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• Paul Hastings launches Houston office after hiring local talent

  Apr 26 2012 Paul Hastings has launched a new office in Houston after the hire of three energy-focused transactional partners from local firms. Greg Nelson joins Paul Hastings... more

• Covington & Burling to launch in South Korea

  Mar 16 2012 Covington & Burling announced this week that it plans to launch a new base in Seoul, South Korea. Other international firms that have announced their intention to... more

• Paul Hastings' revenue dips as firm targets more network expansion

  Mar 06 2012 Paul Hastings has posted a 2 per cent drop in revenue from the previous year’s figures, taking $884 million, down from $902 million in 2010. Revenue per lawyer was... more

• McDermott Will & Emery to launch South Korea office

  Feb 16 2012 McDermott Will & Emery is planning to launch in Seoul, following the ratification of a trade agreement that allows foreign law firms to open offices in South Korea.... more

• Law firms remain cautious in recruitment despite recovery

  Feb 01 2012 This article in the Wall Street Journal points out that law firms are finally starting to recover from the recession, but that the returning good fortune is not being... more

• South Korea opens doors to US law firms

  Dec 01 2011 South Korea has opened its doors to foreign law firms, with British firms permitted to open there since July, and a free trade agreement concluded last week that also... more

• US firm Paul Hastings hires five partners in Paris

  Feb 22 2011 US firm Paul Hastings has bolstered its Paris office with the hire of five partners from Hogan Lovells and Proskauer Rose. Hogan Lovells’ Paris corporate head... more

• White & Case hires two partners from Paul Hastings in Tokyo

  Feb 15 2011 White & Case has bolstered its Tokyo office with the hire of two partners from Paul Hastings. Jun Usami, leaves a role as the cochair of Paul Hastings's Tokyo... more

• DLA Piper hires star litigator in Washington DC

  Feb 08 2011 DLA Piper has hired star Washington D.C. litigator Jamie Wareham from Paul Hastings. Wareham was formerly the global chair of litigation at Paul Hastings, and with his... 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 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

• Paul Hastings Expands Chicago Office with Greenberg, Katten Hires

  Aug 02 2010 Nine attorneys have joined the corporate practice in Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's Chicago office, expanding the firm's private equity capabilities. The hires... more

• Three partners return to Hunton & Williams

  May 21 2010 Three partners who trained with Hunton & Williams have been welcomed back to the firm after time with US rival Paul Hastings. Jeff Schroeder, Larry Skinner and... more

• Orrick hires Paul Hasting partner as global private equity chief

  May 03 2010 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lured the head of Paul Hastings’ China private equity practice, Maurice Hoo, to become the global head of Orrick’s private equity... more

• Downey Brand launches in San Francisco with two Paul Hastings hires

  Feb 10 2010 Sacramento-based Downey Brand LLP has opened a San Francisco office with two hires from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP. Paul Hastings environmental and land... more

• Paul Hastings loses four partners to Haynes and Boone

  Jan 29 2010 Four real estate partners are leaving Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the New York office of Haynes and Boone. The Dallas-based firm confirmed it had... more

• Former client sues Paul Hastings for $55m

  Dec 15 2009 Ableco Finance LLC, a financing unit of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. is seeking more than $55 million from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, claiming the law firm... more

• China law firms still feel recession

  Oct 14 2009 Baker & McKenzie, O'Melveny & Myers, Paul Hastings Janofksy & Walker and other U.S. firms have laid off lawyers in China in recent months. PRC firms like King &... more

• Greenberg Traurig Maher adds M&A lawyer Ewan Robertson

  Oct 14 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP, the firm recently established in London by international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, announced that Ewan Robertson will be joining... more

• Dewey and Paul Hastings lead on Disney-Marvel megadeal

  Sep 01 2009 US law firms Dewey & LeBoeuf and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker have won lead roles on Walt Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment. The deal... more

• Chadbourne expands London bankruptcy group with Paul Hastings hire

  Sep 01 2009 Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced that Alper Deniz has joined the bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice in the London office as a partner. Prior to joining... more

• Paul Hastings says "no, thanks" to 25 percent of its summer associates

  Aug 19 2009 Paul Hastings intends to make offers to only 70 to 75 percent of its current summer class, according to legal blog Above the Law. Until now, about half of the... more

• Paul Hastings poaches Skadden patent star Jeffrey Randall

  Aug 11 2009 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has hired Jeffrey Randall, a star patent litigator from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who is known... more

• Paul Hastings cuts 130 jobs

  Mar 11 2009 Paul Hastings has confirmed that the firm will be laying off 44 associates and 87 staff members. In a statement the firm said: "In light of the deteriorating... more

• Law firms grow in China as thousands are laid off in the US, UK

  Feb 24 2009 Proskauer Rose, and Slaughter and May are among the firms that are opening new offices in China, adding to the almost 30 foreign firms in China since September 2006, a... more

• Cadwalader threatens to sue former London partners

  Jan 29 2009 US law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has threatened legal action against seven former London partners who left for US rival Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker earlier... more

• China and South Korea to ease foreign investment rules

  Jan 19 2009 China and South Korea, long ambivalent towards foreign investors, are both set to issue new rules to encourage investment from overseas in 2009 with one simple goal in... more

• Seven partners leave Cadwalader London office for Paul Hastings

  Jan 14 2009 The London office of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has suffered a massive setback with the walkout of seven of its partners, reports legalweek. The partners leaving... more

• Paul Hastings lawyer suspended over Lehman insider trading claims

  Dec 22 2008 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker lawyer Eric Holzer, a tax associate in the firm's New York office, has been suspended from the firm over his alleged part in suspected... more