DLA Piper has announced that Nicholas Kourides joined the firm’s insurance practice as senior counsel. Prior to joining, he served as senior vice president and deputy general counsel for AIG.

James “Jim” M. Kramer has joined Simmons Hanly Conroy as a shareholder in the firm’s mesothelioma practice group. He most recently was a partner with Levy Konigsberg where he was the leader of that firm’s cosmetic talc litigation department.