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Mar 28 2012
The merger between Atlanta-based firm McKenna Long & Aldridge and San Diego-based firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has concluded, creating a 575-lawyer firm with...
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Feb 01 2012
In the year before Howrey went under, the firm had a headcount of 242 lawyers in Washington. After the firm’s collapse on March 15, 2011, those lawyers flooded the...
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Dec 28 2011
A senior associate in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman’s Washington DC office has been hired as the general counsel at client company China Security & Surveillance...
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Nov 02 2011
Some law firms are still in cost cutting mode, with many making significant staff layoffs and outsourcing legal support services.
Since August O’Melveny & Myers...
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Oct 28 2011
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is set to open its first Middle Eastern office in Abu Dhabi, with plans to expand services offered to existing clients and take...
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Oct 25 2011
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has announced that it will outsource legal support services to its very own Professional Services Center in Nashville Tennesee. The...
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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...
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Dec 21 2010
Virginia-based firm LeClairRyan has recruited a team of five partners from the Rochester office of Nixon Peabody. The team - IP partners Michael Goldman, Gunnar...
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Sep 01 2010
Top Chinese firm King & Wood has recruited Mary "Meg" Utterback to the firm’s Shanghai office. Before being hired by King & Wood, Utterback was the managing partner...
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Jun 21 2010
Fourteen lawyers from Nixon Peabody have defected to rival firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. The shift comes just weeks after several high-profile Nixon Peabody...
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May 14 2010
Clifford Chance has announced the hire of Rick Antonoff - a restructuring partner from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Antonoff, who specializes in insolvency,...
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Dec 11 2009
In 2009, many major US law firms have cut entry-level pay by $15,000 to $30,000 USD. Before the recession began, first-year associate salaries had risen to $160,000 in...
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Oct 09 2008
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman bolstered its D.C. energy regulatory practice Wednesday with the addition of four lawyers from recently dissolved Heller Ehrman...
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