Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Vanessa Spiro as a finance partner in the Pittsburgh and New York offices. Spiro practiced most recently in the New York office of Jones Day. More >>

Vedder Price is pleased to announce that Blythe E. Lovinger has joined the firm as a Shareholder in the Labor and Employment (L&E) group in the New York office. More >>

Eugene R. Licker—a well-known litigator who focuses on consumer finance cases, securities litigation and enforcement, and white-collar defense—has joined Ballard Spahr in the firm’s New York office, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that commercial litigator James (Jim) Sottile has joined the Firm’s Business & Tort Litigation Practice as a partner in its New York Office. More >>

King & Spalding has recruited Jeffrey A. Misher as a partner to its Global Finance practice in New York. Misher will focus on advising U.S. and international banks and financial institutions on a selection of structured finance and leveraged finance matters. Misher joins from Kaye Scholer and follows on from last month’s recruitment of Terry D. Novetsky in New York. More >>

Arlo Devlin-Brown, most recently the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and one of its top securities fraud prosecutors, will join Covington as a partner in its white collar defense and investigations practice. He will be resident in the firm’s New York office. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP recently made two strategic hires in its New York Corporate & Securities Practice with the addition of shareholders Audry X. Casusol and Richard C. Kim. Before joining the firm, Casusol and Kim practiced at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, respectively. More >>

International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted to announce that well-regarded litigator Joshua Sohn has joined its New York office as a partner, along with a team of three associates and one paralegal. More >>