Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan announced that it hired Kaitlin Kontyko as an associate in Los Angeles. According to LinkedIn, Kontyko was previously with Howd & Ludorf. She litigates insurance coverage cases related to general and professional liability insurance policies.

Eight Haynes and Boone attorneys were recently promoted to counsel, including Orange County-based Andrew Cohn. Cohn works in the firm’s intellectual property practice group. He handles patent prosecution and patent analysis in a range of technical fields.