Scott A. Schlager has joined Locke Lord’s Boston office as a Partner in the Real Estate and Finance and Litigation Practice Groups. Schlager’s diverse real estate acquisition/disposition, finance and complex litigation experience combined with a strong network in the real estate sector will enhance the Firm’s real estate capabilities across the United States.

Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrivals of Boris Segalis and Kaylee Cox Bankston as partners in the firm’s market-leading Global Privacy + Data Security Group, which is comprised of more than 60 lawyers across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Segalis and Cox Bankston join MoFo from another leading global firm and bring 30 years of combined experience and a prominent data privacy and cybersecurity practice to the firm.

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Andrew Walker as an Austin-based partner in the firm’s Private Equity Practice.

Walker’s practice focuses on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, the creation of new business platforms, and serving as outside general counsel.

Dentons announced that Kevan Lee Deckelmann has joined the Portland, Maine, office as a partner in the Corporate practice. Kevan has 20 years of experience helping businesses ranging from startups to large established companies as they seek to grow and protect their organizations.

Continuing the growth of its Chicago office and strengthening its capabilities in patent and product liability litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, announced that Paul Collier has joined the firm as a partner, resident in Chicago. Collier joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner.  

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has announced the hire of Sarah Emerson, joining the London office as a commercial disputes partner.

The latest lateral hire to the growing London office, Emerson’s appointment bolsters Hill Dickinson’s rapidly expanding national business services offering. She follows a slew of recent additions to the London team, including commercial litigation partner Amanda Burge, tax partner David Klass and debt capital market partner James Harmer, along with James Kaufmann, who has established the firm’s funds team.

International law firm, BCLP, announced the addition of Partner Valerie Paverd to the firm’s market-leading global Technology & Commercial practice. Val joins the firm’s New York office.

Arnold & Porter is pleased to announce the continuing growth of its Environmental practice with the arrival of Jeffrey Talbert and Ben Piper. Talbert, a former trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), joins the firm’s Environmental practice as a partner and Piper joins the firm’s Environmental practice as counsel.

Arnold & Porter is pleased to announce the continuing growth of its Newark office with the arrival of Lee Cortes, former Executive Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Cortes has joined the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice as partner, resident in the firm’s Newark and New York offices.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Christine Jochim as a partner in its Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice. An associate with K&L Gates from 2011-2015, Jochim rejoins the firm in its Seattle office from Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., where she served as senior legal counsel.