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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner and U.K. law firm Pinsent Masons have split their global construction law joint venture. Masons Thelen Reid, formed in 2003, was designed to help the firms take on a larger work load and attract new clients, and in that respect it was a profitable venture for both parties. The firms decided to split when they realized that they could achieve the same results without the administrative costs separately, and have agreed to maintain a "best friends" relationship.
Source: www.law.com |
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
Lowell C. Brown and Jonathon E. Cohn will join the Los Angeles office of Arent Fox this August. Both attorneys are from law firm Foley & Lardner LLP and are two of the most prominent health care attorneys in the state of California. Arent Fox's LA office has doubled in size since January to 20 lawyers, and the firm expects to see continued growth within this office.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
Day Pitney of Florham Park New Jersey has announced that as of January 1st, first-year salaries will be raised by $15,000 to $135,000. Although this is a non-traditional move, Day Pitney representatives say that was a simple decision to make in order to stay competitive. Midyear salary hikes are part of a trend which includes fellow New Jersey firm Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik. Industry experts claim that the recent flurry of pay hikes nation-wide has been draw top law school graduates away from corporate legal departments.
Source: www.law.com |
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
Dennis E. Kinnaird has joined Foley & Larnder LLP's Los Angeles office as a member of the Litigation Department and the General Commercial Litigation Practice. Kinnaird spent the vast majority of his career as a trial lawyer for Munger Tolles & Olson LLP. Prior to that, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in California's Central District. Foley's representatives stated that they are looking forward to their clients' having access to Kinnaird's extensive experience.
Source: lawfuel.com |
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
King & Spalding responded to Alston & Bird's pay raise by making the same $15,000 increase to first-year associate salaries. Effective Jan. 1, 2008, the starting pay will be $145,000, but the firm made no similar announcements regarding senior associates' pay. A firm spokesperson reported that K&S will "continue to evaluate" the pay structure for other levels of associates. Recruiters have ventured the guess that the firm quickly matched only the first-year salary rather than all levels in order to remain competitive during summer associate recruiting rush.
Source: www.law.com |
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
Dallas-based Haynes & Boone announced that all Texas associates' salaries will now be at the market rate of $160,000 for first years. The salaries for second and third years will be $170,000; $180,00 for forth years; $190,000 for fifth years; $200,000 for sixth years; $205,000 for seventh years; and $210,000 for eighth years. Associates' bonuses will also be increased to as much as $5,000 for first-years and up to $70,000 for eighth-year associates. Associate classes, as a group, must reach certain billable-hour totals for the bonuses to be distributed, but for the first time Haynes & Boone has also added individual billable-hour bonus goals.
Source: www.law.com |
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
Mark Lee has left Debevoise & Plimpton to join Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Hong Kong office as a partner. He is the sixth new partner to join the firm's China offices in 2007. Lee is joined by of counsel, David Cho, and associate Una Cho, all from Debevoise & Plimpton. Lee's corporate M&A and private equity practice focuses on Korea; he joins Orrick's Korea team which includes Eugene Chang, a Tokyo-based finance partner, and Michelle Taylor, a Hong Kong-based partner and head of Orrick's regional structured finance team.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
Six Holland & Knight Miami partners have announced their departure from the firm to start their own boutique. The Coral Gables firm will be known as Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri. Former head of H&K's banking and finance group, Alcides Avila, will be joined by partners Wilfredo Rodriguez, Eugenio Hernandez, Patricia Hernandez, Daniel Mena, and Marco Ferri; associate Asnardo Garro Jr. is also joining. Holland & Knight's Miami office executive partner, Peter Prieto, is not worried about the loss of the partners, and said that the remaining attorneys cover all the same areas of expertise.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
Five Nixon Peabody attorneys have defected to Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. Alphonso E. Tindall, Jr., and Todd J. Peterson join as partners; Deborah H. Henry as counsel; and James Hughes and Gary Anderson as associates, all in the New York office. Tindall and Peterson will join forces with existing partners to establish an emerging markets practice group. Tindall will serve as the co-chair of the cross-border practice group, and Peterson is a partner in the private equity and venture capital practice group.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
DLA Piper has recruited two corporate and securities partners from Greenberg Traurig to join its Silicon Valley office. Both attorneys have strong business relationships with Vietnam and China. Khoa Do was a partner and the chair of GT's Silicon Valley corporate and securities practice. Do's practice focuses on advising technology companies on corporate formation and governance, venture capital financings, public offerings, M&A and public company reporting. Michael Reagan works in venture capital and M&A; he is fluent in Lao and Thai.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
Frost Brown Todd has opened a new office in West Virginia. This is its ninth office, and its first in WV. The firm's other offices are located in in Cincinnati, Middletown, and Columbus, OH; Florence, Lexington and Louisville, KY; New Albany, IN; and Nashville, TN. James D. McQueen Jr. will serve as the Administrative Member-in-Charge, and Amanda Davis will be a staff attorney. Both lawyers were formerly with McQueen & Murphy LC. McQueen specializes in insurance bad faith, coverage, and fraud, professional liability and licensure (ethics), and fire and explosion cases.
