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Movers & Shakers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is deepening its investment in cybersecurity. Partners John Wolfe and Aravind Swaminathan left DLA Piper to join Orrick's Seattle office. Swaminathan is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington's computer hacking and intellectual property section and serves as general counsel to the Washington state governor's task force on drone legislation.
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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr added Morrison & Foerster partner'D. Reed Freeman'in Washington, DC, to cochair its cybersecurity, privacy and communications group.'
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Jenny Durkan joins the white-collar and corporate investigations practice of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as partner and global chairwoman of the cyber law and privacy group in the firm's new Seattle office and will focus on data breaches and privacy disputes. Durkan served as the U.S. attorney in Seattle.
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Alston & Bird brought on privacy and data security senior counsel'Peter Swire'in Washington, DC, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where the former White House privacy official will continue to serve as a professor of law and ethics. Swire served as chief counsel for privacy in the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration.
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FTI Technology, a business segment of'FTI Consulting Inc., launched'its Information Governance and Compliance service group in January. The new offering provides consultations with corporations to help marshal people and develop processes to create or augment the companies' information governance programs.
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Jenny Durkan joins the white-collar and corporate investigations practice of
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FTI Technology, a business segment of'FTI Consulting Inc., launched'its Information Governance and Compliance service group in January. The new offering provides consultations with corporations to help marshal people and develop processes to create or augment the companies' information governance programs.
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