Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Todd Beauchamp has joined the firm in Washington, D.C., as a partner in the Corporate Department and Financial Institutions Group to lead the Payments & Emerging Financial Services practice. Beauchamp represents financial institutions, non-bank financial services companies, and technology companies in a wide variety of domestic and international transactional, regulatory, and general corporate matters. Beauchamp joins Latham from Paul Hastings. More >>

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm today announced that Michael V. O’Shaughnessy has joined the firm’s award winning Intellectual Property Practice, based in Washington. More >>

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes shareholder Debbie A. Klis to its national Securities & Corporate Finance practice. More >>

Dentons, the world’s leading global law firm, today announced that Fred W. Reinke and G. Richard Dodge Jr. joined as partners in the Firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. The pair augment the Firm’s well-regarded global dispute resolution offerings, and focus on insurance and financial litigation. Reinke will also been named as a US leader of the Firm’s Global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. They will be resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC office. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that David Martin Connelly has joined the Firm in Washington, D.C. as a partner in the Energy Practice. More >>

Darcy C. Osta has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s aviation industry team and products liability and professional liability defense teams. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Alexandria office. More >>

With IP-related legal issues continuing to dominate headlines worldwide, Cozen O’Connor today announced Hugh J. Marbury — a seasoned, first-chair IP litigator with experience representing domestic/international clients in contentious, bet the company financial and commercial disputes — has joined its Intellectual Property Department as a member. A former partner at DLA Piper, Marbury will serve as a lead trial lawyer overseeing IP and commercial litigation matters in Cozen O’Connor’s Washington, D.C., office. More >>

Bracewell LLP is pleased to announce that Paul F. Wight has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in the energy regulatory group. Wight joins Bracewell from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he was a partner for many years. More >>