Movers & Shakers

McDermott Will & Emery (Los Angeles): The firm has promoted Esther Chang to partner. Chang focuses on general health regulatory and transactional representation of health care clients. She is a 2002 graduate of University of Southern California Law School.

Archer Norris (Walnut Creek, CA): David Marchiano has joined the firm as a first-year associate in Walnut Creek. Marchiano, who received his J.D. from University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law, is part of the on-call trial counsel team, as well as the construction defect and health care professionals liability groups.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (San Francisco): Gerald Hinkley joined as a partner and co-chairman of Pillsbury's health care practice. Allen Briskin joined as counsel. Both come to the firm from Davis Wright Tremaine. Hinkley is top-rated by Chambers and Partners, and he and Briskin both specialize in health care transactions and regulatory work.

LeClairRyan (New York): Neil Ekblom joins the Richmond, VA, firm's tort defense group as partner in the New York office. Ekblom will focus on medical malpractice defense and transactional and regulatory matters, including drafting employment agreements, forming physician entities and arranging mergers or purchases of practices. Previously, he was a partner at Clausen Miller.

McNamara, Dodge, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges & Brothers (Walnut Creek, CA): Asha Wilkerson has joined the firm's Walnut Creek office as a first-year associate. Wilkerson, who previously interned with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees in Costa Rica, is a member of the medical malpractice defense team.

McDermott Will & Emery (Los Angeles): The firm has promoted Esther Chang to partner. Chang focuses on general health regulatory and transactional representation of health care clients. She is a 2002 graduate of University of Southern California Law School.

Archer Norris (Walnut Creek, CA): David Marchiano has joined the firm as a first-year associate in Walnut Creek. Marchiano, who received his J.D. from University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law, is part of the on-call trial counsel team, as well as the construction defect and health care professionals liability groups.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (San Francisco): Gerald Hinkley joined as a partner and co-chairman of Pillsbury's health care practice. Allen Briskin joined as counsel. Both come to the firm from Davis Wright Tremaine. Hinkley is top-rated by Chambers and Partners, and he and Briskin both specialize in health care transactions and regulatory work.

LeClairRyan (New York): Neil Ekblom joins the Richmond, VA, firm's tort defense group as partner in the New York office. Ekblom will focus on medical malpractice defense and transactional and regulatory matters, including drafting employment agreements, forming physician entities and arranging mergers or purchases of practices. Previously, he was a partner at Clausen Miller.

McNamara, Dodge, Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges & Brothers (Walnut Creek, CA): Asha Wilkerson has joined the firm's Walnut Creek office as a first-year associate. Wilkerson, who previously interned with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees in Costa Rica, is a member of the medical malpractice defense team.