Ben Morgan Will Become a Partner in the Corporate Crime and Global Investigations Practice of Freshfields

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Morgan as a partner in its corporate crime and global investigations practice. Benwill join Freshfields from the Serious Fraud Office where he is joint-Head of Bribery and Corruption reporting to the Director of the SFO, David Green QC. More >>

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Polsinelli Continues California Expansion Adding Nationally-Recognized Intellectual Property Attorney Kory Christensen

Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, announced Kory Christensen, an accomplished intellectual property attorney, joined as shareholder in its San Francisco office. Christensen is the most recent of several attorneys to join Polsinelli’s California offices this year, adding to the firm’s intellectual property strength on the West Coast. More >>

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Prominent Tax Controversy Lawyer Gary Wilcox Joins Mayer Brown’s Washington DC Office

Mayer Brown announced today that Gary Wilcox has joined its Tax Controversy & Transfer Pricing practice as a partner in Washington DC. Before coming to Mayer Brown, Mr. Wilcox held leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and another international law firm, and served as the Deputy Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). More >>

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Earl M. Forte Joins Gordon & Rees as Partner in Philadelphia Office

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced that Earl M. Forte has joined the firm’s Philadelphia office as a partner. Forte brings more than 25 years of experience handling commercial litigation and disputes, financial restructuring and insolvency matters for clients and will be instrumental in expanding Commercial Litigation practice in Gordon Rees’s Philadelphia office. More >>

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Eversheds Sutherland Adds Electric Regulatory Partner Joseph Hall; Continues Expansion of Energy and Infrastructure Practice

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is pleased to announce that Joseph Hall has joined the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group as a partner in the Washington DC office. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland (US), Mr. Hall served as partner and co-chair of Dorsey & Whitney’s Energy Industry Group. More >>

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John Rah joins DLA Piper’s Litigation practice in Washington, DC

DLA Piper announced today that healthcare and life sciences compliance lawyer John Rah has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in Washington, DC. Mr. Rah, who previously was a partner at Morgan Lewis, is the latest addition to the firm’s growing Litigation practice in Washington, DC, which recently welcomed Matthew Graves, Raphael Larson and Louis Ramos. More >>

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Winston & Strawn’s New Dallas Office, Still Growing, Adds Partners

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to welcome three more partners as part of an impressive litigation team joining the firm’s recently opened Dallas office.  Geoffrey Harper, Michael Bittner, and Chad Walker, who join the firm from Fish & Richardson, are a talented addition to the group that will handle complex commercial, business, and intellectual property litigation matters. More >>

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