Latham & Watkins’ former global vice chair of litigation has been hired by WilmerHale. Robert J. Gunther joins WilmerHale’s New York office as a partner in the intellectual property litigation group. Gunther, a veteran patent trial lawyer, was previously also the global chair of Latham’s IP, media and technology practice. WilmerHale has long been known for its strength in IP and IP litigation; the firm is looking to expand its 150-lawyer NY office.
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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has snagged a pair of fashion law attorneys from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo. Theodore Max joins the firm as a partner, and special counsel Charles LeGrand will make the move as well; both lawyers will work in the New York office. Max specializes in intellectual property litigation, specifically transactional and licensing matters in the fashion industry. Max’s clients are some of the finest designers in the world, including Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, and Emilio Pucci.
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Harry Rubin has left Heller Ehrman for Ropes & Gray; he joins as a corporate partner and a partner in its Fish & Neave IP Group. William Stelwagon, a corporate and private equities attorney, has joined Fulbright & Jaworski as a senior counsel. Stelwagon was formerly employeed by Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Margaret Pierri left her partnership with the Fish & Neave IP Group of Ropes & Gray for Morrison & Foerster, where she will be a senior of counsel in the patent, life sciences, and litigation groups.
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Goodwin Proctor is relocating its New York office to The New York Times building, at 620 Eighth Avenue. Joining fellow law firms Seyfarth Shaw, Covington & Burling and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, the firm will occupy the 23rd-27th, 29th, and 30th floors. The 216,000 square foot office will provide Goodwin with more space to accomodate its growing NY office; there are currently 150 employees there, but the firm expects to grow to 300 in the next eight years. Along with giving more space, the new office will also allow the firm to build a full-sized conference center and reception/catering area on the 26th floor and have access to the property’s auditorium and cafe on the ground floor.
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Dewey Ballantine has hired two more corporate partners from the New York office of Reed Smith. Following two other former Reed Smith lawyers, John J. Altorelli and Jeffrey A. Potash, Patrick de Carbuccia and Alexander G. Fraser are joining Dewey as partners in the structured finance group. De Carbuccia and Fraser both focus on general corporate transactions, with a particular emphasis on private equity funds. Dewey is working on building up its structured finance practice in anticipation of the increased use of “asset-backed byouts” by private equity groups.
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Schiff Hardin has expanded its Energy/Federal Energy Regulatory Commission practice with the addition of eight lawyers and one legislative affairs specialist, formerly with Sullivan & Worcester. Two of the attorneys are launching a Schiff Hardin office in Boston, while the rest are joining the D.C. office. Schiff Hardin has almost 400 attorneys practicing law in offices located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Lake Forest, New York, San Francisco, and Washington.
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Partner Andrew Troop and associate Chris Mirick have left Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Boston office for Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York. Three other bankruptcy lawyers in New York also left for Cadwalader. With Troop’s departure, Weil now has no bankruptcy partners in Boston. Troop and Mirick’s move to NY partly stems from the fact that they conduct much of their business there. Weil plans to add about 12 bankruptcy lawyers over the next year.
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Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks & Zarin of Springfield, NJ, will acquire Sinins and Bross of Newark, NJ, and be renamed as Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins. These two personal injury, medical-malpractice firms are joining forces to form a more competitive 15-lawyer firm. The merger gives Javerbaum the ideal Newark location, as some of their clients didn’t like traveling to Springfield; for Sinins, the merger provides some much needed man-power to the shrinking firm. Javerbaum has been growing over the past year, and is looking to expand further. Last summer, they took over the Freehold, NJ, practice of personal injury practitioner Paul Newell, and around the same time, they acquired a satellite office in Harrison: the workers’ compensation practice of former associate John Pinho.
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Plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss has opened a Philadelphia office with three class action attorneys from Philadelphia plaintiffs firm Sheller P.C. Jonathan Shub will be resident partner of the Philadelphia office along with two associates, TerriAnne Benedetto and Scott Alan George. Shub’s decision to move was due to a change in Sheller’s class action focus; his work focuses primarily on consumer class actions, but he also has a subspecialty in computer-defect cases. Seeger Weiss has offices in New York City, Newark, NJ, and Tulsa, OK; though the firm was not looking to open in Philly, the decision was easy when the opportunity arose. Already some of the firm’s lawyers spend time there, and it is one of few U.S. cities prominent in class action work.
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Epstein, Becker & Green has recruited seven real estate lawyers from the New York office of Roseland, N.J.’s Lowenstein Sandler. Adrian Zuckerman, the former head of Lowenstein Sandler’s New York real estate practice and a former deputy general counsel of real estate management company Helmsley Spear Inc., heads the group. He also will become co-head of Epstein Becker’s national real estate practice. Ralph Berman and Linda Bielik are also joining Epstein Becker as partners while Brian L. Ullman, Andrew R. Tulloch and Steven M. Ziolkowski will become counsels. One associate is also joining the firm. Epstein Becker has 380 attorneys in 11 offices throughout the country.
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