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Lateral Moves in the Sunshine State |
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
The West Coast has seen several lateral moves recently. Four intellectual property associates from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Silicon Valley office have joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Richard Welsh has joined Greenberg Traurig as a litigation partner in L.A. from Kirkland & Ellis. McKenna Long & Aldridge welcomed Penny Cobey in L.A.; she joins as an of counsel in the real estate and finance practice.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Linklaters Increases Profits and Revenues |
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
UK firm Linklaters has announced increased revenues and profits per partner. The Magic Circle firm reported a 19.9 percent increase in revenues to 1.121 billion pounds ($2.2 billion), and an increase in profits per partner from 1.062 million pounds to 1.294 million. In the last three years, revenue has increased by 57 percent and profits per partner have increased by 108 percent. Managing partner Tony Angel sees the firm's global expansion as a major player in its financial growth.
Source: www.law.com |
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El Paso Firms Dissolves, Three Partners Join Austin Firm |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
One of El Paso, Texas' larger firms, Delgado, Acosta, Braden and Jones, has broken up. Three of the partners, Alejandro Acosta Jr., Hector Delgado, and John Jones, have become partners with Bickerstaff, Heath, Pollan & Caroom, which changed its name to Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgado & Acosta. The Austin-based firm now has an El Paso office where Acosta and Delgado work; Jones will head the Houston office. Two other lawyers moved to the Austin firm, while eleven of the other lawyers from the El Paso firm have found new jobs or opened their own practices. Paul Braden, the other partner of the old firm, has joined Fulbright & Jaworski as a partner, and will continue to work in El Paso.
Source: www.elpasotimes.com |
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King & Spalding Plans to Open Charlotte Office |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
Atlanta's King & Spalding has announced an that it will open an office in Charlotte, NC. The firm has already hired two partners from Kennedy Covington, and plans to build the office to about 50 lawyers in a year and a half. King & Spalding is the third national firm to announce expansion to Charlotte in the past few months; Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Dewey Ballantine have already opened offices there. King & Spalding has more than 800 lawyers and is ranked in the AmLaw's Top 100 firms.
Source: www.bizjournals.com |
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IP-Firm Darby & Darby Raises Seattle Starting Pay to $160,000 |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
Intellectual property firm, Darby & Darby, has raised its Seattle first-year associates' salary to $160,000, matching its New York rate. The firm is has about 100 IP professionals, and is among the number of West Coast firms that have recently matched NYC pay rates.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Davis Wright Recruits Three IP Lawyers in Seattle |
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
Davis Wright Tremaine has acquired three lateral attorneys for its intellectual property/patent law practice in Seattle. F. Ross Boundy joined from Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC, of Seattle; Melanie Haindfield left Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC for Davis Wright; and Philip Hunt, formerly with the Beaverton, OR, office of Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP also joined the the team.
Source: www.seattle.bizjournals.com |
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Shearman & Sterling Gains Paris Lateral from Jones Day |
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
Jones Day has lost partner Pierre-Nicolas Ferrand to Shearman & Sterling's Paris European Finance Group. Ferrand specializes in banking and structured finance, including property, asset and acquisition financing, for French and international institutions and investors. He also had done work in debt restructuring and insolvency. Shearman & Sterling has about 1,000 lawyers in 20 offices worldwide.
Source: www.law.com |
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Blank Rome Public Finance Partners Depart for New Homes |
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
Blank Rome has lost two of its public finance partners to separate firms. Jeremy Spector, the former head of Blank Rome's public finance group's tax law and enforcement and compliance practices, has joined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo's New York office as a partner. Jeffrey Blumenfeld left after 24 years with Blank Rome, joining Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen as the chairman of its public finance practice in Philadelphia. Blank Rome now has six attorneys in the public finance practice; managing partner Carl Buchholz reported that the firm is seeking to grow that particular practice.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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McDermott Launches Italian Antitrust Practice |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
McDermott Will & Emery has launched an Italian antitrust group with the hiring of Veronica Pinotti from Lovells. Pinotti, who will join the Rome office, has become a partner and the head of the new antitrust group. Lovells competition associate, Martino Sforza, is also joining McDermott in Rome. Last year the firm also hired former Hammonds competition partners Jose Rivas and Alasdair Bell to build up its European antitrust practice.
Source: www.legalweek.com |
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
Townsend and Townsend and Crew's new Washington, D.C. office will focus on patent litigation and patent prosecution. The mid-sized San Francisco-based IP firm will launch the new office with lawyers from Kenyon & Kenyon and McGuire Woods. Seven attorneys will open the office, but the firm hopes to grow over the next three years and eventually be able to offer full IP services there. It is beneficial for an IP firm to have an office in D.C., considering that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the International Trade Commission and the Federal Cicuit are also located there.
