Businesspeople walking. Photo: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.comFormer SEC Senior Counsel John W.R. Murray Joins Foley Hoag as Partner
And other announcements of recent hirings and promotions of New York attorneys.
November 06, 2019 at 04:16 PM
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• John W.R. Murray has joined Foley Hoag as partner. He will be a member of the firm's securities litigation and white collar/government investigations practices. Before joining, he was senior counsel in the SEC's division of enforcement.
• Fox Rothschild has added Howard Suh as a partner in the firm's intellectual property department. He was previously a partner at Holland & Knight.
• Brad Rabinowitz has joined Montgomery McCracken as of counsel in the firm's business department. He was previously with CKR.
• Georges Lederman has joined Withers as special counsel. He was previously with Pearlstein McCullough & Lederman.
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has hired Allison Brown as a partner in the firm's mass torts, insurance and consumer litigation group. Formerly, she was a partner at Weil Gotshal.
• Steven Rogers, former chief legal officer of Aceto, has joined Lowenstein Sandler as a partner in the firm's transactions & advisory group.
• Paul Hastings has added Merri Moken as of counsel in the firm's intellectual property practice. She previously practiced at Holland & Knight.
• Blink Health has named Kathy Reardon as the company's chief healthcare counsel. Most recently, she was the chief ethics officer at Cigna.
• Akerman has added Joel Forman to the firm's national litigation practice group as a partner in New York. Before entering private practice, he served as a staff attorney for the New York Regional Office of the SEC in the Division of Enforcement.
• Rosenberg & Estis has hired Jack Rose as a member to lead the firm's newly established Bankruptcy and Reorganization Department. Prior to joining, he was a partner at the Law Offices of Jack J. Rose in Bronxville.
• Brown Rudnick has added Michael Winograd as a partner. He joins as a member of the firm's commercial litigation practice group.
• Boutique firm LTL Attorneys has opened a New York City office with partner Prashanth Chennakesavan who relocating from firm's Los Angeles headquarters. The firm has also added Omar Tuffaha as an associate.
• Freeborn & Peters has added Jon Schuyler Brooks, Kathryn Lundy, David Pellegrino, Jeremy Richardson, and Marc Zimmerman as partners in the firm's litigation practice group. They all join from Michelman & Robinson
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has added Laura Turano as a partner in the firm's corporate department.
• Alina Levi has joined Blank Rome as a litigation associate in the firm's consumer financial services group. She joins from Houser & Allison, APC.
• Hinckley Allen has hired Janelle Murnane as an associate in the firm's litigation group. She joins the company's Albany office after previously working for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
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