Greenspoon Marder announced the expansion of the firm’s labor and employment practice group with the addition of partner Marie L. Wrighten in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Wrighten has experience litigating a range of employment issues, including breach of contract, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour claims, unfair competition and unfair trade practices. In addition, Wrighten maintains a complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal law practice where she focuses on complex business and tort litigation with an emphasis on high exposure personal injury litigation, products liability matters, toxic torts, environmental litigation and hospitality services liability lawsuits.

Buchalter announced the launch of its new family law practice group and welcomes three new attorneys to the firm’s San Francisco office: Monica Mazzei joins as a shareholder and chair of the family law group, along with associate attorneys Emily Yip and Stephanie Huang. Mazzei specializes in dissolution actions involving complicated valuation and financial matters, and complex community property and support issues, including international issues, dissolutions of marriage matters involving hedge funds, private equity, venture capital and privately held businesses. Yip focuses her family law practice on dissolution matters involving high net worth individuals and she prepares premarital, post marital and cohabitation agreements. Huang’s practice focuses on high asset dissolutions involving property division and support issues.