Good Morning! Today is Tuesday, February 9, and here’s your daily round up…
A Senate report says that attorney-client accounts are being used to circumvent money laundering laws…
King & Spalding picked up three litigators from Orrick…
Winston & Strawn added three in New York…
Wilson Sonsini picked up an O’Melveny partner in San Francisco…
Former Michigan Chief Justice joined Miller [...]
9. February 2010
In its report released last week, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP transferred approximately $21 million for a government official, Teodor Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, who’d long been suspected of misappropriating the country’s oil and timber resources for personal gain.
The report’s findings may prompt [...]
8. February 2010
King & Spalding is adding three partners to its litigation practice. Trial lawyers James J. Capra Jr. and James P. Cusick will join the firm’s New York office and Diana L. Weiss will be resident in the Washington D.C. office.
All three are former partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and have backgrounds in accountant liability [...]
8. February 2010
Winston & Strawn has added two partners and a senior counsel to its New York office. Lawrence A. Larose and Samuel S. Kohn join as partners in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency group while William J. Grant has joined as senior counsel in the mergers and acquisitions practice.
Larose, who will head the financial restructuring practice, [...]
8. February 2010
Christopher W. Kirkham has been named a partner in the San Francico office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was formerly a corporate finance partner.
Kirkham, a specialist in debt finance, joins the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance teams. Wilson Sonsini advised on approximately [...]
8. February 2010
Clifford W. Taylor, former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, is joining Miller Canfield Feb. 15 as of counsel in the appellate section of the firm’s litigation and trial group. He will work out of Miller Canfield’s offices in Lansing, Mich. and Naples, Fla.
Taylor brings 16 years of judicial experience to the role. He [...]
8. February 2010
Peter W. Smith has joined Thompson Hine as a partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. Smith, who was formerly with Hogan & Hartson, joins the firm’s corporate transactions and securities practice. He will also work in Thompson Hine’s New York office. Smith’s practice focuses on companies in several fields, including telecommunications and media and entertainment. He [...]
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Lovells has opened a second office in Saudi Arabia through its associated law firm Al-Yaqtoub Attorneys and Legal Advisers. The new office is located in Jeddah and joins its sister office in Riyadh. Lovells is one of a few international law firms to have offices in both Saudi cities. Crispin Rapinet, regional managing partner for Asia [...]
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On Friday Sharon Pearl, the California State Bar’s former director of real property operations, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after the judge found that she used stolen money to live a “very comfortable lifestyle well above her means”. The judge also ordered restitution of about $615,000, plus payback of $167,000 [...]
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London based international law firm Allen & Overy announced that they will launch an Australian practice based in Sydney and Perth. 14 new appointed partners will work in the Sydney office and 3 new appointed partners will work in the Sydney office. The new practice will significantly bolster the firm’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region. [...]
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A class action lawsuit against Dell, Inc., filed originally in Oct 2006 by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, and dismissed in 2008, was reinstated on February 5 by the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. The lawsuit alleges misconduct in connection with the design, manufacture, warranting, advertising and selling of Dell Inspiron 1100, [...]
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Dechert partners James Elacqua and Andrew Thomases have left the firm to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Silicon Valley. James Elacqua won a $57 million verdict in August for his client Medtronic Inc. against AGA Medical Corp., and then scored a settlement with W.L Gore & Associates Inc. later in the same [...]
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Willkie, Farr & Gallagher reported on Friday that the firm’s gross revenue fell 5.8% to 549.5 million in 2009. Revenue per lawyer dropped 7.1% to $930,000. Profits per equity partner were $ 2 million despite dropping about 5% for the second consecutive year. Willkie, Farr & Gallagher was founded in 1888 in New York City. There [...]
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Kristine Grady Derewicz has been named the new managing shareholder for Littler Mendelson’s Philadelphia office. She was preceded in the position by Thomas Bender, who is credited with expanding the office from an original 10 attorneys and 6 staff members in March 2001 to 29 attorneys and 19 staff by 2010. Derewicz’s practice focuses on labor [...]
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9. February 2010
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