Global law firm K&L Gates LLP continues to bolster its energy, infrastructure and resources practice area with the hire of Owen Chio as a partner in the Taipei office. Chio joins K&L Gates from KPMG Law Firm, where he was a global co-leader of the compliance practice. More >>
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Salvador Fonseca González has joined Holland & Knight as a partner to head the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice in Mexico City. He was formerly head of the litigation and arbitration practice in Baker McKenzie’s Mexico City office. More >>
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today the opening of an office in Dallas – the firm’s eleventh in the United States and sixteenth worldwide. More >>
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Ryan Sakacs has joined Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP as Special Counsel in the firm’s Commercial Litigation group.
Mr. Sakacs has extensive experience with prescription drug and pharmaceutical matters, including matters involving opioids. He has advised District Attorneys’ offices and police departments on the laws governing prescription drug investigations and enforcement, and counseled practitioners, pharmacists, and healthcare employees on prescription drug compliance issues. More >>
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Linklaters is pleased to announce the addition of market leading lawyer, Bas Jennen, who will be joining the firm’s Financial Regulatory Group as a partner. He will be based in the Amsterdam office and joins from Allen & Overy. Bas specialises in financial regulatory and compliance matters. Bas will join Linklaters on 1 May. More >>
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Clark Hill, an international, full-service legal and professional services firm with more than 450 lawyers in 17 offices, and Strasburger & Price, a highly respected firm with nearly 200 lawyers in 9 offices in Texas, New York, Washington, DC and Mexico City, today announced plans to merge with an effective date in the second quarter of 2018. Together the two firms will have more than 200 years of combined history providing legal services to clients. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the continued growth of the Chicago office with intellectual property litigators Timothy Sendek, former leader of the IP Litigation Team at a regional law firm, and Darrick Hooker. They each join Akerman as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and bolster its capabilities in Chicago. The office has become a key center for global IP matters, with strengths in patent and trade secret litigation, patent prosecution and counseling in the United States, Asia and Europe. More >>
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Morgan Lewis today welcomes employee benefits partner Daniel R. Salemi, who assists clients throughout the United States in virtually all economic sectors. Mr. Salemi, who arrives from a Chicago labor and employment law firm, will be resident in Morgan Lewis’s Chicago office. More >>
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Jones Day continues to expand its Global Disputes Practice in Europe with the arrival of litigation and arbitration lawyer Elie Kleiman to the Firm’s Paris Office. Mr. Kleiman, who has worked extensively during recent years on international arbitration matters, joins Jones Day as a partner in the Global Disputes Practice. More >>
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