Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Moves

Merger Talks

• Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has merged with Lewis Fisher Henderson & Claxton to open two new offices in Memphis, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss. The merger also adds two lawyers to Ogletree's Los Angeles office.

Atlanta

• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker gets bank regulatory partners John L. Douglas and Chris C. Daniel from Alston & Bird, where Mr. Douglas was the head of that practice.

Beijing

• LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae gets energy partner Dirk Walker from Vinson & Elkins.

New York

• Dorsey & Whitney gets litigation partner Steven R. Schoenfeld from Torys.
• Gibson Dunn gets healthcare corporate-finance partner Glenn Pollner from Dewey Ballantine.
• McDermott Will Emery gets corporate partner David L. Mathus from Alston & Bird.
• Orrick gets real-estate finance partners Mark S. Shapiro and Jill D. Block from Katten Muchen Rosenman where Mr. Shapiro was previously the chairman of that practice.
• Ropes & Gray gets litigation partner Jerome Katz from Chadbourne & Parke.
• Schulte Roth & Zabel gets investment management counsel Daniel Hunter from Katten Muchin Rosenman.
• Troutman Sanders gets asset finance partner Craig M. Kline and tax partner Philip H. Spector from King & Spalding.

Orange County, CA

• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gets corporate partner Terrence R. Allen from O'Melveny & Myers.

Philadelphia

• Cozen O'Connor gets project & public finance partner Suzanne S. Mayes from Saul Ewing.
  Morgan Lewis & Bockius gets white-collar litigation partner Eric Sitarchuk from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, where he was the head of that practice.

San Francisco

• Holme Roberts & Owen gets antitrust partner Jesse Markham Jr. from Morrison & Foerster, where he was the chair of that practice.

Silicon Valley

• Foley & Lardner’s Palo Alto office gets labor and employment litigation partner Thomas M. Gosselin from Pahl & Gosselin.

Washington DC

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld gets IP partners Michael L. Kiklis and Kimani P. Clark from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
• Arent Fox gets real-estate partners Robert E. Falb, Richard B. Nettler, Keith R. Styles and Barbara Wachter Needle from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.
• Nixon Peabody gets franchise and distribution partner Steven B. Feirman from DLA Piper.
• Venable gets environmental regulatory partners Douglas Green and William Weissman from DLA Piper.