Polsinelli Bolsters Dallas Real Estate Finance Practice with New Shareholder Tara Darling

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed a new shareholder to the firm’s growing Dallas office. Tara M. Darling has joined the firm’s nationwide Real Estate Finance Practice Group. An experienced finance attorney, she focuses her practice on advising clients on lending transactions across different commercial real estate asset classes. Polsinelli recently added a three-lawyer real estate team in Washington, D.C., and a three-lawyer commercial finance team in Nashville, continuing the fast-paced growth of its Real Estate & Financial Services Department. In April, the firm welcomed two real estate finance shareholders in Atlanta. The department has added ten new shareholders in 2023 as it has focused intently on growing its sophisticated real estate and finance practices that serve clients from development and financing through litigation and restructuring. Darling arrives from Cassin & Cassin LLP.

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Lewis Brisbois Welcomes Timothy Swickard Back to Firm As Vice-Chair of Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practice

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Timothy Swickard back to the firm as a partner in its Sacramento office, a vice-chair of its Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practice, as well as a member of its Environment, Land, & Natural Resources Law and Government Affairs & Public Policy Practices. Mr. Swickard has more than 23 years of legal experience, including serving as the director and chief counsel for the California Environmental Protection Agency Department of Toxic Substances Control under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Swickard previously served as a partner in Lewis Brisbois’ Sacramento office between 2012 and 2018, before practicing with Greenberg Traurig over the last five years.

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