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Greenberg Traurig relocates 11-strong team to launch in San Diego
Four shareholders from Greenberg’s IP, employment and environmental groups open firm’s sixth Californian office alongside team of counsel and patent agents
US in-house counsel avoids serious reprimand following UK judgment embargo breach
Court of Appeal judges show leniency to in-house counsel after he breaches the embargo of a judgment relating to a patent case
BCLP adds former Baker McKenzie recruiter in Chicago as US diversity director
Devin Carter succeeds Tonya Gaskins with mandate to evolve BCLP’s D&I programmes in the US
Clifford Chance names antitrust co-chair new Americas managing partner
Sharis Arnold Pozen succeeds Evan Cohen to become first woman to hold the role
Mimecast promotes compliance chief to general counsel
Chris Dollase succeeds Robert Nault following email security giant’s $5.8bn acquisition by Permira last year
K&L Gates reels in seven-partner private equity team from Dentons' Pittsburgh arm
Defections from Dentons Cohen & Grigsby come three years after it signed up with global giant under project golden spike
Goodwin Procter adds 14-partner team from Troutman Pepper to cement Philadelphia presence
New arrivals land mostly in US giant’s newly-official Philadelphia base to bolster life sciences, healthcare private equity and white collar practices
Pallas Partners grows in New York with partner hire from Gibson Dunn
Commercial litigator Shireen Barday arrives as office’s second partner along with associates from Cyrulnik Fattaruso and Cravath Swaine & Moore
Orrick targets fintech's 'watershed moment' with Washington DC merger
San Francisco giant is combining with financial services specialist Buckley adding 100 lawyers
King & Spalding bolsters government investigations offering with hire of Freshfields’ New York managing partner
Olivia Radin latest in a string of senior hires in New York for Atlanta-based firm
Withers adds life sciences partner duo in Boston from Brown Rudnick
Arrival of Brown Rudnick's former IP team lead, Tom Meyers, and Zachary Hyde follows UK firm's take over last week of a Texas private client boutique
Norton Rose Fulbright and Reed Smith latest to unveil partner promotions
NRF achieves gender parity in reduced round as Reed Smith hands out seven more promotions than in 2022
Goodwin Procter embarks on round of US job cuts
Associates, paralegals and business professionals affected; cuts follow similar move at Cooley
Transactions department dominates in 18-strong promotions round at Morrison Foerster
Women make up nearly 40% of round that sees lawyers make partner across the US, London, Singapore and Tokyo
Withers builds in Texas with Houston private client boutique bolt-on
Hire of Dossey & Jones’ four-strong team sees Withers effectively relaunch in Houston after loss of partner last year
Life sciences consultancy Trinity adds veteran tech GC as first legal leader
Paul Lucchese joins Trinity Life Sciences from EnterpriseDB following creation of 'strategic partnership' with Bain & Company that saw Bain take minority stake in Trinity
O’Melveny elevates 11 to partner in litigation focused round
Exclusively US cohort includes litigators in the entertainment, consumer class actions and IP teams
Trio of Wall Street law firms fired up for BDT Capital’s $3.7bn Weber take-private deal
Cravath acts for BDT Capital as teams from Davis Polk and Sullivan & Cromwell advise Weber
Seyfarth elects first woman to lead firm
New York co-managing partner Lorie Almon to take over from Pete Miller next year
Paul Hastings adds leading finance partner in New York from Weil Gotshal & Manges
Morgan Bale joins after 24 years at Weil having advised clients including Citi and Goldman Sachs on major deals