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May 10 2012
Winston & Strawn has scooped up 24 litigation partners from ailing law firm Dewey & LeBouef, taking on a group of around 60 lawyers in total. Among the transferring...
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Feb 13 2012
US firm Winston & Strawn has boosted its Moscow practice with the hire of Norton Rose finance partner Andrei Yakovlev.
Yakovlev will divide his time between...
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Nov 01 2011
Numerous major law firms have begun to offer a benefit for employees that enroll their same-sex partner in the firm’s health care plan. The benefit aims to offset...
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Oct 14 2011
Roll on Friday points out that there is a steady depletion in the partner ranks over at Ashurst, with eight partners departing since the start of September....
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Sep 14 2011
Winston & Strawn has taken on former head of defunct firm Howrey, Robert Ruyak as an equity partner in the Washington DC office. Ruyak brings expertise in intellectual...
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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...
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Apr 26 2011
Jenner & Block has bolstered its corporate practice in New York and Chicago with the hire of partners from Winston & Strawn and Goodwin Procter.
Brian Hart,...
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Apr 06 2011
Winston & Strawn managing partner Tom Fitzgerald says that conflicts of interest thwarted the firm’s plan to hire 140 partners from the failing Howrey.
At final...
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Mar 18 2011
Winston & Strawn has launched its Houston office after the hire of 40 intellectual property and commercial litigation lawyers from the failed firm Howrey.
The...
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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 06 2011
With the departure of over 100 partners since 2009, the question of the future of Howrey has been growing ever more acute. And it seems that the question might soon be...
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Feb 06 2011
Howrey Chairman Bob Ruyak has asked partners with employment offers from Winston & Strawn - about three quarters of the partnership – to make up their minds quickly...
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Feb 03 2011
After the Chicago-based Winston & Strawn dropped merger negotiations with Howrey, the firm has moved to raid Howre’s talent-base instead. According to reports, Winston...
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Jan 28 2011
Interesting article here from Above The Law on the (mis)fortunes of Howrey – a firm that has sustained a steady stream of partner losses over the past year. It appears...
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Aug 17 2010
Mayer Brown has boosted its Asia practice with the hire of two new partners. Xiang Yang Ge joins the firm from Winston & Strawn to take up a role as head of projects...
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Jul 20 2010
Winston & Strawn and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have taken the leading roles on the sale of Motorola's wireless equipment business to Nokia Siemens Networks....
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Jun 23 2010
US firm Winston & Strawn has boosted its Shanghai office with the hire of DLA Piper partner Bertrand Theaud. Theaud is set to work in the corporate law practice, with...
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Mar 10 2010
Cost cutting efforts in a number of major law firms have resulted in high profit per partner figures despite a decrease in revenue.
At Dewey & LeBoeuf, gross...
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Jan 15 2010
James Baker, co-head of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice group at Jones Day, has moved to the San Francisco office of Winston & Strawn, where...
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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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Nov 18 2009
Winston & Strawn is planning to open offices in Beijing and Shanghai after getting approval for the expansion by the country’s Ministry of Justice.
The law firm...
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Aug 20 2009
Winston & Strawn's litigation partners Kent Phillips and Jamie Harrison will join UK firm Addleshaw Goddard as partners in its London office.
After the defections,...
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Feb 24 2009
Proskauer Rose, and Slaughter and May are among the firms that are opening new offices in China, adding to the almost 30 foreign firms in China since September 2006, a...
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Feb 10 2009
Jeff Marwil, co-chair of Winston & Strawn's bankruptcy group will leave the firm for Poskauer Rose. Marwil, who leaves Winston & Strawn after two years will join the...
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