Heller Ehrman LLP has announced that Suzanne Hawkins, previously of Huron Consulting Group, Inc., will join the firm’s New York office as the firmwide Chief of Practice Excellence. This is a new position designed to facilitate the development of firmwide training systems which are intended to improve service to clients. Hawkins, who has 25 years of legal experience, is expected to flourish in the new in-house position.
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Nixon Peabody LLP has announced that it has hired Peter Swartz and Matthew Moses as partners for its energy practice in Rochester, New York. Both attorneys come from transactional backgrounds and join the firm as part of Nixon Peabody’s ongoing energy and environmental practice expansion
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Jenner & Block has acquired a new partner in its New York office: Richard F. Ziegler, a former General Counsel with the 3M Company, will join the firm’s corporate litigation practice. Ziegler was formerly Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel for 3M in St. Paul, and oversaw the work of more than 150 attorneys. He was also a partner at Cleary, Gottlied, Steen & Hamilton’s New York office for over two decades.
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced that it has established a Tax-Exempt Bond Controversy Resolution Practice Group. Drawing from their own Public Finance, Securities, and Litigation practices, the group will be made up of over 20 associates. The new group has been founded as a reaction to clients dealing with audits and reviews of tax-exempt bond transactions. The group will be headed by Jeremy Spector of the firm’s New York ofice.
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