Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired a partner from Akin Gump for its executive compensation and employee benefits group. Tristan Brown joins as Partner in Simpon Thacher’s Palo Alto office. The firm welcomes him with open arms.
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Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPIt is rare for partners at top New York law firms be the subject of lateral moves, but one attorney Witold Balaban is today. Balaban has been with Davis Polk since he graduated from New York University School of Law in 1993. He became partner in 2001. He now has a second law firm to add to his resume, that of Latham & Watkins. He will be joining the corporate practice.
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Hoping to increase their intellectual property practice, Baker Botts has launched an office in Palo Alto. The office is to focus on the IP field, but when expanding, it will take on more attorneys and more areas of law. Mark Spolyar, previous private IP firm owner. and Baker Botts’ Christopher Kennerly, a patent litigator, are to run the show.
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Haynes and Boone has been honored for its pro bono work and has received the W. Frank Newton Award. The firm worked for 7 years to free Alberto Sifuentes and Jesus Ramirez, two wrongly accused Mexican nationals. The two were convicted of a 1996 murder of a convenience clerk in Texas, despite there being much evidence supporting their innocence. The Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Project, funded by the Government of Mexico, asked Haynes and Boone for their help. They agreed and in 2002, partners Sarah Teachout, Ron Breaux, and Berry McNeil got to work. These attorneys, plus others, would end up putting in 7,493 hours, which in firm terms, is equivalent to about $2.35 million. With the firm’s hard work, these innocent two men were freed after serving 12 years in prison.
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Bird & Bird has announced an amazing 24 percent increase in revenue. This makes them the fastest growing technology and media firms out of all 100 top UK firms. Their new profit reaches £143m, their highest in three years, as well as £27m more than last year’s figure. This grand increase appears to be the result of their international expansion, particularly in Eastern Europe and India.
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Tags: Bird & Bird LLPSullivan & Worcester is jumping on the bandwagon of law firms that profit from global warming. They too have created a climate-change group to aid companies on resulting issues from global warming. According to a January survey by Bloomberg News, 20 of the top 100 US law firms have already created such a practice group. The list includes: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Heller Ehrman, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and last, but especially not least, Baker & McKenzie, who created their climate-control group in the late 1990s.
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Ashurst has raised pay for newly-qualified lawyers. The new figure, £65,000, is £1,000 more than last year’s. However, last year’s salary increase of 16 percent is significantly more than this year’s 1.5 percent. In 2007-2008, the firm made £323m in revenue.
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Greenberg Traurig has added attorney Justin B. Mead to its Miami office. He joins as partner in the tax practice group. Mead concentrates on federal income tax and large corporations, and places special focus on the energy industry. He was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.
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Tags: Greenberg Traurig, LLP | MiamiWhile other cities’ legal markets are in a slump, Houston is booming, especially in the field of energy. Why Houston? Houston has strong roots in the energy field and the city’s economy is doing fairly well because of it. Many top firms have recently launched firms in the city, including: McDermott, Will & Emery; DLA Piper; Hunton & Williams; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Sutherland Asbill & Brennan; and Greenberg. The competition for Houston Energy attorneys, particularly those with books of business, is fierce. Firms are getting into bidding wars for those seemingly priceless energy attorneys.
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Holland & Hart merges with Nevada firm Hale Lane Peek Dennison and Howard. It will maintain the name of Hollard & Hart. Hollard is already the largest firm in Denver with 365 lawyers, and are going to take on all of Hale’s 50 attorneys. The merger was based on Holland’s aim of growth in Nevada.
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