The former West Coast head of Sidley Austin‘s U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice Jean-Claude André, will now co-lead Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner‘s appellate/supreme court group. André has experience serving as a federal prosecutor and appellate chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He is based in Los Angeles.

DLA Piper brought on Eileen O’Pray to its tax practice and transactional subgroup. She joins the firm’s Silicon Valley office as partner and will handle tax-related issues such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions and investments. She was previously with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.