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• Top 100 firms report single digit growth for last year

  May 04 2012 The Am Law Daily has released figures that give a snapshot of the legal services industry over the past year. The top 100 firms saw single digit growth in gross... more

• Facebook for the Legal Community?

  Mar 27 2012 A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg created the largest social networker in the world where people who have lost touch with one another can meet and those who never met... more

• Sheriff Baca — Fix the L.A. County Jails!

  Jan 09 2012 Everyone recognizes that the L.A. County’s jail system is broken. Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has been on the job for 13 years. Enough time to right a sinking... more

• US law firms line up to enter South Korean legal market

  Dec 29 2011 Law firms looking to expand into South Korea – after a trade deal with the US opened the country’s legal market to foreign firms – will be on the lookout for signs of... more

• LA firm Silver & Freedman set to close down after 36 years of practice

  Nov 23 2011 Los Angeles law firm Silver & Freedman has announced its imminent closure after 36 years of practice. The demise of the brand has been described as an ‘amicable... more

• Jenner & Block boosts L.A. practice with 6 lateral hires from Hogan Lovells

  Nov 16 2011 Jenner & Block has given a significant boost to its Los Angeles office and media and entertainment practice with the hire of six partners from Hogan Lovells. The... more

• Why Quinn Emanuel steers clear of Hong Kong

  Nov 04 2011 Here is an interesting article in the Asian Lawyer about why Los Angeles-based litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has opted not to open an office in... more

• McKool Smith to merge with LA boutique Hennigan Dorman

  Sep 09 2011 Dallas based IP and commercial litigation firm McKool Smith has aquiredd 33-lawyer Los Angeles litigation and bankruptcy boutique Hennigan Dorman. The firms will... more

• Quinn Emanuel hires three partners to launch Washington DC office ... before signing a lease

  Sep 08 2011 Litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has plans to open an office in Washington, DC, and has taken the step of hiring three partners from Alston & Bird in... more

• High merger activity between law firms is set to continue

  Sep 07 2011 Interesting article here in the Wall Street Journal, which anticipates more merger activity for law firms in the near future. According to reports, firms are now... more

• Paul Hastings lays off 45 staff after outsourcing deal

  Sep 07 2011 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP has entered into an outsourcing agreement under which RR Donnelly will provide document processing services for the firm’s... more

• US firm O'Melveny & Myers helps new parents back into work

  Sep 01 2011 Los Angeles firm O’Melveny & Myers has introduced a new program called Momentum One, which aims to help parents transition back to work. The program is a... more

• Merit list: law firms that offered jobs to 100% of summer associates

  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... more

• O'Melveny & Myers appoints Bradley Butwin as Chairman

  Jul 29 2011 O'Melveny & Myers has appointed New York-based litigation head Bradley Butwin as its new chair. Butwin was selected for the top job over two other candidates,... more

• Determining Premises Liability through a Los Angeles Attorney

  Jun 03 2011 A Los Angeles premises liability attorney is the one responsible for dealing with cases of criminal liability during personal injury incidents that may have occurred... more

• 12 lawyer team from Chadbourne joins Akin Gump

  May 18 2011 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has raided Chadbourne & Parke for a 12 lawyer team, including partners Kerin Cantwell and Daniel Sinaiko, along with five counsel and... more

• Five firms advise on Microsoft's $8.5b acquisition of Skype

  May 12 2011 Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire the popular Internet telephone service Skype SA for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker’s 36-year history.... more

• US firm Blank Rome launches in Shanghai

  May 12 2011 US firm Blank Rome has launched an office in Shanghai. Firm co-chairman Alan Hoffman said that the new office will give high priority to servicing Chinese companies... more

• Meckler Bulger to open in San Francisco in national push

  Apr 21 2011 Chicago-based firm Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson is set to open a new office in San Francisco. The new office will be led by Julia Molander, who joins the... more

• Kelley Drye & Warren is back in LA after linking up with local firm

  Apr 07 2011 New York-based firm Kelley Drye & Warren has re-established a presence in LA after the acquisition of 15-lawyer Los Angeles boutique White O'Connor Fink & Brenner.... more

