Appellate lawyers on the move: Jenkins and Bielak and Fisher

Margaret Bielak joined Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP as a counsel in San Francisco. Bielak served as a research attorney with the 1st District Court of Appeal for nearly a quarter century. During her tenure, she was the lead appellate court attorney in the chambers of Presiding Justice Alison Tucher in Division Three and previously a senior research attorney for Justice Maria Rivera in Division Four. She also served as a law clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Edward Panelli and practiced with a large national law firm. Bielak will be CALG's 27th appellate attorney.

Kirk Jenkins joined Kahana Feld as a partner in San Francisco. Jenkins is a member of the National Appellate Litigation & Consulting Group with nearly four decades of experience as a litigator and appellate advocate. He has handled a broad range of complex litigation, with particular emphasis on antitrust and trade regulation in both civil and criminal matters, including price-fixing, monopolization, essential facilities, and tying claims. His practice also encompasses class actions, constitutional litigation, employment law, personal injury, insurance coverage, consumer protection, privacy, intellectual property, whistleblower actions, and sophisticated business and contract disputes. Jenkins has served as lead appellate counsel in more than 250 appeals and as an appellate consultant to dozens of trial teams nationwide. An accomplished writer and researcher in judicial analytics, regression analysis, and decision-tree modeling, he frequently speaks on appellate law, legal analytics, and emerging issues in the profession.

Stanford Law Prof. Jeffrey Fisher, who has argued 50 SCOTUS cases, has joined Hecker Fink as of counsel. He was formerly special counsel at O'Melveny.