King & Spalding has announced that it has raided Kilpatrick Stockton’s intellectual property practice and acquired three partners. George Marcou, former managing partner of King & Spalding’s DC office, heads the group, and is joined by fellow partners Dawn0Marie Bey and Michael Dimino. Additionally, the acquired seven Kilpatrick government relations attorney, including Christoper Ott, John Howell, Michael Rishling, Arch Galloway and Dan Hickey.
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Much like the rest of the country, firms in northern New Jersey have been on a first year pay hike spree. McCarter & English has announced that first-years will earn $135,000 starting in January, which is an 8 percent increase. This move was made in order to stay competitive with other norther New Jersey firms’ first year rates, such as Drink Biddle ($145,000), Proskauer Rose ($145,000), Lowenstein Sandler ($140,000), Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik ($140,000) and Day Pitney ($135,000).
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Sullivan & Cromwell has announced a new bonus plan for senior associates that will link supplemental bonuses to the firm’s financial performance. The new system will work by setting aside a certain amount of money for the bonuses–estimated to be around $2.5 million–and make this money available to fifth-years on up, as well as counsels. The firm expects that associates of the same level will earn approximately the same bonuses, although bonuses will be based on financial results and overall activity.
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Pepper Hamilton has moved its New York office into a larger space in order to make room for an expected 50 attorney increase over the next few years. The Philadelphia based firm has installed eight attorneys–six of them partners–in the 37th floor of The New York Times Building. The new office is triple the size of their old, Lexington Avenue location.
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White & Case has announced the hiring of two private client attorneys. John M. Olivieri and Cecily P. Maquire will join the firm from Dewey Ballantine, the former as partner and the later as counsel. The pair is rumored to have left Dewey Ballantine due to its impending merger with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae.
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Greenberg Traurig has announced that Anne P. Van Buren has joined its Albany office. Van Burn is a Governmental Affairs attorney and will be the Albany office’s Associate Director. She joins Greenberg Traurig from The Business Council of New York State, where she was the Director of Energy and Telecommunications.
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Leslie V. Norwalk, formerly the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been hired by Epstein Becker & Green’s Washington DC office. She returns to the firm in a new position as strategic adviser on payment, regulation and health policy issues.
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Thompson Hine LLP has announced that it has recruited associate LaVonda Napka. Napka, formerly of Grant Thornton LLP, will practice Tax law in the firm’s Cleveland office.
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Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone PLC has announced that it will open a Chicago office this fall. The Michigan-based firm is in the process of leasing office space at 225 W. Washington St., and will staff it with attorneys recruited from McGuireWoods’ Chicago office.
Source: www.chicagobusiness.com
Fisher & Phillips LLP has announced that one new global immigration associate and four new labor and employment associates will join their Atlanta office. The attorneys are Jet Stigter, Marisa Ugalde Sugarman, Mark Y. Thacker, Matt Simpson and Josh F. Norris. Fisher & Phillips is currently looking to strengthen its employment practice in Atlanta in order to offer more services to its growing Georgian clientèle.
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