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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A group of three attorneys–Partner Michael E. Santa Maria, Of Counsel Todd Bowers, and associate Kevin Maher–has moved from DLA Piper to Baker McKenzie LLP’s Dallas office. The were recruited to expand Baker McKenzie’s complex commercial cross-border transactional practice. Both Santa Maria and Bowers have worked for Baker McKenzie previously as associates. The three hope to improve Baker McKenzie’s Latin American presence.
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Troutman Sanders raised first year salaries by $15,000 to $140,000 in their Atlanta, Washington, Virginia and North Carolina offices Thursday. The pay hikes will take effect on January 1, 2008, the same day as Alston & Bird’s recently announced salary jump. Representatives from Troutman Sanders claimed the same reason for the hikes as other firms have recently; that the move has been made to remain competitive both with law school students and in lateral recruiting markets.
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Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner and U.K. law firm Pinsent Masons have split their global construction law joint venture. Masons Thelen Reid, formed in 2003, was designed to help the firms take on a larger work load and attract new clients, and in that respect it was a profitable venture for both parties. The firms decided to split when they realized that they could achieve the same results without the administrative costs separately, and have agreed to maintain a “best friends” relationship.
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Lowell C. Brown and Jonathon E. Cohn will join the Los Angeles office of Arent Fox this August. Both attorneys are from law firm Foley & Lardner LLP and are two of the most prominent health care attorneys in the state of California. Arent Fox’s LA office has doubled in size since January to 20 lawyers, and the firm expects to see continued growth within this office.
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Day Pitney of Florham Park New Jersey has announced that as of January 1st, first-year salaries will be raised by $15,000 to $135,000. Although this is a non-traditional move, Day Pitney representatives say that was a simple decision to make in order to stay competitive. Midyear salary hikes are part of a trend which includes fellow New Jersey firm Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik. Industry experts claim that the recent flurry of pay hikes nation-wide has been draw top law school graduates away from corporate legal departments.
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