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Kim Bueno Among Kirkland’s Litigation Haul from King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis announced on Tuesday the hiring of 13 litigation partners nationwide from King & Spalding who specialize in “complex, multidistrict litigation and high-stakes trials” — including a few in Texas, most notably veteran trial lawyer Kim Bueno in Austin.

The Texas lawyers making the move to Kirkland with Bueno are the three product liability and mass tort trial lawyers who lateraled with her to King & Spalding from Butler Snow in September: Amy Pepke (Houston), Chris Cowan (Austin) and Tara Blake (Houston).

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