Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Alice (“Ali”) L. Connaughton has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the REIT Group. Ms. Connaughton, who brings more than 18 years of experience advising public companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other entities in various capital markets transactions, will also play a key role in the firm’s Corporate Finance | Capital Markets Group. She joins Morrison & Foerster from Greenberg Traurig. More >>

Baker Botts, L.L.P., a leading international law firm, announced that Dr. Michael Sartori has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice as a partner. Dr. Sartori will be based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. Dr. Sartori joins Baker Botts from Venable LLP, where he served for over a decade as the Chair of the Patent Prosecution and Counseling Practice. More >>

King & Spalding today announced that Alan Noskow has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in the Washington, D.C., office. Noskow joins the firm from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Washington, D.C. More >>

Lewis Brisbois has hired Washington, D.C. antitrust lawyer Katherine I. Funk as a partner in its Antitrust & Competition Practice. Ms. Funk will open up the Washington, D.C. office of the nationwide, full-service law firm on February 1st, as co-managing partner alongside Todd R. Seelman, managing partner of Lewis Brisbois’ Denver office, and chair of both Lewis Brisbois’ Antitrust & Competition Practice and its Government Investigations Practice. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Intellectual Property Practice with the arrival of Michael J. Songer as partner. Michael joins White & Case from Crowell & Moring, where he successfully litigated numerous high-profile trade secret and US patent cases. More >>

Holland & Knight announced today that Christopher J. Armstrong has joined the firm as a partner in its Public Policy & Regulation Practice Group in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Mr. Armstrong was chief oversight counsel for the Senate Finance Committee. More >>

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Allison Fulton has joined its Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Life Sciences and FDA team. Fulton joins Sheppard Mullin from Sidley Austin LLP. More >>

O’Melveny today announced that Benjamin D. Singer, a former senior prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, is joining the firm as a partner in its White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations practice. Mr. Singer was head of the Criminal Division’s Securities & Financial Fraud Unit and the Health Care Fraud Unit, and directed some of the Justice Department’s most significant investigations of the health care, financial services, and automobile industries. He will begin working at O’Melveny effective July 1, 2018, and will be based in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. More >>

King & Spalding today announced that Joel McElvain, former Assistant Branch Director with the Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has joined the firm as a partner on the Healthcare team in the Washington, D.C., office. More >>

Quinn Emanuel added power to its white-collar defense lineup Monday, tapping Sandra L. Moser for a key leadership role in the firm’s criminal defense, investigations and crisis practice areas. Moser, a 12-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice, has been for the last two years at the helm of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section – a job she left last week. More >>