Cadwalader Hires Litigation Co-Chair

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced on Monday that it has hired Jason M. Halper, the co-chair of the financial services litigation practice at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Halper, who works in Manhattan, will co-chair Cadwalader’s global litigation group with Washington, D.C. partner Ken Wainstein, the firm said in a statement.

The addition replenishes the firm’s ranks in litigation after it saw Martin Seidel, the former co-chair of its corporate litigation practice, join Willkie Farr & Gallagher last month.

In March, another co-chair of its litigation practice, Louis Solomon, joined Greenberg Traurig along with three other partners.

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