NEW YORK — Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America’s leading full-service law firms, has announced that it has formed a Strategic Economic Response Team (SERT) to assist clients in responding to regulatory and business challenges posed by the cur ...

NEW YORK— Lowenstein Sandler has created a Global Financial Crisis Group, a team of attorneys from a broad scope of practice areas dedicated to serving a growing list of clients affected by the current economic turmoil.

PHILADELPHIA — Blank Rome has formed a financial reform task force. Led by Peter A. Peyser, head of Blank Rome Government Relations LLC in Washington, D.C., and Lawrence Flick II, Blank Rome Corporate Finance Partner in New York, and working in c ...

SEATTLE — Marten Law Group, one of the nation’s largest and most experienced environmental law firms, has added Svend Brandt-Erichsen as a partner in its Seattle office.

DALLAS — The Financial Crisis Recovery Team of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is taking action on behalf of local businesses as the impact of the current global financial crisis begins to affect the Texas market.

PHILADELPHIA — Saul Ewing LLP has announced that Wendell F. Holland, former chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PaPUC), has joined the firm as a partner in its Business Department and Energy and Utilities Practice Group.

MIAMI — Shareholders Paul D’Arelli, Bruce March and Diana Zeydel of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig PA were selected as “Key Partners” by the South Florida Business Journal during its recent 2008 Key Partners Awards ...

LOS ANGELES — Until recently, green building litigation has been the subject of idle talk outside a handful of environmentally related claims. However, in response to the nation's first state-level green building code adopted by the California Bu ...

MCLEAN, Va. — Thorium Power Ltd., the leading developer of non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology and a key provider of comprehensive advisory services, has announced the appointment of two nuclear industry stalwarts. Robert Ihde will serve as ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Quin Dodd, who most recently served as chief of staff for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), has joined Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo’s Consumer Product Safety Commission Practice Group in ...

ATLANTA — Kilpatrick Stockton LLP launched a firm Green Initiative effective Oct. 1.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ulmer & Berne LLP has announced the addition of R. Benjamin Franz to its Environmental Practice Group.

TAMPA, Fla. — One of Tampa Bay's leading real estate law firms, Shawn M. Yesner, P.L., has added Christopher W. Boss as a partner. Boss brings his specialties in real estate, bankruptcy, corporate planning and probate to the firm, which officiall ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a move to boost its bipartisan government relations capabilities, Crowell & Moring LLP has added six lawyers from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to its Public Policy Group.

NEW YORK — H5, the leading provider of automated document review and information risk management services for the legal industry, has announced that Julia Brickell, former associate general counsel of Altria Client Services and deputy general cou ...