Joel H. Levitin has joined the firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP as partner in its New York office. Previously, Levitin was partner at Dechert LLP. Levitin has had much experience in the fields of bankruptcy and mergers and acquisitions. He is whole-heartedly welcomed by Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
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Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced its plans to close three US offices in an attempt to boost its major capital markets practice. The Jacksonville office will close at the end of this year in December. The Hartford office is to close in February and the Austin office will be closing in March 2009. All 48 lawyers amongst the three offices are asked to remain with Dewey & LeBouef and relocate to another of its offices.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
8 Percent of Women lead US firms, according to the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL). There are various assumptions to why this is percentage is so low. One such reason, is the fact that women, as well as men, do not wish to endure the hardships entailed with the position of Managing Partner. At times, the managing partner must do less lawyering to take on more managerial responsibility. Joel Henning, a consultant at Hildebrandt International, describes the role as being a type of “housekeeper”. Women are not willing to forgo their allowance to excel at what they love, to clean house at work. Another factor for having so few women high up on the ladder, is that it is was not too long ago that big law firms were hiring women in the first place. Jerry Clements, the woman leading the firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, explains that when she graduated from law school in 1981, top law firms were just beginning to hire women. The rate of progress? In 2006, the number of women leaders was at a mere 5 percent.
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A growing percentage of graduates from top law schools are taking positions at NLJ 250 law firms. NLJ, The National Law Journal, has an annual survey of the nation’s largest law firms. Colombia Law School took the number 1 slot, as having the greatest percentage of graduates going to one of the 250 NLJ firms. About 75 percent of its graduates took jobs at the largest law firms.
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Andrea Accornero has announced her departure from Lovells LP. She will be joining the Milan office of Simmons & Simmons at the end of April. Accornero focuses her practice on private equity.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Bryan Cave has hired Ignatius Hwang to join as a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Ignatius will head the firm’s projects practice in Asia. He will be aided by various other experienced projects practitioners in the Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore offices.
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Winston & Strawn LLP has recently hired two excellent banking and finance attorneys. Christopher C. Kupec and Molly McGill have joined the firm’s Charlotte, N.C. They both join as partners and were both previously partners at Mayer Brown in Charlotte.
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Todd Millay has received the position of the managing director of Choate, Hall & Stewart’s Wealth Management group. This position will mandate working closely with the firm’s management team consisting of lawyers, tax preparers, and trusts and estates administrators. Before joining Choate, Hall & Stewart, Todd Millay was the founding executive director of the Wharton Global Family Alliance.
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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft are losing two reinsurance partners. Head of the practice, Lawrence I. Brandes and Harry P. Cohen are joining other firms. Brandes has chosen the DLA Piper and will begin later this week. Cohen will join the New York office of Crowell & Moring at the start of May.
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Morris, Manning & Martin has hired a whole troupe of newbies to its firm, existing of three partners, four senior lawyers, and a of-counsel. Washington receives two new partners to join its Intellectual Property group: Christopher W. Raimund and Ping Wang, M.D. Savannah takes Joseph R. “Rusty” Ross and turns him into partner in its health care practice; he will also be working with the real estate group. Morris, Manning & Martin takes 21 year in-house counsel veteran of Fannie Mae, Allison Gould, for the firm’s Atlanta headquarters. Gould will join the commercial real estate lending group.
Source: www.atlanta.dbusinessnews.com
