Saul Ewing will merge with Washington, D.C.-based Schmeltzer Aptaker & Shepard. Schmeltzer is a twenty attorney boutique focusing on employment law. The merger will go into effect as of October 1 and will bring Saul Ewing to a total of 300 lawyers firmwide. Saul Ewing has eight offices through the East Coast, including Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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New York-based Dewey Ballantine and San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe are currently engaged in merger talks. While still in the preliminary stages, the potential combination would result in a 1,200 lawyer entity. In New York City, Dewey currently employs 300 attorneys and Orrick has 200, and a combined force of 500 lawyers would be one of the largest in the city.
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A four partner litigation group has left Mayer Brown’s New York office. Morrison & Foerster was able to recruit the group, which includes well-known attorney Dennis P. Orr.
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Chicago-based Jenner & Block was able to recruit Stephen L. Ascher, a former Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman partner, for its New York office. Mr. Ascher will work in white collar crime and securities litigation as Jenner & Block looks to expand its New York practice.
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Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll has opened its 10th office in Bethesda, Maryland. This comes after recent moves into both Phoenix and Las Vegas. To enter the new market, Ballard Spahr was able to recruit four attorneys from local firm Linowes & Blocher, with three taking the job as partners and the fourth as of counsel. The new practice will focus initially on real estate.
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Hunton & Williams has opened its 18th office in Los Angeles, California. Five litigation partners from local boutique O’Donnell & Mortimer will seed the new office. 10 current Hunton & Williams lawyers will join from other offices to aide in the job. The firm will focus initially on IP and environmental litigation.
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Lawyers from Hunton & Williams’ Miami office have been making big moves as of late. In early August, two attorneys took new jobs with Greenberg Trauring. Now three additional partners look to be joining Holland & Knight. The five lawyers were part of Hunton & Williams’ health care and corporate practices.
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Former Lovells corporate partner Colin Law will take on a new job with U.S. firm O’Melveny & Myers. The move will bring O’Melveny to 11 partners and 70 attorneys in its Shanghai practice.
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Time Warner VP and Assocaite General Counsel Dennis P. Duffy has taken a job with Baker Botts’ Houston office. He will join the firm’s 30 lawyer Labor & Employment practice group as a partner, with the expectation of heading the group shortly.
Source: Texas Lawyer
Kelley Drye & Warren’s New York office has hired two former attorneys for is Labor & Employment practice. Both had left the firm to for in-house jobs, but will return at partner level. McCarter & English has also hired new Labor & Employment partners, luring two shareholders from Greenberg Traurig.
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