John Gregory Yslas joined Wilshire Law Firm as senior partner in Los Angeles.

With over 25 years of experience since graduating from UCLA Law School in 1996, John has litigated countless wage and hour class actions as well as single and multi-party matters. He previously has been a partner at Foley & Lardner, Norton Rose Fulbright and Seyfarth Shaw.

He currently serves as the Southern California Regional President with the Hispanic National Bar Association and on the Mexican American Bar Foundation Board of Directors. Previously he has served as the National Chair of the Communications Committee with HNBA, on the Board of Directors with the California Minority Counsel Program, as well as a commissioner with the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission and the Los Angeles Convention Center Commission (where he was appointed by two mayors).

Andrew D. Thorpe as partner in San Francisco

Thorpe advises management teams and boards of directors on securities regulation, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and key corporate governance matters. In addition to extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters -- including in over 40 initial public offerings to date -- he served for six years at the Securities and Exchange Commission. While at the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance and in the Office of Rulemaking, Thorpe reviewed and commented on numerous public companies' SEC filings and played a significant role in drafting several landmark regulations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Heather D. Bennett joined Barton LLP as partner in Los Angeles and Nashville.

Bennett's practice focuses on intellectual property matters including copyright, trademark, trade secret, and right of publicity from creation and acquisition to licensing and litigation. With over a decade of experience in entertainment, art, media, and technology in the U.S. and abroad, Heather's client relationships go beyond negotiating deals and handling judicial matters.

Colin M. Kawaguchi was promoted to shareholder of Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth, & Wynner, PC in Westlake Village.

Kawaguchi counsels emerging and established companies in the areas of corporate governance, mergers, acquisitions, financings, and general business matters. Colin has experience in various industry sectors including biotech, financial services, information technology, hospitality, and insurance.

John R. Bamford was promoted to shareholder of Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth, & Wynner, PC in Westlake Village.

Bamford has successfully defended numerous complex business litigation cases, including obtaining a compl;ete defense verdict for a financial advisor alleged to have mismanaged client accounts in 2019.

Laurie D. Zelon joined Judicate West as neutral in Santa Ana.

Zelon will be based in the Orange County office and available as a private judge statewide focusing on arbitration, special master, private judging, neutral analysis and appellate matters. Zelon served as a justice on the 2nd District Court of Appeal from 2003 to 2020, and she is widely recognized for her work expanding and improving access to justice for low-income citizens.

Christopher Dacus joined Glaser Weil LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Dacus handles all aspects of complex commercial litigation and manages cases from inception through judgment. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, entertainment litigation, and white collar defense.

Cheryl Sabnis joined Vedder Price as shareholder in San Francisco.

Sabnis joined the firm's Labor and Employment practice area. She has long represented businesses and other organizations in high-stakes employment litigation, including complex wage and hour class actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims and matters involving sensitive topics, such as gender, race and disability discrimination, harassment and retaliatory discharge.

David E. Parsly joined Blank Rome as partner in Los Angeles.

Parsly advises clients on a full range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, emerging growth and venture capital financings, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and corporate governance.

Russell L. Hom joined Judicate West in Sacramento.

Hom is available as a mediator, arbitrator and private judge for matters statewide. He has more than 40 years of combined legal experience, headlined by serving on the Sacramento County Superior Court for the past 20 years. During his tenure on the bench, Hom presided over a wide range of civil matters, including real property, premises liability, employment discrimination, workplace harassment, wrongful termination, personal injury, elder abuse, wage and hour, contract disputes and medical malpractice.

Jonathan Braunstein joined Dentons as partner in Oakland.

Braunstein is a member of Dentons' Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He advises clients in the health care, insurance, employee benefits, financial services, technology, real estate, retail, construction and defense industries.

Jeffrey Wilcox joined Meyers Nave as of counsel in Oakland.

Wilcox advises public agencies, public utilities, transportation authorities and other municipal and state authorities in all phases of the condemnation process, from the pre-acquisition planning phase of eminent domain proceedings through trial and appeal.

Brenda Aguilar-Guerrero joined Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP as partner in Oakland.

Aguilar-Guerrero represents public entities on complex eminent domain and inverse condemnation matters. She represents clients with large, complex multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects requiring hundreds of acquisitions, as well as smaller scale projects throughout the state for a variety of clients.

Melissa Mills joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as partner in Los Angeles.

Mills is a litigation partner where she is a member of the firm's national team of trial lawyers known for its success in litigating innovative disputes in technology, intellectual property, and other areas.

Shannon Eagan was promoted to managing partner of Cooley LLP in Palo Alto.

Eagan represents corporations and individuals in complex disputes and litigation, internal corporate investigations and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and actions.

Michael D. Klaus joined Milbank LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Klaus focuses his practice on the financing and sale of renewable energy projects. He has significant experience with every aspect of the acquisition, development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects across a range of technologies, including solar, wind and battery storage projects..

