BakerHostetler Adds Second U.S. Attorney to Chambers-ranked White Collar Team

Monday, May 1, 2017

BakerHostetler today announced that Carole S. Rendon, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, has joined BakerHostetler as a partner in the Cleveland office. Rendon served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the past seven and a half years as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and, since Feb. 6, 2016, as the United States Attorney, a position in which she was a nationally recognized leader in confronting cybersecurity challenges and the opioid epidemic. Rendon was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on July 14, 2016. She, along with her remaining U.S. Attorney colleagues, resigned at the direction of the Trump administration on March 10, 2017. Rendon joins former colleague Steven Dettelbach, providing BakerHostetler with one of the strongest White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations practices in the country. More >>

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Gibson Dunn Adds Six Leading Energy Partners to Newly Opened Houston Office

Friday, April 28, 2017

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce the addition of six leading energy partners as founders of the firm’s newly opened Houston office. They were all former partners with Baker Botts L.L.P. They join the two renowned oil and gas transactional partners who are also founders of the Houston office and joined earlier this year.   Gibson Dunn’s new Texas-based energy team has the full range of transactional experience and abilities to serve energy clients in their most important and complex transactions.  More >>

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Morgan Lewis Expands Global Investigations and Disputes Team with Two Partners in London

Friday, April 28, 2017

Morgan Lewis has announced that Chris Warren-Smith and Melanie Ryan are joining the firm as partners in London, strengthening the firm’s robust global team of white collar litigation and investigations lawyers. They will come to Morgan Lewis from the London office of another law firm, where Mr. Warren-Smith was global head of investigations. Mr. Warren-Smith will serve in a global leadership role in Morgan Lewis’s global white collar, corporate investigations, and sanctions practice. More >>

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