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• 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