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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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.

Source:  www.law.com

King & 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 49^th office.

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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.

Source:  www.lawfuel.com

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.

Source:  www.businesswire.com

Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP has lost a partner to McCarter English. Richard S. Roisman has joined the firm as partner in the Philadelphia office. He practices Real Estate, Construction and Environmental law.

Source:  www.earthtimes.org