1. REPRESENTATIVE PARTNER PLACEMENTS
 Litigation partner Jack S. Yeh from the Los Angeles office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips
into the Los Angeles office of Sidley Austin;
 Litigation partner Julian Brew from the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer into the Los
Angeles office of Thompson Coburn;
 Corporate, Private Equity and Office Managing Partner Edward Schultz from the Los
Angeles office of Edwards Wildman into the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig;
 Corporate and securities partner Sander Zagsebski from the Los Angeles firm of Credo
Law Partners, Inc. into the Los Angeles firm of Eisner Jaffe Gorry Chapman & Ross;
 Health care litigation partner Gary Pancer from the Los Angeles office of Sedgwick into
the Los Angeles office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker;
 Labor and employment partner Dean Rocco from the Los Angeles office of Jackson
Lewis into the Los Angeles office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker;
 Health care partners Kevin Kroeker, Peter Roan and Scott Moore from the Los Angeles
office of Locke Lord into the Los Angeles office of Crowell & Moring;
 Tax partner Afshin Beyzaee from the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dun & Crutcher
(where he was an associate) into the Los Angeles office of Bingham McCutchen into the
Los Angeles office of Buchalter Nemer;
 Head of the capital markets practice, corporate and securities partner Mark Kelson from
the Los Angeles office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips into the Los Angeles office of
Greenberg Traurig;
 Labor and employment partner Howard Knee, counsel Michael Ludwig, associate
Colleen Carolan, associate Jim Newman and associate Mary Pierce from the Century
City labor and employment boutique Knee Ross & Silverman into the Century City office
of Blank Rome;
 Litigation partner Michael Cypers, counsel Kathleen Balderrama and associate Melanie
Henry from the Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown into the Los Angeles office of
Crowell & Moring;
 Corporate and tax partner Shazad Malik from the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld into TroyGould in Los Angeles;

2.  Bankruptcy partner Dan Slate from the Los Angeles office of Hughes Hubbard into the
Los Angeles office of Buchalter Nemer;
 Litigation partner Michael Pappas from the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein Nath &
Rosenthal into the Los Angeles office of Luce Forward;
 The acquisition of the law firm of Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford
& Levine by Crowell & Moring to form the new Los Angeles office of Crowell &
Moring;
 Corporate partner Ted Guth from Guth & Christensen into the Los Angeles office of
Manatt Phelps & Phillips;
 Employment and IP litigation partner Mark Romeo from the Orange County office of
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman into the Orange County office of Crowell & Moring;
 Litigation partner Laurence Berman and counsel Eric Levinrad from Berman Mausner &
Resser into the Century City office of McDermott Will & Emery;
 Litigation partners Jim Turken and Amy Robinfeld and three associates from the Los
Angeles office of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman and Steiner into the Century City office
of Dickstein Shapiro;
 Appellate partner Becky S. Walker from the Los Angeles United States Attorney’s Office
into the Los Angeles office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips;
 Corporate and intellectual property partner Brian Pass and associate Kevin Straw from
the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman into the Century City office of Sheppard
Mullin Richter & Hampton;
 Corporate partner Louis R. Dienes from the Los Angeles office of Alschuler Grossman
Stein & Kahan into the Los Angeles office of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro;
 Corporate partner Charles L. Crouch, III from the Los Angeles office of Perkins Coie
(where he served as the office’s Managing Partner) into the Los Angeles office of Burke
Williams & Sorensen;
 Litigation partner John Dwyer from the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw into the Los
Angeles office of Gordon & Reese;
 Securities litigation partner Anissa Seymour from the Los Angeles office of Latham &
Watkins into the Los Angeles office of Katten Muchin Rosenman;
 Corporate and private equity partner Ray LaSoya from the Los Angeles office of
Pillsbury Winthrop into the Los Angeles office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed;

