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Veteran Immigration Lawyer Michael Durham Joins Barnes & Thornburg as Labor & Employment Partner

Veteran immigration lawyer Michael E. Durham has joined Barnes & Thornburg’s South Bend office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Department.

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Akin Gump Promotes Valerie Morse White to Senior Consultant, Welcomes Casey Higgins as Senior Policy Advisor

Akin Gump has promoted Valerie Morse White, a government relations professional with more than 30 years of corporate federal advocacy experience, to the role of senior consultant at the firm. The firm will also welcome Casey Higgins as senior policy advisor. Ms. Higgins previously served as Assistant to the Speaker for Policy and Trade Counsel for former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI).

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Former House Energy and Commerce Committee General Counsel Karen Christian Joins Akin Gump

Akin Gump announced that Karen E. Christian, former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, has joined Akin Gump as a partner in its congressional investigations practice in Washington, D.C. As the top lawyer for the Committee, Ms. Christian ran and oversaw some of the highest-profile, most-complex congressional investigations of the last decade. She also previously served as chief counsel to its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

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AlixPartners Bolsters its Retail Offering with Digital and Consumer Experience Expert Adam Pressman

AlixPartners announced that retail and consumer experience expert Adam Pressman has joined the firm’s Retail Practice as a Managing Director. He will work from AlixPartners’ Chicago office.

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Leading Debt Finance Lawyer Chris Molen Joins McGuireWoods as Partner in Atlanta

Chris Molen has joined McGuireWoods’ Atlanta office as a partner, bringing deep knowledge of the leveraged finance and asset-based lending markets to the firm’s nationally respected Debt Finance Department.

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McNees Launches Public Finance & Government Services Group

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC announced the launch of its Public Finance & Government Services Practice Group. The group is co-chaired by Donna Kreiser and Adam Santucci.

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Hon. Terence Bruiniers (Ret.) Joins JAMS in San Francisco

JAMS, the largest private provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services worldwide, is pleased to announce the addition of Hon. Terence Bruiniers (Ret.) to its panel. Justice Bruiniers joins JAMS after serving as a justice on the First District, Division Five, California Court of Appeal, authoring more than 600 opinions in nearly all areas of the law.

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Jan Dhont Joins Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Jan Dhont has joined the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice as partner in the Brussels office.

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Fish & Richardson Attorneys Contribute Chapter to New Biosimilars Book

Fish & Richardson attorneys Brian D. Coggio, Dr. Tasha Francis and Ron Vogel have written a chapter in the recently-released book, “Biosimilars: Regulatory, Clinical, and Biopharmaceutical Development,” which provides a comprehensive overview of the biosimilar regulatory framework, the development process and clinical aspects for development of biosimilars.

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