Perkins Coie announced today that Jean-Jacques “J” Cabou has joined the firm in Phoenix as Partner in the Investigations & White Collar Defense practice. He joins the firm from Osborn Maledon, P.A.

Lewis and Roca is pleased to announce that Melanie Pate has joined the firm’s Phoenix office as a partner in the Labor and Employment practice group. Previously, Pate served as Chief Counsel of the Arizona Civil Rights Division (“ACRD”) at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, where she worked for 15 years in litigation and management-level employment-related positions.

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation's largest labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce that Mark Kisicki and Thomas Stanek have joined its Phoenix office as shareholders. Both join Ogletree Deakins from Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where they were resident in the firm’s Phoenix office. Kisicki and Stanek’s practices are national in scope, with a balance of traditional labor, employment law and litigation. Their arrival deepens Ogletree Deakins’ labor and employment law experience in Phoenix and reaffirms the firm’s status as the “go-to” firm for employers – not merely in Arizona but throughout the nation.

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Leonardo Loo has joined the Firm’s Phoenix office as a partner in the Corporate Services and China Law Groups.