Gregory Rosen, one of the top Jan. 6 prosecutors, resigned from the Department of Justice late last month and is now a shareholder in the Washington, D.C.-based litigation boutique Rogers Joseph O’Donnell. In the meantime, Wilkinson Stekloff brought on Jolee Porter as a partner from the DOJ. Liz Abraham from the Department of Commerce was…

In recent years, King & Spalding has sought to bolster its mass torts and product liability practice group with leading laterals. Thirteen King & Spalding partners were enticed from the practice group by Kirkland & Ellis. Even before roughly 20 attorneys announced their departure to join Kirkland & Ellis in May, King & Spalding had…

During one of the bloodiest times in the nation’s history, Eversheds Sutherland made a daring step that helped establish his presence in Baghdad. Tawfiq Tabbaa, who is currently Eversheds’ managing partner for Iraq and Jordan, took the remarkable decision to drive across the border from Amman and establish a local practice in Baghdad in 2003,…

After lateraling to Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young to support the firm’s commercial and health care litigation divisions, two former Fox Rothschild lawyers have reconnected. Jordann Conaboy and Benjamin McCoy have joined the firm as partners in its Philadelphia office, the firm said Monday.

This week, Pierson Ferdinand added five new partners across three regions of the nation. The new partners improve its practice areas of corporate, technology, financial services, litigation, and insurance, and they come from five separate companies.

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads has hired a bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer for Stevens & Lee, the firm stated Thursday. Gregory T. Donilon, who is headquartered in the Wilmington office of Stevens & Lee, becomes a shareholder in the firm’s bankruptcy and financial restructuring division.

Skye Smith, an investment management partner at DLA Piper, has become a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Dallas. Smith will eventually go to Abu Dhabi to work for sovereign funds.

Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel merged on Sunday, becoming a firm with over 2,700 attorneys that is expected to be among the top 30 in the world. For the transatlantic pair, it is the end of a demanding seven-month period. Law.com International was the first to report on the firms’ intended…

Ropes & Gray is one of the last significant international law firms to contemplate the addition of a nonequity partner layer to the firm’s partnership structure. Despite a wave of similar moves by competitors, the firm, which is one of the few Am Law 100 firms to still maintain an all-equity partnership, is contemplating the…

The law firm revealed Friday that a number of well-known litigation partners, including Karen Dunn, co-chair of the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, are departing the firm. According to a source, the partners intend to start their own legal practice, ready to challenge the Trump administration in court.