Law firm Benesch Friedlander changed its Cleveland address from 200 Public Square, Suite 2300, to 127 Public Square, Suite 4900. The firm notified the Court of International Trade on Aug. 18. Benesch Friedlander attorneys represent various clients in 19 separate Section 301 cases, all of which are a part of the massive litigation.

Trade lawyer Carlos Vejar joined White & Case as a partner this month after leaving Holland & Knight, according to his LinkedIn page. Vejar, Mexico's former general counsel for international trade, lists himself as an international trade and private commercial arbitration lawyer.

Sunny Yang, former partner at Porter Wright, has joined Frost Brown as a partner in the Pittsburgh office. Her practice focuses on international business and trade matters, including market entry and import-export proceedings the firm announced. Yang worked at Porter Wright for over three years, and before that as an attorney at Duane Morris.

Robert Broadbent, former acting associate general counsel for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Office of General Counsel, has joined Womble Bond as a partner in its Government Contracts and Cross-Border Trade practice. Based in the Charlottesville, Virginia, office, Broadbent will focus on "international trade and national security matters," including sanctions compliance, export control matters, foreign investment and security reviews, and trade agreement and foreign market access strategies, the firm said.

Stephen Morrison, former law clerk at the Court of International Trade, joined Morris Manning as an international trade associate, the firm said in a letter to the trade court. Since he served as a law clerk for the last two years at CIT, Morrison is barred from working on various cases at the trade court, including the massive Section 301 case, the firm said.

Miller & Chevalier international lawyer Christopher Stagg is co-chairing the American Bar Association's export controls and economic sanctions committee, he announced on LinkedIn. Stagg joined Miller & Chevalier in 2021 after serving as a senior policy adviser with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls at the State Department. At Miller, he focuses on export controls, economic sanctions and Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. matters.

Kenneth Polite, former assistant attorney general for DOJ's Criminal Division, will join Sidley on Oct. 1 as a partner and co-leader of its white collar government litigation and investigations practice. Polite's practice will center on "white collar criminal defense, investigation, and compliance matters," Sidley said. For the past two years, Polite has been working in his Senate-confirmed position at DOJ, leading a team of over 1,400 attorneys and staff responsible for carrying out criminal investigations of securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering offenses and public corruption, the firm said. Polite previously served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Andrew Adams, the DOJ attorney at the head of Task Force KleptoCapture -- the interagency body charged with enforcing U.S. sanctions on Russia -- left the department, he said on his LinkedIn page. Adams will return to his role as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which he originally assumed in 2013. He was appointed to lead the task force in March of last year after leading the SDNY Attorney's Office's Money Laundering and Transnational Criminal Enterprises Unit. Bloomberg reported that Adams will be replaced by Michael Khoo and David Lim, both of whom have worked in the task force since its early days. DOJ didn't comment.

Alan Levesque, former senior managing director at Ankura and former vice president at Raytheon, has joined Wiggin and Dana as a partner in the litigation and international trade compliance practices. Based in Washington, D.C., Levesque's practice will draw from his experience leading Ankura and Raytheon through export consent agreements, Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. audits, and "complex regulatory and enforcement issues," the firm said. Levesque brings a lengthy resume to Wiggin and Dana, including stints at Sikorsky, Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Sundstrand, and Nufern.

Former CBP attorney Coraly Schreiber joined trade boutique firm Yormick Law as of counsel, Jon Yormick, the firm's founder, confirmed in an email. Schreiber most recently served as managing attorney at Diaz Trade Law in Miami, and before that worked for 19 years at CBP, including a one-year stint as branch chief for the Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures Division, according to her LinkedIn page,