To fuel the continued growth of its Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice (FRI), global law firm White & Case LLP has added two new lateral partners in its New York office–Philip Abelson from Proskauer and David Turetsky from Skadden. More >>
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Dechert LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Singapore and English qualified Siew Kam Boon has joined the firm as a corporate partner based in Singapore. She was previously a partner at K&L Gates focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and emerging growth and venture capital. More >>
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Charles D. Tobin—a nationally recognized lawyer for the country’s leading media companies—has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in our Washington, D.C., office, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today. More >>
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Russell (Chip) A. Gaudreau III has joined the award-winning Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the firm’s New York City office. He joins from Reed Smith where he had been a partner since 2010, and member of the firm’s Life Sciences and Health Industry practice group. More >>
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Kathryn M.S. Catherwood has joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in the firm’s San Diego office. Catherwood is a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights, Commercial Litigation and Business Transactions Practice Groups. More >>
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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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