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• Amarchand hires Linklaters associate as partner in Delhi office

  Yesterday Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Managing Associate Pranav Sharma from Linklaters as a partner in the Delhi office Banking & Finance and Insolvency group.   Pranav... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf ousts former chairman, while merger negotiations fail

  Apr 30 2012 Troubled US law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has dumped former chairman Steven H. Davis, who is under criminal investigation for alleged financial improprieties.... more

• UK Supreme Court rules that mandatory retirement policy is not age-discrimination

  Apr 30 2012 The UK Supreme Court has determined that law firm Clarkson Wright and James was within its legal rights when it told a partner to resign when he turned 65. The... more

• FoxMandal hires talent in Noida, India

  Apr 09 2012 FoxMandal has boosted its Noida office with the hire of Ashish Sarup as a partner and Joseph Koshy as a Consultant. Ashish, a real estate and M&A specialist,... more

• UK Court holds that fixed share partner is not an 'employee'

  Feb 02 2012 The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that a fixed share partner at Lester Aldridge is not an employee for the purposes of unfair dismissal laws. The Court drew a... more

• Former Mishcon de Reya partner sentenced to 5 years prison for fraud and forgery

  Jan 29 2012 A former Mishcon de Reya partner has been sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a €22m loan scam. Kevin Steele was convicted by the Serious Fraud... more

• Bird & Bird increases turnover and headcount

  Dec 21 2011 Bird & Bird has increased its fee-earner headcount by three per cent this year, from 654 to 673. The growth represents one of only a few cases of firms adding to... more

• Fraud proceedings for former partners of Hogan Lovells, Mishcon de Reya

  Dec 09 2011 Former Hogan Lovells litigation partner Christopher Grierson has been charged with four counts of false accounting by the City of London police. Grierson was fired... more

• Herbert Smith boosts Asia finance practice with A&O hire

  Dec 06 2011 Herbert Smith has boosted its Asia finance capacity with the hire of Philip Lee, a former international capital markets consultant in Allen & Overy's Singapore office.... more

• LG bolsters London real estate practice with SJ Berwin hire

  Nov 16 2011 LG is set to bolster its London real estate practice with the hire of senior associate Mark Mallon from SJ Berwin. Mallon will join the firm as a partner, and will... more

• Top partner at Farrer & Co accused of serious misconduct

  Nov 11 2011 Farrer & Co has landed in controversy after one of the firm’s top partners was accused on prime time television of suggesting that opposing lawyers should be placed... more

• Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson hires former head of K&L Gates' Hong Kong office

  Oct 04 2011 Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson, an affiliate of Beijing's Zhong Lun Law Firm, has the former head of K&L Gates' Hong Kong office as a partner. Clifford Ng... more

• Addleshaw Goddard loses Singapore head ahead of launch

  Oct 03 2011 Berwin Leighton Paisner has scooped up partner Kent Phillips from Addleshaw Goddard, just before that he was due to launch and lead a new Singapore office for his... more

• Scottish firm Ledingham Chalmers appoints new Chair

  Oct 03 2011 Scottish law firm Ledingham Chalmers has appointed a new chairperson, elevating partner and construction expert Jennifer Young to replace incumbent David Laing. The... more

• Norton Rose Australia appoints new managing partner

  Aug 18 2011 Norton Rose Australia has announced the appointment of a new managing partner, with Wayne Spanner set to take over the role from current MP Don Boyd on 1 January 2012.... more

• Cadwalader hires top securitization lawyer in Hong Kong

  Aug 17 2011 US firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has hired one of Hong Kong’s leading structured finance and securitization lawyers, Jeffrey Chen. Chen joins the firm as a... more

• Salans hires former Ropes & Gray partner to be global chief operating officer

  Aug 12 2011 Salans has hired a partner from Ropes & Gray to be its new global chief operating officer. Peter Griffith will be responsible for the firm's global support services,... more

• UK firm Kennedy's is cleared of wrongdoing in case of alleged partner fraud

  Aug 08 2011 The Solicitors Regulation Authority has cleared UK firm Kennedys of wrongdoing in the scandal involving a Kennedys senior partner and the alleged theft of £1 million... more

• Ex-Kirkland & Ellis partner indicted for tax fraud

  Jul 18 2011 Rumors have been circulating about Theodore Freedman since he departed from his bankruptcy and restructuring practice at Kirkland & Ellis last October. And now the... more

• Hogan Lovells partner dismissed for claiming over £1m in false expenses

  May 19 2011 Hogan Lovells has dismissed litigation partner Christopher Grierson after revelations that he wrongly claimed more than £1m in expenses. The firm’s internal... more

