Heller Ehrman welcomed two new additions to its Washington office. Maureen F. Browne and Johnny Cheng-Teh Chiu have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group as shareholders. Both lawyers come from Washington, D.C.-based firms where they practiced intellectual property law – Browne from Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, where she was a partner, and Chiu from Powell Goldstein, where he was a partner. The two attorneys will be valuable to Heller for their expertise in litigating IP disputes, including Section 337 proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission; their presence significantly strengthens the firm’s ITC and Asia practices.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has hired high-profile litigator William R. Martin to head its white-collar criminal defense practice. Martin comes from the Washington office of Blank Rome, and has represented a number of athletes, politicians, celebrities and corporate executives. His clients have included NBA players Jayson Williams and Allen Iverson, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the parents of murdered federal government intern Chandra Levy. Martin listed Sutherland’s tax practice, as well as its securities, litigation, and financial services practices as reasons for his move.
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Former Cahill Gordon & Reindell partner, Roger Meltzer, joined DLA Piper as the head of corporate finance. Taking with him a $20 million book of business, his presence will be missed at Cahill, where he worked for 29 years. Meltzer assured that he moved seeking new challenges, not because of any problems with his previous employer. DLA Chairman Frank Burch commented that the hire will help to expand the firm’s M&A and capital finance practices; Meltzer will also work to recruit new corporate attorneys.
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Two weeks after its acquisition of three corporate partners from WilmerHale, Heller Ehrman has gone back for more. Tax partner Christopher Prout and senior corporate associate Scott Leonard-Morgan will join Heller as partners, along with three more corporate associates. Only a little over a month since its opening in London, the West Coast firm is rapidly building its UK outpost. Heller is in the process of extending its corporate, real estate, and competition practices into Europe.
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Jones Day’s San Diego office announced the addition of two new lateral hires. Nicola Pisano joins as an IP partner from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps; Lin Yu, Ph.D., joins the firm as a patent agent from Gordon Rees. The firm’s San Diego office relocated last month to a space three times as large as its previous location; it has 22 lawyers. Jones Day has 30 locations worldwide and over 2,200 attorneys.
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