Jones Day has lost a partner in Tokyo. Tadakatsu Sano resigned for the firm two weeks ago because he is set to be the newest chief executive assistant to Yukio Hatoyama , Japan’s new Prime Minister. Sano joined Jones Day three years ago. Prior to that, he was vice minister for international affairs in Japan’s Ministry of Economy, trade, and Industry.
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Kirkland & Ellis has announced that the firm is launching a banking practice. Edwin del Hierro is leaving Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg to join Kirkland & Ellis and run the new practice. The firm has most likely based the decision on the economic downfall and its effects on banks (closing and the calls for regulation).
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Patton Boggs has hired the former chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin. Martin will start in the beginning of October as co-chair of the telecommunications policy practice. He was made chairman of the FCC in 2005 and left in January of this year.
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Tags: Squire Patton BoggsTwo partners have defected from Big Law Firms: Steven Molo is leaving Shearman & Sterling and Jeff Lamken leaves Baker Botts. The two are starting their own litigation boutique called MoloLamken. The firm will have offices in New York and in Washington D.C.
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Cozen O’Connor has boosted its Los Angeles office with the hire of Nathan Dooley. Dooley joins the firm’s commercial litigation group as an associate. He was previously with Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver & Hedges, LLP.
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Winston & Strawn has had two lateral partners land at the firm. Both partners are in the telecommunications field and join from Dewey & LeBouef. Eric Cowan, who was the chair of the telecommunications industry sector group at Dewey, will be Winston’s global chair of media and telecommunications. He will be splitting his time between the New York and London offices. Glynna Christian joins Cowan.
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Law Firm Arent Fox has rescinded some of its offers to incoming associates who have yet to start at the firm. Marc Fleischaker, Chairman of Arent Fox, announced that approximately 12 associates were affected. Fleischaker explained that the firm believed it to be better to do so then to string the associates along indefinitely.
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Jackson Lewis has recently boosted its Miami office with the hires of Devand (Dave) Sukhdeo and Terrance Woodhard. Sukhdeo joins as a partner and Woodhard joins as an associate. Sukhdeo was most recently a partner with Ogletree Deakins law firm.
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Proskauer Rose has lost a partner from its Los Angeles office to Bingham McCutchen. Arthur Silbergeld moves to Bingham’s Santa Monica office in Southern California. Silbergeld is actually the first labor and employment partner to join the office.
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Three attorneys have left Cozen O’Connor for firm, Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst. The group will help open Nelson Levine’s new Denver office. This reminiscent of when the firm took three other attorneys from Cozen earlier in the year. Most recently, on September 8, Joseph Bermudez and Jason Melichar joined Nelson from Cozen as partners. Suzanne Meintzer joined as an associate.
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