Pittsburgh’s Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Seattle’s Preston Gates & Ellis are set to merge, effective Jan. 1. The new 1,400 attorney firm will be named Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, the larger of the two, has about 1,000 lawyers in offices in Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and London, and New York. Preston Gates & Ellis has offices throughout the Northwest, in Asia and in Washington, D.C.
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Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Mawe named 26 new partners effective Jan. 1. Six of the new partners are in New York. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has also recently promoted three attorneys to the partnership.
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With the acquisition of litigation boutique Engel McCarney & Kenney, D.C. firm Howrey opened a New York office. Partners Thomas Engel and James McCarney will be managing this location which will include six associates. Once known primarily as an intellectual property boutique, Howrey has grown into a general-practice firm with 600 lawyers. The firm also recently announced it was opening an office in Munich, Germany.
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William M. Flynn joins the energy and telecommunications industry team as partner at the Albany, N.Y. office of Harris Beach. Moreover, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae adds Yves Huygh de Mahenge as a partner in the financial restructuring practice of their Paris office. Lastly, previously partners at Dewey Ballantine, Earle H. O’Donnell and Donna M. Attanasio join the energy, infrastructure and project finance practice as partners in White & Case’s Washington office.
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Eight attorneys recently made partner at NY’s Sullivan & Cromwell. Baker & McKenzie also adds four new lawyers to its New York office as partners. Similarly, in firms across the country such as Winston & Strawn (Chicago) and Miller & Chevalier (Washington), attorneys are making lateral moves and joining new firms as partners.
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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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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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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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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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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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