Hodgson Russ of Buffalo and Birmingham’s Whatley Drake & Kallas are opening new offices in New York. For Whatley Drake & Kallas, fifteen attorneys now call the 37th floor of 1540 Broadway home; Hodgson Russ has 31 lawyers in their 24th floor office. Drawn to the tower for its views of Time Square, both firms have 10 year leases on their new spaces.
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New Laterals at Hiscock & Barclay
The Albany office of Hiscock & Barclay gains two new laterals from McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams. Michael J. Grygiel and William A. Hurst join the firm as partners, and will practice in the new media and First Amendment law practice area.
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Lateral Move for High-Profile Litigator
DeMaurice Smith, a litigator from the D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, made a move to Patton Boggs last week. Smith was formerly a prosecutor and a counsel, but at this firm he says he’ll focus on white-collar criminal defense matters and tort liability trials. Other Latham lawyers have moved to Patton Boggs this year; in April 30 litigators from Latham’s Newark office joined the team.
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NY Office Bolstered by Boutique Acquisition
Crowell & Moring of Washington D.C. has added the boutique firm King Pagano Harrison and ten partners from the intellectual property boutique Morgan & Finnegan to its New York office. The office opened in September with only two partners, so the moves increase the total number of New York lawyers for Crowell & Moring to 15. Nationwide, Crowell & Moring has around 300 lawyers.
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Drinker Biddle and Gardner Merge
After months of discussion and planning, Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath and Chicago-based Gardner Carton & Douglas have recently announced that the two firms will merge. Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2007, this merger will create a firm with 651 lawyers and 26 other professionals across 12 offices. After the combination, the firm will have offices in three of the five biggest markets for bankruptcy filings: New York, Delaware and Chicago, and will have a combined gross revenue of about $350 million.
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New Partners in NY Firms
Several firms in New York have recently acquired new partners and/or promoted associates to partner. Paul M. Kaplan, an antitrust counselor and litigator, has joined Bryan Cave as a partner, two criminal defense attorneys from Buchanan Ingersoll joined Carter Ledyard & Milburn as partners. Four lawyers at Morrison Cohen will be promoted on Jan. 1, and at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Denise Tormey was named managing partner in NY.
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Philadelphia Firm Adds New Laterals
On Monday November 6, John A. Nixon and Michael E. Bleier will move to Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen’s Philadelphia offices, concluding decades of work at their respective former employers. Nixon leaves Blank Rome after 13 years, and Bleier comes from 25 years at Mellon Financial Corp. There has been other lateral hiring recently in Philadelphia including Brian Guthrie’s move to Saul Ewing and Majorie Jacobs new job at Duane Morris.
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Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross Expands
The 160-lawyer New Jersey firm opened 20,000 square feet of new office space in Princeton with hopes of expanding. With gross revenues of $84.6 million for the 2005 fiscal year, Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross ranked fifth in the New Jersey Law Journal Top 20 survey of NJ’s largest grossing firms.
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NY IP Partner’s Lateral Move
Margaret B. Brivanlou, a patent prosecution specialist who focuses on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, has left Jones Day. She joined Jones Day when that firm acquired most of the lawyers of now-defunct IP boutique Pennie & Edmonds in 2003. Ms. Brivanlou joins the NY team of King & Spaulding, the Atlanta-based firm with almost 200 lawyers in its New York office and over 800 worldwide.
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Two New Litigators at Fulbright & Jaworski
Fulbright & Jaworski has gained two new litigators from Winston & Strawn. Daniel R. Murdock and Mr. Smith, both from Winston & Strawn, join the NY firm with expectations to focus on commercial litigation, anti-trust, white-collar, and securities regulatory matters. Fulbright & Jaworski employs about 1,000 lawyers around the country, with around 130 in New York.
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