White-collar defense lawyer Joey Burby, who joined Alston & Bird as a partner from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner last week, said arriving at the firm felt like a homecoming, as he already knows many of his new law partners from his early days as an Alston associate and federal prosecutor.

Burby is Alston’s latest hire for its white-collar defense and investigation group⁠—one of its key practices⁠—and gives the firm 16 lawyers with Justice Department experience. In Atlanta, Alston recruited former federal prosecutor Paul Monnin in 2017 from Paul Hastings and Larry Somerfeld from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, where he’d headed the cybercrime unit.

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