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Riding revenue rise, Buchalter Nemer adds five attorneys

By Jonathan Hayter

Five attorneys, including one shareholder, have joined various practice groups of Los Angeles-based Buchalter Nemer.

Steven M. Spector, former counsel to Los Angeles-based Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, is joining the 150-lawyer firm's insolvency and financial solutions practice group as a shareholder. Anthony Napolitano, a former associate at Chicago's Mayer Brown, joins as an associate in the same practice group.

Spector's practice includes Chapter 11 reorganizations, creditors' rights, out-of-court liquidation proceedings and receiverships.

Melissa Mac Pherson, a former contract attorney at Bayat & Associates of Los Angeles, and Samy Sadighi, a former associate at Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, have joined the bank and finance practice group, while Alex Angarita, a former associate at O'Melveny & Myers, has joined the business practices group.

"We're hiring to meet the need," said Rick Cohen, president of Buchalter Nemer. "And we've had a tremendous need."

Buchalter Nemer recently ended its fiscal year with a record $99.2 million in revenues, an increase of $8 million from last year, he said. Most of the growth has been in the insolvency practice, but litigation and real estate have been busy, as well, he said.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).