• Environmental lawyer and litigator Richard Leland and transactional lawyer Ian Tattenbaum joined Akerman as partners. Leland arrives from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Tattenbaum joins from Kaye Scholer.

• Davis Polk & Wardwell has elected to partner James McClammy, litigation; Pritesh Shah, corporate; Eli Vonnegut, insolvency and restructuring; and Brian Wolfe, corporate.

• Joseph Daniels has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in its corporate practice group. Daniels arrives from Loeb & Loeb. In addition, Steven Chananie has joined Sheppard Mullin as a partner in its healthcare and corporate practices. Chananie joins from Garfunkel Wild, where he was head of its compliance and defense practice group.