This week the firm announced that corporate partner Brian D. Weimer from Latham & Watkins, and real estate partner Pamela L. Westhoff from DLA Piper, were joining Sheppard Mullin.
Earlier this month, the firm hired corporate partner Todd Bissett of O’Melveny & Myers’ Beijing office. He will work for Sheppard Mullin out of Shanghai.
The firm has laid off 25 attorneys so far this year, and froze associate salaries in January.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is an Am Law 100 law firm with over 520 attorneys in 10 offices in the United States and one in Shanghai. Its first office was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1927.