The London office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added a leading energy disputes team consisting of partners Jeremy Farr, Charles Lockwood, and Clare Kempkens. They join K&L Gates from Ince & Co, where their combined experience totaled almost 70 years and where Farr served as the global head of the firm’s energy practice. More >>
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Prominent litigation attorney and lobbyist George Meros has joined Holland & Knight’s Tallahassee office as a partner. He was formerly a shareholder at GrayRobinson. More >>
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Jack I. Siegal has joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in the firm’s Boston office. Siegal is member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditor’s Rights, Employment, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Appellate and Intellectual Property practice groups. Siegal was previously with Devine Millimet’s Boston office. More >>
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Scott E. Wortman has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Consumer Finance Litigation group in the New York office. At Blank Rome, Mr. Wortman will serve as a litigator and counselor to clients facing scrutiny under consumer financial protection statutes and regulations at both the federal and state level, including individual and class action defense, regulatory proceedings, and administrative investigations. He joins Blank Rome from Warshaw Burstein LLP. More >>
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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today the launch of its Family Law practice with the addition of four partners from Lindquist & Vennum in Minneapolis. The group is comprised of partners Karen Schreiber, practice chair; Sonja Trom Eayrs; Brittany Stephens Pearson; and Gloria Myre. More >>
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Bennet & Bennet, PLLC, a D.C.-area communications and technology law firm, has joined Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP. Led by Carri Bennet and Michael Bennet, the seven-lawyer Bennet & Bennet team practices in Womble Bond Dickinson’s Washington, D.C. office. More >>
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Henry Wheare, a noted intellectual property lawyer whose career has spanned more than four decades, has joined Nixon Peabody CWL in Hong Kong as a partner. More >>
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today that Paul Helms, former senior counsel at the SEC Enforcement Division, has joined the Firm as a partner in the Chicago office. Helms will represent corporations, financial institutions, investment firms, directors, officers and other individuals in internal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and securities litigation, strengthening McDermott’s litigation team in areas involving increasingly significant and complex challenges for clients. More >>
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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Natalie Tynan to its national labor and employment practice. Tynan joins the firm’s immigration group as a senior attorney in Washington. More >>
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John M. Clerici has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Corporate Services and Government Contracts teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Washington, D.C. office. More >>
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