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Silver & Freedman in Los Angeles has announced four internal promotions. Belle Mason has been elected the new chairperson for the employment and labor department and Beth Schroeder, former head of the group, has shifted to head client services, a new executive position in the firm. In the firm's transactional department, Mark Sieke has been added as a shareholder. Also, Gregory Weisman has been named senior counsel and will spearhead the firm's apparel industry group.

Michael Lubic, who was formerly head of the bankruptcy practice at the Los Angeles office of McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen LLP, has joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal as a partner in its Los Angeles office. He will head the firm's West Coast insolvency, bankruptcy and reorganization practice in addition to playing a major role in the expansion of the firm's national fraud investigation practice. Robert Johnson has also joined Sonnenschein's Los Angeles office as a partner. Johnson is a transactional attorney and concentrates in real estate and real estate finance projects. He previously worked in the Los Angeles office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP.