Ogletree Deakins Deepens Wage and Hour Litigation Team, Adds Two Shareholders to Firm’s Southern California Offices

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Paloma Peracchio and Mitch Wrosch, formerly partners at Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP., join the firm as shareholders in its Los Angeles and Orange County offices, respectively. Peracchio and Wrosch focus their practices almost exclusively on private sector wage and hour class and representative actions. The two join more than 125 California-based lawyers across Ogletree Deakins’ six offices in the state who represent management in labor and employment law matters.

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Prominent Mergers and Acquisitions Partners Join Simpson Thacher in Los Angeles

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP today announced that Gregory B. Klein and Michael W. Kaplan have joined its Mergers and Acquisitions Practice as Partners in Los Angeles. Greg and Mike join Simpson Thacher from Irell & Manella, where they were both Partners and where Greg served as co-chair of the firm’s Transactions Practice and a member of the Executive Committee.

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Leading Corporate and Renewable Energy Partner Joins Sheppard Mullin in Century City

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Elliot Hinds has joined the firm’s Century City office as a partner in the Corporate practice and as a member of the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance team. Hinds has more than 24 years of experience in private practice with industry-leading law firms and was most recently a partner at Crowell Moring. He is the second partner to join Sheppard Mullin in Century City this month.

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Fisher Phillips Adds Employment Litigation Trio to Rapidly Growing California Team

Friday, October 11, 2019

Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, is pleased to announce the addition of three employment litigators in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Nicole Golob Minkow and Nicole Kamm join the firm’s California Litigation Practice as partners and Hannah Sweiss joins as an associate. Prior to joining the firm, Kamm and Sweiss both practiced at Lewitt Hackman. Minkow comes to Fisher Phillips after seven years with Pearlman, Brown & Wax, LLP in Encino. More >>

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