Clark Hill PLC today announced the addition of Russell Duncan as a Member of the firm’s Litigation Business Unit in its Washington, D.C. office. Duncan was formerly a shareholder at Shulman, Rogers where he served as Chair of the White Collar, SEC Enforcement, and Government Investigations Group and Deputy Chair of the Litigation Department. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Claiborne (Clay) W. Porter has joined the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Practice as a partner based in the Washington DC office. Mr. Porter formerly served as the Acting Principal Deputy Chief of the US Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) and as Chief of the MLARS Bank Integrity Unit. He most recently was Head of Investigations in the Global Investigations & Compliance Practice at Navigant Consulting. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Christopher Monahan as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Joining Winston’s White Collar, Regulatory Defense & Investigations Practice, Christopher is a highly regarded advisor to U.S. and multinational clients, with significant experience in export controls, economic sanctions, and anti-corruption/anti-bribery issues. Monahan joins Winston & Strawn form the D.C. office of Crowell and Moring, LLP. More >>

Brown Rudnick LLP announced today that G. Derek Andreson has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. He joins as a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Government Investigations Practice Group. Before joining Brown Rudnick, Andreson was a Partner and Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s Global Anti-Corruption & FCPA Practice Group. Andreson also served as a Navy SEAL for six years before embarking on his legal career. More >>

Miller Canfield announced the opening of its office in Washington, D.C., as three attorneys—principals Pawel Chudzicki and Władek Rzycki, and senior attorney Lana Yaghi—joined the firm today. The announcement was made by CEO Michael McGee. The addition of the three attorneys, coming to Miller Canfield from global firm K&L Gates, adds strength to Miller Canfield’s robust and growing international practice team. It also enables the firm to enhance the scope of services for domestic and international clients through the opening a Washington, D.C., office that will be led by Chudzicki. The addition also strengthens the firm’s Polish capabilities, with three offices in Warsaw, Gdynia and Wroclaw, positioning Miller Canfield as the leading firm for clients engaged in U.S.-Polish business matters. More >>

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the arrival of partner Alonso J. Cisneros to the Real Estate department and Structured & Real Estate Finance practice group in Washington, D.C. Cisneros was previously with Troutman Sanders LLP, where he was a member of its Multifamily Housing Finance group in Washington, D.C., focused on loan origination and servicing transactions. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day announces that Schuyler J. Schouten has joined the Firm’s Government Regulation Practice. Mr. Schouten, who joins Jones Day as a partner and will be based in the Firm’s Washington Office, was previously Senior Associate Counsel to President Trump and Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has attracted Robert C. Jones as Co-Chair of the firm’s Washington, D.C. Federal Government Law & Policy Practice. Jones focuses his practice on counseling business, association, and not-for-profit clients on federal funding, legislative, regulatory, and policy matters. He joins from Alston & Bird where he was the leader of that firm’s Legislative & Public Policy Group. More >>

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Eric D. Greenberg has joined the firm’s Technology Transactions & Privacy and Mergers & Acquisitions practices as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Eric was previously a partner at Paul Hastings LLP where he practiced media and technology deals, for which he was a winner of The Financial Times’ 2016 award for innovative lawyers. More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Mitchell Rabinowitz and Jenny Cieplak have joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as partners in the Financial Institutions and FinTech Industry Groups within the Corporate Department. Leaders in the FinTech space, their practices are at the intersection of technology and financial services and focus on joint venture and consortia transactions involving top-tier financial institutions creating and investing in novel technology and industry solutions for market infrastructure deployments. Rabinowitz and Cieplak join Latham & Watkins from Crowell & Moring LLP. More >>