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May 08 2012
Patent transactions of increasing value are attracting the attention of antitrust regulators, necessitating the use of antitrust experts in a field that previously had...
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May 04 2012
The Am Law Daily has released figures that give a snapshot of the legal services industry over the past year. The top 100 firms saw single digit growth in gross...
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May 02 2012
Sidley Austin has appointed Carter G. Phillips as the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Executive Committee - the group that exercises general authority over its policies and...
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Apr 26 2012
Clifford Chance and DLA Piper have taken leading roles on Pfizer's $11.9 billion cash sale of its baby food business to Nestle.
Nestle is advised by US law firm...
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Apr 19 2012
The American Bar Association has rejected a proposal to permit non-lawyers to take ownership stakes in law firms.
The proposed reform would have permitted...
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Apr 11 2012
Law firms in Washington DC have taken the first five places in a ranking of business retirement plans. The survey, conducted by financial advisor BrightScope, looked...
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Apr 11 2012
Law firms in Washington DC have taken the first five places in a ranking of business retirement plans. The survey, conducted by financial advisor BrightScope, looked...
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Mar 28 2012
Dewey & LeBoeuf is changing its leadership strategy, with a plan to appoint London partner Stephen Horvath to a new role of executive partner. The plan proposes...
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Mar 27 2012
Quarles & Brady has announced the launch of a new office in Washington, DC. The firm has given its fledgling office a boost with the hire of litigators John F. Dienelt...
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Mar 06 2012
US firm Edwards Wildman Palmer has posted an 18 per cent increase in revenue, from $297.9 million to $352.7 million in its first post-merger financial results. The...
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Mar 02 2012
Miami-based law firm Holland & Knight has announced further expansion in Latin America with the imminent launch of new office in Bogotá, Colombia.
The firm will...
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Feb 29 2012
Hogan Lovells has announced that it will launch an office in Rio de Janeiro later this year, pending regulatory approval.
The move follows a large influx of...
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Feb 22 2012
Chapman and Cutler is set to launch in Washington DC after hiring a six-partner finance team from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Chief executive partner Tim Mohan...
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Feb 15 2012
Law firms are establishing Washington DC offices at a cracking pace, drawn by the promise of booming regulatory and international work.
In the past 10 months, at...
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Feb 14 2012
Washington, D.C.-based firm Covington & Burling is waiting on regulatory approval for a new office in Shanghai, after hiring five lawyers from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich...
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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 31 2011
Rumour has it that Gerson Zweifach, a partner at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., is set to become the next general counsel at media giant News Corporation....
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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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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,...
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Dec 07 2011
The American Bar Association Commission on Ethics is considering a proposal to allow nonlawyers to take an equity stake in law firms for which they work. If the...
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Nov 24 2011
Energy lawyers are in high demand in Washington DC as the energy market continues to see high activity. This article surveys the major lateral moves in this practice...
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Nov 17 2011
Washington DC-based firm McKenna Long & Aldridge has initiated merger negotiations with Californian firm Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps. Luce was founded in 1873 and...
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Nov 09 2011
K&L Gates has announced the launch its first office in South America in São Paulo, Brazil. The new office will operate under Brazilian Bar Association rules as a...
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Oct 29 2011
A new survey by the National Association for Law Placement has indexed median private practice salaries against the cost of living in 70 US cities to determine where...
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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 03 2011
Memphis-based Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz has boosted its litigation and pro bono practices with the hire of La'Verne Edney from a role as general...
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Sep 16 2011
Interesting article here about Axiom Law – a legal service provider successfully operating in Washington DC with a very non-conventional structure. According to the...
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Sep 08 2011
Litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has plans to open an office in Washington, DC, and has taken the step of hiring three partners from Alston & Bird in...
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Sep 06 2011
The summer associate recruitment process is well under way in Washington, where the largest law firms are hiring around the same number of summer associates as last...
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Aug 25 2011
Hogan Lovells has hired Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S. solicitor general, to join the firm’s appellate group in Washington DC. Katyal served as the acting...
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Aug 25 2011
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is set to open an office in Washington DC after the hire of 14 lawyers from local firm Wallace Partners. The incoming group includes...
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Aug 24 2011
Indianapolis-based law firm Ice Miller has merged with Columbus firm Schottenstein Zox & Dunn, bringing 90 lawyers under the Ice Miller Banner from 1 January 2012....
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Aug 19 2011
Davis Polk & Wardwell has bolstered its Washington DC antitrust practice with the hire of Howard A. Shelanski. Shelanski has a wealth of regulatory experience, joining...
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Aug 18 2011
An interesting article here on the difficulties faced by mothers in the legal profession.
The article profiles MAMA (Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association) which...
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Aug 17 2011
US law firm Dykema has boosted its litigation department with the hire of John M. Thomas and Terri S. Reiskin to firm's Ann Arbor and Washington, D.C. offices...
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Aug 10 2011
Two UK magic circle firms are focusing their attention upon Washington DC, with Allen & Overy announcing that it is set to launch a new office in the US capital, while...
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Jul 29 2011
O'Melveny & Myers has appointed New York-based litigation head Bradley Butwin as its new chair.
Butwin was selected for the top job over two other candidates,...
