Seyfarth Recruits Five Lawyers to Labor, Employment Practice

Michele Beilke and Julia Trankiem have joined Seyfarth Shaw as partners in the labor & employment team, the firm announced Monday.

The firm also added three lawyers as counsel to its labor & employment department—Galit Knotz, Blake Guerrero, and Steven Morphy.

All five attorneys come from Hunton Andrews Kurth. They’ll be based in Los Angeles, except Trankiem, who will divide her time between the firm’s offices in Houston and Los Angeles.

Beilke litigates state and national wage and hour class actions, and discrimination and harassment claims under state and federal law. Trankiem represents employers throughout the country on critical employment ...