Marjorie Gannett has joined Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C., as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Section. Ms. Gannett has extensive experience representing owners and developers of commercial real estate properties, particularly clients acquiring, financing and selling large portfolios of gas stations and other environmentally impacted properties regionally and nationally for ownership, operation and development. She was previously a partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in Washington. More >>

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Brian Miner has joined as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC office. More >>

Venable LLP announced that experienced securities enforcement and regulatory attorney George Kostolampros, a former senior counsel with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has rejoined the firm as a partner in Washington, DC. More >>

Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service law firm with more than 270 lawyers in 11 East Coast offices, today announced that April F. Doss has joined the firm as a partner and will lead its Cybersecurity and Privacy practice. She will be resident in the firm’s Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. offices. More >>

Tara Lee and Debbie Shon have joined Quinn Emanuel as partners in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. More >>

Daniel Braun, one of the US Department of Justice’s leading international white-collar prosecutors, has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a partner in the firm’s Washington office More >>

Akin Gump today announced that Jeffrey A. Wertkin, a former trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has joined the firm as a partner in its litigation practice. Mr. Wertkin is an experienced False Claims Act (FCA) litigator who will add significant depth to Akin Gump’s experience in this space, including within the health care industry. More >>

McDermott Will & Emery announced today that experienced antitrust and consumer protection lawyer Bilal Sayyed has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, DC office.Mr. Sayyed joins McDermott from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner, and brings a broad-based practice focused on competition and consumer issues. More >>

Litigator Mark Churchill has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., offices. Most recently, he was the head of McDermott Will & Emery’s Trial Practice Group in Washington, D.C. More >>

Polsinelli announced today the addition of seasoned real estate attorney Diane Shapiro Richer as shareholder in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Richer brings more than 30 years of legal experience to Polsinelli, joining the firm’s national platform of more than 60 real estate attorneys. More >>