Brian Stansbury, a highly-regarded environmental attorney and former Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in Washington.

As a member of the firm’s nationally recognized environmental practice, Stansbury provides clients in the transportation, manufacturing, financial services and other sectors with crisis management and environmental compliance and regulatory counseling, including enforcement defense work and associated litigation.

Dorsey & Whitney LLP continues to expand its Phoenix office with the arrival of Litigation Partner Brett C. Gilmore, the international law firm announced.

Emma Wright, a market leading lawyer representing prominent technology companies and governments on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, has joined Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP as a partner in its Privacy and Cybersecurity Group in London. Wright will advise clients on regulatory matters and complex technology procurements with a regulatory or government interface.

Wright is co-founder and director of the Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technologies and an executive committee member of the global UNESCO Women4EthicalAI.

Eric Greig has joined Cooley’s Washington, DC, office as the newest partner in the firm’s global life sciences and healthcare regulatory practice. Greig advises clients on healthcare regulatory, market access and reimbursement strategies across the medical device, pharmaceutical, digital health, biotechnology, diagnostics and healthcare services sectors.

European law firm Fieldfisher has appointed Samuel González as an Employment partner in its Madrid office. With this addition, the Employment team gains another leading employment law expert alongside Talmac Bel, the firm’s Managing Partner, and Anaïs Cobo, who joined at the start of 2025.

Samuel joins from Pinsent Masons and brings with him a solid professional background of over two decades. He holds a dual degree in Law and Business Administration (E-3) from ICADE (Comillas Pontifical University) and an LLM from Georgetown University (Class of LLM’07).

Canizares has significant experience in private practice and government, handling high-stakes litigation, investigations and enforcement actions.

Vinson & Elkins announced that Alex Canizares has joined the firm as a Washington, D.C.-based partner in the firm’s Litigation practice and as co-head of the Government Contracts practice.

Sidley is pleased to announce that Demetrius Warrick has joined the firm’s M&A and PE practice as a partner in Sidley’s office in New York. Mr. Warrick joins from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Paul Hastings LLP announced the significant expansion of its global energy and infrastructure practice with the addition of a premier European team and the opening of a new Abu Dhabi office situated as the firm’s regional hub serving clients across the UAE, Europe and Asia.

Mayer Brown continues to strengthen its Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice with the addition of Lei Shen, who rejoins the firm in its Chicago office. Lei rejoins from Cooley LLP

King & Spalding announced that e-discovery lawyer Chris Costello has joined the firm’s Product Liability and Mass Torts practice group as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

Costello advises clients on e-discovery and information governance matters, including litigation readiness, document retention and information management, cross-border discovery issues, privacy and legal holds. He also has experience handling all aspects of complex litigation for a wide variety of disputes from inception through trial and resolution.