Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service law firm with more than 270 lawyers in 11 East Coast offices, today announced that Earl Adams, Jr. has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation and Public Law practices. He will be resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, with a secondary office in Baltimore, Md. More >>

Mayer Brown announced today that an industry-leading consumer financial services group of partners has joined the firm, representing a significant addition to its global Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice. The nationally recognized group, which will be based primarily in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office, is led by Laurence Platt, Phillip Schulman, Steven Kaplan, Melanie Brody and Jonathan Jaffe. All previously practiced at K&L Gates LLP. More >>

Linklaters today announces that market-leading white-collar crime and civil litigator, Adam Lurie, has been elected as a partner in its U.S. Dispute Resolution practice. He will head the firm’s Washington, D.C. Litigation and Government Investigations practice. More >>

International trade attorney Kerry Scarlott has joined BakerHostetler as a partner and co-leader of the International Trade team, resident in the Washington office. He comes to the firm from Goulston & Storrs. More >>

Dentons, the global law firm, today named Jeffry Erney as a partner in the Firm’s Tax practice in Washington, DC. Erney will co-lead Dentons US tax controversy practice with James N. Mastracchio. The addition of Erney further reinforces the Firm’s tax controversy and litigation capabilities to serve domestic and international clients. More >>

David B. Horner has returned to Hunton & Williams LLP as a partner in the firm’s infrastructure public-private partnerships practice. A former Hunton & Williams corporate associate, he has served at the US Department of Transportation as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and as Chief Counsel of the Federal Transit Administration. More >>

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced today that Roel Campos and Terence Healy will join the firm as partners in its Washington, D.C. office. The two will lead the firm’s Securities Enforcement Practice Group as Chair and Vice Chair, respectively. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Alicia J. Batts has joined the firm as partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice, based in Washington DC. Ms. Batts joins from Proskauer. More >>

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Jonathan Levine has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Mr. Levine comes to the firm from Andrews Kurth, where he represented ad hoc bondholder groups, indenture trustees, and creditor committees. His addition follows the recent arrival of Peter Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff as business restructuring and insolvency partners in London. More >>

Morgan Lewis has further strengthened its premier energy team with the arrival of Kirstin Gibbs, a lawyer with a wide-ranging background representing clients in the oil and gas industry. Ms. Gibbs, who joins as a partner practicing from both Washington, DC, and Houston, was a partner at another prominent energy firm. More >>