Mayer Brown announced today that Emilie Vasseur has joined the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice as a partner in Paris. Emilie joins Mayer Brown from Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier. More >>
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Winston & Strawn Adds Litigator Sandra Edwards in San Francisco
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Sandra A. Edwards as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. As a civil trial attorney and former Assistant District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco, Sandra brings to the firm extensive trial experience in federal and state court, particularly in the areas of product liability, toxic torts, and environmental litigation. Sandra joins Winston from Farella Braun & Martel LLP, where she was the Consumer Products and Manufacturing Industry Group Leader and former Chair of the Environmental and Product Law Department. More >>
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Rising Star Litigation Partner Joins Womble Bond Dickinson
Womble Bond Dickinson has strengthened its Product Liability Litigation practice in the firm’s Atlanta office with the addition of Sara Tucker, a veteran mass torts litigator with deep experience in medical device and pharmaceutical litigation. Tucker comes to Womble Bond Dickinson from Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Atlanta office, where, she distinguished herself as an elite trial lawyer defending high-stakes mass tort and multi-district cases. More >>
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King & Spalding’s New York Office Adds Corporate Partner Jonathan Arkins
King & Spalding today announced that Jonathan Arkins has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its New York office. Arkins joins the firm from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. More >>
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Lawrence McNamara Re-Joins FordHarrison’s Dallas, TX Office as Partner
FordHarrison LLP, one of the country’s largest management-side labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce that Lawrence (Larry) J. McNamara has re-joined the Dallas, TX office as partner. Larry served as the Dallas office managing partner for two years before going in-house for Tesoro Corporation (now Marathon Petroleum Company). More >>
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Ashurst Boosts Investigations Capability With London Partner Hire
Ruby joins from Freshfields’ disputes, litigation and arbitration practice. Specialising in white-collar crime, financial regulation, global investigations and risk and compliance, Ruby advises corporate clients across a wide range of matters. She is experienced in multi-jurisdictional investigations and matters with multi-agency involvement, and has defended clients under investigation for global corruption, accounting irregularities, tax fraud, and money laundering. More >>
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Patent Attorney Ted Barthel Joins Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee Office
The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that Ted Barthel has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group as a partner in its Milwaukee office. Barthel joins the firm from the Milwaukee office of Husch Blackwell. More >>
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Kelly Lippincott and Damon Wright Join Gordon & Rees as Partners in the Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, VA Offices
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Kelly M. Lippincott and Damon W. D. Wright as partners in the Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, VA offices. Lippincott will also be a partner in the Baltimore, Maryland office. Lippincott was previously with Carr Maloney P.C. in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Wright joins the firm from the D.C. office of Venable, LLP. More >>
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Morgan Lewis Adds Three Partner Corporate Restructuring, Transactional Finance Team
Morgan Lewis announced today that three veteran finance lawyers are reuniting as partners at the global law firm. Joining from Bracewell, Kurt Mayr and Jennifer Feldsher focus on corporate restructuring. Joining from Proskauer, Kristen Campana focuses on transactional finance with significant restructuring experience. All three once practiced together at Bracewell. Several members of their team will be joining the firm. More >>
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Kennedys Grows Presence in Portugal With Merger
We are pleased to announce that we have grown our presence in Portugal by merging with boutique Portuguese firm N. Maldonado Sousa & Associados. The merged firm will move into our existing Lisbon office in the centre of the city. Nuno Maldonado Sousa, the sole partner of N. Maldonado Sousa & Associados, joins us as a partner along with two associates, Gabriela Rei and Carla Almeida Cruz. More >>
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