Announcements

AnnouncementsDykema announced the addition of Charlotte Garry Carne and Brett M. Gelbord as Senior Counsel to its Labor and Employment Practice Group. Carne will reside in Dykema’s Ann Arbor office, while Gelbord joins the firm’s Detroit office.

AnnouncementsDon McDermett has joined Winston & Strawn as a partner in the Dallas office and as a member of firm’s Corporate practice.

AnnouncementsBradford Sneeden has joined Moore & Van Allen PLLC (MVA) as a director in the Public Affairs Group, continuing growth of the team based in Raleigh.

AnnouncementsSunstein LLP partner John W. Powell has been named vice chair of the firm’s Patent Practice Group.

AnnouncementsEight lawyers from Lewis Roca have been recognized as 2022 Colorado Super Lawyers® and two lawyers have been named Rising Stars®.

AnnouncementsTrial lawyer and former federal Judge T. John Ward of Ward, Smith & Hill is among five recipients to earn the 2022 Texas Bar Foundation’s Outstanding 50 Year Lawyer Award.

AnnouncementsTop 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Houston and Los Angeles offices with Labor and Employment Practice Group partner Mishell Parreno Taylor. Parreno Taylor focuses her practice on employment litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies across the country.

AnnouncementsPerkins Coie is pleased to announce that it has moved into a new client-centric office space in the heart of Austin’s downtown business district amid continued growth of the firm’s Texas operations.

AnnouncementsSaul Breskal has joined Blank Rome’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate practice.

AnnouncementsLawyers at the Martin Walker law firm in Tyler say while the number attached to the recently announced Texas portion of the settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors – $1.85 billion – is a big one, what matters most is the fact most of those dollars are headed to local communities, where the tragedy of the opioid epidemic continues to play out every day.

AnnouncementsKatten announced today that Geoffrey G. Young has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice in New York, building on the firm’s high caliber of talent representing clients in complex commercial disputes.

AnnouncementsDiana Perez Gomez, shareholder in Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s Houston Labor & Litigation Practice, has been named one of “Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2020-21” by Houston Woman Magazine. Each of the honorees was nominated by a reader of Houston Woman Magazine and then selected by the staff of the publication.

According to Beverly Denver, publisher of Houston Woman Magazine, “Those selected as Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2020-21 have earned an enviable reputation for their expertise in a particular field or arena. They are knowledgeable, credible and trustworthy. The thoughts and actions of these women influence the thoughts and actions of others. It is our distinct pleasure to introduce these remarkable women to our readers and to others in our community.”

AnnouncementsTrial lawyer Randy Johnston joins rare company among some of the very best lawyers in North Texas with his selection for D Magazine’s inaugural Best Lawyers in Dallas Hall of Fame.

AnnouncementsCohen Seglias is pleased to announce that Richard Reice has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. He is a member of the Labor and Employment Group.

AnnouncementsPerkins Coie Adds Former Judge Diane Johnsen to Litigation Practice in Phoenix

AnnouncementsTo help refugees whose lives have been turned upside down by the war in Afghanistan, global law firm Foley & Lardner LLP has partnered with No One Left Behind, the nation’s leading non-profit committed to ensuring that America keeps its promise to Afghans and Iraqis eligible for Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) programs.

AnnouncementsToday Wiggin and Dana LLP announced that Jack Sousa, managing principal of Lev Berlin & Sousa, P.C., the corporate and securities boutique law firm based in Norwalk, CT, has joined Wiggin and Dana, supporting the continued growth of the firm’s corporate and transactional practice.

AnnouncementsSophie Jacobi-Parisi has joined Blank Rome’s New York office as partner in the Matrimonial & Family Law practice group. Sophie joins Blank Rome from Warshaw Burstein LLP. Prior to her in-house experience, she served as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Practice, where she represented children in legal proceedings in the Bronx Family Court.

AnnouncementsLewis Roca has moved its Denver office to McGregor Square.

AnnouncementsArent Fox LLP and Schiff Hardin LLP completed their merger, effective March 1, 2022. The new firm operates under the name ArentFox Schiff and is led by Chair Anthony V. Lupo and Firmwide Co-Managing Partners Cristina A. Carvalho and Joseph J. Krasovec III.