3.  Corporate and securities partner Mark Kelson, corporate and intellectual property counsel
Scott Lochner and one associate from the West Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins
Leck Gamble & Mallory into the Los Angeles office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips;
 Corporate partners Jeff Berg and Ken Hoff, litigation partner Michael Matthias and tax
partner Stuart Singer from the West Los Angeles office of Luce Forward Hamilton &
Scripps into the Los Angeles office of Jenkins & Gilchrist;
 Tax and corporate name partners Brad Cohen and Michael Foster and one associate from
Cohen Primiani & Foster in Los Angeles into the Los Angeles office of Reish Luftman
Cohen & Reicher;
 The acquisition of the distinguished insurance coverage and appellate firm of Neumeyer
& Boyd in Los Angeles by Michelman & Robinson in Encino;
 Labor partner Mark Theodore and two associates from the Los Angeles office of Jackson
Lewis Schnitzer & Krupman into the Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose;
 Antitrust and general business litigation partner Eliot Diner from the Law Offices of Eliot
Diner in Los Angeles (formerly a partner with Ervin Cohen & Jessup and Mannatt Phelps
& Phillips), together with several associates, into the Santa Monica office of Van Etten
Suzimoto & Beckett;
 Litigation partner Peter Rosen from the Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown Rowe &
Maw into the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins;
 Litigation partner Melissa Force from the Los Angeles office of Carroll Burdick &
McDonough into the Los Angeles office of Stephan Oringher Richmond & Theodora;
 Real estate partner Linda Koffman from the Los Angeles office of Orrick Herrington &
Sutcliffe into the Santa Monica office of Bryan Cave;
 Litigation partner Mitchell Reinis from the Los Angeles office of Buchalter Nemer Fields
& Younger into the Los Angeles office of Silver & Freedman;
 Litigation partner Carole Handler from the Los Angeles office of O’Donnell & Shaeffer
into the Los Angeles office of Thelen Reid & Priest;
 Litigation partner Larry Steinberg from the Los Angeles office of Hall Dickler Kent
Friedman & Wood into the Santa Monica office of Gilchrist & Rutter;
 Corporate partner Marty Fern from the Los Angeles office of Luce Forward Hamilton &
Scripps into the Los Angeles office of Silver & Freedman;

4.  Litigation partner Vicki Freimann from the Los Angeles office of Leland Parachini
Steinberg Matzger & Melnick into the Los Angeles office of Carroll Burdick &
McDonough;
 Litigation partner Ram Cogan from the Los Angeles office of Lindahl Schnabel
Kardassakis & Beck into the Los Angeles office of Phillips Lerner & Lauzon;
 Intellectual property special counsel David J. Meyer from the Los Angeles office of
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton into the Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight;
 Litigation partner James Grant from the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & Emery
into the Los Angeles office of Stephan Oringher Richmond & Theodora;
 Real estate partner Douglas Workman from the Los Angeles office of Arter & Hadden
into the Los Angeles office of Stephan Oringher Richmond & Theodora;
 Corporate partner Ronald Husdon from the Los Angeles office of Kelley Drye & Warren
into the Orange County and Los Angeles offices of Pillsbury Winthrop;
 Real estate and name partner Kenneth Fields from the Los Angeles office of Woollacott
Jannol & Fields into the Los Angeles office of Silver & Freedman;
 Litigation partner Michael Baker from the Orange County office of Arter & Hadden into
the Orange County office of Burke Williams & Sorensen;
 Corporate and securities partner, and former Commissioner of Corporations of the State
of California, Keith Bishop from the Orange County office of Irell & Manella into the
Orange County office of Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger;
 Real estate litigation counsel Christine Scheuneman and one associate from Paul
Hastings into the Orange County office of Pillsbury Winthrop;
 Litigation of counsel Kim Dunne, Chief of the Public Corruption and Government Fraud
Section of the United States Attorney’s Office, into the Los Angeles office of Sidley &
Austin;
 Labor partner Alisa Chevalier and one associate from the Los Angeles office of Riordan
& McKinzie to start the Los Angeles office of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger;
 Litigation (and name) partners Frank Pond, Christine North and Edward Hugo, together
with six associates, from the San Francisco office of Pond North & Hugo to create the
Northern California office of Los Angeles-based Burke Williams & Sorensen;
 Entertainment and name partner Jill Cohen and corporate of counsel Benjamin Reder,
along with three associates, from the Los Angeles office of Fishman & Cohen into the
Los Angeles office of Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Seinfeld;

