Arnold & Porter has added Ryan Casamiquela to its intellectual property group in its San Francisco office. He received his J.D. from UC-Berkeley School of Law. He joined from Kirkland & Ellis, where he worked on patent cases involving wireless standards, server-side software and hardware, as well as trademark, copyright and antitrust matters. See story online.
Crowell & Moring has added Nancy Saracino, former vice president, general counsel and chief administrative officer for the California Independent System Operator Corporation, and Frank Lindh, former general counsel of the California Public Utilities Commission, as partners to the firm’s energy group in San Francisco. Saracino, who will join at the end of March, will head the firm’s new Western energy practice. See story online.
