Senior associate Daniel Winterfeldt, formerly of Jones Day, will join Simmons & Simmons US group. This continues a recent trend of the firm hiring US senior associates as partners. Winterfeldt is a securities attorney who will focus on life sciences and financial institutions.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Heller Ehrman’s executive director Phyllis Gardner has retired. Gardner has often been credited by taking the old-fashioned firm into the modern era and was central to the firm’s growth in both size and revenue at the beginning of the millennium. Although she was not an attorney, Gardner was an incredibly powerful force within the firm and ran much of its day to day business.
Source: nylawyer.com
Former Latham & Watkins corporate partner David Hernand has joined the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Hernand will focus on technology, specifically public and private mergers & acquisitions. He also has significant experience in private equity and entertainment transactional work.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
John Daniels Jr. has been named the new chairman of Quarles & Brady L.L.C.. He will replace Patrick Ryan, who died last month due to illness. Daniels has been a real estate partner with the Milwaukee law firm since 1981.
Source: www.bizjournals.com
Kathryn H. Perkins, a corporate attorney who formerly worked as in-house counsel for Lowe’s, has joined the Winston-Salem office of Kilpatrick Stockton as a senior associate. Perkins has almost ten years of corporate experience, and will cover corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and securities areas at Kilpatrick Stockton. Perkins received her undergraduate degree from University of North Carolina and her law degree from Wake Forest. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband, Dr. L. Allen Perkins.
Source: carolinanewswire.com
Jackson Lewis, a labor and employment firm, has opened an office in Philadelphia. The new branch will be staff with attorneys from Saul Ewing and White & Williams. Rick Grimaldi of White & Williams will helm the new office, and although he wasn’t looking to leave White & Williams, the promise of managing an office of his own proved too tempting. Grimaldi plans to grow the new office as quickly as possible, citing a “huge need” for labor and employment attorneys in the area.
Source: law.com
Houston- and Dallas-based firm Locke Liddell & Sapp has announced that all levels of attorneys will see a pay increase beinning retroactively on August 1st. Associates will start out at $160,000 and move to $170,000 their second year. Thirds years will earn $172, 500; fourth-years $175,000; fifth years $180,000; sixth years $185,000; seventh-years $190,000; and eighth-years $195,000.
Source: texaslawyer.com
Fort Worth firm Kelly Hart & Hallman opened a Houston office this week. Partnering the new office ar James Derrick, David Hedges, Max Hendrick and J. Clark Martin, all of Vinson & Elkins. The office will hopefully grow to 21 attorneys, and the firm has an additional office in Austin. Kelly Hart & Hallman opened the Houston branch in order to optimize contact with large energy companies.
Source: www.star-telegram.com
Dykema Gosset P.L.L.C., a law firm based out of Detroit, announced this Wednesday that it will be opening a Dallas office. The new branch will be composed of commercial litigators, although Dykema hopes to expand to corporate, real estate and financial practices over the next few years. Darrell Jordan, the attorney who ran for mayor of Dallas last year, will head the new office.
Source: crainsdetroit.com
Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that tax partner Edouard S. Markson will join their New York office. Markson was most recently employed with Credit Suisse as the director of their Tax Advisory Group. He specializes in investment banking, alternative investments and global structuring.
Source: www.metrocorpcounsel.com
