The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Erik Lundgren has joined the Firm’s Chicago Office as a partner in its Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that Nathaniel Marrs has joined the firm’s Finance practice as a partner in the Chicago office. More >>

Trial lawyer Timothy Ray has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Mr. Ray’s practice focuses on product liability and class actions. Most recently, he was a partner at Dentons. More >>

The Chicago office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Joshua J. Yang as a partner in the firm’s investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice. He joins K&L Gates from Winston & Strawn LLP. More >>

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP added corporate finance and lending depth with the addition of David P. Milligan as partner. Mr. Milligan comes to the firm from his previous role as partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. More >>

Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that Richard A. Fiore has joined the firm as a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Transportation Industry Practice Team. Fiore will utilize his expertise as a litigator to serve a wide array of transportation clients, while also growing the firm’s aviation practice. More >>

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today expanded its Chicago office with partner Thomas Pasternak in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. He adds dedicated experience in patent and trademark litigation to a team that has grown six times larger to 48 lawyers since Akerman’s Chicago office opened in 2014. To accommodate this rapid office growth, Akerman recently revealed a plan to more than double its physical footprint in the region. More >>

Benesch is pleased to announce that Nicholas J. Secco has joined the firm in its Chicago office as a litigation partner and Chair of the Firm’s Trial Practice Group. Nick is nationally recognized for his experience trying complex cases for large companies throughout the country. He has represented clients in a wide array of industries in both products liability and commercial litigation at the state and federal level. More >>

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has continued the expansion of its White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations team with the addition of former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. Porter. He joins as a partner residing in the firm’s Chicago office. More >>

Benesch law firm is pleased to announce that Kal Shah has joined the firm as a partner and Chair of its Patent Litigation Group. Kal Shah represents large clients in the areas of both intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation. He has been lead counsel in a wide variety of patent matters, including computer science and internet applications, biological and biomedical sciences, electrical systems and lighting technology, mechanical systems, and wireless technologies. He has also represented clients in software license and copyright disputes. Kal is first and foremost a litigator, also representing clients in commercial litigation, including multifaceted contract litigation, derivative actions, fraud defense and other business claims. Kal’s practice and experience spans both federal and state courts across the country and includes various forms of alternative dispute resolution. More >>