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MOVERS: McDermott's new partners for 2010

By Richard Binder

McDermott Will & Emery has announced partner promotions for 2010.  They include:

Corporate

Andrew T. Turney (Los Angeles) focuses in the areas of corporate securities and capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions and finance, as well as assisting clients with commercial contracts and transactions. Mr. Turney regularly counsels clients on compliance and corporate governance matters. (University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 2003; George Washington University, B.B.A., 1991)

Health

Esther Chang (Los Angeles) focuses her practice on general health regulatory and transactional representation of health care clients, including hospitals, academic medical systems, ambulatory surgery centers, durable medical equipment companies and medical groups. She regularly counsels clients on federal and state health privacy laws, licensing requirements, fraud and abuse and compliance matters. She also has extensive experience representing clients in connection with acquisitions, mergers and general corporate matters, including drafting professional services agreements, affiliation agreements and medical directorships. (University of Southern California - Gould School of Law, J.D., 2002; Boston University School of Public Health, M.P.H., 1999; Dartmouth College, B.A., 1997)

Intellectual Property, Media & Technology

Mary B. Boyle (Silicon Valley) focuses in the areas of intellectual property litigation in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. She has broad experience in litigating commercial disputes and providing advice to investment banks and companies in the biopharmaceutical and high-technology segments. (George Washington University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2000; Yale University, Ph.D., Physiology, 1983; Barnard College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1976)

M. Todd Hales (Orange County) focuses on strategic intellectual property portfolio prosecution, management, and counseling. His practice also involves conducting due diligence investigations in connection with funding, acquisition, and merger transactions, preparation of legal opinions on patent validity and infringement, and preparing portfolio and landscape evaluations and prelitigation analyses. (Brigham Young University Law School, J.D., 2003; Brigham Young University, B.S.M.E., Tau Beta Pi, 2000)

Trial

Gregory R. Jones (Los Angeles) focuses his practice on commercial litigation, securities litigation, white-collar criminal defense, corporate investigations and entertainment litigation. (Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2003; University of California-Santa Barbara, B.A., summa cum laude, 2000)

Eugene S. Litvinoff (Silicon Valley) focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations and antitrust litigation. As a former federal prosecutor, Mr. Litvinoff has tried numerous felony jury trials, presented many cases to the grand jury for indictment, and negotiated plea dispositions in hundreds of cases. He also has extensive experience arguing motions at motions hearings, evidentiary hearings and sentencings, and has argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (University of California-Hastings College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2000; University of California-Berkeley, B.A., 1997)

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).