Elizabeth Prelogar has joined Cooley as a litigation partner based in Washington, DC, where she will focus on appellate and white collar matters. She arrives from the Office of the Solicitor General at the US Department of Justice, where she was an assistant to the solicitor general. Previously, Prelogar served as assistant special counsel in the Special Counsel’s Office under Robert S. Mueller III and alongside recent Cooley addition Andrew Goldstein. More >>

Pillsbury has added Keith Ranta as a partner in the firm’s growing Executive Compensation & Benefits practice. Ranta, who was previously with Cooley, will work closely with the firm’s East Coast Corporate lawyers and will be based in the firm’s Washington, DC and Northern Virginia offices. More >>

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce it has established a government contracts practice group along with the arrival of industry heavyweight Walter Wilson, who comes to the firm as partner of counsel. Wilson previously practiced with Polsinelli in Washington. More >>

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Zachary Tripp has joined the Firm as a partner. Mr. Tripp joins Weil from the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was an Assistant to the Solicitor General. He will be serving as Co-Head of Weil’s Appellate practice and will be based in Washington, D.C. More >>

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 >>