Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Leiza Dolghih to its Dallas office as a partner in the Employment & Labor Practice. With more than a decade of experience, Dolghih’s practice focuses on prosecuting and defending misappropriation of trade secrets and breaches of non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. More >>
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Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to welcome Tara McGraw Swaminatha to the firm as a partner in the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. She joins from DLA Piper LLP and previously served as a federal prosecutor in the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice (DOJ). She is recognized in The Legal 500 Cyber Law category, where she is “commended for her experience in high-profile data breach investigations” and “understands forensics and is able to digest technical reports in a meaningful and actionable way.” Ms. Swaminatha’s addition marks the latest in a series of recent hires the firm has made to its cybersecurity practice across the US, Europe and Asia. More >>
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Polsinelli announced Frank T. Spano joined as a shareholder in its New York office. Spano brings extensive domestic and international consumer class action and arbitration experience to the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice. Prior to joining Polsinelli, Spano was a partner in the law firm Hogan Lovells. More >>
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Michael Austin has returned to the firm as a partner in its Miami office. Early in his legal career, Mr. Austin spent more than a decade at McDermott and is now re-joining the Firm in its Litigation Practice Group. He will focus his practice on complex commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on providing litigation services to clients in the health industry and private equity sector. More >>
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Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of partners Richard E. (Rick) Wallace Jr. and Peter C. (Pete) Condron to the firm’s Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation Group. Wallace and Condron are recognized trial lawyers in commercial, toxic tort, product liability, and environmental matters, and they are among the foremost litigators handling high-exposure environmental litigation brought by state attorneys general, municipalities, consumer advocates, and plaintiffs. Their arrival strengthens Crowell & Moring’s capabilities to defend clients in product liability and environmental litigation in courts across the United States. More >>
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Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, has strengthened its Energy practice in Russia and CIS with the recruitment of partner Louis Skyner. He joins from Clifford Chance, where as Head of the Russia and CIS Oil and Gas practice, he advised major energy players such as Lukoil, Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, Shell, and Mubadala Petroleum. Prior to that, he served as Leading Legal Counsel at Statoil and as Senior Legal Counsel at Petroleum Geo-Services. More >>
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Erica Williams and Marian Fowler have joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office as partners. Ms. Williams joins the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group and Ms. Fowler joins the Investment Funds Group. More >>
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Clifford Chance today announced that Michael Sabin has joined the Firm’s Corporate team as a partner in New York. Sabin’s practice focuses on advising sponsors of private investment funds on structuring and formation matters. Sabin joins Clifford Chance from Debevoise & Plimpton, where he acted for a variety of fund sponsors, including buyout, real estate, energy, infrastructure and credit opportunities funds, and hedge funds. He also has advised on fund restructurings, management joint ventures, the funds portion of asset manager M&A and management carried interest arrangements. More >>
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Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce Elizabeth G. Myers has joined the Firm’s Austin office as a Partner in the Trial Practice Group. More >>
Tags: Thompson & Knight LLP | AustinPolsinelli announced today that intellectual property litigator Taras Gracey joined as a shareholder in its Chicago office.
Gracey brings over 20 years of experience to the firm’s growing Intellectual Property Department, which is comprised of more than 120 attorneys, patent agents and scientists coast to coast. Gracey focuses his practice on litigating patent issues in the pharmaceutical and technology sectors, most notably as part of the team that successfully challenged a patent on the antidepressant Prozac. His arrival further strengthens the firm’s position as a market-leader in Hatch-Waxman litigation and opinion work.
“Taras is an exciting addition to our growing team,” said Intellectual Property Litigation Chair Gary Hood. “He brings great insight and experience to our Hatch-Waxman group, having litigated numerous ANDA cases and taken many to trial for generic pharmaceutical clients. He also adds a broader perspective on technology matters in other cutting-edge sectors, such as semiconductors and mobile display units.”
Polsinelli has 20 offices nationwide. Gracey’s arrival in Chicago overlaps with the addition of a renowned team of life sciences patent attorneys there and adds to the current growth seen across Polsinelli’s IP team, including other new hires over the past six months in Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Earlier this year, recognizing the increased client focus on IP, Polsinelli announced that it elevated Intellectual Property as a fourth Service Department to serve alongside Polsinelli’s existing Business, Litigation, and Real Estate and Financial Services Departments.
“Polsinelli is a natural place for me to be at this point in my career,” Gracey said. “There’s such enthusiasm for continuing to build this world-class practice while also providing a range of business-minded regulatory and transactional services to support clients in the pharmaceutical and other technology-driven industries.”
Gracey is a graduate of Duke University School of Law and the University of California, Berkeley.
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