Akin announced today that Marcus Childress—former senior advisor and special counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee—has joined the firm in Washington, D.C. as a partner and co-head of the congressional investigations practice. Abigail (Abby) Kohlman, a congressional investigations partner who previously served as chief of staff and special counsel to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Legislative Affairs, has also been named a co-head of the group. Childress and Kohlman expand Akin’s premier platform for guiding clients through the escalating convergence of congressional inquiries, parallel DOJ investigations and high‑stakes civil litigation.

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Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) announced today that prominent antitrust attorney David Pearl has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner. David joins the firm from Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, where he was a partner.

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Alston & Bird has added partner Cheryl Isaac as a partner in its Financial Services Group in Washington, D.C., strengthening the firm’s focus on regulatory and transactional issues tied to derivatives products, prediction markets, commodity trading, digital assets, and decentralized finance—areas of increasing importance to clients such as asset managers and investment funds. Isaac joins the firm from the Washington branch of K&L Gates LLP.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that David Shaw has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Shaw is a first-chair trial lawyer who focuses on high-stakes patent litigation across the technology and life sciences sectors in federal district courts and Section 337 proceedings before the International Trade Commission (ITC). Shaw joins Latham from Desmarais LLP in Washington, D.C.

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Global law firm Clifford Chance adds partner Stacy Frazier in Washington, DC, further strengthening its Antitrust practice. Joining from UnitedHealth Group, Frazier brings in-house experience managing a broad portfolio of antitrust issues ranging from transactions to litigation to compliance.

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