Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has added trial-appellate lawyer Daniel Mach as a partner in the firm’s litigation & investigations department. He joins from Quinn Emanuel. Prior to this, he notably clerked for the Hon. F. Dennis Saylor IV of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and for the Hon. Susan P. Graber of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Laren Spirer has joined the Lawyers Alliance for New York staff as program and strategy director. She will have oversight of the organization’s pro bono legal services program. She is a member of Lawyers Alliance’s management team and was formerly the inaugural director of pro bono programs at Columbia Law School and the pro bono manager at Debevoise & Plimpton.