A multi-discipline team of lawyers are joining together to form a stimulus response team at Foley Hoag LLP. The firm is getting a head start, before the stimulus is even doled out. The group will dedicate itself to aiding clients who desire to obtain funding for capital projects.

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Sidley Austin is proud to announce its latest hire: Jonathon Cohn. Cohn, most recently on the Justin Department team, is not completely new to Sidley. He started his career with the firm. Cohn plans to start in March. In the meantime, his family is his priority.

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Monesia Taylor Brown has joined Akerman Senterfitt as Of Counsel.  Brown will be stationed at the Tallahassee, Florida office, and will practice in the Government Affairs and Public Policy Group.  Prior to joining Akerman, she spent ten years in public service in the State of Florida. The last two years, Brown spent as Director of the Agency for Workforce Innovation (AWI).

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The US Department of Labor has reported that the US legal profession has lost 1300 jobs in the month of January.  This number appears much smaller when compared to the number of jobs lost in all fields: 598,000.  About half of the 3.6 million jobs lost since the start of the recession (December ’07) were lost in the last three months.  Let’s get back to law firms. The list of firm’s to have announced job cuts in the month of January include: Akin Gump, Cooley Godward, Fish & Richardson, Foley Hoag, McDermott Will, and Morrison & Foerster.

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Top US law firms have made a new a record. Legal Week has calculated a total of 2,509 partner laterals in the span of 2008.  This number includes laterals from firm mergers, as well as those taken in by dissolved firms.  K&L Gates tops the list with 185 partner laterals.  Reed Smith comes in second with 74, DLA Piper has had 58, followed by Jones Day with 57. Akin Gump has lost more partners than all other firm’s with its grand loss of 59 partners.  Heller Ehrman comes in second with 47 and Thelen, who has lost 46, comes in third.  Following Thelen, Mayer Brown has lost 45 partners.

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Lowenstein Sandler has created a website with the sole purpose of advancing women and minorities in the legal profession. DiversityisNatural.com creates a safe space to host a discussion about diversity. The website will promote various tactics for employers and law firm’s to help increase diversity at work.

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Sidley Austin has re-hired Daniel M. Price. Price was previously the International Economic Advisor to the White House. And prior to that, he led the International Trade and Dispute Resolution at Sidley Austin. Price received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1981.

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