Source: www.law.com |
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Small and Mid-Sized Chicago Firms Welcome Big Law's Let-Go Partners |
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
Several major Chicago law firms have been making partner cuts over the past couple years. Firms such as Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; Winston & Strawn; and Jenner & Block have asked groups of partners to leave or to take nonequity positions. As such, there are many talented, experienced attorneys seeking jobs, and small and mid-sized firms are snatching them up. Firms like Bryan Cave and Seyfarth Shaw are eager to hire the partners, especially those with private equity, intellectual property, transactional, or real estate experience. These smaller firms are less concerned with profit-per-partner figures, and instead see value in the axed attorneys because of how they could increase the firm profile and increase marketing power among clients.
Source: www.law.com |
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
New York partners are finding new homes. Warren McRae left Bryan Cave to become a partner in Loeb & Loeb's IP litigation group. Jonathan Wry has joined Bracewell & Giuliani from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; he will be a finance partner. Weiss, Wexler & Wornow welcomed Robert Snashall, who joins as a special counsel.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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U.S. Firms' London Offices See Salary Hikes |
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
U.S. firms' recent salary increases have traveled beyond our borders to the U.K. New York-based Weil, Gotshal & Manges recently raised newly qualified lawyers pay in their London office from 75,000 to 90,000 British pounds, which is equivalent to over $179,000. Several factors go into determining salary increases in London, including New York rates, the legal market, and the office's productivity. Other firms do not feel pressure to match Weil Gotshal's rate; White & Case raised to 76,000 pounds from 67,500 pounds, and O'Melveny & Myers raised to 78,000 pounds. On the other hand, Latham & Watkins always matches London salaries to those in New York.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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O'Melveny Securities Litigator Joins Pillsbury Winthrop |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
David Furbush left O'Melveny & Myers for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Furbush, a securities litigation specialist, will join Pillsbury's Silicon Valley office where he will co-lead the firm's securities litigation team. His work will focus on securities litigation defense in shareholder class actions and investigations initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Source: www.law.com |
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Stinson Morrison Combines with St. Louis Firm Blumenfeld Kaplan |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
Stinson Morrison combined with St. Louis firm Blumenfeld Kaplan & Sandweiss over the weekend. After the combination, Stinson's St. Louis office will have over 65 lawyers, 13 paralegals, and 47 staff members. Stinson is the second largest firm in Kansas City, with 193 attorneys there. The firm will have about 360 lawyers with the addition of those from Blumenfeld.
Source: www.news.moneycentral.msn.com |
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Paul Hastings' German Team Leaves to Start New Firm |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
Five lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's London office have left to set up their own firm with offices in Munich and London. Former Paul Hastings of counsel, Geza Toth-Feher, and three associates set up Toth-Feher & Partner LLP. The new firm will specialize in private equity advice, and will continue to work closely with Paul Hastings and its clients.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Pittsburgh Firm Adds Philly Office |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon, Pittsburgh's eight-largest firm, has launched an office in Philadelphia. The firm recruited Joseph Mancano from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney and Joseph Vaughn from Vaughn Law Offices to be partners in the new office. They will be joined by associates Mary March and Divya Wallace. Pietragallo also has offices in Mechanicsburg and Sharon, PA; Steubenville, OH; and Weirton, WV.
Source: www.pittsburgh.bizjournals.com |
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Government Contract Lateral Partners Make New Home at Akin Gump |
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
Two new litigation partners have joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. Robert Huffman and Peter Hutt specialize in representing defense contractors, health care systems, technology companies, and construction companies on a wide variety of government contract issues. Both attorneys have extensive experience in representing contractors in Civil False Claims Act lawsuits and other procurement fraud matters.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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Howrey Introduces Merit-Based Compensation System |
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
Howrey has announced that starting next year they will be changing from a lockstep compensation system to a merit-based system for its associates. In making the change, the firm aims to compensate associates for what they are worth, no matter how what their seniority level. Firm leaders also see it as fairer to their clients, who will no longer be forced to pay an associate more just because he or she has one more year under the belt. First years will still start at the market rate of $160,000, but all other associates advance according to personal evaluations. Their performance and experience could, for instance, shorten or lengthen the partnership track.
Source: www.law.com |
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Greenberg Traurig Recruits Civil Litigator in Santa Monica |
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
Greenberg Traurig welcomed civil litigator Richard Welsh to its Santa Monica office. Welsh joins as a shareholder in the litigation practice. Formerly, Welsh was a partner with Kirkland & Ellis in downtown L.A. His specialties include real estate, commercial law, and class action suits. He has represented companies such as Home Depot and DirecTV, and also has experience in appellate representation and alternative dispute forums.
Source: www.metnews.com
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