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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
Fish & Richardson P.C. is preparing to open it's first non-US office in Munich, Germany. The branch will open October 1 with two partners and three associates, and plans to grow to twelve attorneys by 2008. Frank Peterreins and Alexander Harguth are managing partners.
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com |
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
Senior associate Daniel Winterfeldt, formerly of Jones Day, will join Simmons & Simmons US group. This continues a recent trend of the firm hiring US senior associates as partners. Winterfeldt is a securities attorney who will focus on life sciences and financial institutions.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
Heller Ehrman's executive director Phyllis Gardner has retired. Gardner has often been credited by taking the old-fashioned firm into the modern era and was central to the firm's growth in both size and revenue at the beginning of the millennium. Although she was not an attorney, Gardner was an incredibly powerful force within the firm and ran much of its day to day business.
Source: nylawyer.com |
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
Former Latham & Watkins corporate partner David Hernand has joined the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Hernand will focus on technology, specifically public and private mergers & acquisitions. He also has significant experience in private equity and entertainment transactional work.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
John Daniels Jr. has been named the new chairman of Quarles & Brady L.L.C.. He will replace Patrick Ryan, who died last month due to illness. Daniels has been a real estate partner with the Milwaukee law firm since 1981.
Source: www.bizjournals.com |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
Kathryn H. Perkins, a corporate attorney who formerly worked as in-house counsel for Lowe's, has joined the Winston-Salem office of Kilpatrick Stockton as a senior associate. Perkins has almost ten years of corporate experience, and will cover corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and securities areas at Kilpatrick Stockton. Perkins received her undergraduate degree from University of North Carolina and her law degree from Wake Forest. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband, Dr. L. Allen Perkins.
Source: carolinanewswire.com |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
Jackson Lewis, a labor and employment firm, has opened an office in Philadelphia. The new branch will be staff with attorneys from Saul Ewing and White & Williams. Rick Grimaldi of White & Williams will helm the new office, and although he wasn't looking to leave White & Williams, the promise of managing an office of his own proved too tempting. Grimaldi plans to grow the new office as quickly as possible, citing a "huge need" for labor and employment attorneys in the area.
Source: law.com |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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