Arent Fox and Schiff Hardin Complete Combination, Launch Top 80 National Firm

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Arent Fox LLP and Schiff Hardin LLP completed their merger, effective March 1, 2022. The new firm operates under the name ArentFox Schiff and is led by Chair Anthony V. Lupo and Firmwide Co-Managing Partners Cristina A. Carvalho and Joseph J. Krasovec III. The newly combined firm is home to more than 600 lawyers and policy professionals and serves as a destination for an international client base of corporations, governments, private individuals, and trade associations.

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Norton Rose Fulbright Adds Cutting-EdgeTechnology and Life Sciences Team in San Francisco, Including partners Kuan and Novak

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that a team of life sciences and intellectual property practitioners, including San Francisco partners Roger Kuan and Jason Novak, have joined the firm. Together, they will lead the firm’s charge into the digital health and precision medicine space, representing pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health insurance companies as well as technology startups and industry investors. Associate Dagim Tilahun and patent agent Noble Woo complete the arriving team.  Kuan and Novak join the firm from Haynes & Boone.

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Leading White Collar and Corporate Compliance Partner Joins Baker Botts

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology, energy and life sciences law firm, announced today that Michael W. Ward has joined the Litigation Department as a partner in the Palo Alto office. He focuses on government investigations and white collar criminal defense. He has been appointed as an Independent Compliance Monitor and regularly advises clients on best practices in corporate compliance programs. Ward, who will split his time with the San Francisco office, joins the firm from Vinson & Elkins, prior to which he served as a chief risk and compliance officer for Juniper Networks.

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Leading Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Partners Michael Glaser and Mike LaPlante Join Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the additions of Michael Glaser and Mike LaPlante as partners in the firm’s Corporate Department and Emerging Companies + Venture Capital (ECVC) Group. Together, Mr. Glaser and Mr. LaPlante bring to the firm over three decades of experience and one of the largest emerging companies practices in Northern California. Mr. Glaser and Mr. LaPlante join Morrison & Foerster from Perkins Coie LLP, where Mr. Glaser recently served as co-chair of the ECVC practice. 

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Seyfarth Adds Another Labor Management Relations Partner on the West Coast

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Seyfarth announced today the arrival of partner Jamie R. Rich to its Labor & Employment department and Labor Management Relations practice group in San Francisco. Rich previously served as a Greenberg Traurig shareholder in San Francisco and Sacramento where she was national co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice’s Labor-Management Relations group.

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Ropes & Gray Strengthens IP and Technology Transactions Team with New Partner and Counsel

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that its industry-leading intellectual property and technology transactions practices are expanding again with the arrival of two leading lawyers: Edward H. Sadtler as partner in New York and Emily M. Karlberg (Lieberman) as counsel in San Francisco. Sadtler joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, while Lieberman comes to the firm from Gunderson Dettmer.

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