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• Yale Law Women choose top ten family-friendly law firms

  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... more

• More partners walk away from Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Apr 11 2012 US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has not yet managed to stem the flow of departing partners, with another two announcing their intention to leave the firm’s London office.... more

• Reports indicate more departures from BLP's banking and capital markets group

  Jan 16 2012 Rumour has it that seven associates have resigned from Berwin Leighton Paisner's Banking and Capital Markets group in the last week. According to Roll On Friday a... more

• US firm Reed Smith boost London structured finance practice with BLP hire

  Dec 29 2011 US firm Reed Smith has boosted its structured finance practice in London, with the hire of UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner's structured finance chief Tamara Box.... more

• Reed Smith loses three partners in Hong Kong

  Dec 21 2011 Reed Smith has lost three partners from its Hong Kong office. The trio of partners - litigation veteran and former senior partner Chris Howse along with partners Kevin... 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

• Twitter as a marketing tool for law firms - who is using it and how?

  Jul 19 2011 Interesting article here about the law firms that are using Twitter as part of their marketing strategy. While many large law firms have Twitter accounts, the vast... more

• Reed Smith launches in Shanghai after Dorsey & Whitney hire

  Jul 12 2011 Pittsburgh based law firm Reed Smith has launched an office in Shanghai, marking its third office in Asia. The office will be led by new hire Jay Yan, who joins the... more

• SNR Denton has a bumpy ride with falling profits and partner defections

  Jul 04 2011 SNR Denton is facing difficult times in the wake of its transatlantic merger. The firm has reported an 8 per cent drop in revenue to £154.4million for the 2010/11... more

• US firms increase presence in China

  Apr 27 2011 US firms are increasing their presence in China, with the top 250 US firms running 70 offices in China at the end of 2010. According to the National Law Journal, these... more

• Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight break off merger talks

  Jan 07 2011 Merger talks between Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight have been called off, after months of negotiation and due diligence failed to produce agreement. "We are very... more

• Reed Smith set to launch commercial and corporate litigation practice in Munich

  Oct 12 2010 Reed Smith is set to launch its commercial and corporate litigation practice in Munich after the hire of Oliver Rathje from Görling Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.... more

• Reed Smith boosts sports and entertainment practice

  Aug 17 2010 Reed Smith has boosted its sports practice with the hire of Charles Greenberg, the former head of Pepper Hamilton's sports practice who recently became the managing... more

• Reed Smith boosts energy practice with four hires from Pinsent Masons

  Jul 13 2010 US firm Reed Smith has boosted its energy practice with the hire of four partners from Pinsent Masons. Construction partners Keith Hartley, Peter Cassidy, Vincent... more

• Reed Smith Recruits NY partner from Dorsey & Whitney

  May 27 2010 Reed Smith has recruited finance partner Jonathan Ross from Dorsey & Whitney. Ross specialises in capital markets products including corporate, securitised and... more

• Reed Smith boosts construction practice with hire of four new partners

  Apr 26 2010 Reed Smith has tripled its construction practice with the hire of four senior construction partners from Pinsent Masons. Gordon Bell (head of Pinsent’s... more

• Reed Smith hires seven lawyers to expand Paris employment practice

  Apr 14 2010 Reed Smith has drastically expanded its Paris employment practice with the addition of seven attorneys from French firm Courtois Lebel. The group is led by partners... more

• Reed Smith hires partner from McDermott Will & Emery

  Apr 06 2010 Reed Smith has moved to boost its London restructuring and insolvency practice with the hire of former McDermott Will & Emery partner Georgia Quenby. Richard... more

• Slaughter and May shows confidence with 87% retention rate

  Feb 19 2010 Accoding to RollOnFriday, there are clear signs of renewed confidence amongst leading UK law firms this week, as further details were released of trainee retention... more

• Reed Smith sees partner profits rise to $1m mark as revenues fall

  Feb 01 2010 Reed Smith has posted its financial results for 2009, with the firm reaching the $1m profits per equity partner mark for the first time, reports The Am Law Daily.... more

• Reed Smith profits up, revenue down

  Jan 29 2010 Reed Smith reached the $1 million profits per equity partner mark in 2009 with a 7 percent increase. However, revenues did not reach $1 billion, but instead dipped... more

• Juan Reye joins Reed Smith as partner in real estate group

  Jan 08 2010 Reed Smith LLP has added Juan D. Reyes III as a partner in the real estate group, resident in the firm’s New York office. Reyes was formerly a partner with the New... 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

• Major US law firms reduce starting salaries to $110k-145k

  Nov 26 2009 BigLaw salaries for first-years see a downward trend. Morrison & Foerster and Haynes and Boone scaled its salaries down to $145,000. Reed Smith now has starting pay... more

• Reed Smith announces 20% pay cut for newly-qualified US associates

  Nov 11 2009 Reed Smith has unveiled a new pay scale that sees first-year associate salaries cut by 20%, reports The Legal Intelligencer. The moves comes two weeks after the... more

• Reed Smith the Latest Big Firm to Drop Associate Lockstep

  Oct 28 2009 Reed Smith on Tuesday joined a handful of Am Law 100 firms that have dumped lockstep associate promotion and launched a new focus on associate training. The new... more

• Fordham Law School bans Reed Smith from on-campus interviews

  Aug 13 2009 Fordham University School of Law Dean William Michael Treanor banned Reed Smith from interviewing on the campus for five years, because the firm canceled its... more

• Reed Smith managing partner challenger DiNome withdraws candidacy

  Jun 10 2009 John DiNome, a partner in the Pittsburgh-based law firm’s Philadelphia office, has abandoned his candidacy to replace Gregory Jordan as managing partner of Reed Smith.... more

• Reed Smith recruits Gibson Dunn's S'Jacob

  Apr 20 2009 Reed Smith has announced that it will be taking on Oliver s'Jacob, of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, as a partner in its London office. Reed Smith aims to boost its European... more

• Reed Smith plans more layoffs

  Mar 31 2009 A total of 100 more lawyers and staff will lose their positions at Reed Smith, the firm has indicated. The cuts will take place over both the US and UK offices. more

• Law firms hold down pay for associates in 2009

  Jan 05 2009 Base pay for US first-year associates rose about 30 percent to $160,000 over the last three years, but those days seem to be over as the economic downturn reaches the... more

• Reed Smith and Morrison & Foerster announce partner promotions

  Dec 19 2008 Reed Smith and Morrison & Foerster have become the latest firms to announce their new partner promotions, with Reed Smith making up 22 and Morrison & Foerster 10.... more

• Reed Smith to cut 130 jobs, including 11 associate jobs in London

  Dec 04 2008 Reed Smith LLP said it has cut 115 support positions across its offices in the United States due to the economic slowdown. Additionally, the firm is beginning... more

• Finance fiasco slows business at US law firms

  Sep 29 2008 A recent Citibank survey of the nation's top 160 law firms found the number of hours billed by lawyers to their clients for the first half of the year was down as much... more