Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has boosted its New York office with the hire of James G. McCarney. McCarney joins as a partner in the Business Trail practice group. He leaves Howrey in New York for this new opportunity.
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Former associate counsel to President George W. Bush has joined McGuireWoods. John Adams has will practice government law out of the Washington office.
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Norton Rose has made a new lateral hire in Beijing. Michael Yu has left Global Law Office to join the firm. Yu focuses his opractice on Mergers and Acquisitions, IPOs and private placements. He will make the 6th partner in Norton’s Beijing office.
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Tags: Norton Rose Fulbright | BeijingSheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has hired a new partner in its Los Angeles office. Jon Atzen joins the firm’s Corporate practice. He was previously a partner with DLA Piper.
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CMS Cameron McKenna has decided not to pay bonuses again. The firm spent more than its allotted budget for the year, the same as last year. There is an exception though. Attorneys who worked at least 400 billable hours last quarter will receive bonuses.
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Roetzel & Andress has just made a major coup. A group of Holland & Knight intellectual property lawerys have joined the firm. Partner Sunwoo Lee leads the group to its new firm. The others are: partner Jon Crocker, associates Baldine Paul and Benjamin Maskell and patent agent Donald Monin Jr.
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Tags: Holland & Knight LLPKing & Spalding and Littler Mendelson are branching out. The two firms are opening offices in new cities. King & Spalding has launched a city in Geneva. This new addition makes King & Spalding’s seventh office outside of the US. Littler Mendelson will open its new office in Anchorage, Alaska. The new office will make the firm’s 49th office.
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Cravath Swaine & Moore has lost partner Ronald Cami to private equity firm TPG Capital. Cami joins as general counsel. Cami spent about 18 years at Cravath, joining the firm immediately after finishing law school in 1992.
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Foley & Lardner’s San Francisco office has seen the addition of a new partner. Robert B. Anderson has joined the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice and the Energy Industry Team. He left Nixon Peabody for this opportunity.
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Sidley Austin LLP has hired boosted its Palo Alto and China offices with the hire of Yabo Lin. Lin joins the firm as a partner in the corporate department. He will split his time between Palo Alto and China.
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