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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
Dewet Ballantine LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP have announced that they will merge to create a new firm called Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Dewey & LeBoeuf will have major offices in New York, Washington DC and Lopngon, and well as offices throughout the US and eleven other countries. Steven H. Davis will head the combined firm, which will have equal representation from Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb on the executive committee. Representatives from both firms say that the merger is particularly complimentary as both firms have been focused on growth in the recent past.
Source: www.prnewswire.com |
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Monday, 27 August 2007 |
Meckler, Bulger & Tilson will open a Dallas office September 1st. The Chicago based office has recruit six attorneys from Baker & MacKenzie LLP's Dallas office to begin the new insurance practice. This new office is part of a Southwestern expansion; Meckler Bulger & Tilson also has plans to open a Phoenix office. The firm's major clients include Geico and Travelers Insurance.
Source: news.google.com
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
Mark Kessler has decided to accept the position of vice president, general counsel, and chief compliance officer at Toll Brothers Inc.. This left Kessler, who is 71, only two weeks to enjoy his "retirement" before reentering the work for. Kessler was a corporate and securities attorney for Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen for many years, and took the position while on vacation in Scotland.
Source: www.corpcounsel.com |
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll announced Friday that is has opened a Los Angeles office. The move is part of the firm's continued Western expansion, which has included new offices in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Joining the new office are two real estate attorneys, including one partner, recruited from Baker & Hostetler.
Source: www.bizjournals.com
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
Chairman and CEO of Baker & Daniels LLP Brian K. Burke has announced that he will step down from those positions at the end of the year. He will remain with the firm as a partner and help to groom his replacement. Burke decided to step down because he felt the firm was in a good position to handle a change in leadership.
Source: insideindianabusiness.com |
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
Cooley Godward Kronish has two new partners in its New York office, but one of their former partners has moved on. Laura Grossfield Birger, a white-collar criminal defense attorney, and Jennifer B. Coplan, a technology licensing and outsourcing attorney, will join Cooley Godward. Paul M. Ritter, a compensation specialist, has accepted an offer to head the executive compensation practice at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel.
Source: www.nylj.com |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
Jones Day, Asbill & Brennan and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker are raising starting salaries in Atlanta by $15,000. The raise puts Jones Day up to $150,000 and the other two firms at $145,000. Pay increases for senior associates at Jones Day will be merit-based, and Paul Hastings will not announce 2008 salaries for other associate levels until the end of the year. Sutherland, on the other hand, will pay second-years $150,000, and third through sixth-years will be paid based on a deferred compensation structure that ranges up to $200,000. The raises will go into affect on Jan. 1, 2008.
Source: www.dailyreportonline.com |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
Two more Texas firms have announced first-year salary increases. Dallas-based firms Jackson Walker and Gardere Wynne Sewell are matching the new TX market rate of $160,000. Gardere's new starting salary will be effective Sept. 1, but there is no bonus associated with it. Jackson Walker's raise will not be effective until Jan. 1, 2008; it includes a base salary of $140,000 plus a $20,000 bonus, $15,000 of which the new associates will receive immediately. Neither firm has decided on a new compensation structure for more senior associates.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
Fox Rothschild is saying "no" to first-year salary raises, keeping its starting salary at $125,000. The firm felt that raising salaries would be a disservice to its clients, partners, and ultimately its associates too, who would be working more to earn a higher salary. Other Philadelphia firms feel differently, however, and have announced pay raises - some retroactive to January and others effective in September. Pepper Hamilton, Dechert, Morgan Lewis, and Drinker Biddle & Reath have all bumped starting salaries to $145,000. Other firms such as Saul Ewing, DLA Piper, and Blank Rome increased pay in Philly to $135,000.
