The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

Two lawyers have left White & Case to launch a boutique firm with a focus on corporate and transactional law. PEDRO “TONY” ALVAREZ and ALBERT DIAZ-SILVEIRA teamed up with another former White & Case attorney, ALEJANDRO ARRIETA, to found Alvarez, Arrieta & Diaz-Silveira in Miami. Alvarez, a partner at White & Case whose practice includes mergers and acquisitions, spent more than 20 years at the firm and started its Mexico City office. Diaz-Silveira had been counsel at White & Case, handling corporate transactions. Arrieta was most recently a shareholder at Florida firm Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson.

Armstrong Teasdale has hired the Missouri Supreme Court’s longest-serving judge, WILLIAM RAY PRICE JR., for its litigation practice group. Price, who served 20 years on the court, will be a partner dividing his time between the firm’s St. Louis, Jefferson City, and Kansas City, Missouri, offices, and will handle complex business and tort cases.

Chicago firm Much Shelist has added three attorneys, including one from McGuireWoods. DAVID RIESER, previously a partner at McGuireWoods’s Chicago office, joins as special counsel in the real estate practice. Much Shelist also hired TRACY KOCOUREK as special counsel in the IP and technology group, as well as one associate. Kocourek was previously an in-house counsel at Accenture Software.