Jule Rousseau and Elliott Kroll are leaving their firm, Herrick, Feinstein in New York, to join another New York firm, Arent Fox. Rousseau and Kroll start June 1^st. Both partners practice insurance law.

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Haynes and Boone has boosted its New York office with the hire of Louis M. Solomon. Solomon comes from Dechert LLP. He joins as a partner.

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Kenneth A. Raskin has joined King & Spalding as a partner and chair of the firm’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice. He will be stationed at the New York office branch. Raskin joins from White & Case.

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WilmerHale has taken on a new partner in New York. Andrew E. Nagel joined the firm and will practice in the Corporate and Transactional Department. Nagel joins from Kirkland & Ellis.

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Ken Ziman almost made the switch from Simpson Thacher to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom without anyone noticing. Neither firm released a press release discussing the move. Ziman joined Skadden last week as a restructuring partner.

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Chadbourne & Parke LLP has hired Lori Hoberman as the leader of its newest practice group: Emerging Company/Venture Capital (EC/VC). Hoberman joins the New York office from Fish & Richardson P.C. She received her J.D. from New York University in 1989.

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DLA Piper has added a ‘Dealmaker of the Year’ from Nixon Peabody. Peter White was given said honor for his successful aiding in the financing of two new Major League ballparks in 2007. White joins DLA’s sports and entertainment group.

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has made a huge lateral hire with 16 attorneys joining its New York office. Gregory S. Katz, is one of the 16; he the was deputy managing partner of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicke’s New york office. The total group consists of six partners, three counsel, and seven associates.

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Sidley Austin LLP has added a lateral tax partner to its New York office. Richard A. Leavy has joined the firm. He received his L.L.M. From New York University and his J.D. From Rutgers School of Law.

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has snagged a big one from DLA Piper. Drew G.L. Chapman, head of DLA Piper’s alternative asset management group, is joining Cadwalader’s New York branch. Chapman will be in charge of his new firm’s hedge fund practice.

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