Dentons adds Corporate partner Linda Parkis in Phoenix

Phoenix-Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces that Linda R. Parkis joins as a partner in the Corporate practice. She serves a wide range of clients, including insurance companies, equity investors, real estate developers, charter schools, hospitals and builders with their corporate and real estate needs. She is resident in the Firm’s Phoenix office. Ms. Parkis comes to Dentons from Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP.

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Prominent Energy M&A Partner Rejoins Latham in Houston

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Justin T. Stolte has returned to the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Stolte draws on a unique combination of technical, legal, and business experience regularly representing clients in complex transactions across the energy sector.Stolte rejoins Latham from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he was a partner in the Houston office.

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Nigel L. Wilkinson Joins Jackson Lewis in Washington, D.C. Region Office

Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the country’s preeminent workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Nigel L. Wilkinson has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. Region office as a Principal. Mr. Wilkinson focuses his practice on employment litigation and counseling, particularly in the areas of trade secret and wrongful competition litigation. Mr. Wilkinson previously practiced in the D.C. office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

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Clyde & Co hires three insurance partners in Melbourne

Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced the hire of three partners from Norton Rose Fulbright.

Nicole Wearne, Ganga Narayanan and Mark Attard will join the firm’s Melbourne office as partners. Their practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious insurance work in the areas of professional indemnity, Royal Commission and inquiries, class action defence and coverage claims work, D&O, life insurance, general liability, property, healthcare, personal injury, contentious regulatory response and risk advisory.

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Charleston Environmental/Mass Torts Litigation Attorney Yancey McLeod III Joins Womble Bond Dickinson

Experienced environmental law, toxic tort and product liability litigation attorney Yancey McLeod III is the newest member of the Womble Bond Dickinson team. McLeod has joined the firm’s Charleston office as a Partner. 

McLeod comes to Womble Bond Dickinson from Bouch McLeod LLC, a Charleston law firm he co-founded.

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Dean Nordlinger Joins Blank Rome as Corporate Partner in D.C.

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Dean S. Nordlinger has joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a Partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group, which welcomed Partner Stacy H. Louizos earlier this week in the New York office. Dean brings more than 20 years of experience representing privately held and closely held companies of all sizes, private equity firms, and entrepreneurs from a broad range of industries. Dean joins from Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., where he served as principal.

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Addleshaw Goddard Targets Senior Living With Leading Partner Hire

Addleshaw Goddard has recruited partner Rachel Orton into its London Real Estate team, in a move that builds upon its credentials in the Build to Rent (BTR) and Private Rented Sector (PRS), and focuses on the developing senior living asset class as investors become more active on an international scale.

Rachel, who was a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, has an established reputation in this field, having built a strong practice and client following over many years in the senior living space, acing for investors, developers and finance clients in the healthcare, retirement living and BTR sectors, advising on some of the most significant transactions in this space.

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Ogletree Deakins Deepens Wage and Hour Litigation Team, Adds Two Shareholders to Firm’s Southern California Offices

Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Paloma Peracchio and Mitch Wrosch, formerly partners at Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP., join the firm as shareholders in its Los Angeles and Orange County offices, respectively. Peracchio and Wrosch focus their practices almost exclusively on private sector wage and hour class and representative actions. The two join more than 125 California-based lawyers across Ogletree Deakins’ six offices in the state who represent management in labor and employment law matters.

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