Avis Caravello Attorney Search Consultants secure high-caliber placements for Partners and Associates across most areas of legal specialty.  We work with Am Law 100, mid- sized and regional firms in their talent searches in the Bay Area and California. Here are some notable representative placements:

• Pillsbury's Acquisition of Thelen’s Entire China Practice, a Group of Approximately 20 Attorneys, Including Partners Tom Shoesmith, Meg Utterback, Joe Tiano and Lou Bevilacqua to be Based in Pillsbury’s Shanghai, Washington, DC and San Francisco Offices.
  
  Shoesmith Will be the Managing Partner of Pillsbury’s Shanghai office. Also Based in Shanghai is Partner Meg Utterback, Who Works on Both Transactional and Litigation Matters and Of Counsel David Tang.  Partners Joe Tiano and Lou Bevilacqua Will Join Pillsbury’s Washington, DC Office, Focusing on Public Companies Work.  Scott Kline, Of Counsel, Will be Based in San Francisco. The Group also Brought 14 Associates with Them.

• Allen Matkins San Francisco Office Adds Construction Practice Co-Chair Raymond Buddie, Former Managing and Founding Partner of Peckar & Abramson’s San Francisco office.
• Morrison & Foersters’ Antitrust Practice Head Jesse Markham, Jr. Joins Holme Roberts & Owen’s San Francisco Office as Co-Chair of Antitrust and Competition Group
• Winston & Strawn San Francisco Adds Chuck Moll, Head of the  Firm’s Nationwide State and Local Tax Practice, from Morrison & Foerster where He Chaired the Firm’s Property Tax Group
• Squire Sanders & Dempsey’s Palo Alto Office Nabs Wayne Jones Former Greenberg Taurig Palo Alto Intellectual Property Head
• Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold Lands Real Estate Litigation Boutique, Woo & Associates.
• Veteran International Litigator Dan Herling Joins Keller & Heckman’s San Francisco Office from Duane Morris
• Opening of the Fresno office of Liebert Cassidy & Whitmore with Shelline Bennet, Former Managing Partner of Littler Mendelson
• Holme Roberts & Owens San Francisco office Bolsters its Prominent Tax Practice with the Addition of Partner Michelle Ferreira from Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley Office
• Squire Sanders’ San Francisco Office Bolsters Litigation Practice with Addition of David Gabianelli Former Duane Morris Litigation Partner and Robert Guite Former Lane Powell Shareholder.
• Jackson, Lewis’ San Francisco Office Adds Employment Litigation Partner Deverie Christianson.