• Pinsent Masons lures funds practitioner from SJ Berwin

  Mar 10 2011 TheLawyer reports that Pinsent Masons has bolstered its funds practice with the hire of a senior associate from SJ Berwin’s fund formation team. Daniel Greenaway... more

• Berwin Leighton Paisner hires private client partner from Herbies in London

  Feb 07 2011 Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired private client partner Rupert Ticehurst from Herbert Smith. Ticehurst was Herbert Smith’s only dedicated private client partner, and... more

• Chadbourne & Parke appoints new managing partner

  Dec 01 2010 US law firm Chadbourne & Parke has appointed a new managing partner. Andrew Giaccia – currently executive partner and the managing partner of the Washington DC office... more

• US firm Adorno & Yoss loses founding partner to suspension

  Nov 02 2010 Adorno & Yoss, one of South Florida’s largest law firms, will be changing its letterhead, after co-founder Hank Adorno was suspended from practice and resigned from... more

• China's 'kid' law firms are growing up

  Oct 05 2010 Rupert Li, the International Managing Partner of Beijing-based firm King & Wood, describes his firm as being a ‘kid’ that is ‘light years behind’ the London and Wall... more

• Fladgate hires former head of Halliwells' real estate finance practice

  Sep 10 2010 Fladgate has hired the former head of Halliwells’ London real estate finance practice. Kim McMurray acts for banks and borrowers, focusing on the hotel, care home,... more

• US firm Paul Hastings hires former Goldman Sachs MD for Hong Kong office

  Sep 09 2010 US law firm Paul, Hastings has given its Hong Kong office a boost with the hire of Steve Winegar, a former Goldman Sachs managing director, as a partner in its Hong... more

• Kirkland & Ellis loses another top IP partner

  Aug 31 2010 Kirkland & Ellis intellectual property partner Gerald Flattmann Jr has resigned from the firm's New York office to take up a role with Paul Hastings. He will be... more

• Kingsley Napley boosts family law practice with Cripps Harries Hall hire

  Aug 30 2010 Kingsley Napley boosted its family law practice with the hire of Michael Rowlands from Cripps Harries Hall Rowlands joins the firm as a partner, bringing the total... more

• DLA Piper hires 6 lawyers from Hogan Lovells

  Aug 24 2010 DLA Piper has given its intellectual property practice a boost with the hire of six attorneys from Hogan Lovells. The team is comprised of partners Richard de... more

• Gibson Dunn launches in Hong Kong with GE hire

  Aug 02 2010 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has launched an office in Hong Kong after hiring a lawyer from General Electric International. Kelly Austin, who spent eight years in Hong... more

• Reed Smith Recruits NY partner from Dorsey & Whitney

  May 27 2010 Reed Smith has recruited finance partner Jonathan Ross from Dorsey & Whitney. Ross specialises in capital markets products including corporate, securitised and... more

• Can a partner sue their firm as an employee?

  May 06 2010 A female partner at US firm Dickie McCamey & Chilcote is seeking permission to sue the firm in a potentially groundbreaking sex discrimination claim. Alyson Kirleis... more

• Mayer Brown launches Paris competition and distribution practice

  Apr 19 2010 Mayer Brown has hired Nathalie Jalabert-Doury – formerly a partner at from Carreras Barsikian Robertson & Associés – to head a new competition and distribution... more

• Noerr boosts intellectual property practice with new partner hire

  Mar 31 2010 German firm Noerr has hired former Bird & Bird partner Ralph Nack. Nack spent six years as a senior counsel in Bird & Bird’s IP practice, and will make the move... more

• White & Case to lose yet another partner

  Mar 30 2010 Patent litigation partner Jennifer L Yokoyama is set to leave White & Case for in-house position at Nike. 'We are sorry to lose such a talented young partner in... more

• Former DLA Piper partner found guilty of forging payroll statement in salary negotiations

  Mar 25 2010 Rudy Lim, formerly a partner with DLA Piper and head of the firm’s Indonesia practice, has been sentenced to two months’ jail time for forging a payroll statement,... more

• Halliwells fiercely guards its own honour

  Mar 16 2010 Rumour has it that UK fim Halliwells is zealously protecting its reputation, going so far as to send threatening letters to a lawyer who was overheard badmouthing the... more

• White & Case exodus continues as global IT head quits

  Mar 01 2010 White & Case has lost another partner, with the chair of the firm’s global IT practice group understood to have resigned. New York IT and IP specialist Steve... more

