Tyson & Mendes Launches Chicago Office; Names Managing Partner and Senior Counsel of Newest Branch: Expanding Insurance Defense Firm Adds Seasoned Litigators Scott Ruksakiati and Mark Shanberg

Tyson & Mendes LLP announced today the launch of its first Chicago office and the hire of two attorneys to lead the new branch. Scott Ruksakiati will act as branch managing partner with Mark Shanberg as senior counsel. With more than 25 years’ experience defending clients in diverse and challenging litigation, Ruksakiati joins Tyson & Mendes after serving as co-founder of Masini, Vickers, Ruksakiati & Hadsell, P.C. Shanberg previously served as an attorney with Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP and brings more than 27 years of practical litigation experience to the Tyson & Mendes team. More >>

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Polsinelli Adds Two Prominent Chicago Shareholders as Part of Growing National ESOP Practice

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes two accomplished employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) attorneys Gregory Brown and Christopher Buch as shareholders to the firm’s national ESOP Practice. Both are located in the firm’s growing Chicago office. The move combines Polsinelli’s national ESOP practice with Brown and Buch’s widely-known practice into a single expanded platform, with additional opportunities for corporate, transactional, employee benefits and executive compensation representation. Both join Polsinelli from Holland & Knight LLP.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Patent Partner Kurt Rohde in Chicago

Barnes & Thornburg has added Kurt Rohde to the firm’s Intellectual Property Department as a partner in the Chicago office. Rohde is the fourth partner addition in Chicago this year and the third in the office’s Intellectual Property Department.  Rohde joins from McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, a boutique intellectual property firm, where he chaired the mechanical and materials practice group.

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Eversheds Sutherland Continues Growth in Chicago with Three Real Estate Laterals

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the further expansion of the firm’s Chicago office with the arrival of three attorneys in the Real Estate Practice Group. Ruth A. Schoenmeyer has joined the firm as partner, and Kathleen Dempsey Boyle and Stephanie J. Kim have joined the firm as counsel. Schoenmeyer and Kim come to the firm from White & Case, Boyle joins from Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Labor and Employment Partner in Chicago

Barnes & Thornburg has added labor and employment attorney Terese M. Connolly as partner in the firm’s Labor and Employment Department. Ms. Connolly, who joins in Chicago, advises multinational corporations on a full spectrum of employment-related issues that arise when managing a global workforce. Connolly comes to the firm from Culhane Meadows PLLC.

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Matthew R. Jones, Leading Executive Compensation Lawyer, Joins Ropes & Gray in Chicago

Matthew R. Jones, a leading executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer, has joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Matt is a skilled and sought-after advisor who focuses his practice on all executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions, as well as on ongoing compensation and benefits matters. Matt prides himself in taking a practical and efficient approach to helping clients solve complex problems. Jones previously practiced with K&L Gates in Chicago.

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