• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has hired John Wood, previously co-chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed's anti-corruption and internal investigations practice group, as chief legal officer and general counsel, effective June 4.

• Michael Weinsier has joined Pryor Cashman as partner and co-head of the firm's private equity practice. He joins the firm from Troutman Sanders.

• Stroock has added Evan Hudson as a partner in the firm's real estate finance practice. He was formerly co-chair of the real estate capital markets group at Duval & Stachenfeld.

• Mehtap Cevher Conti has joined Arnold & Porter as a partner in the firm's corporate and finance practice group. Before joining, she was in private practice.

• Elaine Zacharakis has joined Garfunkel Wild as a partner in the firm's health care information and technology group. She joins after maintaining her own health, technology and privacy law firm for 14 years.

• Bracewell has added partners Allan Taffet, Keith Blackman, Joshua Klein, and associate Russell Gallaro to the firm's litigation practice. The four-person team was previously at Duval & Stachenfeld, where Taffet chaired the litigation department.

• Michael Birnbaum has joined Morrison & Foerster's securities litigation, enforcement and white-collar defense practice group as a partner. He joins after spending the last 11 years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, most recently as senior trial counsel.

• Shearman & Sterling has added Meredith Williams-Range as its chief knowledge & client value officer. She was previously with Baker Donelson in Memphis, TN, where she served as chief knowledge management officer and knowledge management attorney.

• Legal operations executive and business strategist  Rina Sproat has joined Kleinberg Kaplan as its chief operating officer. She is the first to hold this position on a full-time basis in the firm's 47-year history. Most recently, she was chief operating officer and chief of strategic implementation at Baker & McKenzie in Tokyo.