Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces the growth of its Commercial Litigation practice with the addition of Mark Califano as partner. Califano focuses on litigation, regulatory law, compliance, privacy and information security, and is resident in the Washington, DC, office. Previously, Califano served for seven years as head of litigation at American Express, where he oversaw the defense of a range of consumer, class action and commercial claims, performed complex investigations around the globe and defended the company’s business model, including playing a central role in card fee antitrust litigation and internal investigations.

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O’Melveny announced today that leading Washington, DC litigator Jeffrey Gordon has joined the firm as a partner in the General Litigation Practice. Gordon was previously a senior attorney in the litigation practice of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome three new attorneys and a paralegal to the Firm’s Insurance Recovery group in the Washington, D.C., office: Partner Robert P. Jacobs, Of Counsel Linda A. Powell, Associate Allison Zamani (based in San Francisco), and Paralegal Lakisha Foster. The prominent team joins from Perkins Coie LLP where Rob served as firmwide chair of the Insurance Recovery practice. They add to Blank Rome’s leading national policyholder practice, which has more than doubled since Blank Rome welcomed more than 100 attorneys from Dickstein Shapiro LLP’s New York and Washington, D.C., offices in 2016.

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Joseph Matal, the former Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and one of the principal drafters of the America Invents Act (AIA), has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a Washington, D.C.-based partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice.

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