Cooley Godward Kronish LLP has announced that Laura Grossfield Birger and Jenifer B. Coplan will be joining the firm’s New York office as partners. Birger, a trial attorney, was formerly the Chief of the General Crimes Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. Coplan is an information technology and intellectual property law attorney who will leave Debevoise & Plimpton to join Cooley.
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Cooley Godward Kronish LLP has announced that former the former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission will be join the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in their business litigation practice. Campos will cut short his second term as commissioner to join the firm, who is looking forward to returning to the private sector.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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