Ronald Sum has joined Locke Lord’s Hong Kong office as a Partner in the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. He will be the Firm’s Head of Arbitration, East Asia. Sum and his team, including Of Counsel Daniel Lee and Trainee Solicitor Beryl Wu, will help grow and strengthen the Firm’s Hong Kong office and International Arbitration Practice. More >>
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Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Attorney Susan O’Toole has joined the firm’s Detroit office as Of Counsel.
Ms. O’Toole has over 30 years of experience working with financial services clients with regard to treasury management, retail operations, commercial deposits, mortgage loan servicing acquisitions, and litigation. Prior to joining Dickinson Wright, she served as in-house legal counsel for PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. and LaSalle Bank Corporation.
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that leading litigation attorney Sandra Goldstein has joined the New York office as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. Ms. Goldstein joins the Firm from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where she was a partner in the litigation department and the firm’s former head of litigation. Stefan Atkinson also has joined Kirkland from Cravath, as an equity partner in litigation. More >>
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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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