Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Jesse Panuccio, the former acting Associate Attorney General of the United States, will join the firm in Washington D.C. and Florida as a partner, focusing on high-stakes litigation and appeals, regulatory counseling, enforcement defense, and crisis management. Panuccio has served at the highest levels of the federal and Florida governments, and has handled the most difficult litigation and regulatory issues in both public service and private practice. He will join the firm in early December. More >>

The global firm Jones Day announces that John Gore, who most recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, for the U.S. Department of Justice, returns to Jones Day as partner in the Firm’s Government Regulation Practice and is based in its Washington Office. Mr. Gore joined the DOJ in January of 2017. More >>

Shearman & Sterling continues its expansion with the hire of market-leading CFIUS partner John Beahn in its Washington, D.C. office. John joins the firm from DLA Piper. More >>

McDermott Will & Emery, a leading international law firm, announced today that Laura Jehl has joined the Firm’s Regulatory Practice Group as leader of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice. Laura arrives from Baker & Hostetler LLP and will be based in Washington, DC. More >>

King & Spalding today announced that Lawrence Yanowitch, Thomas Knox, Charles Katz, and Jeremy Schropp have joined the firm as partners in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group. The team focuses on mergers & acquisitions, emerging companies and venture capital and technology and outsourcing transactions, for a wide range of technology and aerospace, defense government services (ADG) companies and investors. The new team will continue to be based in Northern Virginia and will work closely with colleagues in the Washington, D.C. metro area, New York, California and Atlanta. The partners are joining King & Spalding from Morrison & Foerster. More >>

Clark Hill today announced that William Sjoberg has joined the firm as a Member in its International Trade Law Practice in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Prior to joining Clark Hill, Sjoberg was a partner in both Porter Wright and Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg’s International Business & Trade practices. More >>

Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) today announced that J. Ashley Ebersole has joined the firm as a partner within the Investigations, Financial Regulation & White Collar Practice Group, residing in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Ebersole joins the firm from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). More >>

Geoffrey M. Goodale has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office. The addition of Goodale enhances the firm’s international trade capabilities. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Goodale was a partner at FisherBroyles, LLP. More >>

Patrick D. Traylor, the former Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in Washington, D.C. Traylor focuses his practice on civil environmental litigation and compliance investigations under all the major federal environmental programs, particularly under the Clean Air Act. Traylor also assists clients with securing project-critical state and federal permits for the construction and expansion of complex facilities.

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