Baker & McKenzie has hired two of Coudert Brothers’ senior Washington DC lawyers – including local managing partner Richard Dean – as the Chicago giant continues to pick up the bulk of the disintegrating US firm.

Dean is a Coudert veteran, having joined the firm in 1980 and opened Coudert’s Moscow office in 1988, before relocating to Washington DC in 1991. Most recently he served as the firm’s Washington DC managing partner.