Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP has set its sights on Sao Paulo. The firm is planning on opening an office there in the near future. Anderw B. Janszky is switching firms from Shearman & Sterling LLP to head Milbank’s new office. Milbank also scored another Shearman attorney by the name of Tobias Stirnberg.
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Patton Boggs has retrieved a partner the firm lost to Katten Muchin Rosenman. Ugo Colella returns to the firm where he worked from 2000 to 2006. He is stationed in the Washington office.
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Tags: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLPCooley Godward’s litigation head, Mike Rhodes, says that the legal market is getting better, at least in the litigation field. He says litigation work has increased by ten percent nationwide and by 15 percent in the Francisco Bay Area. Although things are looking back, he says that it will take some time for law firms to start hiring more.
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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