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LAW: Former Stradling partner will head West Coast operations
Bingham McCutchen LLP's Costa Mesa office has nabbed Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth's Robert Funsten to lead its new West Coast healthcare practice.
Funsten, a former partner at Stradling, built up the Newport Beach-based firm's healthcare practice when he joined in 2002. Hiring Funsten was a coup for Stradling, who lured him away from Corona's Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., where he was a senior vice president and chief legal officer.
Before that, Funsten was vice president and general counsel at Chiron Vision Corp., which Bausch & Lomb Inc. bought in 1997.
Funsten will be the first West Coast lawyer to focus on healthcare for Boston-based Bingham. The firm has healthcare specialists at its headquarters.
Funsten, who isn't bringing anyone with him from Stradling, is set to work on patents, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and securities work for drug makers, device makers and healthcare companies.
A majority of Funsten's clients are moving with him to Bingham,...