THE JAMESON GROUP

Partner Placements

Representative Partner Placements

• Litigation partner Melissa Force from the Los Angeles office of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough into the Los Angeles office of Stephan, Oringher, Richmond & Theodora;

• Litigation partner Vicki Freimann from the Los Angeles office of Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick into the Los Angeles office of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough;

• Corporate and Private Equity partner Ray LaSoya from the Los Angeles office of Pillsbury, Winthrop into the Los Angeles office of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed;

• 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 Jenkens & Gilchrist;

• Tax and corporate (and name) partners Brad Cohen and Michael Foster and one associate from Cohen, Primiani & Foster in Los Angeles into Reish, Luftman, Cohen & Reicher in Los Angeles;

•  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/general business litigation partner from the Law Offices of Eliot Disner in Los Angeles (formerly a partner with Ervin, Cohen & Jessup and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips), together with several associates, into Van Etten, Suzimoto & Becket in Santa Monica;

• Litigation partner Peter Rosen from the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw into the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins; 

• 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 Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger in Los Angeles into Silver & Freedman in Los Angeles;

• Litigation partner Carole Handler from O’Donnell & Shaeffer in Los Angeles 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 Gilchrist & Rutter in Santa Monica; 

• Corporate partner Marty Fern from the Los Angeles office of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps into Silver & Freedman in Los Angeles; 

• Litigation partner Ram Cogan from Lindahl, Schnabel, Kardassakis & Beck in Los Angeles into Phillips, Lerner & Lauzon in Los Angeles; 

• 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 LLP into Silver & Freedman in Los Angeles; 

• 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 associate from the Los Angeles office of 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 Pond, North & Hugo in San Francisco to create the Northern California office of Los Angeles-based Burke, Williams & Sorenson;       

• Entertainment (and name) partner Jill Cohen and corporate of counsel Benjamin Reder, along with three associates, from Fishman & Cohen in Los Angeles into the Los Angeles office of Squadron, Ellenoff,  Plesent & Sheinfeld;         

• Litigation partners Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pacheco from the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles into Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles; 

• Real estate partner Marc Benezra from the Los Angeles office of Stephan, Oringher, Richmond & Theodra into Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall in Beverly Hills; 

• Litigation (and name) partner Jerry Gumpel and one associate from Clark & Gumpel in San Diego 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 to Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canaday, Falk & Rabkin;   

• Corporate, technology and intellectual property partner Kevin DeBré, who headed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison’s Southern California Technology practice, into the Los Angeles office of Kelley, Drye & Warren as Head of the Technology and Emerging Companies Practice;

• Litigation (and name) partner Dean Herman of Gabriel, Herman & Peretz in Los Angeles into Michelman & Robinson in Encino; 

• Corporate partner Lisa Hamilton Klein from Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey in Los Angeles into Guth & Christopher in Los Angeles;      

•  Intellectual property litigation (and name) partner Philip Graves from Thomas, Walton & Graves in Los Angeles into Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif in Santa Monica;

• Bankruptcy (and name) partner Ashleigh Danker from Weiss, Scolny, Spees, Danker & Kop in Los Angeles into the Los Angeles office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler;

• Environmental partner 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 Valensi, Rose & Magaram in Los Angeles into Fainsbert, Mase & Snyder in Los Angeles;

• Bankruptcy/litigation partner Steven Pollard from the Los Angeles office of Graham & James into the Los Angeles office of Perkins Coie;       

•  Corporate and real estate partner Larry Jacobson from Saltzburg, Ray & Bergman in Los Angeles and real estate partner Michael Bordy from Factor, Agay, Bordy & Monitz in Los Angeles to form Jacob, White, Diamond & Bordy in Los Angeles;

• Construction partner John Dwyer and three associates from Bowman & Brooke in Los Angeles 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 Adams, Duque & Hazeltine in Los Angeles 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 Karp & Bergman in Los Angeles into Reish & Luftman in Los Angeles;

• Corporate/hi tech partner John Petrovich from the Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster into the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner;

• Bankruptcy/corporate partner Marv Heilson from Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger in Los Angeles into the Los Angeles office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan;

• Litigation of counsel Andrew Gelb from Hill & Weiss in Los Angeles into Wolf, Rifkin & Shapiro in Los Angeles;

• Corporate of counsel Robert Goldstein from Gipson Hoffman & Pancione in Los Angeles into Weissburg & Aronson in Los Angeles;

• 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 McLaughlin & Irvin in Los Angeles as name partner into Liebman, Reiner, Nachison & Walsh in Los Angeles;

• Real estate partner Phil Feder and three associates from Kadison, Pfaelzer, Rossi & Quinn in Los Angeles 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;