Brian C. Bunger has joined Holland & Knight‘s West Coast land use and environmental practice group as a partner residing in the firm’s San Francisco office. He joins Holland & Knight after serving for 20 years as chief legal officer to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). Prior to leading the district’s legal office, Bunger represented clients in private practice. During his tenure at BAAQMD, Bunger guided his agency through a range of legally complex, novel and politically challenging issues ranging from greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation, permitting, and environmental compliance and enforcement issues.

Clark Hill announced that it has added Myriah Jaworski and Chirag Patel to its cybersecurity and data privacy practice group. Jaworski joins as a member while Patel is senior counsel, and both will associate with West Coast offices to expand the group’s geographic reach. Jaworski, a former Department of Justice trial attorney, specializes in privacy litigation, data breach defense, cyber subrogation and commercial surveillance claims. Patel has federal court cyber litigation experience, including recently first-chairing a federal trial concerning a misdirected wire transfer and business email compromise, defending an app developer in a first-of-its-kind cyberbullying case, and resolving a complex software implementation claim.