Kelly Hunsaker was promoted to managing partner of Winston & Strawn LLP in Silicon Valley.

Hunsaker leads patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies and industries, especially in high-tech fields involving computer software and hardware, consumer electronics, and Internet applications and technologies.

Ashley N. Kim joined Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. as associate in San Francisco.

Kim's practice includes professional liability, employment law, medical malpractice, and construction defect cases.

Elizabeth C. Sluder joined Norton Rose Fulbright LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Sluder focuses on project finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate matters. She represents clients in renewable energy transactions, including construction and term debt financings, tax equity investments and negotiating supply agreements, construction contracts and offtake arrangements. She also represents lenders and borrowers in secured lending as well as private banking and mezzanine and junior capital financing.

Hons Yung joined Farella Braun + Martel LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Yung counsels high-net-worth individuals, families, and closely held businesses with respect to tax, estate, and succession planning - crafting bespoke strategies that minimize income, estate, gift, and property taxes. He also works with fiduciaries and beneficiaries in probate and trust administration, assisting with federal gift and estate taxes returns, and representing clients in tax disputes with state and local taxing agencies and the IRS.

Jane Ross was promoted to managing partner of Hogan Lovells LLP in Silicon Valley.

Ross represents buyers and sellers of public and private companies across many industries, with a focus on the technology and life sciences sectors. Her practice includes domestic and cross-border M&A and complex joint venture transactions.

Ori S. Blumenfeld joined Levinson Arshonsky & Kurtz, LLP as senior counsel in Sherman Oakes.

Blumenfeld focuses his practice in all areas of complex bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate restructuring, distressed assets, acquisition and disposition, and related litigation matters.

Kristine Waggener was promoted to partner of Farella Braun + Martel LLP in San Francisco.

Waggener works with high-net-worth individuals and multi-generational families to minimize income, estate, gift, and California property taxes while focusing on each client's priorities. She represents families owning substantial interests in closely held and publicly traded corporations and she advises on how to hold wealth in family partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations.

Elisha Harp joined Hahn Loeser & Parks as associate in San Diego.

Harp joined the firm's Trusts and Estates Practice practice. She will focus on wealth transfer planning, business succession planning, trust administration, and probate. Harp represents individuals and families in devising and implementing sophisticated estate planning and tax minimization strategies. She also represents business owners in connection with business formation and succession planning which frequently includes advising on buy-sell agreements and assisting clients plan for the transfer of the business to the next generation.

Harp graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2006 and received an LL.M. in Taxation from University of San Diego School of Law in 2010.

"Elisha brings skills and experience that will immediately provide value to our team and clients," remarked Danielle C. Humphries, chair of the San Diego Trusts and Estates practice group. "Her tax background, combined with her estate planning and trust administration experience, make her an asset to our high net worth clients. Elisha's tax background positions her to deal with a wide array of tax issues that arise in wealth transfer and business succession planning, including income tax, gift and estate tax, and property tax."

Christopher R. Moore joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as partner in Palo Alto and San Francisco.

Moore's practice focuses on public and private company merger and acquisition transactions and activist defense. He has significant experience in both cross-border and domestic transactions, as well as carve-outs and LBOs. He also advises companies and their boards of directors on takeover defense and governance matters. He has advised a broad range of public and private clients across many industries, with a focus on the technology and life sciences sectors.

David Pendergast joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Santa Monica.

Pendergast handles venture capital financings, M&A transactions, IPO and deSPAC transactions and various general day-to-day corporate matters for his clients. In addition, he routinely advises Board of Directors on corporate governance matters. He has particular experience with companies in the industrial, technology and aerospace, and space and defense sectors.

Chris Shoff joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Santa Monica.

Shoff's practice primarily focuses on serving as a strategic advisor to start-up and growth stage companies and to founders, operators and investors throughout the business life cycle, from formation to exit. He also advises venture capital funds, private equity firms, and strategic acquirers on their transactions.

David Ajalat joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Santa Monica.

Ajalat's practice focuses on representing emerging companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital and private equity funds in a broad range of industries, including software, digital media and entertainment, sports, mobile, consumer Internet, e-commerce, virtual reality, gaming, cleantech and fintech.

Ari S Friedman joined Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC as shareholder in Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC, Los Angeles.

Friedman's practice will focus on aviation accidents, aviation product liability, helicopter crash litigation, california wildfires, catastrophic injury, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injury, complex and multidistrict litigation, mass disaster litigation, personal injury law, product liability law, truck accidents, and wrongful death law.

Stephanie B. Sherman joined Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC as shareholder in Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC, Los Angeles.

Sherman's practice will focus on civil rights , consumer fraud litigation, defective medical devices, personal injury, prescription drug injuries, zantac cancer lawsuit, product liability law, toxic torts, toxic baby food lawsuit, wrongful death law.