Marcus J. Lemon, an infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and capital markets attorney, with more than 22 years of experience, joined Womble Bond Dickinson’s Washington, D.C. office today.  Lemon is one of the few practitioners in the U.S. market with experience in transactional, regulatory, and public policy aspects of infrastructure and public-private partnerships. Lemon comes to Womble Bond Dickinson from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. More >>

Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Laurence S. Kirsch has joined the firm in Washington, D.C., as a partner in its Environmental practice. He joins Sidley from Goodwin Procter LLP, where he chaired the firm’s Energy and Environment practice. More >>

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Thomas Dillickrath has joined its Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Antitrust and Competition practice group. More >>

The global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (BCLP) today announced that Benjamin Saul has joined the firm as a partner in the Banking Practice. Saul will reside in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office and was formerly a partner at White & Case. More >>

Akin Gump is pleased to announce that former U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) will join the firm as a partner in its public law and policy practice in Washington, D.C. More >>

King & Spalding today announced that nationally recognized intellectual property trial lawyer Chris Campbell has joined the firm as partner in its Trial and Global Disputes practice group. He joins from Cooley, where former colleagues Jim Brogan and Tom Friel joined from last year. More >>

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Papez has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, where she will continue to focus her practice on high-stakes class actions, complex commercial litigation, and appeals. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Papez served as Co-Chair of Financial Services Litigation at Winston & Strawn, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and as a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that Peter Karanjia has joined the firm’s Telecom and Appellate practices as a partner in Washington, DC. He will serve as chair of the Administrative Law Appellate practice. He joins from Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he was co-chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice, and received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School and his M.A. and B.A. in Law from Oxford University. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that Mary Dunbar has joined the firm’s Finance practice as a partner in Washington, DC. Dunbar joins from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. More >>

Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Matthew E. Wetzel has joined the firm as a senior counsel in its nationally recognized health care and life sciences practice. Mr. Wetzel comes to Akin Gump from the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), where he served as vice president and deputy general counsel. More >>