Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that Anne Becker and Jamie Weyeneth have joined the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) Practice as partners in Chicago. Anne and Jamie are teammates of the top-ranked ten-partner EBEC team that joined Winston from McDermott Will & Emery in July 2017. More >>

Taft Stettinius & Hollister is pleased to announce that Carrie A. Hall has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Litigation group. The Chicago office has added 13 attorneys so far this year. More >>

BakerHostetler is proud to announce that leading attorneys Leif Sigmond, Michael Gannon and Jennifer Kurcz have joined the patent litigation team as partners, resident in the Chicago office. The team comes to BakerHostetler from McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. More >>

Morgan Lewis today welcomes Jenny Austin, a skilled federal tax controversy lawyer and seasoned tax litigator, as a partner in Chicago. Ms. Austin’s arrival follows that of her former colleague, Tom Linguanti, a top tax controversy and transfer pricing litigator who joined Morgan Lewis from the same global law firm earlier this month. More >>

Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, announced today that wealth planning attorney Bill Long joined its Chicago office as a shareholder.

Focusing his practice on estate and tax planning, Long represents high net worth individuals, key executives, and business owners, and serves as an outside general counsel for many clients operating as corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. He has extensive experience advising closely-held and family-owned businesses in the orderly and tax efficient transfer of wealth to younger generations, and has more than 30 years of experience representing clients before the IRS in connection with income, estate, and gift tax audits. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce Steve Grimes has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Chicago office. Steve is a former federal prosecutor, Winston associate, and partner. He most recently served as Chief Compliance Officer for Tenneco, Inc., a Fortune 500, publicly traded, manufacturing company. More >>

King & Spalding today announced that Zachary Fardon, recent U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has joined the firm as a partner and will open the firm’s office in Chicago. The new office, King & Spalding’s 20th globally and 10th in the U.S., expands the firm’s international platform into the Midwest with a particular focus on government investigations, related commercial litigation, and work across the financial services and life sciences sectors. More >>

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Judith Wethall and Finn Pressly have joined the Firm as partners in its Employee Benefits Practice Group. Ms. Wethall and Mr. Pressly are located in the Firm’s Chicago office. They join a forty-member strong team of U.S. and international Employee Benefits lawyers serving our clients’ needs from the international to local levels across every sector. More >>

Foley & Mansfield announced today that Jackie W. Miller and Meredith S. Hudgens have joined the firm’s Chicago office as partners. Both come from the Chicago-based firm of O’Connell, Tivin, Miller & Burns – former OTMB partner Tom Burns having joined F&M with two additional Chicago-area attorneys, Robb Sands and Maura Yusof on August 7, 2017. More >>