Higgs Fletcher & Mack announced that attorneys Joshua P. Katz and Geoffrey M. Thorne have been named as the firm’s newest partners, effective Jan. 1. Katz is a tax law attorney with a practice focused on tax controversy matters, including audits, appeals, tax liens, levies, installment agreements and offers in compromise. He also assists clients with corporate and LLC issues from formation to dissolution. Thorne is a business attorney and civil litigator, representing individuals and businesses ranging from local enterprises to Fortune 500 companies. He counsels and defends clients throughout California in business and employment disputes—including high-stakes wage-and-hour class actions, single-plaintiff harassment and discrimination claims and trade secret theft.

Pasich, an insurance recovery law firm in California, has promoted Kayla Robinson to partner, effective Jan. 1. Resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office, Robinson represents insured individuals and entities in a variety of matters, including major property damage, business interruption and theft losses. She also represents insureds in connection with third-party coverage disputes involving employment practices liability insurance, commercial general liability insurance and professional liability insurance.