• Baker & Hostetler takes on 17 Howrey litigators

  Mar 30 2011 Baker & Hostetler has taken on 17 litigators from defunct firm Howrey. The team of lawyers is lead by Robert Abrams, the former cochair of Howrey's global litigation... more

• 25 member construction litigation team leaves Howrey

  Mar 03 2011 A 25 member construction litigation team from Howrey is set to join Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in its Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC and New York... more

• Simpson Thacher and Latham on AOL $315m acquisition of Huffington Post

  Feb 11 2011 The US internet company, AOL Inc. has bought Huffington Post for $315 million (Rs. 1,480 crore). Simpson Thacher and Bartlet advised long standing client AOL Inc.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf bolsters bankruptcy team in LA and SF

  Feb 08 2011 Dewey LeBoeuf has bolstered its bankruptcy practice with the hire of 10 specialists from Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman, including a co-founding partner, Bruce Bennett.... more

• Hogan Lovells appoints Stephen Kay as LA managing partner

  Jan 28 2011 Hogan Lovells has announced the appointment of corporate partner Stephen Kay as the managing partner of its Los Angeles office. Kay takes over the role from litigation... more

• Morrison & Foerster elevates 14 to partnership

  Jan 06 2011 Morrison & Foerster has promoted 14 associates to the partnership in its annual promotions round. The details of the promotions are as follows: Hong Kong... more

• Disappointment over bonuses at Hogan Lovells

  Jan 04 2011 Hogan Lovells has announced its end of year bonus package, the first the firm has given since the merger Hogan & Hartson and Lovells. But associates hoping that the... more

• US firm McDermott Will & Emery adds 28 to partnership

  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... more

• Eversheds advises The Beatles in sale of catalogue to Apple

  Nov 23 2010 The AM Law has reported of the Beatles selling its entire music collection to Apple Inc. This sellout will enable Apple to sell the Beatles legendary collection on the... more

• LPO acquisition: UnitedLex acquires LawScribe

  Nov 18 2010 UnitedLex has stated through a press release that the company has acquired the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) firm LawScribe, based in Los Angeles, California with... more

• Ex-Jones Day Secretary Sues, Claims Layoffs Targeted Minorities, Troublemakers

  Nov 10 2010 An African-American legal secretary laid off by Jones Day after nearly 18 years on the job claims in a lawsuit that the firm laid off support staffers in June as part... more

• Skadden relocates lawyers to boost Hong Kong litigation and arbitration practice

  Oct 06 2010 US firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is boosting its Hong Kong litigation and arbitration practice, relocating two lawyers to deal with an increase in... more

• Paul Hastings relocates partner to from LA to Hong Kong

  Sep 20 2010 Paul Hastings is shifting talent to Asia in anticipation of an increase in large deals coming out of the region in the next six to 12 months. Real estate partner... more

• US firms Lathrop & Gage and Kamlet Reichert conclude merger deal

  Sep 06 2010 Kansas firm Lathrop & Gage and Denver firm Kamlet Reichert have agreed to merge under the Lathrop name. The merged firm will have a headcount of close to 300 lawyers.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf ‘pauses’ summer program in three US offices

  Jul 28 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced that its 2011 summer program will be ‘paused’ in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston. The number of people affected by the decision is... more

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld boost renewable energy practice with double hire

  Jul 01 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its renewable energy and project finance practices with the hire of two new partners to the firm’s Los Angeles office.... more

• Jones Day lays off support staff in LA and Dallas

  Jun 17 2010 Jones Day has laid off an unspecified number of support staffers in its Los Angeles and Dallas offices. About two thirds of those laid off are secretarial workers, and... more

• GMR QIP; Skadden, Luthra, Amarchand advise

  May 26 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s corporate partner from Hong Kong, Edward Lam with Moshe Kushman, the tax partner based out of Los Angeles, advised the bankers... more

• Cyber attack hits Los Angeles law firm that sued China

  Jan 15 2010 Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, a Los Angeles law firm that filed a $2.2 billion copyright infringement suit against the People's Republic of China last week, says it was... more

