DLA Piper has increased associate pay by 10%, back to the level before the economic recession. Associates in the busiest cities are seeing their salaries back to $160,000. Those in secondary cities, such as Phoenix, Tampa and Sacramento are back to $145,000. Other firms that have increased associate pay recently include: Latham & Watkins, Linklaters and K&L Gates.
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Tags: DLA PiperShawn Atkinson, who was most recently a senior associate at Kirkland & Ellis Shawn Atkinson has just joined Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge as an equity partner. Atkinson specializes in private equity and venture capital. He joins the London office.
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Perkins Coie has launched an office in Dallas. Steven Smith, formerally a partner at Greenburg Traurig, has joined the firm to act as partner-in-charge. Smith focuses his practice on lending and real estate workouts.
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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has hired Steven D. Rubin from King & Spalding in Houston. Rubin joins the Corporate practice. He focuses his practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions and securities.
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Tags: Foley & Lardner LLP | HoustonMayer Brown has lost not only a finance partner, but also the co-head of its Latin American practice in one swell swoop. Peter V. Darrow has joined DLA as a partner. Mayer Brown lost another finance partner last week, by the name of Ron D. Franklin.
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Tags: DLA Piper | New YorkBrian R. Michael has joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Los Angeles. Michael was most recently an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2003 to 2010. He joins as counsel.
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Proskauer Rose has hired finance partner Ron D. Franklin from Mayer Brown. Franklin, who practiced at Mayer Brown for about 8 years, left the firm on the same day that Mayer Brown laid off 28 associates and counsel. He says that his leaving had nothing to do with the firm’s finances.
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Tags: Mayer Brown LLPSince health care legislation was passed last month, health care law is on a definite rise and health care lawyers are reaping the benefits. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough has hired quite a few of health care attorneys from Epstein Becker & Green just in April alone. On April 1st, Nelson Mullins hired three partners from Epstein for its Atlanta office. Six days later, three health care associates joined the partners. Nelson hired one last Epstein health care lawyer with the addition of Jana Kolarik Anderson, who joined the firm’s Washington and Tallahassee offices.
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Blake Dawson is the first Australian firm to open a branch in Japan. The new office resides in Tokyo. Natsuko Ogawa, a partner in Melbourne, will relocate to open and manage the Tokyo base.
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McKool Smith has announced its latest addition to its New York office. Six litigation attorneys have joined the firm. Sachin Bansal joins McKool Smith from Davis Polk & Wardwell; John C. Briody most recently practiced at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Yusuf A. Rangwala formerally practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell; Elizabeth Raskin was previously with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Kevin Schubert formerally worked at the US Patent & Trademark Office for this new opportunity, and James H. Smith leaves Shearman & Sterling to join McKool Smith.
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