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Buchanan Ingersoll Recruits Seven-Attorney Team in CA |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
A seven-attorney team from Alhadeff & Solar (A&S) has joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in California. The A&S lawyers will add to Buchanan's existing San Diego, Del Mar office, as well as adding an office in downtown San Diego and one in Temecula. The two name partners, Sam Alhadeff and Keith Solar, lead the team which includes two senior attorneys, three associates, and eight staff members. In the San Diego market, where Solar is based, A&S was known for handling business law, litigation, and water law matters. Solar is well-known for his work in water rights and the tuna industry. A&S's practice in Temecula focused primarily on land-use and environmental law. Alhadeff's work here deals with real estate development, entitlement, and conservation.
Source: www.earthtimes.org |
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DLA Piper Expands NY Capital Markets Team |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
Christopher Paci has joined DLA Piper as a partner in its New York office. The capital markets attorney was previously a partner at King & Spalding. Paci's practice focuses on representing investment banks as well as issuers in a range of capital markets transactions. Roger Meltzer, DLA'a global corporate and finance chair, was responsible for recruiting Paci and expects more new hires in the near future.
Source: www.nylawyer.com
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Quinn Emanuel Gains NY Lateral Partner |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges gained a new partner in New York. Robert S. Loigman joined the firm from Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman, where he was also a partner. Loigman specializes in hedge funds and securities litigation, and has represented the liquidators of failed hedge funds as well as investors in funds. He also has handled major insurance and employment law matters.
Source: www.nylawyer.com
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NJ Firms First-Year Salaries |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
Where do New Jersey firms fit in the first-year associate salary increase race? In what follows are some of the highlights:
Latham & Watkins (Newark) and Drinker Biddle (Florham Park) top things out at $145,000. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Voorhees); Flaster/Greenberg (Cherry Hill); and Proskauer Rose (Newark) are competitive at $130,000. Starting salary at McCarter & English (Newark); Lowenstein Sandler (Roseland); Gibbons (Newark); Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross (Newark); and Fox Rothschild (Princeton and Atlantic City) is $125,000.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Dewey Ballantine Opens Charlotte Office |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
With the hiring of two former Dechert partners, Dewey Ballantine has expanded its financial services practice and opened a new office in Charlotte, NC. James R. Bryant III and W. Todd Stillerman will open the new office in the second-largest banking center in the U.S. Their structured finance practice focuses on structured real estate products and equity investments, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in commercial mortgage-backed securitization (CMBS) transactions, real estate CDOs and the securitization of other real estate interests, sale-leaseback, mezzanine financing, and syndicated finance transactions. Dewey has over 20 partners in its Structured Finance Group located in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London, Milan and Warsaw; the firm has hired 17 lateral partners since the beginning of April.
Source: www.carolinanewswire.com |
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Special Benefits Provide Extra Draw to Firms |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
Besides hiking up salaries, some law firms are coming up with other ways to improve retention and recruitment. These special perks are becoming increasingly more important in this market where lateral defections are commonplace and associate attrition is close to 80 percent by the time lawyers are in their fifth year of practice. Nixon Peabody started a matching contributions 401(k) plan for associates who have been with the firm for two years, something most firms only do for partners and administrative staff. DLA Piper implemented a program that reimburses its lawyers $2,000 for purchasing ($1,500 for leasing) a hybrid car. This program is all a part of the firm's global sustainability initiative which began in January. Other firms like Alston & Bird offer services targeted at mothers like childcare, nursing rooms, or parking spaces for expecting mothers.
Source: www.law.com |
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Lone Star Lawyers' Lateral Moves |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
Texas lawyers are making lateral moves. Gary Short left Vinson & Elkins to join Jones Day in Dallas as a partner in the employee benefits & executive compensation practice. Nancy Furney and Lori Oliphant have joined Winstead in Dallas as shareholders. Formerly with Jenkens & Gilchrist, Francis Munchinski has joined Cox Smith Matthews in Dallas as of counsel in the firm's energy department. Bracewell & Giuliani has gained public law attorney, William King, as of counsel in Houston. Litigation attorney Noelle M. Reed has become a partner in the Houston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Foley Hoag Adds International Arbitration Partner in D.C. |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
Foley Hoag welcomed leading international arbitration lawyer Ronald E.M. Goodman to its Washington office. Goodman joins the firm as a partner in the International Litigation and Arbitration practice, along with associate Geraldine R. Fischer. Both attorneys came from Winston & Strawn. Goodman was formerly the co-head of Winston & Strawn's global international arbitration practice; he has represented clients before all major international arbitral bodies such as the ICSID and the International Chamber of Commerce. Foley Hoag has 250 lawyers practicing in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Waltham, MA.
Source: www.home.businesswire.com |
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DLA Piper Matches $160,000 in CA |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
DLA Piper has raised starting salaries in its Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices to $160,000. Sacramento first-years will get $145,000. Earlier in the year the firm raised salaries for CA intellectual property associates to $160,000 but left all other associates at $145,000. The firm assured associates that the raise will not mean higher billing rates, an increase benchmark hours requirements, or a reduction in bonus pay.
