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Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector:
James Donato joins Shearman & Sterling’s San Francisco office as a partner. He was previously with Cooley. Donato is an antitrust lawyer and past president of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Also, Donato served as a trial attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.
Jesse Witten joins Drinker Biddle & Reath from the US Department of Justice, where he was co-chair of the Health Care Fraud Task Force. He will join the firm’s white-collar criminal defense and corporate investigations team in Washington, DC. Witten’s JD is from Harvard Law, magna cum laude.
Sue J. Hodges joins K&L Gates as a partner in San Diego, handling corporate and insolvency matters. She focuses on commercial transactions involving debt and equity financing. Hodges joins from Pillsbury, where she was managing partner of the firm’s two San Diego offices.