• Herbert Smith hires Freshfields pensions partner Schaffer

  Feb 28 2010 Herbert Smith has made a rare hire from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. Freshfields high-profile pensions partner Dan Schaffer will join the firm next... more

• Mass defection of Clayton Utz partners to Allen & Overy shakes up Australian legal market

  Feb 09 2010 The Australian legal profession has been rocked by the defection of 14 senior partners from top-tier firm Clayton Utz to global firm Allen & Overy, including the... more

• Top-paid Freshfields partner made about $5.27m in 2009

  Feb 03 2010 Despite a dip in average profit per equity partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the firm's top-earning lawyer made about $5.27 million last year, a filing by the... more

• Haynes & Boone Partner Donates Kidney to Staffer’s Son

  Feb 01 2010 A 39-year-old partner at Haynes & Boone in Houston is donating a kidney to the son of a longtime staffer at the law firm. Labor and employment partner Matthew... more

• Reed Smith sees partner profits rise to $1m mark as revenues fall

  Feb 01 2010 Reed Smith has posted its financial results for 2009, with the firm reaching the $1m profits per equity partner mark for the first time, reports The Am Law Daily.... more

• DLA Piper promotes 41 worldwide

  Jan 21 2010 DLA Piper has promoted 41 to partnership, the smallest total number in two years. In 2009, the firm promoted 53 globally after making up 69 partners the year... more

• Fulbright & Jaworski promotes seven to partnership

  Jan 21 2010 Fulbright & Jaworski LLP has made up seven new partners with the promotion of six senior associates and a senior counsel. The new partners are Efren Acosta... more

• Lovells hires Dewey banking partner Michel Quere for Paris office

  Jan 15 2010 Lovells has hired high-profile banking partner Michel Quere from Dewey & LeBoeuf, reports legalweek. Quere was charged with co-managing Dewey & LeBoeuf's Paris... more

• Ex-Hengeler partner Grobecker quits Milbank after just ten days

  Jan 12 2010 Just ten days after he started work as a new partner of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCoy, former Hengeler Mueller partner Wolfgang Grobecker has already resigned from... more

• Hughes Hubbard antitrust partner Robert Reznick joins Orrick

  Jan 08 2010 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced that Robert P. Reznick has joined the firm's Washington, D.C. office as a partner in its antitrust and competition... more

• Indianapolis firm Baker & Daniels elects nine new partners

  Jan 05 2010 Baker & Daniels LLP announced the addition of nine new partners, effective January 1, 2010. At the law firm's annual fall meeting, the partnership voted to admit the... more

• SJ Berwin corporate partner quits for Germany spin-off firm

  Dec 02 2009 SJ Berwin is set to lose a partner in Germany as corporate specialist Joerg Windt leaves the firm to join spin-off firm RoosLegal. RoosLegal was set up earlier this... more

• Greenberg hires ex-Kirkland partner for London restructuring launch

  Nov 30 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) is launching a London restructuring practice with the hire of former Kirkland & Ellis partner Lyndon Norley. Norley will join the US... more

• Addleshaws woos White & Case trade partner

  Nov 30 2009 Addleshaw Goddard has hired a White & Case partner in a bid to grow its trade and commodity expertise. Claire Denison will join as a partner on 1 February 2010,... more

• Beiten Burkhardt promotes 15 to partnership

  Nov 23 2009 Germany's Beiten Burkhardt has promoted 15 lawyers to salaried partner status and a further three have entered the equity in the firm’s latest round of promotions. more

• Sidley boosts City capital markets team with hire of ex-A&O partner

  Nov 18 2009 Sidley Austin has made a rare lateral appointment in the City with the hire of former Allen & Overy securities partner Bart Capeci. Capeci joined the US firm's... more

• DLA Piper recruits Proskauer projects partner for Paris base

  Nov 17 2009 DLA Piper has strengthened its Paris projects team with the hire of a former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner from Proskauer Rose. Jean L'Homme, who joined... more

• Travers’ employment team loses partner

  Nov 17 2009 Travers Smith employment partner Dorothy Henderson has resigned from the firm, leaving just six female partners in its ranks. The firm has made up just one female... more

• Proskauer bolsters City partnership with Herbert Smith hire

  Nov 09 2009 Proskauer Rose has added its second partner in the City in less than two months with the hire of a former Herbert Smith associate. Daniel Ornstein joins Proskauer... more

• Clifford Chance votes in Bickerton as new London managing partner

  Nov 09 2009 Clifford Chance (CC) has handed David Bickerton the role of London managing partner after a contested election. Bickerton will officially start the new post on 1... more

