The Norton Law Firm recently announced that Jo Levy has joined the firm as a partner. Levy is a skilled trial lawyer and strategic counselor with over 30 years of law firm and in-house experience in a range of matters, including intellectual property, intelligence, antitrust, compliance, consumer litigation, and class actions. She has litigated matters involving semiconductors, software and hardware patents, technology transactions, international business disputes, manufacturing, medical devices, products liability, marketing, commercial disputes, and aviation. Before joining The Norton Law Firm, she held numerous senior positions at Intel Corp., including vice president, general counsel of Asia Pacific and Japan; vice president and chief compliance officer; and associate director of litigation. Before joining Intel, Levy was a litigation partner at Reed Smith.

Nossaman announced the addition of David Farkas as a partner in the litigation group in the Los Angeles office. Farkas spent the early part of his career as an associate at Nossaman, and he rejoins the firm from Coleman Frost. He is a business litigator with a practice that focuses on real estate, construction, mass transit, insurance coverage and health care disputes. He has represented his largely institutional clients in varied complex commercial matters in federal and state court raising claims of fraud, government false claims, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, legal malpractice, business torts, and unfair competition. Farkas also has experience in employment matters, defending actions for wrongful termination, misappropriation of trade secrets, and other violations of federal and state employment laws.