Mayer Brown announced today that highly regarded litigator Daniel T. Fenske has joined the firm’s Antitrust & Competition practice as a partner in Chicago. Most recently, Mr. Fenske was a partner at Jenner & Block. More >>

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Daniel E. Feinberg and Geoffrey Repo as partners in the firm’s Insurance practice group in the Chicago office. Feinberg and Repo were previously with Fox Rothschild LLP in Chicago. More >>

Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that Will Turner has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner. Turner brings more than two decades of experience in corporate and securities law, primarily with application to cryptocurrency, fund formation, investment transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. He will reside in the firm’s Corporate Group and also work in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency practice. More >>

Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that seasoned labor law attorney Thomas “Tom” J. Posey has joined the firm as a partner in the Labor & Employment practice in Chicago. Previously with Faegre Baker Daniels, Posey represents companies from a wide array of industries in all aspects of labor law and employment issues, including serving as a chief labor negotiator. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that R. Matthew Hiller has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in Chicago. Hiller joins DLA Piper from the US Attorney’s Office, where he served as an Assistant US Attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, and in Chicago. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of leading corporate attorney Richard E. (Rick) Ginsberg as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office, as Chair of its Technology and Emerging Companies practice, and member of its Private Investment Funds practice. Rick rejoins Winston from DLA Piper, where he was Co-Chair of DLA Piper’s Fund Formation and Operations Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Emerging Companies/Venture Capital National Leadership Group. Previously he was a Winston partner from 2005-2007. More >>

Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, continues to see strong growth and welcomes a new attorney to its Health Care Department in Chicago. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has dramatically grown its Chicago office with a team of 13 real estate lawyers, including six partners: Eugene “Gene” Leone, Marc Benjamin, Michael McKeever, David Pezza, Aaron Potter and Ruth Schoenmeyer, as well as five associates and two counsels. This new group joins the Firm as part of its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice and Real Estate Industry Group. The group joins White & Case from Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a top boutique law firm specializing in real estate. More >>