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Locke Liddell Hike Pay for All Associates |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
Houston- and Dallas-based firm Locke Liddell & Sapp has announced that all levels of attorneys will see a pay increase beinning retroactively on August 1st. Associates will start out at $160,000 and move to $170,000 their second year. Thirds years will earn $172, 500; fourth-years $175,000; fifth years $180,000; sixth years $185,000; seventh-years $190,000; and eighth-years $195,000.
Source: texaslawyer.com |
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Kelly Hart & Hallman open Houston Office |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
Fort Worth firm Kelly Hart & Hallman opened a Houston office this week. Partnering the new office ar James Derrick, David Hedges, Max Hendrick and J. Clark Martin, all of Vinson & Elkins. The office will hopefully grow to 21 attorneys, and the firm has an additional office in Austin. Kelly Hart & Hallman opened the Houston branch in order to optimize contact with large energy companies.
Source: www.star-telegram.com
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Dykema Opens Dallas Branch |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Dykema Gosset P.L.L.C., a law firm based out of Detroit, announced this Wednesday that it will be opening a Dallas office. The new branch will be composed of commercial litigators, although Dykema hopes to expand to corporate, real estate and financial practices over the next few years. Darrell Jordan, the attorney who ran for mayor of Dallas last year, will head the new office.
Source: crainsdetroit.com |
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Chadbourne & Parke Adds Tax Partner |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that tax partner Edouard S. Markson will join their New York office. Markson was most recently employed with Credit Suisse as the director of their Tax Advisory Group. He specializes in investment banking, alternative investments and global structuring.
Source: www.metrocorpcounsel.com |
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Hunton & Williams A-OK with FDA Chief |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Hunton & Williams LLP has announced the the Chief Counsel of the United States Food & Drug Administration Sheldon Bradshaw will join its firm's Food and Drug Practice in Washington. Bradshaw, who has also worked at the Department of Justice, was Chief Counsel of the FDA since 2005. Hunton & Williams practice is strong in the biologics and pharmaceuticals worlds, and Bradshaw was quoted as saying that he saw the specialized fit as an excellent opportunity for career growth.
Source: home.businesswire.com |
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Heller Ehrman Creates New Practice Excellence Position |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Heller Ehrman LLP has announced that Suzanne Hawkins, previously of Huron Consulting Group, Inc., will join the firm's New York office as the firmwide Chief of Practice Excellence. This is a new position designed to facilitate the development of firmwide training systems which are intended to improve service to clients. Hawkins, who has 25 years of legal experience, is expected to flourish in the new in-house position.
Source: lawfuel.com |
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Nixon Peabody Expands Upstate New York Energy Practice |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
Nixon Peabody LLP has announced that it has hired Peter Swartz and Matthew Moses as partners for its energy practice in Rochester, New York. Both attorneys come from transactional backgrounds and join the firm as part of Nixon Peabody's ongoing energy and environmental practice expansion
Source: www.metrocorpcounsel.com |
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Batts Joins Proskauer Rose in DC |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
Alicia J. Batts, an antitrust attorney, has joined Proskauer Rose's Washington DC office as a partner. Batts brings several years of experience as an antitrust advisor at the Federal Trade Commission to her new position, as well as experience with a broad range of clients, from automotive to pharmaceutical. Batts previously worked at Dickstein Shapiro, also as partner. Proskauer Rose is in the midst of beefing up its Washington practice, including new additions to its corporate and transactional practices.
Source: home.businesswire.com |
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LeBeouf Lamb Launches Hong Kong Office |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
New York-based LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae has opened a Hong Kong office to serve as a hub for the firm's Asian practices. Daniel Liew, formerly a parter with Simmons & Simmons, and Bill Marcoux, an insurance Partner out of London, will head the branch's ten attorneys. Paul Chen from New York will join them later this year with several associates; LeBoeuf Lamb hopes to double the number of attorneys in Hong Kong by the end of the year.
Source: legalweek.com |
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Fisher & Phillips Gain Five From Akerman Senterfitt |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
Five attorneys have moved from Akerman Senterfitt in Orlando to Fisher & Phillips. Included in this group are Daivd Kornreich, Jeffrey Mandel, who will head the Fisher & Phillips Orlando office, Benton Wood, David Young, and Bill Katsafanas. Theresa Gallion, the sole partner at Fisher & Phillips before the raid, will continue to split her time between the Orlando and Tampa offices.
