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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 9, 2022

K&L Gates has named Lauren Patten managing partner of its Nashville office, the Nashville Business Journal reports. Patten, a Nashville native, joined K&L Gates in early 2021 when the firm opened an office in Nashville. She previously spent six years at Butler Snow. Patten is a trial lawyer and a member of the firm’s complex commercial litigation and disputes group. When K&L Gates announced its Nashville office, Mary Beth Johnson, managing partner of the firm’s Research Triangle Park offices and co-leader of the health care practice, was named leader of the Nashville office.