Lateral Partner Watch for the Week of June 2nd, 2025

• Fisher & Phillips added former Reed Smith labor and employment partner, Emily Harbison, as the regional managing partner of their Houston office.

• Michael Kimberly, McDermott Will & Emery’s former Supreme Court and appellate co-chair, has transitioned to his new role as co-leader of Winston & Strawn’s national appellate and critical motions practice in D.C.

• Ballard Spahr welcomed Angela Davis Pallozzi in their Baltimore office after departing from her position as a senior legal counsel for Sinclair Broadcast Group LLC.

• Former Blank Rome partners, Jeffrey A. Fickes and Christopher J. DePizzo, have joined Akerman’s Corporate Practice Group in New York.

• Trade secret litigator, David L. Pardue, joins Pierson Ferdinand’s IP Department in Atlanta after his transition from Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP.