Vinson & Elkins has strengthened its global Tax practice with the addition of Natan Leyva as a partner. Leyva, who will reside in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, focuses on all aspects of international tax planning. More >>

Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that intellectual property litigators Thomas G. Southard and Brian S. Seal have joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice in Washington, D.C. as a partner and senior counsel, respectively. More >>

Steven P. Hollman has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Trial practice group. Hollman joins from Hogan Lovells where he was co-leader of the firm’s False Advertising and Unfair Competition practice group. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that it has added a prominent group of telecom practitioners in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Co-chaired by Michael Senkowski and Nancy Victory, the team also includes partner Eric DeSilva and engineers Tom Dombrowsky and Michael Lewis. More >>

Jonathan L. Lewis has joined McGuireWoods’ Antitrust and Trade Regulation Department as a partner in Washington, D.C., bringing 17 years of experience advising clients on antitrust and commercial litigation matters, merger reviews, and managing business risk. More >>

Alison Watson, former director of federal relations at Northwestern Mutual and earlier staff to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, has joined as a partner in FaegreBD’s insurance practice—part of the firm’s financial services industry team—in Washington, D.C. More >>

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today the addition of Terence P. “Terry” Ross as a partner to the firm’s Intellectual Property group. He will be based in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Mr. Ross is widely recognized as one of the nation’s pre-eminent first-chair IP trial attorneys. He concentrates his practice on the litigation of disputes relating to intellectual property, media, e-commerce and technology. He has tried more than two dozen jury and bench trials to verdict and made oral arguments to more than a dozen different courts of appeal. More >>

Global 50 law firm Goodwin announced today that Scott Lassman has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Life Sciences Practice. More >>

James C. Mehigan has joined Gordon & Rees as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Mehigan comes to the firm from Wilson Elser. More >>