Source: www.law.com |
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
Several firms in Los Angeles have recently launched or expanded practice groups focusing on the fashion, apparel, and textile industries. Loeb & Loeb unveiled their new fashion and luxury brands industry group this month, and in April, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton recruited fashion designer lawyer Ted Max from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo. Though fashion law is not a brand new area, mid-size firms are just recently getting into the game whereas before it was dominated by boutique firms. Part of the boom in business came from an increase in copyright infringement suits over textile designs and corporate deals in the industry. Loeb & Loeb's fashion and luxury brands industry group includes ten attorneys from four different practice areas.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
Bingham McCutchen has added employment law partner, Walter Stella, to its San Francisco office. Joining from Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Stella brings 15 years of experience in employment litigation and counseling. There are 50 attorneys in Bingham's labor and employment group. The San Francisco-based firm has 13 offices worldwide and over 800 lawyers.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
IP and patent litigation expert, William Bohler, has joined WilmerHale in Silicon Valley. Bohler was previously employed with Townsend and Townsend and Crew, and his practice focuses on complex patent litigation and trials in federal district courts, U.S. International Trade Commission, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has a degree in electrical engineering and has worked with such clients as Hynix Semiconductor, Visa, and Kumho. WilmerHale has 1,100 attorneys worldwide.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is rapidly adding partners (20 this year) and offices (three this year), yet its total headcount is growing slowly. The total number of attorneys has only grown by five, reaching 650, because some lawyers have left as the firm sharpens its strategic focus. The firm's new offices are located in Dallas, Charlotte, and Menlo Park. Sonnenschein aims to expand its litigation, corporate, and real estate groups, and hopes to grow to 1,000 attorneys by 2009. Along the way the firm has lost lawyers due to its increasing emphasis on profitability and productivity standards.
Source: www.law.com |
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Atlanta-based Ford & Harrison has done away with the billable hour for first-year associates. The 190-lawyer labor and employment firm has implemented a program that focuses on having associates spend their time observing depositions and and witness interviews and attending hearings and litigation strategy meetings. Having no billable hour requirement could be a draw for law students, despite the fact that the firm only pays first-years $125,000 in its larger offices. The firm hopes that the new program will enable new associates to handle more important matters more quickly, and it also eliminates the challenge of determining which hours billed by associates are valuable enough to bill.
Source: www.law.com |
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Randall Johnson and Bruce Wanamaker have formed a new NYC corporate boutique firm, Johnson Wanamaker. Wanamaker was previously a partner with Kilpatrick Stockton, and Johnson most recently was the general counsel and president of Xp Capital Inc., a company started to assist Latin American businesses in getting financing from Latin American banks based on their trade credits with U.S. companies. The firm will handle transactional matters and corporate counseling work for businesses that larger firms are not as equipped to help. The partners see themselves diving into a niche market for small firms who handle sophisticated matters but at a lower overhead cost than larger firms.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Crowell & Moring added corporate partner, Bryan Brewer, to its D.C. office. Formerly working for Nixon Peabody, Brewer focuses on public securities, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and export controls. He brings with him between 25 and 30 clients, and said that he was interested in Crowell because he wanted to be a part of a local large corporate practice. Since 2001, when Crowell started a serious effort to increase its corporate group, the practice has grown by 40 lawyers. Sources say that the group could grow to 80 or more attorneys in the next six to eight years.
Source: www.bizjournals.com |
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
Baker & McKenzie announced on Wednesday that their profits per partner has reached the $1 million mark. This marks a 22% increase since last year, and a 20% increase in overall revenue. Baker & McKenzie, the world's biggest law firm, is based out of Chicago and attributes these increases to a focus on expansion of global offices in order to attract multinational clients.
Source: www.nylj.com
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has hired Christopher Hughes from intellectual property speciality firm, Morgan & Finnegan. Hughes joins the New York office as the head of the IP group and as a member of the litigation department. He has over 30 years of experience in complex patent, trade secret and trademark litigation, as well as licensing and intellectual property counseling. Hughes' practice covers the U.S. and abroad, and deals with a variety of industries including computers and
software, consumer products and industrial equipment, e-commerce and financial service matters, and mechanical and medical devices. Founded in 1792, Cadwalader is a AmLaw Top 50 firm with offices in New York, London, Charlotte, Washington and Beijing.
Source: www.newswire.com |
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
Magic cicle firm, Clifford Chance, has recruited three litigation partners from Sidley Austin to join its Washington, D.C. office. Juan Morillo, Stephen Nickelsburg and Steven Coltreau are white-collar and criminal defense attorneys who also have extensive experience in civil practice. In addition to the trio, Clifford Chance added another partner, Wendy Wysong. Wysong was previously a senior lawyer with the US government's Bureau of Industry and Security.
Source: www.news.crippssears.com |
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
Michael Pabst has left Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw to join Jones Day's London office as a partner. He joins the firm's banking and finance group, headed by Ed Nalbantian. Pabst's work focuses on acquisition, projects and emerging markets financing and restructurings in addition to structured derivatives finance in the context of tax-related asset and commodities deals.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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