- Tax partner Afshin Beyzaee from the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (where he was an associate) into the Los Angeles office of Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor;
- Litigation partner Dana Levitt from the Los Angeles office of Foley & Lardner into the Los Angeles office of Zuber & Taillieu;
- Co-chair of the banking and leveraged finance group, commercial lending and corporate finance partner Anthony Callobre, partner John Connolly and associate Shadi Enos from 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 LLP;
- Corporate and tax partner Shahzad Malik from the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld into TroyGould in Los Angeles;
- 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 LLP by Crowell & Moring LLP to form the new Los Angeles office of Crowell & Moring LLP;
- Corporate partner Theodore 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 LLP;
- 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 & Steiner LLP into the Century City office of Dickstein Shapiro LLP;
- 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 LLP 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;
- 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 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;
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 Michelman and 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 partner 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.
