When Zuckerman Spaeder adds Mitra Hormozi, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, to its roster of partners next week, the Washington-based firm will have 16 lawyers in its New York office, up from three in the fall of 2011 when Steven Cohen was brought on board to build a team that could attract high-level appellate work, investigations, complex civil litigation and white-collar defense and advisory work.
Hormozi, a former prosecutor and chair of the state Commission on Public Integrity, follows close behind Barbara Jones, also a former prosecutor who left the Southern District bench after 17 years to join the firm last month.
Among the recent recruits to Zuckerman Spaeder’s New York office are, from left, Mitra Hormozi, James Sottile and Barbara Jones. NYLJ/Rick Kopstein
