In response to the many who have left Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, the firm has announced its desire to merge with another firm. Thelen reportedly has yet to advance beyond this step 1 of acknowledgment, and has yet to make any further steps. This will be the firm’s second merger, two years after the first. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423083617

Thompson Hine has created a Climate Change Sustainable Business Solutions group to address increasingly complex concerns of climate change and sustainability. The attorney participants of the group together possess a sundry array of law fields, such as: environmental, energy, finance, intellectual property, trade, real estate, construction and corporate law. The new practice group has two co-leaders: Andrew Kolesar and Steve Axtell.

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Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has made a big move in Latin America by making an alliance with the native firm of Fernandez Quiroga Ayarragaray & Ocampo. But, the firm is nowhere new to the area. Curtis has advised clients in Latin America for over a century and had an office in Buenos Aires in the 1920s. Curtis currently has five offices in the US, and four in Europe.

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The Greenberg Traurig Tampa office boosts its litigation practice with the addition of two new associates, Richard J. Mockler and Don Crawford. Mockler joins Greenberg from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP and prior to that, Holland and Knight. Crawford previously practiced at Paul Hastings. Both associates will concentrate on commercial, real estate, land use, environmental, and other complex litigation.

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Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, LLP, who launched a new office in Las Vegas in mid January, just now has staffed a full office. The office has reached 8 lawyers: four from Snell & Wilmer and two from Lionel Sawyer & Collins. Managing partner, Jim Mace, left Snell & Wilmer to open the office. With him came attorney Mandy Shavinsky who joined as partner. Later, Snell’s Corey Eschweiler and Joe Schmitt jumped over. From Lionel Sawyer, attorneys Lance Coburn and Adam Smith are new to the team, as well as, Tony May from Albright Stoddard Warnick Albright. Christensen, Glaser concentrates on complex litigation in the areas of construction, environmental and corporate law

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Rumors are hitting the fan. Partners at Heller Ehrman received information on Baker & McKenzie. The info reportedly did not include any mention of a merger. Both firms are not talking, but they are also not denying. If the two firms did join forces, it could possibly create the largest US firm with a turnover of about $2.5 bn.

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Only three UK firms have made the cut for the top 10 global law firms in terms of Profits per equity partner (PEP), seen by data compiled by both Legal Week and The American Lawyer. Slaughter and May, Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are the lucky few. Seven U.S. firm s made the list, including Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz who took the No. 1 slot. with a whopping 4.945 million PEP. Cravath Swaine & Moore takes second place with 3.300 million PEP. The honor of highest revenue was taken by the firm Clifford Chance with 2.660 million, followed by Linklaters with 2.589 million. This placement has not chanced from last year. Freshfields, on the other hand, has climbed two rungs to make it to third place with 2.358 million.

Source: www.legalweek.com