Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed a new shareholder to the firm’s growing Dallas office. Tara M. Darling has joined the firm’s nationwide Real Estate Finance Practice Group. An experienced finance attorney, she focuses her practice on advising clients on lending transactions across different commercial real estate asset classes. Polsinelli recently added a three-lawyer real estate team in Washington, D.C., and a three-lawyer commercial finance team in Nashville, continuing the fast-paced growth of its Real Estate & Financial Services Department. In April, the firm welcomed two real estate finance shareholders in Atlanta. The department has added ten new shareholders in 2023 as it has focused intently on growing its sophisticated real estate and finance practices that serve clients from development and financing through litigation and restructuring. Darling arrives from Cassin & Cassin LLP.

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Clark Hill announced today that Aaron Turner has joined the firm as a Member of its Banking and Financial Services practice group. Turner arrives from Vedder Price in Dallas.

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Barrett R. Howell has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in the White Collar Defense & Investigations group. Barrett has been defending companies and individuals in high-stakes white collar criminal fraud investigations, prosecutions, and civil enforcement actions for over two decades. Barrett is a strategic problem solver who helps clients navigate the minefield of federal investigations by proactively identifying approaches to avoid indictments, lawsuits, and enforcement actions. Howell arrives from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Dallas.

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Faegre Drinker announced today that health care partner Randy Peak and counsel David Rose have joined the firm in Dallas. Peak and Rose will also serve as vice presidents of Innovative Health Strategies, Faegre Drinker’s procurement and outsourcing consulting firm.  Peak arrives from Haynes & Boone, Rose joins the firm from his General Counsel role at ProPath.

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Alejandro Caraveo Jr. has joined the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC as a Member in the firm’s Dallas office. He joins the firm’s Litigation Department. Caraveo arrives from Lewis Brisbois in Dallas.

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Dentons announces today the return of Matt Nickel as a partner in its Commercial Litigation practice. Based in the Dallas office, Nickel brings vast experience in complex litigation, particularly in the areas of pharmaceutical litigation and product liability, and represents clients in individual and class action litigation in Texas and across the country. Nickel rejoins Dentons from DLA Piper in Dallas.

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Frost Brown Todd (FBT) continues to expand its Dallas office with the addition of intellectual property litigator and Partner Amy LaValle. LaValle assists clients in a variety of industries, including health care and technology, on both sides of patent and trademark cases in both federal courts and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. LaValle practices with the firm’s Intellectual Property group and joins from Munck Wilson Mandala LLP.

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