Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that N. Richard “Dick” Janis has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practice. Prior to joining Manatt, Janis was a founding partner of and for more than 30 years managed the law firm of Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, one of Washington’s premier white collar criminal boutiques.

Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that Nicole D. Bogard has joined as a partner in the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Department in the Atlanta office. Bogard was previously with a boutique employee benefits law firm.

Dinsmore is pleased to announce that Michael Magee has joined the firm as a Partner in the Litigation Department and member of the Products Liability and Tort Practice Groups. He will practice in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Prior to joining the firm, Magee served as a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP where he served as Chair of the Litigation Defense/Toxic Tort Practice Group.

J. Caleb Boggs, III, a lawyer with more than two decades of experience in law, politics and public policy, has joined King & Spalding’s government advocacy and public policy practice as a partner in Washington, D.C. He is expected to concentrate on the financial services industry. Boggs comes to King & Spalding from Blank Rome LLP, where he was a partner.

International legal practice Norton Rose LLP has appointed structured finance specialist David Shearer as a partner in its London structured finance and capital markets practice. David was previously a partner in Allen & Overy’s structured finance group.

Shearman & Sterling has filed suit in the Court of Appeals in Rome on behalf of the Libyan Investment Authority, challenging the seizure by Italian judicial authorities of approximately €1 billion in LIA assets held in Italy (comprising principally its equity stakes in Italian-listed companies UniCredit, Eni and Finmeccanica). This seizure was carried out pursuant to a request from the International Criminal Court in the Hague, which is asserting that the assets in question are the personal property of the Gaddafi family. The LIA is asserting that these assets are now controlled by the Government of Libya on behalf of the Libyan people.