Law News

Add news

Search results for tag "Winston & Strawn"

• Exodus of Dewey partners includes half of the firm's leadership team

  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... more

• Winston & Strawn boost Moscow office with Norton Rose hire

  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... more

• More US firms offer offset to compensate for discrimination against same-sex couples in tax code

  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... more

• Ashurst loses 8 partners since start of September

  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.... more

• Former Howrey head joins Winston & Strawn as an equity partner

  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... more

• Merit list: law firms that offered jobs to 100% of summer associates

  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... more

• Jenner & Block bolsters corporate practice with Winston & Strawn and Goodwin Procter hires

  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,... more

• Winston & Strawn hires just 15 Howrey partners after finding client conflicts

  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... more

• Winston & Strawn launches in Houston with 40 Howrey recruits

  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... more

• Howrey partners vote to dissolve firm

  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... more

• Howrey partnership to vote on wind-down

  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... more

• Howrey Chairman tells partners to make up their minds

  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... more

• Winston & Strawn makes offers to three quarters of the Howrey partnership

  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... more

• The (mis)fortunes of Howrey

  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... more

• Mayer Brown bolsters China practice with double hire

  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... more

• Winston & Strawn and Skadden lead deal for sale of Motorola's wireless business

  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.... more

• Winston & Strawn boosts Shanghai office with hire from DLA Piper

  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... more

• Revenues are down, so why are these equity partners in such a good mood?

  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... more

• Jones Day practice head James Baker joins Winston & Strawn

  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... more

• More than 80% of partners at large US law firms are men

  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... more

• Winston & Strawn Opens Two More China Offices

  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... more

• Addleshaw hires litigation duo from Winston & Strawn in London

  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,... more

• Law firms grow in China as thousands are laid off in the US, UK

  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... more

• Winston & Strawn loses bankruptcy team to Proskauer Rose

  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... more