Latham & Watkins LLP continues to add firepower to its litigation bench and strengthen its team of esteemed trial lawyers in New York, welcoming partners Joseph Serino and Eric Leon to the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department, in the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice. Both are seasoned litigators, with wide-ranging experience in complex commercial litigation as well as antitrust, securities and trade secret matters, among others. Serino and Leon join Latham from Kirkland & Ellis in New York. While most of their representations are defense-side oriented, Serino and Leon have also together handled several high-profile plaintiff-side cases and won VerdictSearch Top 100 jury trial awards in back-to-back years. More >>

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Jared Rusman has joined the Firm as a tax partner in the New York office. Mr. Rusman joins Kirkland from the Dallas office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he was a partner in the tax department. More >>