Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomed John P. Katerndahl as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He joins the firm’s environmental/toxic tort and products and general liability practice groups. Katerndahl represents manufacturers, suppliers, contractors and premises owners in toxic tort, products liability and construction cases, including cases arising out of asbestos and chemical exposures, catastrophic injury and high value property damage.

Goodwin Procter announced that Scott French joined the firm’s technology practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office. French advises fast-growing companies on a full spectrum of corporate transactions, the announcement said. He helps clients across industries and throughout all stages of the business lifecycle, including venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.