Philadelphia-based Pepper Hamilton has added two lateral partners to its New York office. Kenneth King joins from Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, and Samuel Abate joins from the NY office of McCarter & English. Both lawyers will be partners in Pepper Hamilton’s health effects litigation practice, which represents pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability cases. About eight of the firm’s 450 lawyers are stationed in New York.
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