People and Practices: Oct. 26

Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Peter H. Walsh will join the firm as a partner in the Litigation & Arbitration practice group, co-located in the firm’s Minneapolis and Denver offices.

Walsh comes to Hogan Lovells from UnitedHealth Group (UHG), where he was senior deputy general counsel and chief of litigation and government investigations. Before that he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Denver.

During his eight-year tenure as a senior executive at UHG, a Fortune 14 international health care company, Walsh gained extensive crisis-management and health care experience. He handled the most significant legal matters, including the largest stock-option backdating investigation in U.S. history, numerous congressional and government investigations and hundreds of cases ranging from regulatory enforcement proceedings to complex securities and health care class actions.

Walsh earned his B.A. in history from Middlebury College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He began his legal career in 1997 at Hogan & Hartson, which later became Hogan Lovells.

Evan W. Cordes has joined Hansen Dordell as an associate attorney. Cordes’ practice areas include workers’ compensation, personal injury and employment law.

Cordes’ prior experience includes serving as in-house counsel for the Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust, where he worked with 81 out of the 87 counties on workers’ compensation litigation, employment law and government liability. Before that, he represented employees at the law firm of William J. Krueger P.A.