Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, the lobbying affiliate of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, has added Brian P. Woolfolk as a principal with SSPA and as of counsel of the firm.
Woolfolk is the co-founder of boutique lobbying shop Mattox Woolfolk. He also previously served as Democratic counsel on the House Judiciary Committee. In that role he provided [...]
19. March 2010
In 2001, the Medicines Company just missed the application deadline for a patent extension for its main product, Angiomax, a blood thinner. Because of this error, the patent on the product will expire next week instead of in 2014.
And, because sales of Angiomax account for virtually all of Medicines’ revenue, the company has spent millions [...]
19. March 2010
They went from BigLaw to the Big House. Now the four former partners in Millberg Wiess Bershad Hynes & Lerach (now Millberg LLP) who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to clients are out and trying to move forward.
A report today in BusinessWeek gets us reacquainted with Melvyn Weiss, William Lerach, David Bershad and Steve Schulman. The quartet, [...]
19. March 2010
Troutman Sanders is opening a new office in Portland, Ore., the firm’s 16th. Partner Lara L. Skidmore will serve as the office’s first managing partner. The office will also house two additional partners, Matthew D. McVee and Antoine P. Cobb.
According to a firm press release, the Portland office will initially focus on assisting electric and [...]
18. March 2010
Goodwin Procter has added three lawyers to its technology companies and intellectual property practices in its Silicon Valley office. Slated to join the firm over the next few weeks are Anthony J. McCusker, Craig M. Schmitz and James D. Riley Jr., all of whom come over from Gunderson Dettmer.
McCusker will become co-chair of the firm’s [...]
18. March 2010
The New York City Bar has issued revised results of a study released earlier this month that said a “culture gap” had emerged between deferred associates and their colleagues at public interest groups in the city. Instead, the study now concludes deferred associates “were largely happy with their placements.”
The New York Bar explained the error [...]
18. March 2010
Persels & Associates, a national law firm with attorneys in all 50 states, announced a new program to help people manage their debt. The firm will negotiate with creditors to help make payments manageable, for a minimal set-up fee and a monthly administrative fee of $50. In the press release at PR Newswire today, Joe Cosentini [...]
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Cadwalader, Wichersham & Taft has bolstered its litigation department with the addition of four attorneys from Proskauer Rose LLP. Joining the firm are Louis M. Solomon, Hal S. Shaftel, Colin A. Underwood and Michael S. Lazaroff. All will be resident in Cadwalader’s New York office. Solomon takes over as vice chairman of the firm’s litigation department [...]
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Chadbourne & Parke revealed yesterday that 11 of its 2009 first-year associates, which had been deferred to a 2010 start date, will not be offered jobs with the firm. In a statement provided to Above the Law, the firm said it is unable to expand its first-year class even with the brightening economic outlook. “Despite improving economic [...]
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Despite the tough economic climate in 2009, Cravath, Swaine & Moore managed to increase its business, the AM Law Daily reports. Revenue at the firm rose to $569 million last year, a seven percent jump from 2008, and profits per partner came in at $2.7 million, an increase of eight percent. The lone blemish in the [...]
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Yesterday, Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri and Leesburg, Virginia, said it will sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members if they try to use the “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. [...]
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Good morning! Today is Thursday, March 18, and here’ a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Polsinelli Shughart announces plans to acquire Hendren Andrae… Fox Rothschild expands their West Palm Beach office… Fish & Richardson pick up five lawyers from Darby… Former Apple general counsel Daniel Cooperman returns to Bingham McCutchen… Former Homeland Security deputy general counsel Jason Klitenic joins [...]
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Orly Taitz isn’t going to like this one. Fed up with so-called “birthers,” lawmakers in Hawaii are considering a bill that will allow government officials to ignore repeated requests for the birth certificate of President Barack Obama. A state official told the Associated Press there remains “a cohort of people” that believe Obama was not born in [...]
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Holland & Knight announced Wednesday it has added Jason Klitenic, the former deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as a partner in its Washington D.C. office. Klitenic joins the firm’s government contracts/enforcement defense practice, according to a press release. He will represent clients in a variety of government enforcement, regulatory and public [...]
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