Thomas Amis, the chair of Alston & Bird’s renewable energy practice, and Nik Patel, an energy partner, have moved to Cooley Godward, and according to Amis another ten to twelve lawyers will be making the jump in the next two months. Amis will become the new chair of Cooley’s clean energy and technology practice. Cooley Goodward [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Eight lawyers are moving from Day Pitney to Loeb & Loeb, four of whom will help their new firm get off the ground in Washington, DC. The new office will focus on energy regulation to begin with but the firm plans to grow the office and do work in securities regulation and intellectual property [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
Today Hogan & Hartson LLP publicly stated that Susan J. Court has become part of their Washington, D.C. office. She will join the energy practice group as a partner. Court was formerly the Director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Enforcement, or FERC. While at FERC, she was in charge of 170 lawyers, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
Blakes, a Canadian law firm with over 500 employees in eight offices, will become the first Canadian firm to establish a permanent presence in the Persian Gulf when it opens an office in Bahrain on October 4th and an additional office in Saudi Arabia later this fall. Saud Al-Ammari, who is a native Saudi [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 21, 2009
Dan Grunfeld, who served as LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Deputy Chief of Staff for two years, stepped down from his post on friday and walked into a partnership today with Kaye Scholer. Grunfeld will focus on renewable energy and green technology for the firm, which already has an international practice dealing with green energy. Kaye [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Mayer Brown has brought on two attorneys for its Global Projects Group. Robert H. Edwards, Jr. joins from Hunton & Williams as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office. He handles project finance and development, with particular strength in projects and policy issues related to renewable energy, climate change, the development and financing [...]
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