The Seattle based firm of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro has opened an office in San Francisco, to be headed by former Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins partner Reed Kathrein.

Kathrein will be joined by three other Lerach Coughlin attorneys and will also manage Hagens Berman's Los Angeles office. Kathrein had of course opened the San Francisco office of Lerach Coughlin's predecessor firm, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, in 1994.

The Recorder has a story on the move, here and Hagens Berman issued a press release, here.

Of tangential interest, Kathrein, has not one, but two eponymously named websites - www.reedkathrein.com and www.reedk.com. We first explored the eponymous securities litigator website issue last June, starting with two defense attorneys, who not only both wore bowties, but also maintained their own non-firm websites.

Of even more tangential interest, Hagens Berman is surely the only plaintiff side law firm to sponsor an elite amateur cycling team, the Lake Washington Velo / Hagens Berman Cycling Team.

Meanwhile, on the other coast (or at least close to the coast), The Legal Intelligencer has a story on Philadelphia attorney Jonathan Shub, and his move from Sheller, P.C. to open the Philadelphia office of Seeger Weiss LLP, with two other former Sheller attorneys.