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Sidley Austin adds partners Nathan Greene & Jay Baris to Investment Funds Group

Sidley Austin LLP welcomes Nathan Greene and Jay Baris as partners in its Investment Funds group in New York. Mr. Greene and Mr. Baris joined Sidley from Shearman & Sterling LLP, where they were both partners in the Investment Funds practice.

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Weil adds assistant director of FTC Bureau of Competition Michael Moiseyev as partner in Washington, D.C.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announces that Michael Moiseyev has joined the Firm as a partner. Mr. Moiseyev joins Weil after 30 years at the Federal Trade Commission, including 16 years as Assistant Director leading the Mergers I Division in the Bureau of Competition.

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Corporate Counsel Business Journal announces the Inaugural Thrive Webcast Series

Corporate Counsel Business Journal, published by Law Business Media, announces its inaugural webcast series, THRIVE: A Users Guide to Mental Strength, beginning on May 6, 2020, and will extend throughout the year.

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Fish & Richardson hires Katie Abbott as director of marketing and communications

Fish & Richardson announces that Katie Abbott has joined the firm as Director of Marketing and Communications. In her new role, Abbott will develop and oversee the implementation of all marketing and communications strategies for the firm across its 14 offices in the U.S., Europe and China.

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McNees attorney Kathleen Duffy Bruder receives appointment to Civil Rules Committee

The McNees Wallace & Nurick law firm announces that Kathleen Duffy Bruder, Esquire, was recently reappointed as a member of the Civil Procedural Rules Committee by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for a term of three years, commencing July 1, 2020.

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Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions enhances Consulting Partner Certification Program

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions announces enhancements to the Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Consulting Partner Certification Program. The expanded program is tailored to each consulting partner, providing it with extensive knowledge and skills to support and implement our solutions.

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EDRM announces the EDRM Hub

Setting the global standards for e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) announces its new EDRM Hub, a global online job, event and service provider portal available today. For the next three months EDRM will offer these services for free to serve the needs of its community. The newly launched EDRM Hub can be found at edrmhub.com.

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Honorable John P. DiBlasi of NAM to speak on mediation and virtual ADR at NYCLA's Civil Practice Institute

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation) announces the Honorable John P. DiBlasi, J.S.C. (Ret.) has been invited to participate in a CLE webinar conducted by the New York County Lawyer's Association's Civil Practice Institute as part of a two-day Bridge the Gap for Litigators event. Judge DiBlasi's will join a panel discussion entitled Conference and Settlement and Mediation in Commercial and Personal Injury Cases, to be held on Friday, April 24th from 12:30 – 2:20 p.m.

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Joy Backer Kete Joins Fish & Richardson

Fish & Richardson announces that Joy Backer Kete has joined the firm’s Boston office as an associate in its Litigation Group. Kete was a senior associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice at WilmerHale before joining Fish.

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McGuireWoods partners to serve as city co-leads for LCLD mentoring program

In its March 2020 newsletter, the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity named McGuireWoods Raleigh partner Elizabeth Timmermans as one of its new City Leads for the LCLD Success in Law School Mentoring Program.

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