Akin Gump is pleased to announce that executive compensation and employee benefits attorney Rebecca S. Coccaro has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Coccaro comes to Akin Gump from Sullivan & Cromwell.
Blank Rome Welcomes White Collar Partner Jennifer Short in Washington, D.C.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Jennifer Short has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the White Collar Defense & Investigations group. Jennifer represents government contractors, healthcare providers, and others in highly regulated industries that are susceptible to government investigations and enforcement actions. Jennifer joins Blank Rome from the litigation boutique KaiserDillon PLLC. Prior to that role, Jennifer was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia where she spent eight years on the Affirmative Civil Enforcement team, prosecuting civil False Claims Act cases.
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Hogan Lovells Adds Veteran Health Care Lawyer and Lobbyist to Government Relations and Public Affairs Practice
Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that health lawyer and lobbyist Cybil Roehrenbeck has joined its Government Relations and Public Affairs practice in Washington D.C. as a partner. Roehrenbeck has led numerous advocacy campaigns and was Polsinelli’s Telehealth practice leader prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
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Former U.S. EPA Acting General Counsel David Fotouhi Returns to Gibson Dunn’s D.C. Office
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that David Fotouhi has returned as a partner to the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. After serving for the past three and a half years in the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), most recently as Acting General Counsel, Fotouhi has returned to Gibson Dunn and will practice in the areas of environmental litigation and enforcement.
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Federal Prosecutor Michael Podberesky Joins McGuireWoods’ Government Investigations Team
Michael Podberesky, a former federal prosecutor with extensive experience in healthcare and government procurement fraud matters, has joined McGuireWoods’ nationally recognized Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department as a partner in Washington, D.C. Podberesky served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Fraud Section from 2015 to 2021. There he led teams investigating and litigating False Claims Act cases in the healthcare and federal procurement sectors.
Winston & Strawn Strengthens Appellate & Litigation Capabilities with Addition of Andrew Tauber
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Andrew Tauber as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office and as a member of its firmwide Appellate & Critical Motions practice. Tauber comes to the firm from Mayer Brown LLP.
Fox Rothschild’s National Labor & Employment Department Welcomes Powerhouse Duo Lori Armstrong Halber and Kirsten White
Bolstering its Labor & Employment Department in the Northeast region, Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to welcome Lori Armstrong Halber and Kirsten B. White as partners to the firm. Armstrong Halber and White were previously partners at Reed Smith LLP and Schwartz Hannum PC, respectively.
Baker Botts Welcomes Former High-Ranking EPA Lawyer in Washington, D.C.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Alexandra (Alex) Dapolito Dunn, the former Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, has joined the firm’s Environmental, Safety & Incident Response (ESIR) Section of the Litigation Department in the Washington, D.C. office.
Faegre Drinker Adds Veteran Department of Justice Trial Attorney Dylan Carson to Growing Antitrust Practice
Faegre Drinker announced today that Dylan Carson has joined the firm’s Denver and Washington, D.C. offices as partner in the antitrust practice of the firm’s litigation group. Carson was previously a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Media, Entertainment, and Communications section of the Antitrust Division, and a leader of three of DOJ’s most recent merger trials in federal court.
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Former U.S. DOJ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit Chief & Mueller Prosecutor Joins Morrison & Foerster as National Security and Global Risk and Crisis Management Co-Chair
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Brandon L. Van Grack as a partner in its National Security, Global Risk and Crisis Management, and Investigations + White Collar Defense Groups in Washington, D.C. Mr. Van Grack joins the firm after more than a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he most recently served as Chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit and previously served as a lead prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
