Cozen O’Connor has added two attorneys to its New York Offices. Angelo Savino has enters into the firm’s global insurance practice group. Robert E. Fischer joins as of counsel as a corporate attorney. Cozen has hired more than 30 attorneys in the last few months.
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Tags: Cozen O'Connor, P.C. | New YorkMost Am Law 100 firms are not jumping on the deferral bandwagon as a way to deal with overstaffing. Seven out of the ten most profitable partnerships are allowing their new associates to start in the fall as promised. These firms are as follows: Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Kirkland & Ellis; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges; Sullivan & Cromwell; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. Those firms not following suit include Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; and Schulte, Roth & Zabel. Cravath offered $80,000 in addition to health care and loan repayment stipends to those lawyers that defer for a year. Simpson Thacher gave their incoming class an option to do public service for $60,000 with health insurance. Schulte, Roth made deferment mandatory.
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Saul Ewing finally put biglaw’s words into action. The firm has posted its alternative fee agreements online, composed of two options. With this new payment plan, a certain clients may either choose a fixed fee or can choose to pay per attorney, per day.
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Tags: Saul Ewing LLP
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is preparing to open its Sao Paulo office. It has yet to be approved by the Brazilian Bar, but apparently the firm believes it is in the bag. The firm is transferring partner Lisa Alfaro and an associate from the New York office to the brand new office.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Tags: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Sao Paulo
Bryan Cave has added two lawyers to its New York office. Daniel Tamkin has joined the firm as of counsel in the M&A and Private Equity practice groups. Charles Avigliano will practice in the Intellectual Property Group as an associate.
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Tags: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | New York
Intellectual Property lawyers are foretelling some major growth in the practice field throughout Asia. Connie Carnabuci and Mark Parsons, both lawyers with Freshfields in Hong Kong, explain that the economic decline, changes in regulation, and an increase of IPR awareness are playing off of each other and subsequently increasing work for IP lawyers in Asia. In short, the downturn is increasing the willingness of businesses to protect what is theirs, since so much has already been lost. The money-making options are slimmer than they once were, so businesses feel a greater need to protect what is rightly theirs. China’s States Intellectual Property Office has noted a 19% increase in patent applications since the implementation of a national IPR strategy. This growth may also be seen in law firm response. The following firms have boosted their IP groups in Asia: Bingham McCutchen, Deheng, and Rouse and Dacheng.
Source: www.asialegalbusiness.com
Tags: Hong Kong
14 trainee solicitors called their message machines only to hear that they have been let go from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Additionally, the recorded voices on those machines did not belong to a single a partner, but were the voices of human resource workers. When criticized for not delivering the message personally to these individuals, the firm explained the need to relay the message as quickly as possible so the trainees would not hear it from another source first.
Source: www.nylj.com
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has hired Sallye Clark, a talented telecommunications lawyer. Clark joins the Washington office as a Member. Most recently, she practiced with Arent Fox as a partner.
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Tags: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Obama has recruited two Washington lawyers to the job of ambassador. Williams & Connolly will lose partner Howard Gutman to the position of ambassador to Belgium. Mark Gitenstein, a partner in Mayer Brown, is to become ambassador to Romania.
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Latham & Watkins has suffered a hit with the loss of Hong Kong partner, Julie Gao. Gao joins the Asia practice of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. She has practiced out of Latham since 2008, when she graduated law school and was promoted to partner in 2006. Gao concentrates on M&A and capital markets.
Source: www.legalweek.com
Tags: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Hong Kong