By Caitlin Tremblay

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Seyfarth Shaw has six new attorneys in its New York real estate department. Partners Adrian Zuckerman, Linda Bielik and Cynthia Mitchell and counsel Ralph Berman have moved over from LeClair Ryan. Also joining are partners Mitchel Hill, formerly of Troutman Sanders, and Juan Reyes of Reed Smith.

Edwards Wildman Palmer has hired John Fusco in its Stamford, Connecticut, office. Most recently with Shipman & Goodwin, he joins the business law department as partner.

Bernadette Rappold, director of the special litigation and projects division in the Environmental Protection Agency's civil enforcement office, has joined McGuireWoods as partner in Washington.

Also in Washington, Venable has added two environmental attorneys from Dorsey & Whitney. Kathryn Floyd joins as partner and Jay Johnson as of counsel.

Fisher & Phillips has added two partners from Jackson Lewis, Rick Grimaldi and Lori Armstrong Halber, to its Philadelphia office.

Corporate and securities attorney Travis Leach has left Jennings Strouss to join Ballard Spahr in Phoenix.

Tony Mou moves from the Beijing office of Morgan Lewis to Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Shanghai office as a partner in its corporate practice group.

K&L Gates has opened a new office in Texas, the firm's 25th in the U.S. and 47th worldwide. Joining the firm to open the office is corporate partner Charles Strauss, formerly of Fulbright & Jaworski.

Employment law firm Jackson Lewis is also opening a new office. The firm's Tampa outpost, its fourth in Florida, will include two Ogletree Deakins lawyers: Barnett Brooks will be the managing partner and Monica Williams will be of counsel. A third lawyer, Jay Lechner, joins from Greenberg Traurig as partner.

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