Cooley is further expanding its patent counseling & prosecution practice with the addition of Mika Reiner Mayer’s team from Morrison & Foerster LLP. The team includes lawyer and licensed medical doctor Walter Wu, who joins the firm as a partner. Wu earned his MD from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine and his JD from UCLA School of Law. More >>
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Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Monte A. Jackel, a respected practitioner in the area of partnership taxation, has joined Akin Gump as senior counsel in its tax practice in Washington. More >>
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Orrick announced today that Robert Hollander, an authority on bankruptcy and corporate restructuring matters, has joined the firm’s restructuring group. He will be based in the New York office. More >>
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Lisa Prager and Lara Covington have joined Holland & Knight as partners in the firm’s National White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. Ms. Prager and Ms. Covington focus on government investigations and enforcement actions relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). They come to Holland & Knight from Schulte Roth & Zabel and will reside in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C., offices respectively. More >>
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National law firm Wilson Elser announced today that Michael Lowry has joined the firm’s Las Vegas office as a partner. More >>
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Garen E. Dodge has joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Labor and Employment practice group. Dodge joins from Jackson Lewis P.C. where he led the firm’s Government Relations practice and was co-coordinator of the firm’s Government Contracts and Background Checks industry groups. More >>
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Real estate and land use attorney Michael Phalen has joined Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Transactions practice group. More >>
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to grow its Washington, D.C. office with the addition of former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Division Senior Officer Elaine C. Greenberg as a shareholder in the firm’s Litigation Practice. More >>
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Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Andrew Hurst has joined the firm’s Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice as partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Hurst joins Foley with more than two decades of experience litigating matters related to civil fraud and white collar criminal defense. More >>
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Prominent employment and labor attorneys Eric L. Barnum and James D. Levine have joined the Employment and Labor Group as partners, resident in the Atlanta office of BakerHostetler. Barnum and Levine join more than 50 attorneys in Atlanta who practice in the areas of healthcare, intellectual property, corporate, real estate, litigation and tax. Barnum joins from Schiff Hardin, where he served as the leader of that firm’s Labor & Employment Law Practice Group. Levine, a Chambers-ranked immigration attorney, joins from Dentons. More >>
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