Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis has been slow to jump on the salary raise bandwagon. The firm just announced that effective Sept. 1 it would raise starting salaries in Philadelphia from $125,000 to $135,000. Corresponding increases will be made in other offices, and the firm is still determining raises for more senior associates. Several other firms announced raises in their Philadelphia offices. Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen bumped its first-year pay to $135,000, retroactive to Feb. 1. Duane Morris, Blank Rome and DLA Piper have also raised Philly starting salaries to $135,000, retroactive to Jan. 1.
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Seven Real Estate Lawyers Join Thompson & Knight
Seven real estate lawyers from varied firms have joined Thompson & Knight in its New York and Dallas offices. The New York office hired John B. Wood and Bohdan “Bud” S. Kosvych from Sussman, Sollis, Tweedy & Wood. In Dallas, Jay Gibson and Laura McClellan joined as partners, while Misty Willcox, Sean D. Hawkins and Meg Squiers joined as associates. Gibson came from Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons; McClellan left Foster Pepper in Seattle; Willcox came from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr; Hawkins left Vinson & Elkins; and Squiers returned to Thompson & Knight after taking a leave. These new additions boost the firm’s real estate and banking practice to 54 lawyers.
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Team of Four Corporate Lawyers Join McDermott
Four corporate attorneys from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe have left to join McDermott, Will & Emery. Orrick partner Ronald Goldberg, along with two associates will join the LA office. Edward Christian, a longtime collegue of Goldberg, will be a partner in the New York office. Goldberg’s specialty is corporate finance; he joined McDermott largely because some of his former partners from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld are now at McDermott’s NY office. Goldberg is bringing all of his clients to his new firm. The lateral hires were a part of the firm’s plan to expand its coporate finance practice in California.
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It’s Naptime for Lawyers at Kilpatrick Stockton
More and more law firms today are developing innovative ways to provide benefits and lifestyle accomodations for their attorneys and other employees. At Kilpatrick Stockton’s Raleigh office, the firm has created a “power room” to which employees can escape to take a nap or just relax for a while. The sign outside the door reads “Shhhhh. I’m in here snoozing.” and inside, the room has a couch, recliner, blanket, lamp, and coffee table. Normally users retreat for 10 to 20 minutes.
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Fulbright Snags Four Jenkens Litigators
Fulbright & Jaworski has gained four litigation partners from fallen Texas firm Jenkens & Gilchrist. Rodney Acker, Theodore Daniel, Ellen Bush Sessions and Guy Wade will all join Fulbright’s Dallas office as partners. This is the second group of Jenkens partners that Fulbright has recruited. In January, the entire Houston tax team joined Fulbright.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Weil Gotshal Snags Mayer Brown Employment Partner
Gary Friedman has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges’ New York employment team as a partner. Prior to joining Weil Gotshal, Friedman was the head of employment at Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. He has tried cases before the New York Stock Exchange, National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association. Last fall a four-partner litigation team from Mayer Brown New York also departed the firm, joining Morrison & Foerster in California.
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Kaye Scholer International Trade Group Joins Troutman Sanders
Troutman Sanders’ Washington office has recruited Kaye Scholer’s 11-person international trade practice. The firm has wanted to expand this practice, which formerly was comprised of only a couple of partners. Donald Cameron Jr. and Julie Mendoza, who join as partners, will continue to co-lead the group. Jeffrey Grimson also joins as a partner. Three additional lawyers, two non-lawyers, and three paralegals are also a part of the team. Counsel Judy Wang will work in Shanghai, and accountant Victor Wu will remain in Beijing. This group focuses its practice on federal anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws.
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Atlanta Boutique Founders Leave for Troutman Sanders
Daryll Love and Allen Willingham, the founders of Love Willingham Peters Gilleland & Monyak, have left their firm for Troutman Sanders. Willingham joins Troutman as a partner and Love joins as of counsel. The two attorneys left Powell Goldstein in 1988 to form the Atlanta boutique that handles products liability defense, complex business litigation and legal malpractice. They left the boutique for a larger firm seeking opportunities to land larger litigation matters, especially in products liability. Their former firm has been renamed Peters Monyak, and will continue in the same type of work.
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Milbank Tweed Hires Capital Markets Lawyer in Tokyo
Capital markets lawyer Bradley Edmister has joined Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s Tokyo office as Counsel. He comes from Sullivan & Cromwell, with whom he had for eight years, five of which were in Tokyo. Edmister has extensive experience in a variety of corporate matters including M&A, capital markets, finance, private equity, and joint ventures. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Milbank was the first American firm to open in Japan. Its other Asian offices are located in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
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King & Spalding Launches Riyadh Office
By affiliating with the Law Offices of Mohammed Al-Ammar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King & Spalding has opened a new office in Riyadh. Tariq Abbadi, formerly of Baker Botts, will join the new office as of counsel. He focuses on corporate and Saudi regulatory work. King & Spalding also opened an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December; the office now has eight lawyers.
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