largest in the US by number of lawyers, according to the National Law Journal’s 2007 statistics.

Seyfarth Shaw Brings on Los Angeles IP Team

Erik Even — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:10:03 +0000

Chicago’s Seyfarth Shaw has added a team of three patent litigation attorneys to the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Prior to joining Seyfarth, Breton A. Bocchieri was a partner and co-chair of the IP Practice Litigation Group at Thelen LLP. Brien B. Kirk and Nguyen Huu Nguyen, former associates at Thelen, also join Bocchieri at the firm.

Among numerous legal victories, Bocchieri won the largest award to date in a cyber-piracy case: $117 million (Qwest Communications Int’l v. One Quest). He earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers College and his JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Bocchieri has served in leadership roles for the California State Bar, including as a member of the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Section and editor of its IP Law Journal; he now serves as an advisory editor. Bocchieri was admitted to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office while attending law school.

Seyfarth Shaw employs over 750 attorneys located in nine offices throughout the United States including Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, as well as Brussels, Belgium.

Mayer Brown Focuses on Los Angeles Office; Plans to Hire 100

Erik Even — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:17:44 +0000

Global law firm Mayer Brown is taking action to shore up its Los Angeles office, which saw the departure of four partners this month, by appointing an executive committee to lead the office, and sending the current managing partner packing back to the Chicago office.

The law firm is appointing a five-member committee, led by partner Mickey Kantor, a former US Commerce Secretary, to “provide management oversight” for the office. The firm will assign a new LA managing partner soon.

Mayer Brown, which has seen the defection of 15 partners since August, opened the Los Angeles office in 1985. Currently the office has 62 attorneys, and is slated to hire as many as 100 more over the next two years.

James Tancula, the partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office since 2005, will move in late March back to Chicago to resume his litigation practice. Kantor said it would be “not fair” to view the changes as a negative commentary on Tancula’s performance. Anyone who has lived in both LA and Chicago might disagree.

Kantor, 69, will continue to shuttle between the firm’s Washington and Los Angeles offices, as he has since joining the firm 12 years ago. The other four members of the office’s executive committee, partners Robert M. Hertzberg, Neil Soltman, Philip R. Recht and Marc Harris, have been based in Los Angeles

Cox Castle Fires 10 in Los Angeles [Breaking]

Erik Even — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:04:13 +0000

According to a JDJournal insider, Cox Castle & Nicholson just let go ten attorneys from their LA office this afternoon.

If you have any additional information, please let us know here or in the comments. We’ll update this post as we get info.

Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP is a real estate law firm with more than 125 attorneys in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco.