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• NY firm Kasowitz Benson sees profits and revenue drop

  Mar 07 2012 New York firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman has reported a decline in both revenue and profits per partner in 2011. The firm’s revenue dropped 2 per cent from... more

• Lawyers traverse Silicon Valley's lively lateral market

  Feb 29 2012 Here is an interesting article about the very lively lateral market in Silicon Valley. Shifting between law firms can be very lucrative, with plenty of firms seeking... more

• Davis Polk and Dewey take leading roles on $5.7 bn hostile takeover bid

  Jan 28 2012 Davis Polk & Wardwell and Dewey & Boeuf 40] have taken lead roles in the leadup to a $5.7 hostile takeover bud for San Diego–based gene-mapping equipment-maker... more

• US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges promotes 11 to partnership

  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,... more

• Kasowitz expands IP practice with Silicon Valley launch

  Nov 23 2011 Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman has expanded its intellectual property practice with the launch of an office in Silicon Valley. The office will be led by... 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

• Skadden boosts Palo Alto litigation practice with hire of solo practitioner

  Dec 01 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has secured the hire of Silicon Valley solo practitioner Allen Ruby. Ruby will bring his successful litigation practice to Skadden... more

• Chinese firm Jun He opens office in Silicon Valley

  Jun 07 2010 Beijing-based firm Jun He Law Offices has opened an office in Silicon Valley, hiring three lawyers from US firms: James Zhu and Zhaohue “Zoe” Wang of Perkins Coie, and... more

• King & Wood appoints new international managing partner

  May 07 2010 Beijing’s King & Wood has scooped up top talent Rupert Li, formerly a capital markets partner at Clifford Chance, and has appointed him as the firm’s international... more

• Top Silicon Valley bio-tech lawyer Halluin killed in plane crash

  Feb 22 2010 Albert P. Halluin, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent lawyers, and his fiancee died when his single-engine aircraft went down west of Yosemite National Parkt.... more

• Crisis? What Crisis? California law firms post steady profits

  Jan 28 2010 Most major Bay Area law firms saw revenues and profits remain flat in 2009, reports The Recorder. Half of the eight firms surveyed posted increases in profit per... more

• Orrick lawyer demands end to Apple tablet 'scavenger hunt'

  Jan 19 2010 Valleywag, at tech industry gossip site run by Gawker Media, announced on 13 January that it is offering up to $100,000 reward for information about Apple's... more

• Venture Law Group founder Craig Johnson dies at 62

  Oct 06 2009 Craig Johnson, the visionary Silicon Valley lawyer who founded Venture Law Group and more recently Virtual Law Partners (VLP), died from a stroke last weekend, just... more

• Latham ousts Dewey in Adobe's $1.8bn Omniture takeover

  Sep 18 2009 Latham & Watkins advised Adobe on its acquisition of Analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion, with Silicon Valley partners Peter Kerman, Glenn Nash, and Luke... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf represents eBay on $1.9bn Skype deal

  Sep 03 2009 Just one month after hiring eBay's longtime advisers from Cooley Godward Kronish, Dewey & LeBoeuf has won a mandate to represent the acution site on its $1.9bn deal to... more

• Chadbourne to open second California office with Yahoo hire

  Aug 27 2009 Chadbourne & Parke plans to open a northern California office in either San Francisco or Silicon Valley. The New-York-based firm already hired Yahoo in-house IP... more

• Quinn Emanuel defers first-years in California

  Jul 24 2009 US business litigation firm Quinn Emanuel is deferring eight incoming associates in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices until January, according to a report... more

• Dewey hires star M&A team from Cooley

  Jul 09 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has hired three partners from Cooley Godward Kronish, including Richard Climan, one of the Silicon Valley firm’s top rainmakers and head of Cooley’s... more

• Wilson Sonsini cuts 113 jobs, freezes associate salaries

  Feb 09 2009 Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of of the largest law firms in Silicon Valley, has announced it is laying off 45 lawyers and 68 staff members.... 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

• Wilson Sonsini to lay off 45 lawyers, 68 staff

  Jan 26 2009 Silicon Valley-based firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is set to cut 45 attorneys and 68 staff from, the firm announces with "utmost regret" in an internal memo... more

• Cooley Godward lays off 52 attorneys and 62 staff members

  Jan 22 2009 Silicon Valley-based Cooley Godward Kronish is laying off 52 lawyers and 62 staff members, reports Above the Law. The high-tech corporate and litigation firm, which... more

• Covington announces major expansion of its patent litigation practice

  Oct 07 2008 Covington & Burling LLP is significantly expanding its national intellectual property litigation practice with the addition of approximately 50 lawyers in California... more

• Alston & Bird to Open in Silicon Valley With Akin Group

  Jul 29 2008 Just six months after King & Spalding launched in the Silicon Valley, another Atlanta-based firm, Alston & Bird, is set to open its doors in the Bay Area. A group of... more