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May 02 2012
Yale Law Women have announced their annual ranking of the top 10 family friendly law firms, which this year shifted focus from the availability of family friendly...
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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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Feb 08 2012
Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton has appointed a non-lawyer as its chief executive, hiring Scott Green, the former executive director of WilmerHale, to lead the...
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Nov 02 2011
U.S. News & World Report has completed its second annual law firm ranking, which chooses one ‘Law Firm of the Year’ in each of 75 practice areas.
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May 24 2011
An interesting article here about the creation of two-tier associate system in some of the biggest law firms in the US. These second tier associates do the same kind...
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Dec 03 2010
Apple Inc has assembled an all star cast of intellectual property lawyers as it faces a slew of intellectual property lawsuits in connection with the development of...
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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...
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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...
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Sep 22 2010
New York securities firm Jefferies Group Inc has hired Michael J Sharp as general counsel. Sharp leaves the partnership at WilmerHale to join the company, where he has...
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Jan 08 2010
Only 19 percent of partners at American law firms with more than 100 lawyers are women, despite the fact that women have comprised more than 50 percent of law school...
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Dec 22 2009
Ernst & Young agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle charges against six partners. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had accused the accounting firm of...
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Jul 18 2009
After a Bombay High Court ruling in 1995, foreign law firms were barred from practicing in India. Under the newly enacted Limited Liability Partnership Act 2008,...
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Jan 22 2009
White & Case and WilmerHale have increased global revenues in the 2008 financial year, despite difficult market conditions.
White & Case has reported an increase in...
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Sep 10 2008
Yale Law Women Group released the results of its third annual survey on family-friendly firms. The list includes the following firms:
- Arnold & Porter
- Covington...
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Jul 22 2008
Anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc. is embroiled with Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr over $12 million in legal fees incurred in the trial of former McAfee...
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Jun 15 2008
WilmerHale partner Joan A. Lukey will join Ropes & Gray's litigation department as a partner in its Boston office next week. Lukey was recently elected the...
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May 07 2008
Despite Obama 's claim that Washington lobbyists haven't funded his campaign, five corporate law firms, which are among the top contributors to the Obama campaign,...
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