Three IP partners from King & Spalding have departed for Heller Ehrman’s NYC office; Kevin Culligan, W. Edward Bailey and John Hanish specialize in patent litigation. Before joining King & Spalding, the partners were with NY IP boutique Fish & Neave prior to its merger with Ropes & Gray. King & Spalding has already begun to fill their spots, hiring Ethan Horwitz, the former IP chairman of Goodwin Procter.
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Littler Mendelson has opened an office in Orlando with six employment lawyers from Fisher & Phillips. With locations in Charlotte, NC; Columbia, SC; Atlanta, Mobile, AL and Miami, the San Francisco firm’s new office pushes it farther into the Southeast. Littler Mendelson is known as the nation’s largest labor and employment firm, and has over 600 attorneys across the country.
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Saul Ewing has lost two partners to other firms recently. Suzanne Mayes left the firm after nearly 16 years to co-lead Cozen O’Connor’s public and project finance group. Domenic Pacitti left to rejoin his old firm, Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg & Ellers, as a partner in the bankruptcy practice. Mayes was attracted to Cozen because of the firm’s committment to growing the public finance practice and because of the opportunity for management there. Her practice is primarily based in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and she mainly works with state and county agencies. Pacitti was a partner at Klehr Harrison from 1998 to 2001, when he was recruited by Saul Ewing. He kept in touch with his former collegues, and in mid-May decided to rejoin his old firm. Pacitti works out of both the Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia offices, and focuses his representation on the debtor side of restructuring deals.
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis has combined its two D.C. offices into one at 1601 K St. NW, the former home of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham. The 190,000 square foot office will house more than 200 lawyers and government affairs professionals. In the nation’s capital, the firm is known for its work in financial services, including an investment management practice and a mortgage banking and consumer credit group. The merger between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart and Preston Gates & Ellis created one of the largest public policy and lobbying practices in the U.S.
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Morgan Lewis & Bockius is the latest to raise associate salaries to the $160,000 scale in California. Bingham McCutchen and Reed Smith are still holding out, and are likely to be the only other firms that might make the increase. Those two firms have profits high enough that could handle the raise, whereas lower profit firms like Littler Mendelson and Sedgwick probably will not match the rate. Thelen Reid and Townsend are two firms that could go either way with the raise.
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Shannon Lowry Nagle has joined O’Melveny & Myers as a bankruptcy partner. She is the fifth partner to join O’Melveny from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, after a four-partner group joined at the beginning of May. Nagle’s practice focuses on representing creditors in bankruptcy proceedings; she has also worked on Chapter 11 cases in automotive, retail, airline and telecommunications industries.
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A seven-attorney team from Alhadeff & Solar (A&S) has joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in California. The A&S lawyers will add to Buchanan’s existing San Diego, Del Mar office, as well as adding an office in downtown San Diego and one in Temecula. The two name partners, Sam Alhadeff and Keith Solar, lead the team which includes two senior attorneys, three associates, and eight staff members. In the San Diego market, where Solar is based, A&S was known for handling business law, litigation, and water law matters. Solar is well-known for his work in water rights and the tuna industry. A&S’s practice in Temecula focused primarily on land-use and environmental law. Alhadeff’s work here deals with real estate development, entitlement, and conservation.
Source: www.earthtimes.org
Christopher Paci has joined DLA Piper as a partner in its New York office. The capital markets attorney was previously a partner at King & Spalding. Paci’s practice focuses on representing investment banks as well as issuers in a range of capital markets transactions. Roger Meltzer, DLA’a global corporate and finance chair, was responsible for recruiting Paci and expects more new hires in the near future.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges gained a new partner in New York. Robert S. Loigman joined the firm from Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman, where he was also a partner. Loigman specializes in hedge funds and securities litigation, and has represented the liquidators of failed hedge funds as well as investors in funds. He also has handled major insurance and employment law matters.
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Where do New Jersey firms fit in the first-year associate salary increase race? In what follows are some of the highlights:
Latham & Watkins (Newark) and Drinker Biddle (Florham Park) top things out at $145,000. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Voorhees); Flaster/Greenberg (Cherry Hill); and Proskauer Rose (Newark) are competitive at $130,000. Starting salary at McCarter & English (Newark); Lowenstein Sandler (Roseland); Gibbons (Newark); Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross (Newark); and Fox Rothschild (Princeton and Atlantic City) is $125,000.
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