Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector:
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has hired Robin Maxwell away from Goodwin Procter for its New York financial regulation group. She specializes in banking regulation and mergers & acquisitions.
Thorp Reed & Armstrong has brought on Richard H. Taylor as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Commercial & Corporate Litigation Practice Group. For now he will work our of Pittsburgh, before relocating to Wheeling. He joins from the San Francisco office of Perkins Coie. His JD is from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review.
Milwaukee’s Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek is losing CEO Mark Miller at the end of the year. He is leaving for an entrepreneurial opportunity. He will aid in the search for a new firm leader. The firm, with offices in Milwaukee and Madison, has more than 150 attorneys and paralegals practicing in more than 40 areas of law.