• Tiger Woods hires L.A. entertainment boutique Lavely & Singer

  Dec 15 2009 Tiger Woods has hired the law firm Lavely & Singer, Hollywood entertainment boutique known for representing clients such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis... more

• Prominent L.A. attorney shot outside upscale home

  Dec 09 2009 Jeffrey Tidus, an attorney with downtown Los Angeles business litigation boutique Baute and Tidus, died Tuesday after being shot in the head outside his home in the... more

• Greenberg adds white collar expert Handzlik in Los Angeles

  Sep 01 2009 Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Jan Handzlik has joined its Los Angeles office from Howrey LLP as a shareholder in the Litigation Group. Greenberg Traurig's... more

• Former L.A. city attorney Rocky Delgadillo joins Goodwin Procter

  Aug 14 2009 Former Los Angeles City attorney Rocky Delgadillo began a new career Wednesday, joining the 400-lawyer litigation department of the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP.... more

• China's largest law firm Dacheng breaks into the US market

  Jun 22 2009 China's largest law firm, Dacheng Law Offices, has opened an office in Los Angeles and entered into a strategic alliance with Matthews Wilson and Hunter, a boutique... more

• Phil Spector Gets 19 Years to Life

  May 30 2009 Famed pop producer Phil Spector faced the music today, as he was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court to 19 years to life for the second-degree murder of Lana... more

• Guantanamo Bay in LA: Help us free the 10,000 Rampart-FIPs in Los Angeles, California...

  Apr 02 2009 Seeking connection with activists in re: release of 10,000 FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons), in Los Angeles, California. All who are attentive to Human Rights... more

• Venable laying off 64 firmwide

  Mar 11 2009 Maryland-based law firm Venable LLP, which has offices in Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Rockville, Towson, and Tysons Corner, is laying off 16... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf, O’Melveny, Shearman cut 400 more jobs

  Mar 04 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf and O’Melveny & Myers announced that they will lay off about 330 lawyers and staff blaming weak demand for legal work because of the economic crisis.... more

• Blank Rome opens Los Angeles office

  Mar 03 2009 Philadelphia law firm Blank Rome will open an office in Los Angeles with five new partners, Lawrence Hinkle, Andrew Kim, Warren Koshofer, Glen Rothstein and William... more

• Latham & Watkins cuts 190 associates, 250 staff

  Feb 27 2009 Latham Watkins has cut 440 employees. 190 associates - 12 per cent of the firm's total associate headcount - and 250 staff will be layed off. The cuts represent the... more

• Orrick announces 13 new partners

  Feb 03 2009 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has announced the admission of 13 lawyers to the partnership, effective January 1, 2009. Orrick currently has 415 partners,... more

• Dreier law firm hit by further departures

  Jan 22 2009 Just days after Dreier lost high-profile litigator Stanton "Larry" Stein announced to Liner Yankelevitz, Stein's former partners Michael Plonsker, Mark Passin and... more

• Ex-associate sues Nixon Peabody claiming discrimination

  Jan 14 2009 A former associate of Nixon Peabody, Henry Har, has filed an employment discrimination suit against the international law firm, contending that he was fired last year... more

• Mayer Brown loses three partners to Sheppard Mullin

  Jan 06 2009 Mayer Brown partners Bryan Daly, Charles Kreindler and Peter Morris are joining the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. The trio joins... more

• Job cuts at O'Melveny & Myers

  Oct 28 2008 O'Melveny & Myers has laid off five associates in its Los Angeles office, according to the blog Above the Law. The National Law Journal reports that O'Melveny is... more

• Heller managing partner Robert Hubbell joins Gibson Dunn's Los Angeles office

  Oct 22 2008 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced that Robert Hubbell will join the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner. He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of... more

• Heller Ehrman litigation teams joins Arnold & Porter

  Oct 08 2008 Five Heller Ehrman litigation partners, including several former litigation practice heads, have joined Arnold & Porter offices in Washington DC and Los Angeles. more