Due to recent increase in Boston’s commercial and development market, area firms are enlarging their real estate practices. Firms such as Goulston & Storrs, Goodwin Procter, and Mintz, LEvin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo are among those clamoring for new real estate associates. The Boston branch of national firm DLA Piper has nearly doubled its real estate attorneys since 2003. Currently there are 75 large ongoing building projects with a total value of $3.3 billion.
Source: www.nlj.com
Best Firms for Working Mothers List Announced
Working Mother Magazine has announced its 2007 list of best law firms for working mothers. The firms were selected for their emphasis on work-life balance, the retention and promotion of female employees, and had such benefits as flex-time, child care, and women-focused mentoring programs. Representatives at Working Mother magazine are optimistic about women’s futures with prominent firms, and are delighted to promote those firms that are doing their best to make positive changes in their infrastructure to aid women in their careers.
Source: earthtimes.org
Ogletree Opens Two New Midwest Offices
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has opened an office in St. Louis and has plans to open a new office in Detroit September 1st. The St. Louis branch will be headed by Gregg M. Lamley of Bryan Cave, and Tim A. Garnett of Kinder Morgan. After August 20th they will be joined by Heidi Kuns Durr, also of Bryan Cave. The St. Louis office is the only national labor/employment firm in the city, an opportunity too good for Ogletree to pass up. Ogletree has 30 additional offices in the US.
Source: nylawyer.com
CC hires London Partner from Jones Day
Clifford Chance has hired Greg Olsen for its London office. Olsen was previously a senior competition partner at Jones Day for six years, and he headed the City competition team there. Before his time at Jones Day, Olsen was an associate at CC. Olsen specializes in European Union and UK competition law as well as banking and finance practices.
Source: legalweek.com
O’Melveny Appoints First Asia M&A Head
O’Melveny & Meyers has named partner Gregory Puff to head the firm’s Asian mergers & acquisitions practice in Hong Kong. Previously, Puff worked in O’Melveny’s Tokyo office. Previously the duties of the head Asian M&A partner were handled jointly by Asia practice head Howard Chia and Michael Moser, the co-chair of the China office. This structure change came about because of an increase in Asian transactions.
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Hunton & Williams Hires Tax Partner
Hunton & Williams has announced that Michael A. Silva will join their Miami office as a partner within their private wealth tax practice. Silva has 13 years of experience with tax law as well as over a decade of international tax experience in addition to having been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Miami. Silva will join Hunton & Williams partner Cary Tolley in the tax practice.
Source: www.digital50.com
Bracewell Recruits Tax Partner
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has hired Elizabeth L. McGinley as a tax partner in their New York office. McGinley specializes in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, and real estate transactions. Previous to working for Bracewell, McGinley was counsel at Skadden. The New York office of Bracewell opened in April 2005 when Rudolph Giuliani joined the firm as a name partner, and the firm has been growing ever since.
Source: home.businesswire.com
Bankruptcy Group Joins Vinson & Elkins
A group of five bankruptcy attornies is moving to Vinson & Elkins from a boutique founded by former partners of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The attorneys–Dennis F. Cronin, Jane Vris, Dov Kleiner, Laurence Cherkis and J. Ronald Trost–are all nationally known bankruptcy attorneys. Cronin & Vris represented Vinson & Elkins during the Enron Corp. debacle, as Vinson & Elkins were outside counsel for the company. This move is part of a trend among top firms expanding their bankruptcy practices in anticipation of increased filings.
Source: www.nylj.com
McKee Nelson Highest Paying Firm in DC
McKee Nelson’s Washington DC office is now the highest paying law firm in Washington, according to several sources. The young firm has grown exponentially since its foundation nearly a decade ago, and yet its 210 lawyers make more money than anyone else in the city, with revenue per lawyer over a million dollars a year and profit per partner at $1.7 million yearly. Reed Auerbach, the managing partner of McKee Nelson’s New York office, attributes this to the amount of power the firm gives their partners. Additionally, the company has been very focused in its acquisition of new clients.
Source: www.legaltimes.com
New Partner at Proskauer
Trevor Chaplick, a corporate attorney whose previous work includes founding Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has joined Proskauer Rose LLP’s Washington DC office as a partner. This move is the beginning of a major expansion planned by Proskauer for their Washington office. The firm currently boasts 700 attorneys, 40 of whom work in Washington. Proskauer hopes to up that number to 100 over the next couple years.
Source: www.bizjournals.com
