Greenberg Traurig’s Salt Lake City Office Nearly Doubles with Leading IP Team

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has hired a group of 19 Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice attorneys and patent agents, more than half of whom will be in the firm’s Salt Lake City office, which first opened less than three years ago. New Shareholders Bryan K. Hanks and Jonathan R. Lee, both registered patent attorneys with electrical engineering backgrounds, will spend time in the firm’s Salt Lake City and Phoenix offices. Eleven of the attorneys on the team will be based in Salt Lake City, nearly doubling the number of attorneys in that office. The 31-person team, which includes specialist engineers and business staff, joined from FisherBroyles LLP.

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Holland & Knight Strengthens its Global Energy Practice with Acquisition of Transactional & Regulatory Team

Holland & Knight announced today that a nationally recognized team of nine partners with extensive experience in the energy industry have joined the firm from Eversheds. The team is led by energy and renewables partner Ram Sunkara in Houston and tax partner Amish Shah in Washington, D.C. The group also includes partners Jackson Allen and Kyle Wamstad in Atlanta; Joshua Belcher and Ronnie Dabbasi in Houston; Madeleine Tan in New York; and Alexander Holtan and Susan Lafferty in Washington, D.C. 

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Kilpatrick Townsend Adds Leading Litigator; Brings Bi-Coastal Practice to Firm

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that Evan Nadel will be joining the firm as a partner and working from the New York and San Francisco offices as a member of the nationally recognized Complex Commercial Litigation Team. Mr. Nadel will be Co-Chair of Kilpatrick Townsend’s Class Action Practice Group. He joins the firm from Mintz where he was Co-Chair of the Class Action Practice Group. 

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Vinson & Elkins Expands Executive Compensation and Employment Practices with Addition of Partners Patricia Adams, Joo Hyun Lee and Rebecca Baker

Vinson & Elkins announced today the addition of three partners to the firm: Patricia Adams and Joo Hyun Lee join the Executive Compensation practice in New York, while Labor & Employment partner Rebecca Baker joins the firm’s Houston office. Both join V&E from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

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