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Jul 21 2011
US firm Ropes & Gray has launched its third office in Asia with a new office in Shanghai, which will focus on private equity, life sciences and investment funds work....
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Jul 06 2011
Interesting article here in the New York Times about the demand at large law firms for lateral hires that bring in large books of business. According to industry...
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Jun 14 2011
Washington law firm Sorini, Samet & Associates is set to represent the Bahraini government as it fights a labor complaint associated with the firing of hundreds of...
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Jun 07 2011
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has announced the hire of Cheryl Scarboro from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Scarboro leaves her role fighting against...
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Jun 06 2011
California law firm Best Best & Krieger has acquired boutique telecommunications law firm Miller & Van Eaton in Washington DC. This will be the first time that BB&K...
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Jun 01 2011
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has hired top Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Christopher Bellini in Washington DC.
Bellini leaves his role as the cochair of...
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May 19 2011
Top Washington DC firm Sidley Austin has announced the hire of former Democratic congressman from Virginia, Frederick “Rick” Boucher, who will lead the firm’s new...
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May 17 2011
If you needed another ranking of the top US law firms, here it is. Corporate Board Member magazine and global business advisory firm FTI Consulting Inc asked US...
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May 13 2011
International law firm Greenberg Traurig has boosted its energy and natural resources practice with the hire of partner Enid L. Veron of Hunton & Williams.
Veron...
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May 09 2011
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has scored a major coup with the hire of Clifford Chance US litigation chief Juan Morillo. Morillo leaves his position at Clifford...
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May 05 2011
Florida based firm Becker & Poliakoff continues to grow, opening an office in Washington DC hot on the heels the launch of a second New Jersey office.
The firm has...
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Apr 07 2011
Matthew H. Kluger, until recently a senior associate at the Washington office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has been charged with stealing confidential...
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Mar 16 2011
Howrey lawyers are leaping to other firms after the firm announced its imminent dissolution. Construction litigation partners David Mancini and James Newland Jr are...
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Mar 10 2011
Howrey’s partners have voted to dissolve the partnership, a decision that will take effect on 15 March 2011 and put the 55 year old firm out of its misery.
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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Feb 16 2011
The exodus at Howrey continues with another seven IP partners leaving the firm’s US offices.
Among the group was San Francisco-based rainmaker KT Cherian, who has...
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Feb 15 2011
International law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has announced a merger with Washington DC-based Fleischman and Harding.
The precise terms of the merger...
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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...
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Jan 26 2011
Merger negotiations between Chicago-based Winston & Strawn and Washington DC-based Howrey have ended, but Winston’s interest in Howrey is not concluded. According to...
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Jan 06 2011
LeClairRyan is set to expand with an influx of talent from Nixon Peabody. The firm has hired 16 lawyers to support its strategic goals of opening an office in...
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Jan 04 2011
Hogan Lovells has announced its end of year bonus package, the first the firm has given since the merger Hogan & Hartson and Lovells. But associates hoping that the...
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Dec 15 2010
US firm McDermott Will & Emery has announced the results of its annual partnership promotion round, adding five partners in Europe and 23 in the US.
The details of...
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Dec 15 2010
Howrey has suffered another in a series of defections the departure of antitrust specialist Mike Cowie to the Washington office of rival firm Dechert.
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Dec 06 2010
The Big Law business model has fundamentally changed, according to the managing partners of some of Washington’s DC's top law firms.
In a breakfast discussion...
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Dec 01 2010
US law firm Chadbourne & Parke has appointed a new managing partner. Andrew Giaccia – currently executive partner and the managing partner of the Washington DC office...
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Nov 26 2010
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney has made up ten new partners across a number of its US offices, effective 1 January 2011.
The promotions are as follows:...
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Oct 14 2010
US firm White & Case has promoted 35 lawyers to its partnership.
“Our new partners are all outstanding lawyers, with diverse experience and expertise,” said White...
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Sep 16 2010
A new study of salaries for US associates has shown that they have remained steady throughout the recession.
The report by the National Association for Law...
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Aug 19 2010
Cut-throat lawyers need not apply Sidley & Austin’s Washington DC office. Karen Popp, the DC hiring partner for the firm, has indicated that an aggressive competitive...
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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...
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May 05 2010
The steady leak of lawyers in the lead up to the merger between Hogan & Hartson and Lovells has continued, with seven Washington DC lawyers leaving Hogan Lovells just...
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Mar 30 2010
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the results of this year’s promotions round, making up 18 new partners. The round saw four more promotions than last...
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Oct 12 2009
UK firm Lovells is secretly planning to abandon its lockstep in a bid to push through the planned merger with US firm Hogan & Hartson, reports The Lawyer.
The fact...
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Feb 24 2009
City law firm Ashurst is in talks with a 10-partner structured finance team from long-time US securitisation ally McKee Nelson.
The move could give Ashurst...
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Jan 16 2009
Foley Hoag has cut about 6 percent of its workforce in response to the slumping economy, the law firm confirmed yesterday. The layoffs affect about 32 people, both...
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Nov 25 2008
A team of lawyers from the Johannesburg and Washington, DC offices of Dewey & LeBoeuf, led by Washington, DC Partner Gregory Smith, advised Eskom, the South African...
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