Following months of partner departures in New York, Nixon Peabody saw two leave Monday for Littler Mendelson, including the head of Nixon’s international labor and employment specialty team. Philip M
Dawn Smith made partner two years ago at Morrison & Foerster. Now she’ll be general counsel at one of Silicon Valley’s biggest new companies, VMWare, which made a splash in 2007 when EMC spun it off in a billion-dollar IPO. Smith was a corporate associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati before joining MoFo as counsel where she worked on M&A deals like Intel’s $884 million deal for Wind River