Source: www.orlandosentinal.com |
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Ziegler Leaves 3M for Jenner & Block |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
Jenner & Block has acquired a new partner in its New York office: Richard F. Ziegler, a former General Counsel with the 3M Company, will join the firm's corporate litigation practice. Ziegler was formerly Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel for 3M in St. Paul, and oversaw the work of more than 150 attorneys. He was also a partner at Cleary, Gottlied, Steen & Hamilton's New York office for over two decades.
Source: prnewswire.com |
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Mintz Levin Begins Tax-Exempt Bond Group |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced that it has established a Tax-Exempt Bond Controversy Resolution Practice Group. Drawing from their own Public Finance, Securities, and Litigation practices, the group will be made up of over 20 associates. The new group has been founded as a reaction to clients dealing with audits and reviews of tax-exempt bond transactions. The group will be headed by Jeremy Spector of the firm's New York ofice.
Source: home.businesswire.com |
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Luce Forward Adds Orange County Branch |
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP has announced that it will open an office in Irvine, California. The office will serve the firm's growing Real Estate practice in the area, and will eventually house ten to fifteen attorneys. The firm's sixth Californian office will be run by partners John C. Murphy, George C. Rudolph and Joseph S. Stuart.
Source: lawfuel.com
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Foley & Larnder Gains IP Litigation Partner |
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
Foley & Lardner LLP has announced that it will add IP Litigation partner John T. Gutkowski to its Boston office. Gutkoski joins Foley & Lardner after four years at Day Pitney. Gutkoski also has extensive patent law experience and spent some time with the District Attorney's office of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Source: lawfuel.com |
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Simpson Thacher Hikes First Year Salaries, Partner Billing Rates |
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
Simpson Thacher has announced that it will raise its first-year associate salaries to $160,00, and is reputedly the first firm to do so. The firm has also announced that its top fees are $1000 an hour, and while other firms charge as much, this is the first time a firm has published rates this high. Partners Barry Ostrager, Richard Beattie and Kevin Arquit are said to be among those billing at this rate.
Source: nylwayer.com |
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Patent Group Leaves Greenberg Traurig for Dreier |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
Dreier's New York office has recruited a five attorney patent group from Greenberg Traurig. The group, which consists of Albert Jacobs, Daniel Ladow, Gerard Diebner, Elizabeth Lapadula, and Michael Bauer, left Greenberg Traurig in large part because they were unsatisfied with the collegiality and morale at the firm. Ladow says that the move clears up some potential client conflict at Greenberg Traurig, although states that that was not the reason for the move.
Source: www.nylawyer.com
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West Returns to Shearman & Sterling |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
Holland West is returning to Shearman & Sterling after 2 years of retirement. During the interim, he would as a consultant for the firm, and returns to the firm as a structured finance of counsel. This return to active duty coincides with an increase in demand for attorneys with his specializations, particularly because several high-profile hedge funds have gone under recently.
Source: www.financialnews-us.com |
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Lerach Retires Amid Controversy |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
William Lerach is set to retire this Friday. Currently the lead partner at Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins, Lerach says he's ready to take some time off and travel. Unfortunately, that may not be possible, as Lerach is currently under investigation for his involvement with the Milberg Weiss scandal. There are rumors to the effect that Lerach has been forced to retire in order to properly handle the investigation, which he has publicly denied.
Source: law.com |
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Anderson Kill & Olick Acquire Four New Attorneys |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
Reynolds Richards lost four attorneys to Anderson Kill & Olick's New York office. The attorneys, Herbert J. Hummers, dennis A Zagroba, Christopher C. Gerard and Patrick A Suarez have joined the firm's trusts and estates practice.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Patton Boggs Acquires Transportation and Public Finance Attorney |
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
Patton Boggs LLP has announced the hire of transportation and project finance specialist R. Jay Fortin, who will join the firm's Manhattan office as a partner. Fortin has over two decades of experience in project finance, aircraft, and railcar leasing and financing, secured lending, structured trade and commodity finance, and cross-border investment. A representative for Patton Boggs says that the addition of Fortin is part of a larger growth plan for the firm's New York branch.
Source: www.prnewswire.com |
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