Frost Brown Todd (FBT) is growing its national Bankruptcy & Restructuring practice with the addition of Members Jordan Blask and Jillian Nolan Snider to the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Blask and Snider previously practiced together at Tucker Arensberg where Blask founded and chaired the firm’s Corporate Risk Assessment Team. Snider has experience working at boutique bankruptcy and creditor’s rights law firms as well as one of the largest title insurance groups in the U.S.
Ogletree Deakins Grows Employment Litigation Group, Welcomes Rick Etter as Shareholder
Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, welcomes Rick Etter to its Pittsburgh office as shareholder. Mr. Etter is an experienced counselor and trial attorney whose practical, proactive approach to solving workplace problems enables employers to stay in compliance and avoid litigation while also achieving their organizational and business goals. He represents employers in a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, higher education, energy, oil and gas, retail, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics. Etter joins the firm from Fox Rothschild in Pittsburgh, where he served as a Labor & Employment partner.
Tags: Ogletree Deakins | PittsburghReed Smith Adds Two More to Expanding Energy Industry Group
In moving to Reed Smith, Haines rejoins her colleague Ryan T. Purpura, a renowned dealmaker in the oil and gas space, who also joined the firm as a partner in Pittsburgh in September, having previously chaired McGuireWoods’ global energy group. In addition to Haines and Purpura, their colleague, Ryan Haddad, today also joins the firm as an associate in the Energy and Natural Resources Industry Group focused on transactions.
Reed Smith Welcomes Leading Oil & Gas Dealmaker Ryan Purpura in Pittsburgh
Fisher Phillips Expands Pittsburgh Presence and Grows Pennsylvania Practice with Seasoned Employment Litigation and Counseling Partner
Fisher Phillips, one of the country’s leading labor and employment law firms representing employers, announces the addition of James “Jay” F. Glunt as a partner in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Most recently, Glunt was partner at the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith LLP.
Tags: Fisher & Phillips LLP | PittsburghShannon Voll Poliziani Joins Gordon & Rees as Partner in the Pittsburgh office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Shannon Voll Poliziani, previously with Marshall Dennehey, as partner in the Pittsburgh office. She joins the firm’s Health Care and Professional Liability Defense practice groups. She concentrates her practice in the defense of professional liability and medical malpractice claims, representing physicians, hospitals and other health care personnel.
Lewis Brisbois Expands Pittsburgh Labor & Employment Practice with New Partner Hire
Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Sunshine R. Fellows to its Pittsburgh office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice. Ms. Fellows brings to the firm almost two decades of experience in labor and employment law, regularly defending employers in state and federal court and administrative proceedings comes to the firm from The Levicoff Law Firm, P.C.
Tags: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | PittsburghDentons Cohen & Grigsby Adds Two Experienced Litigators to the New Expanded Platform
Dentons Cohen & Grigsby announced today that litigators, Samuel W. Braver and Deborah A. Little, have joined the Firm’s Commercial Litigation Group. Prior to joining Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, Braver and Little practiced at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.
Tags: Dentons | Harrisburg | PittsburghBlank Rome Welcomes Corporate Partner Masha Trainor in Pittsburgh
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Maria “Masha” Trainor has joined the Firm’s Pittsburgh office as a Partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group. Masha is the sixth attorney to join the Firm’s Corporate, M&A and Securities group since the beginning of the year, following the arrival of partners Dean S. Nordlinger (Washington, D.C.), Stacy H. Louizos (New York), and Craig R. Culbertson (Chicago), as well as associates Jose A. Manalo, Jr. (Los Angeles) and Simon I. Bord (Washington, D.C.). Masha joins Blank Rome after serving as vice president, general counsel, and secretary for Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation.
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