Wesley Yang, a tax attorney and certified public accountant, joined Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC as a partner. He has 30 years’ experience in international tax and estate planning, corporate/commercial matters, nonprofit and health care tax issues, and the environmental and energy fields. Rawle & Henderson also gained two new partners; Michael D. Heintzman and Jeanne Welch Sopher joined the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Heintzman specializes in the defense of product liability, medical malpractice and toxic tort cases. He joins the firm after 14 years of being a partner with Heintzman, Warren, Wise & Fornella P.C. Sopher’s practice focuses on medical professional liability, toxic tort and product liability.
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is moving from its 165,000 square foot space at 155 N. Wacker in Chicago to 333 W. Wacker. The new office takes up six floors, or about 15 per cent of the building. Areas of practice in the Chicago office include negotiated acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, contested takeovers, public and private equity and debt financing, leveraged leasing, restructuring and reorganization, federal income tax work, large-scale litigation, communications, and real estate finance, development and restructuring. Skadden’s Chicago office is just one of the firm’s 22 offices worldwide.
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Pepper Hamilton has added to its IP group again – this time the lawyers come from Cozen O’Connor. Earlier this month, five other IP attorneys joined the Boston office. From Cozen, partners Mark DeLuca and Paul K. Legaard joined the firm’s Berwyn, PA, office and were followed by four other intellectual property attorneys and one patent agent. DeLuca commented that he and the group wanted a firm with a more active life sciences business practice. Sources from Pepper Hamilton report that the firm still is seeking to expand its intellectual property practice; likewise, Cozen is looking for replacements for its losses in the IP department.
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Dinsmore & Shohl is gaining four new partners from the toxic torts practice of Pittsburgh-based Thorp Reed & Armstrong. James Zeszutek, Michael R. Bucci Jr. and P.J. Murray of the Pittsburgh office, and Denise D. Klug of the firm’s Wheeling, West Virginia office will join the firm, proabably along with some associates. The partners met Dinsmore attorneys last year while the two firms were in merger talks; though the merger did not materialize, the partners maintained connections with the firm. All of the partners except for Klug will move into Dinsmore’s Pittsburgh office; Klug will work in Wheeling. Dinsmore & Shohl has 300 attorneys in offices in Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky.
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