Source: www.law.com |
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CA Firms Continue with Raises |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is the latest large California-based firm to raise salaries. Its San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego offices will have the $160,000 starting salary, and Sacramento first-years will earn $145,000. LA-based Munger, Tolles & Olson also raised first-year pay to $160,000, and San Francisco's Shartsis Friese went up to $165,000. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips announced that on Jan. 1 it would also match the $160,000 rate. |
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Jenner & Block Gains Litigation/White-Collar Partner |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
Federal prosecutor Katya Jestin has joined Jenner & Block as a partner in the New York office. She will work in the firm's litigation department and the white collar criminal defense and counseling practice. Jestin was most recently the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime & Racketeering Section of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. She is most noted for her convictions of Peter Gotti and his 16 co-defendants on charges of racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud and extortion. Jenner & Block has more than 450 lawyers in offices in Chicago, Dallas, New York and Washington, D.C.
Source: www.prnewswire.com |
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Arnold & Porter Selects First UK Partner to Head London |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
Arnold & Porter appointed its first non-US partner to head its London office. Lee Narrow, who has been the head of London for the past five years, will be replaced by Tim Frazer, the former administrative partner and head of the firm's UK competition practice in London. The London office has grown to the extent that it no longer is efficient for US partners to be traveling back and forth between the US and London. Narrow will remain with the firm in London, but will scale back to a reduced basis when he reaches the firm's mandatory retirement age of 65 later this year.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Lateral Hire at Gibson Dunn, L.A. |
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Sunday, 27 May 2007 |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired Heiko Kai Schultz as of counsel in the Los Angeles office. Schultz was formerly a partner with Kirkland & Ellis. His commercial litigation practice handles intellectual property, bankruptcy, securities, accounting malpractice and environmental litigation.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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Sheppard Mullin Raises Starting Pay in L.A. and D.C. |
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has announced that first-year associates in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. will now earn $160,000. However, the L.A.-based firm is upping the hours-based bonus requirement from 2,000 to 2,100 hours. According to the firm managing partner, in 2007 the extra cost will come out of partner profits rather than increased rates. Seyfarth Shaw also raised its San Francisco and L.A. starting salaries to $145,000.
Source: www.law.com |
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Locke Liddell and Lord Bissell Firm up Merger Plans |
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
Houston and Dallas-based Locke, Liddell & Sapp, and Chicago-based Lord, Bissell & Brook are finalizing plans to merge and form a 700-lawyer firm named Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell. After the merger is approved by partners, the deal is expected to close by August 1. Jerry Clements, the Austin, TX-based managing partner of Locke Liddell will head a nine-member executive committee. Locke Liddell is the larger firm, with 399 lawyers compared to Lord Bissell's 300. However, Lord Bissell's location cover more area, with offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, CA, and London. The two firms have worked together in the past on banking regulatory matters and as co-counsel or counsel for co-defendants on litigation or arbitration related to reinsurance disputes.
Source: www.law.com |
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Drinker Biddle Loses Two to Stradley Ronon |
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
Partner Kenneth Greenberg and of counsel Joan Ohlbaum Swirsky left Drinker Biddle & Reath to join Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young. The attorneys have kept their same titles at the new firm, and will practice in the firm's investment management and mutual funds group. Greenberg's work focuses on the representation of investment advisers and investment companies involved with mutual funds. He claims that he was drawn to Stradley's larger practice group and plans for growth; with 33 lawyers in the investment management group, it is the firm's second- or third-largest practice.
Source: www.law.com
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Seyfarth Shaw Ups Sacramento First-Year Salaries |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
Chicago firm Seyfarth Shaw has raised starting salaries in Sacramento from $121,000 to $135,000, retroactive to April 1. Seyfarth has 18 lawyers in this office. In an attempt to stay competitive in the market, Sacramento firm Weintraub Genshlea Chediak also raised first-year salaries in March from $90,000 to $100,000. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is paying $145,000, and Morrison & Foerster is at $160,000 in the California city.
Source: www.sacramento.bizjournals.com |
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Frost Brown Opens New Kentucky Office |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
Greater Cincinnati's second-largest firm, Frost Brown Todd, has opened a new office in Florence, Kentucky. This office will be the firm's eighth. William Robinson III will be the member in charge of the office, and he will be joined by three other lawyers. Robinson was formerly a managing member of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, from where he left in March to join Frost Brown. The firm is working to recruit more attorneys to join the team in Florence.
Source: www.news.moneycentral.msn.com |
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McElroy Deutsch Adds Minority Subsidiary |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
One of New Jersey's largest firms, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has created a minority-owned law firm subsidiary. Last month the 230-lawyer Morristown firm acquired a 49 percent hold in Espinosa & Espinosa, a six-lawyer minority firm in Weehawken, NJ. Associating with McElroy Deutsch allows Espinosa to gain corporation work by marketing itself as a minority firm able to take advantage of the support and expertise of its parent firm. While the arrangement seems promising, the president of the National Minority Supplier Development Council cautions against assuming that a minority firm actually hires a significant number of minorities. She would like to see firms like Adorno & Yoss, with 20 percent Hispanic and 17 percent African American lawyers, get more corporate work.
Source: www.law.com |
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Foley & Lardner Hires Lateral IP Litigator |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
David Melton has joined Foley & Lardner's Chicago office as a member of the IP Litigation Practice. Melton specializes in the areas of patent, trade secret, copyright and trade dress cases. He has represented Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and mid-sized companies across the country, including high-tech and telecommunications companies, consulting firms, manufacturing companies and futures exchanges. Melton is also a board member for the Chicago Council of Lawyers, where he served as president from 2001 to 2003.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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