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• The placement of corporate and emerging company practice partners Michael Kagnoff, Martin Nichols, Jeffrey Thacker and Ross Burningham with DLA in San Diego. All were formerly partners with Heller Ehrman in San Diego. Prior to joining DLA and upon Brobeck’s dissolution in 2003, Watanabe Nason represented the group in joining Heller Ehrman.
  
  
• The placement of corporate partners Eric A. Klein and John Molloy with Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles. Klein most recently practiced as a leader of Katten Muchin Rosenman's West Coast Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities practices. Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, Watanabe Nason represented Klein and Molloy in their move from Shaw Pittman to Katten Muchin.
  
  
• The opening of the Century City office of Steptoe & Johnson with litigation partners from Alschuler Grossman Stein and Kahan in Los Angeles - including Mark Neubauer, Katessa Charles Davis, Rebecca Edelson, Meredith Moss and Michael Heimbold. An intellectual property group of four lawyers headed by patent lawyer Robert Kovelman. Kovelman, formerly a partner and chair of the Intellectual Property Department in the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner joined Steptoe along with of counsel Brooke Quist and associates vanessa Owen and Andrew Chen. Litigation partner Seong Hwan Kim, formerly a partner at Christensen Glaser in Los Angeles. All of the lawyers who joined Steptoe were placed by Watanabe & Nason, LLC;
  
  
• The opening of Mintz Levin’s San Diego office with 5 partners and 6 associates from Fish & Richardson. Joining the firm are partners Eddie Rodriguez, the Head of the Corporate and Securities Group; Craig Hunsaker, the Managing Partner of Fish and Richardson’s San Diego office; Lance Kurata; James Cleary; Carl Kukkonen, and Of Counsel Jeremy Hayden. Also joining Mintz Levin’s San Diego office from Fish & Richardson is Marketing Director David Salisbury. Watanabe & Nason serves as strategic consultants to Mintz Levin in their California expansion efforts;
  
  
• The opening of McGuireWoods office in Los Angeles with the merger of Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket. McGuireWoods has 750 lawyers in 13 domestic offices and two international offices. Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket was founded in 1996 by former partners of Pillsbury Winthrop (formerly known for real estate transactions, labor and employment, and complex business litigation). All 16 of Van Etten's partners will join McGuireWoods as partners with the firm;
  
  
• DLA’s acquisition of Bruce W. Jenett as a partner in its East Palo Alto office. Jennet will co chair DLA’s Global Life Sciences sector. Jenett, who for seven years was Co-Chair of Heller Ehrman’s life sciences practice, focuses on the representation of domestic and international business and finance clients in the life sciences industry. He is highly experienced in equity and debt financing, licensing and distribution, strategic alliances, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, representing both start-ups and large multinational corporations as well as venture capital and corporate investors in the sector.
  
  
• Placement of prominent securities litigator Bruce Vanyo with Katten Muchin Roseman, LLP in Los Angeles. Vanyo will join Katten Muchin Rosenman as Partner and Co-Chair of the Securities Litigation Practice. He will also join the Firm's Board of Directors. Mr. Vanyo has practiced exclusively in the area of securities litigation for more than 30 years and has defended more than 200 major securities cases. A winning litigator, in the past five years he has secured complete victories in 21 cases, including seven appellate victories in five different federal courts of appeal. As a leading figure in the practice and development of securities law, Mr. Vanyo was asked by Congress to draft the pleading and safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Mr. Vanyo's practice includes defense of securities actions, defense of derivative litigation, representation before the SEC, and representation of board committees in conducting internal investigations. He also provides counseling in corporate governance matters. His practice is national, with clients spanning several industries, with a special emphasis on technology companies, but also including those in the life sciences, airline, motion picture, banking, and insurance sectors. His clients have included Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Dell Computer Corporation, The Boeing Company, Fluor Corporation, America West Airlines (now US Airways Group, Inc.), Amdocs Limited, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Genentech, Inc. Prior to joining Katten Muchin Rosenman, Mr. Vanyo was a Partner and previously Co-Chairman of the Securities Litigation Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in their Palo Alto office;
  
  
• Morrison & Foerster’s acquisition of Karen Kubin, one of California’s leading wage-and-hour class action and employment litigators in their San Francisco office. Kubin defends employers in class actions and other complex employment litigation involving alleged violations of wage-and-hour law, discrimination and harassment, trade secret theft, ERISA violations, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other whistleblower laws. She joins the firm from Akin Gump, where she was a partner in the San Francisco office.
  
  
• The placement of prominent labor & employment group headed by Phyliss Kupferstein with McDermott, Will & Emery in Los Angeles. The move of Phyllis Kupferstein, Jon Dean and G. Jill Basinger with McDermott, Will & Emery will enhance McDermott, Will & Emery’s national and international labor & employment practice. Kupferstein, formerly the national director of employment litigation and counseling at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, will serve as West Coast head of the labor and employment practice at McDermott, Will & Emery. The move ends her 20-year affiliation with Quinn Emanuel. G. Jill Basinger and Jon Dean will be joining McDermott, Will & Emery as partners;
  
  
• Predominately litigation driven 50-attorney firm Stephan, Oringher, Richman, Theodora joined forces with 15-attorney corporate boutique Miller & Holguin. Headquartered in Century City, the new firm boasts in excess of 60 attorneys between Los Angeles and its Costa Mesa office. The firm now known as Stephan, Oringher, Richman, Theodora & Miller will have particular expertise in serving healthcare clientele with SORT's significant healthcare litigation practice complimenting Miller & Holguin's extensive healthcare regulatory and transactional practice;
  
  
• The placement of Steve Swinton and attorneys Alex Long and Adam Welland with Latham & Watkins in San Diego. Swinton was formerly the Firmwide Chair of Cooley Godward's Intellectual Property practice. His practice involves hotly-contested patent infringement, trade regulation and other intellectual property litigation matters. Swinton has also distinguished himself as a business litigator with extensive trial experience having represented clients and tried to decision a wide range of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters. He has been listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" since 1993;