Holland & Knight Strengthens Litigation Practice with Addition of Former Federal Prosecutor Steven Block in Chicago

Former federal prosecutor and seasoned trial lawyer Steven A. Block has joined Holland & Knight’s Litigation Section as a partner in Chicago. Mr. Block joins the firm from Thompson Hine, where he served as a vice chair of the litigation department and member of the government enforcement, internal investigations and white collar defense group.

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Blank Rome Continues Expansion of Chicago Office with Addition of Insurance Recovery Partner Rikke Dierssen-Morice

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Rikke Dierssen-Morice has joined the firm’s nationally recognized Insurance Recovery practice. An experienced litigator representing commercial policyholders in the United States and abroad, Rikke has successfully obtained multimillion dollar recoveries for clients in state and federal courts. She will be based in the firm’s Chicago office and arrives from Maslon LLP in Minneapolis.

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Former Federal Investigator, General Counsel Jeremy Lewin Rejoins Barnes & Thornburg

Barnes & Thornburg announced today that Jeremy Lewin has rejoined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Corporate department. Lewin was a partner with Barnes & Thornburg for nearly a decade before serving as general counsel for the American Society of Anesthesiologists® and its six affiliated entities, and as a principal for another firm’s nonprofit and employment practice groups.

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William Essig Joins Barnes & Thornburg as Litigation Partner in Chicago

Barnes & Thornburg has added William V. Essig as a partner in its Chicago office. Essig joins the firm’s Litigation Department with a focus on defending pharmaceutical and medical device companies in mass tort and product liability litigation.  Essig arrives from the Chicago office of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

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Richard C. Godfrey joins Quinn Emanuel

Adding to its formidable capabilities in complex multidistrict litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP announced today that Richard C. Godfrey is joining the firm as a partner, resident in the firm’s Chicago office. Godfrey joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where he served for 16 years on the Global Management Executive Committee. At Quinn Emanuel, Godfrey will become Chair of the Complex Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) practice group, the firm said.

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Cozen O’Connor Adds Two of the Country’s Leading Data Privacy Litigators to its Commercial Litigation Practice Group

Cozen O’Connor today welcomed Melissa A. Siebert and Erin Bolan Hines — data privacy litigators with renowned track records of successfully defending employers and technology enterprises entangled in major data privacy class actions and appellate cases — to its award-winning Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Both come to the firm from Shook Hardy & Bacon and join Cozen O’Connor as shareholders. Each will work out of the firm’s Chicago office.

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