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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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes intellectual property partners Roger C. Kuan and Jason J. Novak to its Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, respectively. They join K&L Gates from Thermo Fisher Scientific, where they each served as Director/IP Counsel, helping to manage the company’s intellectual property team and matters. More >>
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DLA Piper announced today it has opened an office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, expanding the firm’s growing presence and capabilities in the Americas. The office will be initially comprised of partners Nikos Buxeda, Miriam de Lourdes Figueroa, José Alberto Sosa-Lloréns and Manuel López-Zambrana, each of whom have deep roots in Puerto Rico and extensive experience on a wide range of public and private transactions. Buxeda will serve as the office’s managing partner. More >>
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David H. Landau—an attorney who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, and other transactions for public and private companies and private equity funds—has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in our New York office, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today. More >>
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International law firm Simmons & Simmons expands its international arbitration group with the appointment of Stuart Dutson who will join the firm as a partner. More >>
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National law firm Polsinelli announced today it has expanded its presence on the West Coast with the addition of Daniel W. Bir, the latest in the series of recent hires. Bir joined the firm’s national Products Liability and Toxic and Mass Tort litigation teams as a principal in its Los Angeles office. More >>
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Chad Peterman, a patent and antitrust litigation lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property practice, based in New York. He joins from Patterson Belknap, where he was a partner. His arrival continues a stream of new additions to the firm, such as Hiro Hagiwara and Hassen Sayed, M.D., who joined the firm’s IP practice earlier in July. More >>
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has announced today that Paul Stothard has joined the firm as partner. His practice will be based in London and Dubai. More >>
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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Robert M. Masters has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Masters’ practice is focused on patent litigation, specifically in the technology sector. He routinely handles patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark/trade dress litigations. In addition to his litigation experience, Mr. Masters has worked on mergers and acquisitions, advising clients with respect to intellectual property assets and portfolio management and monetization; he has also represented clients in licensing negotiations. More >>
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