5.  Litigation partners Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pacheco from the United States Attorney’s
Office in Los Angeles into the Los Angeles office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips;
 Real estate partner Marc Benezra from the Los Angeles office of Stephan Oringher
Richmond & Theodora into the Beverly Hills firm of Weissmann Wolff Bergman
Coleman Grodin & Evall;
 Litigation and name partner Jerry Gumpel and one associate from the San Diego firm of
Clark & Gumpel into the San Diego office of Zevnik Horton Guibord McGovern &
Fognani; then, upon the demise of that firm, Jerry Gumpel and two associates into the
San Diego office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton;
 Corporate and securities partner Michael Sullivan from the San Francisco office of
Cooley Godward into the San Francisco office of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canaday
Falk & Rabkin;
 Corporate, technology and intellectual property partner Kevin DeBre from the Los
Angeles office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison into the Los Angeles office of Kelley
Drye & Warren;
 Litigation and name partner Dean Herman of Gabriel Herman & Peretz in Los Angeles
into the Encino firm of Michelman and Robinson;
 Corporate partner Lisa Hamilton Klein from the Los Angeles office of Troop Steuber
Pasich Reddick & Tobey into the Los Angeles office of Guth & Christopher;
 Intellectual property, litigation and name partner Philip Graves from the Los Angeles
firm of Thomas Walton & Graves into the Santa Monica office of Liner Yankelevitz
Sunshine & Regenstreif;
 Bankruptcy and name partner Ashleigh Danker from the Los Angeles firm of Weiss
Scolny Spees Danker & Kop into the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays
& Handler;
 Environmental partners Roger Carrick and David Sadwick from the Los Angeles office
of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft into the Los Angeles office of Preston Gates & Ellis;
 Litigation partner Warren Miller from the Los Angeles firm of Valensi Rose & Magaram
into the Los Angeles office of Fainsbert Mase & Snyder;
 Bankruptcy and litigation partner Steven Pollard from the Los Angeles office of Graham
& James into the Los Angeles office of Perkins Coie;

6.  Corporate and real estate partner Larry Jacobson from the Los Angeles firm of Saltzburg
Ray & Bergman and real estate partner Michael Bordy from the Los Angeles firm of
Factor Agay Bordy & Monitz to form Jacob White Diamond & Bordy in Los Angeles;
 Construction partner John Dwyer and three associates from the Los Angeles firm of
Bowman & Brooke into the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather &
Geraldson;
 Healthcare litigation partner John Petrullo and one associate from the Los Angeles office
of Preston Gates & Ellis into the Los Angeles office of Buchalter Nemer Fields &
Younger;
 Bankruptcy partner Jack Welch from the Los Angeles office of Adams Duque &
Hazeltine into the New York City office of Chadbourne & Parke;
 Litigation partner William Lancaster from the Los Angeles office of Andrews & Kurth
into the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather & Geraldson;
 Corporate (and name) partner Jonathan Karp from the Los Angeles firm of Karp &
Bergman into the Los Angeles office of Reish Luftman;
 Corporate and hi tech partner John Petrovich from the Los Angeles office of Morrison &
Foerster into the Los Angeles of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner;
 Bankruptcy and corporate partner Marv Heilson from the Los Angeles office of Buchalter
Nemer Fields & Younger into the Los Angeles office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan;
 Litigation partner Andrew Gelb from the Los Angeles firm of Hill & Weiss into the Los
Angeles office of Wolf Rifkin & Shapiro;
 Corporate of counsel Robert Goldstein from the Los Angeles firm of Gipson Hoffman &
Pancione into the Los Angeles firm of Weissburg & Aronson;
 Litigation partner Victor Savikas from the Los Angeles office of Keck Mahin & Cate into
the Los Angeles office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue;
 Litigation partner Dennis Walsh from the Los Angeles firm of McLaughlin & Irvin as
name partner into the Los Angeles firm of Liebman Reiner Nachison & Walsh;
 Real estate partner Phil Feder and three associates from the Los Angeles office of
Kadison Pfaelzer Rossi & Quinn into the Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings Janofsky &
Walker;
 Corporate partner Audre Engleman from the Los Angeles office of McKenna Conner &
Cuneo into the Los Angeles office of Rogers & Wells.