Kirkland & Ellis has begun to build its West Coast white-collar criminal defense practice with two recent hires. Mark Holscher, joining from O’Melveny & Myers, will head the white-collar practice in LA. Holscher has represented Wen Ho Lee and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Partner Jeffrey Sinek of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner will also join Holscher in LA. Kirkland already has white-collar criminal defense lawyers in Chicago and on the East Coast; the firm hopes to expand the West Coast practice by hiring some California-based former federal prosecutors.
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