Elliot Dater Joins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP has announced that Elliot Dater has joined the Firm as partner in the Business Services Department. Mr. Dater will be located in the Pittsburgh office and represents Israeli companies doing business in the United States and U.S. companies and investors doing business in Israel, as well as emerging growth companies in the technology and medical device industries. His practice focuses on defense, technology and life sciences companies, investors in all stages of private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, commercial law, government contracting, and general corporate counseling. Mr. Dater is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he co-teaches the course, Law and Entrepreneurship.

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Four Attorneys Join Holland & Knight’s New Bogotá Office

Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that Juan Carlos Valencia Marquez, Vicente Umaña Carrizosa, and Felipe Sandoval Villamil have joined the firm as partners in the firm’s new Bogotá, Colombia office. Lucas Saffon López has also joined as an associate. Each attorney is admitted to practice law in Colombia.

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Morgan Lewis Strengthens Immigration Practice on West Coast

Morgan Lewis today announced that Malcolm Goeschl—a well-known Bay Area immigration lawyer—has joined the firm as a partner in its Labor and Employment Practice, resident in San Francisco. Mr. Goeschl has been an immigration lawyer for his entire career and specializes in the challenges facing emerging businesses that are founded by or that employ foreign talent.

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Vice-Chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Stephen Luparello to Join WilmerHale

WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Stephen Luparello, currently the vice-chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), will join the firm as a partner resident in its Washington DC, office on October 8, 2012. Luparello’s extensive career with FINRA, which regulates all securities firms doing business in the United States, and with its predecessor NASD Regulation, combined with his previous regulatory agency experience, will greatly enhance WilmerHale’s Broker-Dealer and Securities Litigation and Enforcement practices.

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Squire Sanders Strengthens Aviation and Finance Practice with New Partner in Tokyo

Global legal practice Squire Sanders announced today that Hisao Hirose has joined the Tokyo office as Partner in the firm’s Financial Services Practice Group. Mr. Hirose is a highly regarded legal expert in aircraft finance, whose clients include leading Japanese leasing companies, major banks and major airlines as well as low cost carriers (LCCs). Mr. Hirose will play a key role in Squire Sanders’ global aviation industry group and lead in the strategic growth of the practice in Japan and Asia-Pacific.

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Experienced Patent Infringement Litigator Paul Storm Joins Gardere in Dallas

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of intellectual property litigator Paul Storm as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. He joins Gardere’s prominent roster of trial lawyers, bringing his extensive experience and significant courtroom expertise in trying patent infringement cases as well as copyright, trade secret, and trademark disputes.

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