Real estate counsel George Fatheree III has left Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to join Munger, Tolles & Olson’s Los Angeles office.

Fatheree officially started working Monday at Munger Tolles as a partner in its real estate group. He was previously counsel at Skadden, which he joined in 2008 after a clerkship with Judge Ferdinand Fernandez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.