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Dec 28 2011
US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has elevated eleven lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round.
The promotions take place across the New York,...
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Aug 17 2011
Above The Law has posted a list of firms that have offered jobs to 100 per cent of summer associates, readying themselves to start naming and shaming those firms that...
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Jul 07 2011
Boston firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and Chicago firm Wildman, Harrold have announced that they are in advanced merger talks, though no final deal has yet been...
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May 09 2011
US firms are busy hiring to boost capacity in Europe as lucrative private equity work picks up in the region.
Boston-based firm Ropes & Gray, which opened in...
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Jan 14 2011
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has promoted five lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round.
In London, John Lloyd has been made up in the firm’s IP...
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Dec 15 2010
US firm McDermott Will & Emery has announced the results of its annual partnership promotion round, adding five partners in Europe and 23 in the US.
The details of...
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Dec 13 2010
Jones Day has secured the hire of five partners from Boston firm Hanify & King, including co-founder John D Hanify, for its new Boston base, which is due to launch in...
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Nov 23 2010
WilmerHale has announced that its current co-managing partners, Bill Lee and Bill Perlstein, will step aside to make way for new leadership. From 1 January 2012 Susan...
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Jan 06 2010
Bingham McCutchen LLP has elected eight lawyers to its partnership, including six women.
"These new partners exemplify the global talent and strength from our...
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Jan 05 2010
Boston-based Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP has hired Michael H. Bunis as a partner in its intellectual property litigation group.
Bunis joins Choate from crosstown...
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Oct 21 2009
The economy may be showing signs of improvement, but controlling outside legal costs is the top priority for general counsel -- even if it requires taking some...
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Sep 01 2009
Boston-based intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson will shut its Austin, Texas, office and cut corporate transactional lawyers firmwide.
Fish & Richardson...
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Aug 17 2009
Recent Penn State law school graduate Bobbi-Sue Doyle-Hazard has discovered a sad reality as she works as a waitress at a Boston steak restaurant and goes on...
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Aug 03 2009
In a further indication that the legal job market will remain tight for years to come, Boston law schools are reporting that many law firms have opted out of making...
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Jul 21 2009
Bingham McCutchen LLP has hired Christopher Cox, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President George W. Bush, to continue the...
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Jul 07 2009
Boston-based 1,000-lawyer firm Bingham McCutchen has agreed to acquire structured finance specialist McKee Nelson with 120 lawyers in Washington and New York.
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Jul 01 2009
Michelle Moor, a former associate at Bingham McCutchen's Boston office, sued the law firm this week, complaining the firm brushed off her complaints that she was...
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Jun 19 2009
Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis & Bockius has added 11 corporate finance lawyers from Bingham McCutchen's banking and leveraged finance group in Boston.
The hires...
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Jun 02 2009
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, which has about 43 lawyers in Boston and 1,215 lawyers firm-wide, has laid off 79 non-legal staff across all of its U.S. offices.
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Feb 19 2009
Law firm Cooley Godward Kronish LLP has launched a fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Cyber Law Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
The new fellow...
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Jan 28 2009
National labor and employment law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. announced that it has opened office in Boston this week.
The founding...
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Jan 16 2009
Foley Hoag has cut about 6 percent of its workforce in response to the slumping economy, the law firm confirmed yesterday. The layoffs affect about 32 people, both...
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Sep 29 2008
Boston-based international law firm Ropes & Gray is expanding its foothold in Chicago, moving to new offices and hiring additional lawyers. The firm now has 12...
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Jul 31 2008
Ten members of Bingham McCutchen's Hartford office’s administrative staff were let go this week. Bingham McCuthen, which has over 250 lawyers in Boston, attributed the...
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Jul 01 2008
Six Algerian terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay for more than six years without charges have won the right to petition for release, increasing the stakes for...
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Jun 19 2008
Law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP has hired its first-ever diversity manager, the firm said on Wednesday.
Minita Shah will hold the title of manager of diversity and...
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Jun 15 2008
WilmerHale partner Joan A. Lukey will join Ropes & Gray's litigation department as a partner in its Boston office next week. Lukey was recently elected the...
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Jun 01 2008
A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas gave a big win to hometown lawyer Sam Baxter of Dallas-based McKool Smith, awarding his client, Medtronic, $250 million...
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May 09 2008
A former associate at Bingham McCutchen has filed a discrimination complaint against the Boston law firm, claiming it failed to promptly investigate her allegation...
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Apr 28 2008
Boston-based insurance monolith Liberty Mutual, one of the top property and casualty insurers in the U.S., has tapped Debevoise & Plimpton's M&A partners Gregory...
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Apr 01 2008
Holland & Knight Boston partner Deborah E. Barnard was honored by the Women's Law Association at Boston University School of Law during the school's first ever...
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Feb 08 2008
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that 24 of the firm's senior counsel have been elected to partnership. This includes attorneys from the firm's Boston, Chicago, Los...
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Oct 31 2007
London-based firm Kendall Freeman is to merge with Boston-based US firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. EAPD has strong footholds in antitrust work and intellectual...
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Oct 10 2007
Bingham McCutchen LLP, a US law firm with a large office in Boston, has completed a joint venture combination with a Japanese law firm known as New Tokyo International...
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