• SJ Berwin reacts to tough market conditions with partner exits

  Nov 07 2009 SJ Berwin has joined the growing rank of law firms restructuring their partnerships, with the City firm asking a number of partners to leave. The top 20 firm... more

• Former DLA Piper partner faces forgery trial in Singapore

  Nov 04 2009 A former DLA Piper partner who left in 2006 to open a Singapore office for US firm Duane Morris is standing trial for forgery, writes The American Lawyer. Rudy Lim,... more

• DLA Piper and Several Major UK Firms Cut Partner Payoutss

  Oct 23 2009 An American law firm—DLA Piper—is among several law firms identified in a British publication that are holding back or reducing partner profit distributions. DLA... more

• Linklaters and Wachtell top global law firm rankings

  Oct 02 2009 After eight years, Clifford Chance lost its top spot as the world's largest law firm by revenue, according to data by Am Law Daily. Clifford Chance was replaced... more

• Ashurst hires energy lawyer Antony Skinner from Linklaters

  Sep 21 2009 Ashurst has expanded its London energy and projects practice with the hire of Antony Skinner as a partner. Skinner joins from Linklaters, where he specialised in... more

• Chadbourne partner rejoins firm after four months

  Sep 17 2009 Former Chadbourne & Parke corporate partner Konstantin Konstantinov who joined Dechert earlier this year as part of the firm's Moscow launch, has rejoined his former... more

• SJ Berwin suspends profit distributions after profit plunge

  Sep 05 2009 UK law firm SJ Bewin has suspended quarterly profit share payments to partners after partner profits fell from £802,000 to £410,000. However, partners still receive... more

• Partner promotions at top UK law firms fall by a third

  Sep 04 2009 Magic circle law firms -- Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Slaughter and May -- saw promotions fall by an average of 41... more

• DLA Piper adds Linklaters partner Jon Hayes

  Sep 02 2009 DLA Piper has strengthened its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) corporate practice with the addition of Linklaters partner Jon Hayes, reports legalweek. more

• Allen & Overy partner Parthasarathy joins Indian ally Trilegal in Mumbai

  Aug 19 2009 Allen & Overy partner Srinivas Parthasarathy is to leave the firm’s Singapore office to become a partner of Indian law firm Trilegal, with which the magic circle firm... more

• Clifford Chance promotes only 17 to partnership in 2009

  Jul 28 2009 Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has only made up 17 partners this year, a 50 per cent drop compared to last year's 35 new partners. Globally, the firm will have 587... more

• Cleary hires Allen & Overy IP partner Colin Pearson

  Jul 22 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made a rare hire in London, adding former Allen & Overy intellectual property partner Colin Pearson as a consultant of its City... more

• Bingham hires former SEC chairman Christopher Cox

  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... more

• Clifford Chance loses restructuring star Kolja von Bismarck to Linklaters

  Jul 17 2009 German corporate restructuring expert Kolja von Bismarck has been appointed as a partner at Linklaters' Berlin office. Von Bismarck was a partner at Clifford Chance... more

• Mayer Brown loses top US finance partner Marshall Stoddard to Dewey

  Jul 07 2009 Finance lawyer Marshall Stoddard, co-chair of Mayer Brown's global finance practice, will leave the firm to become the US head of bank and institutional finance at... more

• Clifford Chance's PEP drops from £1.156m to £733,000

  Jul 01 2009 Clifford Chance saw its profits per equity partner (PEP) slide by 37%, plummeting from £1.156m to £733,000 in the 2008-09 financial year. Revenues were down 5 per cent... more

• Mayer Brown completes management overhaul

  May 28 2009 Mayer Brown has completed the restructuring of its management team after electing the final five partners to its 12-member partnership board. The new structure will... more

• Travers names Lilley as new managing partner

  May 28 2009 Travers Smith has appointed Andrew Lilley to succeed Chris Carroll as managing partner, it was announced today (28 May). Lilley, Travers’ head of employment, will... more

• Dorsey & Whitney Terminates Partner Facing Insider Trading Charges

  May 25 2009 The Dorsey & Whitney partner facing charges of insider trading from the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority has been removed from the law firm's partnership. A... more

• Bristows signs up Kilpatrick corporate partner

  May 20 2009 Bristows has boosted its corporate capabilities with the hire of a partner from Kilpatrick Stockton. Ken Boehner joins from the US firm’s London office, where he... more

• Skadden loses third partner in a week

  May 20 2009 Skadden restructuring partner Jan Baker has been appointed head of Latham & Watkins’ restructuring group and will be based in the firm’s New York office. It is... more

