Confirmed: Skadden Gets O’Melveny’s Beisner & Team [UPDATE]

Blawgs are reporting that Skadden has lured over prominent attorney John Beisner and two others from O’Melveny & Myers.

Beisner is the chair of O’Melveny’s Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice. He will bring with him Jessica Miller and Steve Harburg.

Apparently Beisner is a major player at O’Melveny & Myers, and his loss would be a serious blow to the firm.

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, founded in 1948, is a prominent law firm based in New York City. With over 2,000 attorneys, it is one of the largest and highest-grossing law firms in the world. Forbes magazine called Skadden “Wall Street’s most powerful law firm.”

O’Melveny & Myers LLP is the 19th largest law firm in the world. It employs 1200 attorneys in 14 offices worldwide.

UPDATE

Skadden has confirmed that Beisner, Miller and Harburg have joined the firm.

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Posted by Erik Even on May 14, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Legal News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry