Five litigation attorneys from Frost Brown Todd’s Louisville office have left to start their own firm. Robert Gwin, Robert Steinmetz, Donald Miller II and W. Bruce Baird were members with the firm, and William Donnell was an of-counsel. Frost Brown Todd was created from a merger between Ohio’s Frost & Jacobs and Kentucky’s Brown, Todd & Heyburn. The firm has eight offices in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee.
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Howrey has recruited the managing partner and co-chair of the IP litigation group of Dewey Ballantine’s Silicon Valley office. Jeannine Yoo Sano will join Howrey’s East Palo Alto office, leaving her former office with eight attorneys, including only one partner. Dewey’s shrinking numbers are largely attributed to the failed merger with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, after which many attorneys got offers elsewhere. Sano was drawn to Howrey because of the firm’s focus on IP, antitrust, and global litigation. The addition of Sano is a part of Howrey’s plan to expand in the Bay Area; accordingly, an antitrust partner was recently hired in San Francisco.
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Philadelphia-based Pepper Hamilton has added two lateral partners to its New York office. Kenneth King joins from Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, and Samuel Abate joins from the NY office of McCarter & English. Both lawyers will be partners in Pepper Hamilton’s health effects litigation practice, which represents pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability cases. About eight of the firm’s 450 lawyers are stationed in New York.
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Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis has been slow to jump on the salary raise bandwagon. The firm just announced that effective Sept. 1 it would raise starting salaries in Philadelphia from $125,000 to $135,000. Corresponding increases will be made in other offices, and the firm is still determining raises for more senior associates. Several other firms announced raises in their Philadelphia offices. Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen bumped its first-year pay to $135,000, retroactive to Feb. 1. Duane Morris, Blank Rome and DLA Piper have also raised Philly starting salaries to $135,000, retroactive to Jan. 1.
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Seven real estate lawyers from varied firms have joined Thompson & Knight in its New York and Dallas offices. The New York office hired John B. Wood and Bohdan “Bud” S. Kosvych from Sussman, Sollis, Tweedy & Wood. In Dallas, Jay Gibson and Laura McClellan joined as partners, while Misty Willcox, Sean D. Hawkins and Meg Squiers joined as associates. Gibson came from Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons; McClellan left Foster Pepper in Seattle; Willcox came from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr; Hawkins left Vinson & Elkins; and Squiers returned to Thompson & Knight after taking a leave. These new additions boost the firm’s real estate and banking practice to 54 lawyers.
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Four corporate attorneys from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe have left to join McDermott, Will & Emery. Orrick partner Ronald Goldberg, along with two associates will join the LA office. Edward Christian, a longtime collegue of Goldberg, will be a partner in the New York office. Goldberg’s specialty is corporate finance; he joined McDermott largely because some of his former partners from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld are now at McDermott’s NY office. Goldberg is bringing all of his clients to his new firm. The lateral hires were a part of the firm’s plan to expand its coporate finance practice in California.
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More and more law firms today are developing innovative ways to provide benefits and lifestyle accomodations for their attorneys and other employees. At Kilpatrick Stockton’s Raleigh office, the firm has created a “power room” to which employees can escape to take a nap or just relax for a while. The sign outside the door reads “Shhhhh. I’m in here snoozing.” and inside, the room has a couch, recliner, blanket, lamp, and coffee table. Normally users retreat for 10 to 20 minutes.
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Fulbright & Jaworski has gained four litigation partners from fallen Texas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist. Rodney Acker, Theodore Daniel, Ellen Bush Sessions and Guy Wade will all join Fulbright’s Dallas office as partners. This is the second group of Jenkens partners that Fulbright has recruited. In January, the entire Houston tax team joined Fulbright.
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Gary Friedman has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges’ New York employment team as a partner. Prior to joining Weil Gotshal, Friedman was the head of employment at Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. He has tried cases before the New York Stock Exchange, National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association. Last fall a four-partner litigation team from Mayer Brown New York also departed the firm, joining Morrison & Foerster in California.
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Troutman Sanders’ Washington office has recruited Kaye Scholer’s 11-person international trade practice. The firm has wanted to expand this practice, which formerly was comprised of only a couple of partners. Donald Cameron Jr. and Julie Mendoza, who join as partners, will continue to co-lead the group. Jeffrey Grimson also joins as a partner. Three additional lawyers, two non-lawyers, and three paralegals are also a part of the team. Counsel Judy Wang will work in Shanghai, and accountant Victor Wu will remain in Beijing. This group focuses its practice on federal anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws.
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