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• ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER 2021
ALUMNI MOVES AND NOTABLE NEWS
Below are a few recent in-house alumni moves and other notable achievements. Let us know if you’ve changed jobs so we can feature your move in a future edition.
Katherine Bai is now Associate Commercial Counsel at GoodRX in Santa Monica, CA. She was a corporate healthcare associate in our Century City office from 2015 - 2021.
Hector Grajeda is now Counsel at the U.S. Trademark & Patent Office in Washington, D.C. He was a corporate / healthcare associate in our Century City office from 2020 - 2021.
Siraj Husain is now Associate General Counsel of AEye Inc. in Dublin, CA. He was an intellectual property partner in our Palo Alto office from 2015 - 2021.
Robbie Hurwitz, who had been at SpaceX and Rocket Lab in Southern California, recently became General Counsel at private aerospace firm Hermeus in Atlanta, GA. He was a government contracts associate in our Los Angeles office from 2006 - 2011.
Jinsook Ohta was confirmed by the Senate to serve as a judge in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, and received her commission on Dec. 27, 2021. She became a judge on the San Diego County Superior Court in 2020. She was an employment associate in our San Diego office from 2003 - 2006.
Taylor Parks is now Esport Counsel with ActiVision in Santa Monica, CA. He was a corporate associate in our Los Angeles office from 2017 - 2021.
Jarrett Reed is now Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Acquisitions of Move It Storage in Dallas, TX. He was a real estate partner in the Dallas office from 2019 - 2021.
Anna Stancu is now Corporate Counsel with Hyperfine in San Diego, CA. She was a labor and employment attorney in our Los Angeles office from 2012 - 2021.
Neeta Thakur is now Senior Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property with Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma America in Silicon Valley. She was an IP special counsel in our Palo Alto office from 2013 - 2021.
Congrats to all our alumni! We regularly post in-house job opportunities from clients and friends of the firm on the Sheppard Mullin alumni site under “Career Opportunities.” We welcome in-house job postings from you; please send to alumni@ sheppardmullin.com.
SHEPPARD MULLIN’S LITIGATION PRACTICE TOPS BTI LITIGATION OUTLOOK 2022
BTI Consulting Group recently ranked Sheppard Mullin as a “Powerhouse” in Commercial Litigation, one of only six firms in the nation to receive this accolade in the BTI Litigation Outlook 2022.
The firm was also recognized as:
•Litigation Leader in Complex Employment Litigation and Employment Litigation
•Litigation Standout in IP Litigation, Class Action, Product Liability Litigation
The annual BTI Litigation Outlook examines changes, trends and opportunities in law firm litigation. BTI’s analysis draws on direct client feedback from independent, in-depth interviews with more than 350 corporate counsel at the world’s largest companies and compares the litigation departments of more than 190 firms.
ON DEMAND LEARNING: LAST CHANCE CLE
In light of the California mandatory continuing legal education’s reporting deadline of February 1, 2022 for attorneys with last names A through G, we can help in-house counsel satisfy some of their 25 hours of education requirements. The compliance period runs from February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2022 and must include hours on ethics, elimination of bias and competence.
Highly regarded CLE provider Practising Law Institute (PLI) offers a multitude of online, self-study courses to satisfy requirements. Since we are a PLI Privileged Member, we can offer Sheppard Mullin alumni in-house counsel one free hour of CLE via its “Spotlight Friday” program. This week’s online offering is “Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity – A Primer for Financial Services Legal and Compliance Professionals.” Enter Priority Code FRI2 8AEM2 at checkout to receive this segment at no cost. This discount is active through January 13, 2022.
Go to www.pli.edu to review all the course offerings available for purchase, including the “PLI’s California MCLE Marathon 2021: Current Developments in Legal Ethics-Competence Issues- Elimination of Bias” at $675, which includes four hours of ethics credit, one hour of competence credit and one hour of elimination of bias credit.
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