• Lovells loses Italian insolvency chief Silvio Tersilla to Gianni

  May 13 2009 Lovells has lost the head of its Italian business restructuring and insolvency team, Silvio Tersilla, to its Italian leader Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners. Tersilla... more

• Simpson Thacher poaches Clifford Chance corporate star Adam Signy

  May 06 2009 Clifford Chance corporate lawyer Adam Signy, one of the magic circle firm’s top partners, has defected to the London office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. more

• Corporate Partner Junius leaves Dechert's Frankfurt office

  Mar 25 2009 Corporate partner Andreas Junius of Dechert's Frankfurt office departed the firm last week to work full-time with an independent German firm. The departure might... more

• K&L Gates adds DLA Piper partner Kevin Murphy for Singapore launch

  Mar 03 2009 K&L Gates has opened an office in Singapore. Former DLA Piper partner Kevin Murphy will head the firm's corporate practice. K&L Gates now has five Asian offices... more

• Squire Sanders expands Sino-German practice

  Feb 10 2009 US law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has added veteran German lawyer Rainer Burkardt to its China practice. Burkardt was the founder and head of Beiten Burkardt's... more

• Latham profits down $470k per partner, turnover below $2bn

  Feb 09 2009 Latham & Watkins saw its profits drop 21% in 2008, one of the biggest falls so far reported by US law firms. Profits per equity partner (PEP) fell from $2.27 million... more

• Latham & Watkins revenues expected down $400m in 2008

  Feb 06 2009 Latham & Watkins is expected to report a significant revenues fall next Monday by up to $400m in the 2008 financial year, according to several sources. This would... more

• Dorsey & Whitney reports flat 2008 revenue

  Feb 02 2009 Dorsey & Whitney reported flat revenues and a small decrease in profits per partner for 2008. Gross revenues of the Minneapolis-based global law firm were just over... more

• Herbert Smith top fee earner took home £1.4m in 2007-08

  Jan 26 2009 Herbert Smith’s accounts for 2007-08 have revealed that the highest-paid fee earner took home almost £1.4m last year, the firm's topping 2006-07’s highest earnings of... more

• Allen & Overy partner Koerfer to become chairman of Conti

  Jan 26 2009 Rolf Koerfer, Allen & Overy partner in Germany, will become chairman of the board at German tyre manufacturer and car parts maker Continental AG, which was taken over... more

• Dewey hires Weil Gotshal bankruptcy partner Michael Kessler

  Jan 21 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has hired Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Michael Kessler, who joins the business solutions and governance practice in New York. Kessler follows... more

• O'Melveny bankruptcy co-chair Sage quits for Dechert

  Jan 13 2009 Michael Sage, the co-head of restructuring at O'Melveny & Myers, has joined Dechert in the latest in a series of high-profile moves in the bankruptcy Bar. Sage has... more

• SJ Berwin litigation partner found dead

  Jan 13 2009 Staff at SJ Berwin are mourning the death of 41-year-old litigation partner Catherine Bailey, whose body was found in the Thames on Saturday. According to the police... more

• Freshfields appoints new co-head of international arbitration

  Jan 09 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced that New York-based partner Lucy Reed has joined Jan Paulsson as global co-head of the firm’s international arbitration... more

• Cleary Gottlieb rehires former partner Edward Greene from Citigroup

  Jan 09 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has announced that Edward Greene, General Counsel of Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group, will return to the firm in February.... more

• Clifford Chance hires senior FTC lawyer William Blumenthal

  Jan 06 2009 Clifford Chance has hired William Blumenthal, a former senior lawyer at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to head its US Antitrust group. As general counsel of... more

• Reed Smith and Morrison & Foerster announce partner promotions

  Dec 19 2008 Reed Smith and Morrison & Foerster have become the latest firms to announce their new partner promotions, with Reed Smith making up 22 and Morrison & Foerster 10.... more

• Jones Day reveals 40 partner promotions

  Dec 17 2008 The international law firm Jones Day announced today that 40 lawyers have been named to the firm's partnership, effective January 1, 2009. more

• Skadden restructuring co-head Pohl leaves for Lazard

  Dec 15 2008 Timothy Pohl who co-heads Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's corporate restructuring group, announced last week that he will leave the firm to become a managing... more

• Ex-Greenberg Traurig tax chairman Gordon pleads guilty

  Dec 15 2008 Jay Ira Gordon, ex-chairman of Greenberg Traurig's tax practice pleaded guilty to defrauding the Internal Revenue Service and is cooperating with the government in a... more