Source: www.wvrecord.com |
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
Recruiting pages are an important feature on law firm websites, but not all are created equal. Based on a Law.com review of the AmLaw 100 sites, Howrey's "Bootcamp" site outshone the rest. It provides detailed information, interactive features, and videos of Bootcamp alumnus. Video is an especially effective tool on the websites, though few firms use it. Among those that do are White & Case, Ropes & Gray, and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Other unique features include Akin Gump's "A Moment in Time" which shows the firm's lawyers' activities across the globe at a paticular instant in time. Alumni searches, photo albums, and testimonials are other effective tools used by firms with top-notch recruiting sites.
Source: www.law.com |
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
Boston-based Ropes & Gray has announced plans to open its first international office in Tokyo, Japan by mid-September. The firm is still waiting approval from the Daini Tokyo Bar Association. The new office will be known as Ropes & Gray Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho and will be launched by two resident IP partners. Jim DeGraw and Steve Baughman will both move to Tokyo from Boston; the firm will also hire two associates fluent in Japanese.
Source: www.boston.bizjournals.com |
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
The Washington, D.C. office of UK firm Clifford Chance has recruited three lateral partners from Sidley Austin. The litigation team consists of Juan Morillo, Steven Cottreau and Stephen Nickelsburg, whose work focuses primarily on white-collar crime and criminal defense, but also covers civil law. In addition to the Sidley laterals, Wendy Wysong, a senior lawyer with the US Government’s Bureau of Industry & Security has also joined the U.S. Litigation group as a partner. Clifford Chance has recently been putting a lot of effort into expanding its U.S. lawyer operation; hires have been made in New York and D.C.
Source: www.legalweek.com |
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
Mary Keller has joined Winstead's Austin office as a shareholder in the Corporate and Securities Group. Her work deals mostly with insurance regulation and regulatory litigation. Keller was formerly an Associate Commissioner of Insurance at the Texas Department of Insurance, as well as a former Texas First Assistant Attorney General. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, The Woodlands, TX, and Washington, D.C., Winstead is one of the largest business law firms in Texas.
Source: www.lawfuel.com |
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 |
Dreier Stein & Kahan and Browne Woods & George have announced that their firms have agreed to a merger. The new firm, titled Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods & George, will house 1 attorneys and will have offices in Santa Monica and Century City, California.
Source: www.nlj.com |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
Alston & Bird has raised Atlanta first year associates' salaries from $130,000 to $145,000, matching the firm's pay in its Charlotte office. The raises will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2008. Alston's pay raise matches the rate set by Hunton & Williams back in February; the firm raised its starting salary to $145,000 in all offices except for New York. This raise reaches $190,000 for seventh-year associates, and many mid-level associates have voiced complaints that their raises are not equal to those of the first-year associates. To compare, Hunton's Charlotte pay scale tops at $240,000 for seventh-years.
Source: www.law.com |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
Fox & Rothschild has done it again - less than a month after its merger with Roseland, NJ's Goldman & Kramer, the firm has announced another merger. The latest acquisition is Pottstown, PA firm Binder Kalis & Proctor. The three-attorney outfit specialized in corporate matters, municipal law, real estate and estate planning. Founded in 1941, it was the oldest continuously existing firm in the area. This merger is Fox & Rothschild's seventh since 2005, with most of the expansion taking place in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Source: www.nylawyer.com |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has recruited Baker & McKenzie Shanghai partner Thomas Man. Man, a Chinese native, will join the firm's Beijing office and focus his practice on representing foreign companies in foreign direct investments, M&A transactions and real estate investment in China. He is the sixth partner that Orrick has added to its China offices in the past six months.
Source: www.thelawyer.com |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
Tad Decker has announced his return to Cozen O'Connor as CEO. In 2004 Decker was appointed to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, and he was reappointed to a three-year term the following year. Decker will be taking the place of Patrick O'Connor, who will step down as president and CEO of the firm. His first goal is to redo the firm's strategic plan, and he also plans to expand the firm in Philadelphia and nationally. Decker acknowledges that he is limited by his age (61) in this role, and plans to revisit the position every few years, ensuring that he will be succeeded by a suitable candidate.
Source: www.law.com |
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