Samson Amore

The law firm was sanctioned this past May and ordered to create ethics education courses after a judge found it committed ethical violations during a pharmaceutical advertising trial.

FBT Gibbons currently employs about 40 attorneys across the Golden State, but Chairman Robert Sartin said he aims to grow that number to at least 100 in the near future.

J. Pat Ferraris joins from Allstate, where he was most recently the national director of client legal services.

Margaret “Meg” Burnham joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner, alongside four other labor and employment lawyers.

Ian Edvalson had been with Wilson Sonsini for more than three decades before departing this week.

Incoming global capital markets leader Michael Keeley joins the firm from Kirkland alongside partner Ben Richards.

Humphreys takes over LA managing partner role from Brian Huben, who will remain with the firm.

Lawyers for Clifford Chance called the former partners' attempt to change the arbitration jurisdiction in an ongoing pay clawback dispute "a transparent attempt to hijack the arbitral process before it even begins."

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Nicole Janigian Simonian, who will chair Clark Hill's global supply chain practice, joins the firm's Los Angeles outpost alongside two senior counsel hires.