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• Dewey & LeBoeuf loses six more partners

  Apr 06 2012 New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has seen six more partners and one of counsel resign this week, bringing the number of partner departures this year to 46, out of the... 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

• Washington Promotions show focus in Litigation and International Law

  Jan 18 2012 The latest round of law firm promotions in Washington reveal that the region’s largest firms are focusing on litigation — particularly intellectual property — and... more

• Washington lawyer pleads guilty to securities fraud

  Dec 17 2011 Washington lawyer Matthew Kluger pled guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud, obstruction of justice and other charges. The charges maintained that over the... more

• Arnold Porter acquires SF firm Howard Rice

  Dec 08 2011 Washington-based law firm Arnold & Porter is set to acquire mid-size San Francisco firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. The merger will brin Howard Rice’s... more

• WilmerHale hires star Antitrust lawyer Molly Boast

  Oct 21 2011 WilmerHale has boosted its New York antitrust and competition practice with the hire of Molly Boast, the former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice... more

• J. Sagar Associates leads US/India software deal

  Jun 20 2011 J. Sagar Associates has taken a leading role in the acquisition of software engineering form Rofous Software by leading software developer GlobalLogic. The deal sees... more

• Kirkland & Ellis boosts Washington M&A practice with four hires

  Mar 29 2011 Kirkland & Ellis has boosted its M&A practice with the hire of former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris, along with three other prominent antitrust lawyers.... more

• UK frms scramble to hire fraud experts ahead of new anti bribery law

  Mar 26 2011 Law firms and companies operating in the UK are preparing for compliance with a new anti bribery law by hiring lawyers from the UK fraud prosecutor. Under the new... more

• Market trend: consolidation

  Mar 26 2011 Interesting article here from ft.com, which notes that the merger between UK firm Hammonds with US firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey may represent a model for the survival... more

• Washington law firms protect profits at all costs

  Dec 13 2010 Law firms in the Washington area in the US managed to increase profits for equity partners in 2010, In spite of flat revenue, by cutting expenses. A study by the... more

• Bloomberg Law disrupts legal information market with discounts

  Nov 29 2010 Bloomberg Law is seeking entry into the market for legal information with a range of discounts intended to disrupt the duopoly of LexisNexis and Westlaw.... more

• WilmerHale appoints new co-managing partners

  Nov 23 2010 WilmerHale has announced that its current co-managing partners, Bill Lee and Bill Perlstein, will step aside to make way for new leadership. From 1 January 2012 Susan... more

• Survey reports on the salaries of Washington lawyers

  Nov 11 2010 The Washingtonian magazine has released a salary survey issue, reporting on the salaries of all manner of professionals in the US capital, and including a section on... more

• US firms see increased demand for foreclosure advice

  Oct 20 2010 The recent furore over the foreclosure practices of mortgage companies has been good for business at Washington law firms. Laurence Platt, head of the financial... more

• US firms sweeten the deal for start-ups

  Sep 09 2010 Faced with a fiercely competitive market for legal services, a number of large firms dealing with start-up clients are finding ways to make their services more... 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

• KPMG hires duo from Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Jun 11 2010 KPMG has hired two partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Devon Bodoh joins the accounting giant’s Washington corporate group to advise on a range of tax matters, and... more

• Lovells and Hogan in talks to create new global giant

  Oct 09 2009 Lovells, the City’s sixth-biggest law firm, is in merger talks with leading US firm Hogan & Hartson in what would be the biggest tie-up in the legal sector in nearly... more

• Polanski adds star lawyer Reid Weingarten to defense team

  Oct 04 2009 Film director Roman Polanski has added Reid Weingarten, a well-known Washington defense lawyer and close friend of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., to its legal... more

• Blank Rome cuts associate salaries by $15,000

  Jul 06 2009 Blank Rome LLP confirmed that it is cutting the salaries of its most associates in response to similar reductions at competing law firms. Starting salaries at Blank... more

• K&L Gates loses legal-services contract with Microsoft

  May 14 2009 K&L Gates has lost its status as one of Microsoft's preferred legal providers. K&L Gates, which was the product of a merger between international law firm... more

• Ex-Oregon Senator Gordon Smith to join Covington & Burling

  Mar 03 2009 Former Oregon Senator Gordon Smith is going to work for Covington & Burling, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful law firms. more

• Chadbourne & Parke expands telecommunications practice

  Dec 04 2008 The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that James A. Stenger has been named counsel at the firm in its communications, media and... 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

• Bingham McCutchen raids Heller Ehrman for DC regulatory push

  Aug 06 2008 Bingham McCutchen has hired four lawyers for its international securities practice, including the managing partner of Heller Ehrman's DC office, Geoff Aronow. more

• Professor files suit against Virginia Lottery

  Jul 01 2008 A law firm has followed through on its threat to sue the Virginia Lottery on behalf of a Washington and Lee University professor who says he discovered that the... more

• Nossaman merges with D.C.-based law firm O'Connor & Hannan

  Jul 01 2008 Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott LLP is merging with O'Connor & Hannan LLP. O'Connor & Hannan LLP, a D.C.-based firm with 23 attorneys and lobbyists at 1666 K St.... more

• Morrison Foerster raids Sonnenschein for trio of IP partners

  Jun 25 2008 Morrison Foerster has hired a three-partner IP team from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal for its Palo Alto and Washington DC offices. Alexandria Hadjis and Kristen... more

• Jones Day Adds to White Collar, Health Care Practices in Washington and Chicago

  Jun 10 2008 he international law firm Jones Day today announced that Jeffrey E. Gordon, a litigator focused on internal investigations and health care compliance and enforcement,... more

• Vinson & Elkins loses 13 health care lawyers to King & Spalding

  Jun 03 2008 Thirteen health care lawyers left Vinson & Elkins officially Monday and began practice at the Houston and Washington, D.C., offices of Atlanta-based King & Spalding.... more

• It’s a Good Time to Be a Partner at Washington’s Dickstein Shapiro

  May 21 2008 The good times just roll on at Washington’s Dickstein Shapiro, where ace patent attorney Gary Hoffman has nailed down a $501-million win in a case involving... more

• Skadden nabs senior Jones Day healthcare man

  May 04 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has boosted its US healthcare practice with the hire of a senior partner from domestic rival Jones Day. Greg Luce, who co-chaired the... more

• 18 Lawyers From Sullivan & Worcester Energy Group Head for Sonnenschein

  Apr 05 2008 Sullivan & Worcester's Washington partner Vince, James Costan, and 16 other members of Sullivan's energy practice have bolted for Sonnenschein's Public Law and Policy... more

• Foley & Lardner LLP elects 24 new partners

  Feb 08 2008 Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that 24 of the firm's senior counsel have been elected to partnership. This includes attorneys from the firm's Boston, Chicago, Los... more

• D.C. Associate Bonuses 'Fairly Healthy' This Year

  Feb 03 2008 It's associate bonus season for many Washington, D.C., law firms, and the numbers are trickling in. At a few firms, D.C. associates may be getting an extra check that... more

• More Attorneys Exit Powell Goldstein

  Jan 27 2008 Powell Goldstein's Washington office lost a team of seven commercial real estate lawyers and a paralegal to Seyfarth Shaw recently. This follows other departures from... more

• Problems mount for Powell Goldstein

  Jan 15 2008 Last week the Atlanta-based firm lost a big chunk of its health care practice group in Washington -- and yesterday, two partners and two counsel will leave the firm's... more

• Legally blind man a top D.C. attorney

  Dec 26 2007 The Washington, D.C., civil law firm Baker Botts LLP has some of the best and brightest attorneys in the country on its payroll. But even among those distinguished... more