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K&L Gates Brings on Partners

Friday, August 21, 2009

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K&L Gates Brings on Partners

Charles D. Holland joins K&L Gates from Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the Palo Alto office. He focuses on intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in patent prosecution, portfolio review and strategic advice, ex-parte and inter-partes reexaminations, interferences, non-infringement and invalidy analyses and opinions, due diligence reviews for companies and investors, pre-litigation [...]

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Crowell & Moring Adds 7 to Environmental Group

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Crowell & Moring Adds 7 to Environmental Group

Crowell & Moring has snagged a team of five Patton Boggs partners, and two government lawyers, for its Environment & Natural Resources Group. Senior Counsel Michael Bogert is the former counselor to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. He is also the former Regional Administrator of the EPA’s Region 10, which oversees Alaska and other northwest states. Bogert [...]

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Mateer Harbert Hires 3 Lawyers, 6 Staff

Monday, August 3, 2009

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Mateer Harbert Hires 3 Lawyers, 6 Staff

Orlando, Florida’s Mateer Harbert has gone a hiring spree, picking up two new partners, a senior associate, three paralegals and three legal assistants. The partners are Francis Pierce and Richard Allen; the senior associate is Susan Sewell. Mateer Harbert is a 44-employee law firm based in Orlando. It has a second location in Ocala.

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Debevoise & Plimpton Hires Partners from Goodwin Procter

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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Debevoise & Plimpton Hires Partners from Goodwin Procter

Debevoise & Plimpton has hired two banking partners away from Goodwin Procter. Gregory Lyons joins Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner in New York. He will be Co-Chair for the Americas of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group. He was co-chair of the Financial Services Practice at Goodwin, and chair of its banking practice in Boston. Satish [...]

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Deeb Petrakis Adds Partners to Business Transaction Group

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Deeb Petrakis Adds Partners to Business Transaction Group

Philadelphia’s Deeb Petrakis has added two lawyers to its Business Transaction Group. Charles M. Naselsky joins from Blank Rome as a partner. His JD is from the Seton Hall University School of Law. He is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Philadelphia Bar Associations. Jon G. Hillsberg also joins from Blank Rome as a partner. [...]

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K&L Gates Brings on New Partners

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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K&L Gates Brings on New Partners

K&L Gates has announced the addition of two partners. Wilson Chu joins in Dallas from from Haynes and Boone, where he will concentrate his practice on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions. Chu represents clients in a broad range of industries, including the Internet, software, information technology, and health care. He is highly regarded for [...]

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Baker & McKenzie Hires Energy Team from Thompson & Knight

Friday, June 19, 2009

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Baker & McKenzie Hires Energy Team from Thompson & Knight

Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie has hired a seven-lawyer energy law group from the crosstown office of Thompson & Knight. The team includes partners Michael Byrd, Louis Davis and Ben Welmaker; Glen White as of counsel; and associates David Wildes, Cody Carper and James Sonnier. They will support Baker’s Houston-based Major Projects/Energy practice. Byrd represents clients in all phases [...]

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Greenberg Traurig Recruiting Lateral Partners

Friday, June 19, 2009

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Greenberg Traurig Recruiting Lateral Partners

Since January, Greenberg Traurig has recruited 45 lateral partners, and plans to acquire more this year. In 2008, the firm hired 51 lateral partners in the entire year. The firm’s most recent acquisition is Paul Maher from Mayer Brown, who is founding the UK’s Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Greenberg Traurig LLP is an international, full-service law firm with [...]

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Venable Brings on 8 for Tax Practice

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Venable Brings on 8 for Tax Practice

Baltimore’s Venable has brought on eight lawyers for its tax and estate planning practice in Los Angeles. Brad Cohen, Michael Foster, Robin Gilden, and David Schwartz join as partners from Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohen. Name partner Michael Luftman will also soon join Venable. Charles Kolstad joins as of counsel, and Richard Luftman as an associate. Kyle [...]

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Foley & Lardner Brings on New Partners

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Foley & Lardner Brings on New Partners

Foley & Lardner announced two new hires this week. Jeffrey Thrope joins in New York from Manatt Phelps & Phillips as a partner in the firm’s health care practice. He represents hospitals, nursing homes, public health facilities, not-for-profits, and other health care providers. Etsuo Doi joins in Tokyo from Paul Hastings as a partner in the intellectual [...]

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