Patrick Egan has had experience in planting seeds, aiding in the growth, and eventually watching a practice group flourish. Three years ago, Egan joined Fox Rothschild to start the firm’s white-collar defense practice. Now, Egan has been recruited by Wiggin & Dana to do the same with an entire office. Egan will start and lead the new Philadelphia office.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Michael Y. Scudder, Jr. has decided to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Scudder was a legal advisor to the George W. Bush administration. He will be located in the firm’s Chicago office.
Source: www.lawfuel.com
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White & Case and Hong Kong dispute resolution boutique Laracy Gall have joined together in preparation for the emanate wave of corporate bankruptcies. In the face of such an economic decline, banks have limited their lending to what companies may be able to pay back. In the Asia-Specific region, excluding Japan, new loans amount to $4 billion, much less than last year’s $32 billion around the same time. Laracy Gall has 12 litigators, all of whom will work with White & Case’s banking, capital markets and private equity practice groups.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Tags: White & Case LLP | Hong Kong
Patton Boggs has the honor of hiring Ambassador Frank G. Wisner. Wisner, who will be joining the firm in March, will focus his practice on business, political, and international law. Wisner has spent forty years as a diplomat.
Source: www.marketwatch.com
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A multi-discipline team of lawyers are joining together to form a stimulus response team at Foley Hoag LLP. The firm is getting a head start, before the stimulus is even doled out. The group will dedicate itself to aiding clients who desire to obtain funding for capital projects.
Source: www.tulsabusiness.com
Sidley Austin is proud to announce its latest hire: Jonathon Cohn. Cohn, most recently on the Justin Department team, is not completely new to Sidley. He started his career with the firm. Cohn plans to start in March. In the meantime, his family is his priority.
Source: www.legaltimes.typepad.com
Tags: Sidley Austin LLP
Eversheds has hired five new partners in Hong Kong, all previously with DLA Piper. The newbies include: King Tak Fung and Michael Yau (banking), Ivan Ng, Ronald Sum and William Leung (litigation). Also joining the firm as partner is Stephen Mok (corporate), previously of Fried Frank.
Source: www.legalweek.com
Tags: Eversheds Sutherland | Hong Kong
Monesia Taylor Brown has joined Akerman Senterfitt as Of Counsel. Brown will be stationed at the Tallahassee, Florida office, and will practice in the Government Affairs and Public Policy Group. Prior to joining Akerman, she spent ten years in public service in the State of Florida. The last two years, Brown spent as Director of the Agency for Workforce Innovation (AWI).
Source: www.earthtimes.org
Tags: Akerman LLP
The US Department of Labor has reported that the US legal profession has lost 1300 jobs in the month of January. This number appears much smaller when compared to the number of jobs lost in all fields: 598,000. About half of the 3.6 million jobs lost since the start of the recession (December ’07) were lost in the last three months. Let’s get back to law firms. The list of firm’s to have announced job cuts in the month of January include: Akin Gump, Cooley Godward, Fish & Richardson, Foley Hoag, McDermott Will, and Morrison & Foerster.
Source: www.legalweek.com
Top US law firms have made a new a record. Legal Week has calculated a total of 2,509 partner laterals in the span of 2008. This number includes laterals from firm mergers, as well as those taken in by dissolved firms. K&L Gates tops the list with 185 partner laterals. Reed Smith comes in second with 74, DLA Piper has had 58, followed by Jones Day with 57. Akin Gump has lost more partners than all other firm’s with its grand loss of 59 partners. Heller Ehrman comes in second with 47 and Thelen, who has lost 46, comes in third. Following Thelen, Mayer Brown has lost 45 partners.
Source: www.legalweek.com
