THE CHURN: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

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November 18, 2008 6:10 PM

THE CHURN: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

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It's been an especially busy year for Richard Penfold, who just landed at Brown Rudnick in London as a corporate partner. Penfold had only joined Heller Ehrman this past August, after working at DLA Piper since 2004. At the time, Heller was augmenting its one-year-old London office in preparation for a rumored merger with Baker & McKenzie, which never came to fruition. Penfold will likely tap into his corporate and IP experience at Brown Rudnick and advise clients on IP matters in emerging technologies, software, cleantech, e-commerce, gaming, publishing, entertainment, and digital media.

Crowell & Moring has hired new corporate partner Joseph Adams from Jones Day. He joins the firm's New York office. Adams has advised such clients as Harry and David, Wasserstein & Co., Masisa SA, and Procter & Gamble on mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments, joint ventures, and corporate financings.

Duane Morris welcomes new partner Julie Vogelzang to its San Francisco employment and immigration practice. She'll focus on California wage and hour issues, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and unfair competition. Vogelzang previously was a partner Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps.

Duane Morris has also added a new partner to its intellectual property practice--Vincent Capuano joins the firms as a partner, resident in the Boston office. He was formerly a partner at Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox in Washington, D.C.

Greenberg Traurig has nabbed James Yong Wang, who will joing the firm's corporate and securities and Asia practice groups as a partner. Wang, who previously was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, will be based in the New York office. He will focus on private investment funds practice with a particular focus on China.

Jackson Lewis has opened a new office in San Diego to be headed by partner Paul Sorrentino, who previously worked for the firm in San Diego and Los Angeles. With the addition of this new office, Jackson Lewis now has over 100 attorneys in five locations throughout California, including Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento and San Francisco.

John A. Chandler, who just one week ago retired from Sutherland after 36 years there, is heading to King & Spalding, where he'll be joining his wife, litigator Elizabeth Tanis, according to sibling publication the Fulton County Daily Report. At the time of his retirement, Chandler had said he'd be taking time off to consider the next phase of his life, the Daily Report notes. His wife also recently left Sutherland for K&S. Chandler represented clients, including the big four accounting firms, in numerous professional liability, securities, RICO, and other complex business cases. Tanis's practice focuses on accountancy liability.

K&S also has announced the hiring of former federal prosecutor Courtney D. Trombly. She joins the firm as counsel in the special matters and government investigations practice, focusing on internal investigations and white collar defense. Trombly had worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. She joins King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C. Office.

Morrison & Foerster has hired Tony Grundy as a partner in the firm's Tokyo office, according to sibling publication LegalWeek. Grundy, whose practice focuses on international debt, equity, and the adaptation of European products to the Japanese market, retired as a partner from Linklaters six months ago. He had launched the Magic Circle firm's

Tokyo

office in 1987 and most recently had served as its managing partner between 2000 and 2007.

Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler may need to get a bigger door to accommodate its newest name partners. The class action litigation boutique is now known as Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, with Joseph Meltzer and Darren Check joining the marquee. Meltzer leads the firm's ERISA litigation department and manages the firm's antitrust and consumer protection practice groups. Check is the firm's Director of Institutional Relations and runs the business development and portfolio monitoring departments.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr will launch an office in Frankfurt with the hiring of four lateral partners from Mayer Brown. Rüdiger Herrmann, Reinhart Lange, Christofer Eggers, and Hans-Georg Kamann. Herrmann joins the firm’s corporate practice; he focuses on representing national and international clients in corporate transactions, especially in public and private M&A, public offerings, private equity and venture capital transactions, and intellectual property matters. Lange, who joins the IP practice, specializes in trademark and licensing law. Eggers, a litigator, focuses on commercial, regulatory and IP litigation. And Kamann is an expert in EU regulatory and antitrust law. Also joining the new office will be Christian Crones, a corporate partner in Wilmer's Berlin office. The office will be Wilmer's second in Germany.

The churn is constant. Our reports are twice weekly. Send your news to amlawdaily@alm.com.

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