Erin McCloskey Maus Joins Venable’s Product Liability and Mass Torts Group in the Chicago Office

Venable LLP is pleased to announce that Erin McCloskey Maus has joined the firm as a partner in the Product Liability and Mass Torts Practice in the Chicago office. Ms. Maus is an accomplished litigator with a demonstrated history of trial success representing international and domestic clients; she arrives at Venable after over twenty years at Baker & McKenzie LLP.

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Greenberg Traurig’s Salt Lake City Office Nearly Doubles with Leading IP Team

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has hired a group of 19 Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice attorneys and patent agents, more than half of whom will be in the firm’s Salt Lake City office, which first opened less than three years ago. New Shareholders Bryan K. Hanks and Jonathan R. Lee, both registered patent attorneys with electrical engineering backgrounds, will spend time in the firm’s Salt Lake City and Phoenix offices. Eleven of the attorneys on the team will be based in Salt Lake City, nearly doubling the number of attorneys in that office. The 31-person team, which includes specialist engineers and business staff, joined from FisherBroyles LLP.

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Double Boost for European Patent Litigation Practice: Clifford Chance Announces Two Renowned Lateral Hires

International law firm Clifford Chance expands its German IP practice led by Claudia Milbradt with two renowned IP lawyers: On 1 January 2023 Tobias J. Hessel and Stefan Richter will join the firm in the Düsseldorf office and further strengthen the German and European IP practice with their specialist expertise and market experience. Both come from the European IP boutique Hoyng Rokh Monegier. Counsel Thomas Misgaiski will join them.

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Quinn Emanuel Expands SEC Enforcement Practice, Adding Former National Asset Management Chief Dabney O’Riordan

Cementing its leadership position in securities enforcement defense, global litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP today announced that C. Dabney O’Riordan has joined the firm as a partner, resident in the Firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. O’Riordan joins Quinn Emanuel from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she led the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit (AMU) for over six years.

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