Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces that Scott H. Thompson joined its Real Estate practice as a partner in the Kansas City office. Thompson focuses his practice in the areas of banking and finance, real estate and corporate law and represents banks, institutional lenders, private equity funds and large publicly traded companies in debt financing and other credit vehicles. More >>

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes Jessica Norris as shareholder and member of its Business Department. Norris joins the firm’s Kansas City, Mo. office, deepening the breadth of its growing national Corporate & Transactional Practice Group. More >>

Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, welcomes James (Jim) C. Sullivan as a partner in the firm’s Kansas City office. Jim joins from Polsinelli, where he practiced in the firm’s complex commercial and employment litigation practices for nearly 30 years. More >>

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli announces today the expansion of its Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) Practice with the addition of four new attorneys. The group includes nationally prominent corporate and ESOP attorneys Robert Grossman and Wally Brockhoff, and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation attorney Jenny Cascone Mosh, as shareholders, and ESOP and corporate associate Angela Burnett. Grossman has been chosen to lead Polsinelli’s National ESOP Practice. More >>

Lewis Brisbois has boosted its Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practice by bringing on seasoned litigators Leonard B. Rose and Greer S. Lang as partners in its Kansas City, Missouri office. Mr. Rose and Ms. Lang both join from Kansas City-based law firm Lathrop Gage. More >>

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has expanded its real estate development capabilities with the addition of Richard W. Wood as shareholder in the firm’s national Real Estate & Financial Services Department. More >>

The international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP today announced that Victoria Westerhaus has joined the firm as a partner in the M&A and Corporate Finance and Securities & Corporate Governance Groups. Westerhaus will reside in the Kansas City office. More >>

Polsinelli is pleased to welcome accomplished attorney Michael Van Dyke as Senior Partner practicing in its Kansas City, Mo. headquarters office. Van Dyke brings more than 40 years of experience to the firm’s growing national Corporate and Transactional practice. More >>

Polsinelli welcomes Stephen J. Bahr as a Wealth Planning/Administration shareholder in its Kansas City headquarters office. Bahr brings more than 20 years of experience to the firm’s Business Department, with an extensive background in estate planning and business succession planning.

Bahr’s practice focuses on a variety of estate planning and business planning matters, including health care documents, powers of attorney, wills and trusts, business succession and estate and gift tax return preparation. He routinely provides counsel to high net worth individuals and families related to sensitive and complex estate and business planning issues. More >>

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Jeffrey D. Hanslick and Curtis R. Summers as shareholders in the Kansas City office. The addition of Hanslick and Summers, who were previously partners with Husch Blackwell, follows the arrival of shareholder Anthony Romano who made the move to Littler’s Kansas City office in August. More >>