Lawyers On the Move

• The Orthodox Union, the umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, has named Rachel Sims as its first general counsel. She joins the organization from Blank Rome where she was senior litigator.

• Crowell & Moring has hired S. Starling Marshall as a partner in the firm's tax and litigation groups. She was previously at Covington & Burling. Prior to that, she served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division, Court of Federal Claims Section.

• Laura Siegel Rabinowitz has joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in its international trade practice. She was previously special counsel at Kelley Drye & Warren. In addition, Marc Selden has also joined the firm as a shareholder in its private wealth services practice. He joins from from Cozen O'Connor, where he was head of the New York City Private Client Services Group.

• Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld has added two partners to New York office. Donna Tobin, formerly co-chair of the trademark and brand management group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, will lead the firm's newly formed trademarks & brands group. Richard Siegal will join the firm's corporate & business, private client services and tax groups. He joins from Schiff Hardin where he was a partner in that firm's tax and estate planning departments.

• Sally King has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler as chief operating officer. She was formerly chief operating officer at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

• Andrew Grumet has joined Polsinelli as a shareholder and chair of the firm's nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations practice group. He joins from Drinker Biddle and brought a three-person team with him: associate Christina Cahill, Nicole Ribeiro, director of strategic philanthropy and Erica Seaborne, manager of strategic philanthropy.

• Chris Pearson, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in it's corporate, M&A and securities group, has relocated to New York from the firm's London office.

• Matthew Frankle has joined Haynes and Boone as a partner. He joins from Greenberg Traurig where he was a shareholder.

•  Peter Lutz has joined Hodgson Russ as a partner in the firm's real estate practice.

• Litigation funder Validity Finance has added Ronit Cohen as a new portfolio counsel. She joins from Bentham IMF.