Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Brendan M. Dunn, formerly policy advisor and counsel to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), will join Akin Gump as a partner in its public law and policy practice. Mr. Dunn, who served as chief advisor to Majority Leader McConnell and the Senate GOP leadership on tax, trade, financial services and pension matters before Congress, was the key staff architect of the successful effort to secure the passage last year of the historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He is expected to start at the firm on May 24. More >>

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that George Stamas, Mark Director, Andrew Herman, and Alexander Fine have joined the firm as partners. Stamas will work in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices, while Director, Herman and Fine will be based in the Washington, D.C. office and also will work regularly in the New York office. They all join from Kirkland & Ellis, continuing their corporate, mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices. More >>

Morgan Lewis today welcomes Ryan M. Kantor, former assistant chief of the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Healthcare and Consumer Products Section, as a partner. He will be resident in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. More >>

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes intellectual property litigation partner Susan M. Kayser in the Washington, D.C., office. She joins K&L Gates from Jones Day. More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Tara D. Elliott has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department and as a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. She is a seasoned and talented litigator and trial lawyer whose practice focuses on high-profile intellectual property proceedings and litigation. Ms. Elliott joins Latham from WilmerHale in Washington, D.C. More >>

O’Melveny announced today that one of the nation’s leading Supreme Court practitioners, Jeffrey L. Fisher, has joined the firm as special counsel in its appellate practice. He will represent clients in high-stakes litigation while maintaining his position as Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Co-Director of its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. More >>

Shearman & Sterling is delighted to announce that Lyle Roberts will join the firm as a partner in its Litigation practice. Roberts joins Shearman & Sterling from Cooley’s Washington, D.C. office. More >>