Enhancing its esteemed group of Intellectual Property and Financial Services attorneys, Rimon welcomes Marc Kaufman as a partner in its Washington, DC office. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Victor S. Chang has joined the Firm’s Washington Office as a partner in its Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. More >>

Michael S. Dry, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and most recently the Deputy Chief of its Criminal Division, has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in the firm’s Government Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. More >>

Ed McClellan has joined Covington as a partner in its Tax and Public Policy and Government Affairs practices resident in Washington. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added the former Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Ocwen Financial Corporation, Andrew Wein, as a shareholder in its Washington, D.C. office. The move is part of the continued expansion of the firm’s Financial Services Litigation and Financial Regulatory and Compliance groups. More >>

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that V. Gerard “Jerry” Comizio has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate Department. He will head the Firm’s Banking Practice, and will be based in the Washington, DC office. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its cybersecurity and national security capabilities with the arrival of Steven Chabinsky as a partner and chair of the Firm’s Global Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. More >>

White Collar attorney Richard Smith has joined Quinn Emanuel as a partner in the firm’s Washington D.C. Office. Mr. Smith was previously a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was Head of the United States Regulatory and Governmental Investigations Practice, and Chair of the firm’s Global White Collar Crime and Government Investigations Practice Group, and the FCPA and International Anti-Corruption Practice Group.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Andrew G. McBride has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office. Andrew will focus on complex litigation at the agency, trial and appellate levels. Andrew has deep experience as lead counsel for industry coalitions in cases involving the communications, technology and new media sectors. He also has extensive experience defending enforcement actions before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state public utility commissions. More >>

BakerHostetler is pleased to announce that Carol Van Cleef has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Van Cleef is an authority on the regulation of financial technology (FinTech), including emerging and alternative payments systems, digital currencies and blockchain technologies as well as anti-money laundering, sanctions, and privacy and data security compliance. She becomes the newest member of the firm’s Financial Services Industry and Privacy and Data Protection Teams. She joins BakerHostetler from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where she was chair of the firm’s global payments practice. More >>