Holland & Knight announced Wednesday it has added Jason Klitenic, the former deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as a partner in its Washington D.C. office. Klitenic joins the firm’s government contracts/enforcement defense practice, according to a press release. He will represent clients in a variety of government enforcement, regulatory and public [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Arent Fox has addressed its white collar practice with the addition of four new partners. The move comes less than a week after the loss of three partners in the practice to Arnold & Porter. The new partners are Terree Bowers and Mary Carter Andrues, who will reside in the firm’s Los Angeles office; Peter Unger, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 15, 2010
Bryan Cave bolstered its securities litigation practice with the arrival of two lateral partners and four counsel to its St. Louis office. Joining the firm as partners are Jeffrey J. Kalinowski and Richard H. Kuhlman. The new counsel are Carrie J. Bechtold, Adam S. Hochschild, Jeffrey S. Jamieson and Eric D. Martin. According to a firm [...]
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Goulston & Storrs has added five partners from Pillsbury to its land use and zoning practice in Washington D.C. They are Maureen E. Dwyer, John T. Epting, Phil T. Feola, Allison C. Prince and Paul A. Tummonds Jr. Dwyer formerly served as co-chair of Pillsbury’s land use group. Doug Husid, co-managing director of Goulston & Storrs [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 12, 2010
Former director of administration to Joe Biden, Moe Vela, has joined the office of Holland & Knight as a partner in the firm’s public policy group. Vela, who also served as a senior adviser to Vice President Al Gore, began at the firm on Monday, according to reports. Vela will remain in Washington to work on [...]
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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bolstered its U.S. litigation practice with the addition of three new partners. Marshall H. Fishman and Walter B. Stuart will join the firm’s New York office and Timothy J. Coleman will be stationed in Washington D.C. Coleman joins Freshfields from Dewey & LeBoeuf, where he was a partner in [...]
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Sidley Austin has added two partners to its insurance practice in London, Martin Membery and Matthew Griffin. Both are formerly of UK-based Pinsent Masons. Membery served as head of the insurance sector practice at Pinsent Masons. His practice focuses on a wide range of insurance and reinsurance work, with a particular emphasis on joint ventures, distribution [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
White & Case, which has been tagged with numerous departures during the past few months, announced it has added five new partners this week. Promoted to partner in the firm’s global banking practice were Jeremy Duffy in London; Moscow-based Irina Nesvetova; and Jonathan Weinberg in Prague. The firm has also bolstered its global mergers and acquisitions practice [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 10, 2010
King & Spalding added to its professional liability and securities litigation practices with the addition of two partners formerly of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Kenneth Y. Turnbull joins King & Spalding’s Washington D.C. office while David M. Fine will head to New York. Turnbull and Fine both have trial practices that focus on accountant liability defense [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Arnold & Porter has added to its white-collar practice with three additions from Arent Fox. John Nassikas and Baruch Weiss join Arnold & Porter as partners and Laura Lester comes aboard as counsel. All have joined the firm’s Washington D.C. office. Nassikas is a former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1991-95. [...]
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