Lowenstein Sandler has created a website with the sole purpose of advancing women and minorities in the legal profession. DiversityisNatural.com creates a safe space to host a discussion about diversity. The website will promote various tactics for employers and law firm’s to help increase diversity at work.
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Pirkey Barber LLP has hired Shannon T. Vale. Vale worked with the firm’s co-founders, Lou Pirkey and Bill Barber at Austin firm, Arnold White & Durkee. Pirkey & Barber left in 2006 to start their own firm. Vale has over 25 years of experience in trademark law. Pirkey Barber has also hired Alison Davis Frey, who has over 10 years of trademark experience.
Source: www.iptoday.com
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Sidley Austin has re-hired Daniel M. Price. Price was previously the International Economic Advisor to the White House. And prior to that, he led the International Trade and Dispute Resolution at Sidley Austin. Price received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1981.
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Henry J. DePippo is the latest addition to Kirkland & Ellis’s New York office. The attorney will focus his practice on white collar criminal defense and securities in the Litigation group. Prior to joining Kirkland, DePippo practice law at Nixon Peabody.
Source: www.securitiesdocket.com
Tags: Kirkland & Ellis LLP | New YorkGersten Savage has recruited Paul A. Rachmuth to join as partner. Rachmuth, who specializes in bankruptcy, has dumped Reed Smith for his new firm, Gersten. Rachmuth received his LL.M. in bankruptcy from St. John’s School of Law and earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law.
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Shearman & Sterling’s Dick Aldrich has switched over to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. Aldrich is to lead Skadden’s Sao Paulo office, presiding over its five permanent associates. Skadden lost its only Sao Paulo partner towards the end of 2008.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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Lovells has added attorney Anthony Raven as a partner in Tokyo. Raven joins the energy and projects group. Raven, previously with Herbert Smith, has had much experience in representing Japanese, as well as international clients. This makes Lovells fourth lateral in the last 12 months.
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Attorney Christopher Muessel has taken a position with firm Watson, Farley & Williams. Muessell will join the Singapore office from Duane Morris. He focuses his practice on project financing. Muessell brings the number of Watson, Farley’s Singapore partners up to seven.
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Alexey Kondratchik has rejoined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the firm’s Moscow office. Kondratchik focuses on corporate law, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and financing, and mergers and acquisitions.
Source: www.metrocorpcounsel.com
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | MoscowShibeer Ahmed, Lovells’ Dubai head, is jumping ship, but to where is still a mystery. Ahmed has spent nine years with Lovells. He has not announced where he is moving, but says that it will be another firm in Dubai. He will not be accompanied by any associates from Lovells.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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