Arnold & Porter has become the latest firm to pick up a team of lawyers from collapsed US firm Heller Ehrman.
The Washington DC-based law firm is taking on five litigators who will join the firm’s business litigation and antitrust groups in DC and Los Angeles.
Partner Kenneth Chernof, previously a member of Heller’s policy committee and co-chair of the complex commercial litigation practice at Heller, will head to Washington with counsel Carl Nadler.
Meanwhile partners James Speyer - former chair of Heller’s Los Angeles litigation practice - and John Ulin and counsel Eric Shapland will join the Los Angeles office.
Arnold & Porter’s chairman, Thomas Milch, said: “We are thrilled to attract this immensely talented group of lawyers to Arnold & Porter. They bring invaluable experience in complex litigation matters and their arrival strengthens our litigation and trial practice in key substantive and geographical areas.”
The news follows Covington & Burling picking up 50 lawyers from Heller for its US intellectual property practice. The team will be spread across Covington’s California and Washington offices. It will also set to open new offices in Silicon Valley and San Diego with a number of the new hires.
These lawyers include 14 partners, six counsel, and a group of associates at all levels.
