K&L Gates has hired a talented litigator from Bracewell & Giuliani. Carol Elder Bruce joins the Washington office. Bruce was a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia from 1975 to 1985.
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Ford & Harrison has boosted its Denver office with the hire of Shella Neba. Neba joins the firm as an associate from Faegre & Benson. She graduated from the University of Michigan Law School.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has snagged a corporate partner from Hogan Lovells’ Moscow office. Suren Gortsunyan specializes in M&A, capital markets, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He joins the international corporate transactions practice.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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Squire Sanders & Dempsey has announced its plan to close its Tallahassee office on October 1st. The four residing lawyers will transfer to one of Squire’s other Florida offices. The firm’s decision to close this office rested largely on the loss of Jim Krog, who died in 2008.
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has landed a group of Labor and Employment partners from Seyfarth Shaw. Amongst the group is Thomas R. Kaufman, co-chair of Seyfarth’s national wage/hour class action practice. Joining him are Michael L. Gallion and Gregg A. Fisch. All three join Sheppard’s Los Angeles office.
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Cooley nabbed a Capital Markets partner from Proskauer Rose. Ian Blumenstein joins Cooley’s New York office. Prior to joining Proskauer in 2006, Blumenstein practice with Latham & Watkins.
Source: www.nylj.com
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Littler Mendelson P.C. has hired a renowned international employment lawyer in New York. Philip Berkowitz has joined the firm as a shareholder. Berkowitz previously practiced with Nixon Peabody.
Source: www.sunherald.com
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Norton Rose is on an a hiring spree in Asia it seems. The firm hired two lateral Intellectual Property partners for its Hong Kong office. Gigi Cheah and Justin Davidson have joined the firm DLA Piper. The addition of these two partners brings Norton’s Hong Kong partner count to 18.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is taking on four attorneys from the Law Offices of Claudia Wagner LLC, including its namesake. Claudia Wagner joins Manatt’s New York office as co-chair of the government practice. October 1st will be the lateral group’s first day.
Source: www.nylj.com
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Jackson Walker has boosted its Houston office with the addition of Shawn R. O’Brien. O’Brian joins the firm’s tax group as partner. He received his J.D. from Loyola University School of Law and he received LL.M. From in Taxation from New York University School of Law.
Source: www.openpr.com
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