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CAREER TRACKER: Lawyers on the move - Jan. 16, 2013

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By Caitlin Tremblay

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Gary Schoenbrun has left Dickstein Shapiro and moved to Herrick, Feinstein as partner in New York. He joins the firm's tax and personal planning group, where he will also be co-chair.

Greenberg Traurig has hired tax attorney Martin Lepelstat from Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis, who is now shareholder in the firm's Florham Park, New Jersey, office. Also joining Greenberg as shareholder is Carla Hogan, who will work in the Albany, New York, office in the health and FDA business and labor and employment practices. She moves over from Tuczinski, Cavalier, Gilchrist & ColluraMoving over from Greenberg Traurig to the northern Virginia office of Littler Mendelson as shareholder is John Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He will continue representing employers in breach of contract, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment and non-compete actions.

Bingham McCutchen has added Bruce Wolfson as of counsel in its New York office. Previously, Wolfson was general counsel at The Rohatyn Group.

Squire Sanders has scooped up a group of antitrust attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Mark Botti, who was the head of Akin Gump's antitrust and unfair competition practice, joins as partner, along with J. Brady Dugan and Anthony Swisher, also partners. They will be based in Washington.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired Daniel Chung as of counsel in Washington. Chung was a member of the organized crime unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Mayer Brown has added Min Ho Lee as partner in the firm's litigation and dispute practice in Washington. Lee was most recently with Lee & Ko, a firm in Seoul, South Korea, and will focus on arbitration and antitrust law.

Reed Smith has a new partner in San Francisco. Tracy Genesen of Kirkland & Ellis, who has worked on litigation involving constitutional and interstate regulations for alcoholic beverages, will join the firm's global regulatory enforcement group.

Sports law attorney and former pro football player Richard Davis has moved his private practice over to Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. Davis, who previously practiced at his own firm, Law Offices of R.T. Davis, will be based in Baker Donelson's Birmingham, Alabama, office. Davis played football for the University of Alabama and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1975, playing in the NFL for four seasons.

Perkins Coie has added Mark Eckeneiler as senior counsel in Washington. Eckenwiler, who joins the privacy and security practice, was most recently associate director for technology in the Office of Enforcement Operations at the Justice Department. Also joining the firm is Jeffrey Terry. Terry, previously with Paul Hastings, joins the firm's private equity practice as senior counsel in Chicago.

Jeffrey Reis is now counsel in the intellectual property and technology practice group of Lane Powell in Seattle. Reis was previously with Townsend and Townsend and Crew.

In London, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has a new partner in its litigation and arbitration group. Charles Evans moves over from Norton Rose.

K&L Gates has added Lech Gilicinski as partner in its Warsaw office. He joins from Wierzbowski Eversheds and advises Polish and multinational clients on restructuring and bankruptcy.

Monika Kuschewsky has left Van Bael & Bellis to join Covington & Burling as special counsel in Brussels.

Rejoining Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong is Lance Chen, who will head the firm's U.S. securities practice group. Chen was most recently with ICBC International Capital Limited. Seong Soo Kim, from Kim & Chang, is also moving over to the firm as partner in Hong Kong and will work in its banking and finance and Korea practices.

(Corrects and earlier version of the column that misstated the backgrounds of Mark Eckeneiler and Jeffrey Terry and corrects spelling on Monika Kuschewsky.)

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