O’Melveny & Myers is making the most of the battered telecoms sector by setting up a specialist regulatory group. James Young, the former general counsel at Bell Atlantic, now Verizon Communications, and of counsel at Hunton & Williams will be moving to O’Melveny as a partner.
Kimberley Newman is also joining from Hunton & Williams, where she was a partner specialising in regulation and anti-trust. Both will be joining O’Melveny’s Washington office.
Gibson Dunn hires Fenwick & West chair
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is making waves on the US West Coast after taking on the chairman of Fenwick & West’s litigation group Timothy Roake, one of California’s top litigators, is due to rejoin Gibson Dunn’s Palo Alto office at the end of January. He was previously an associate at the firm from 1983-1988. Roake’s […]