CLEVELAND — Tucker Ellis & West LLP has announced that Charles Q. Socha and K. Michele Anderson, both of Denver, will join the firm as partners on Jan. 1, when the firm will open an office in Denver, adding five attorneys, six paralegals and four staff.

Both Socha and Anderson have experience and national reputation in the pharmaceutical product liability arena, according to Curt Isler, the firm's national managing partner.

Tucker Ellis & West LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, Los Angeles and San Francisco . The firm's trial lawyers serve as national trial counsel for several large publicly held companies, defending product liability, tort, D&O and commercial litigation.