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Cozen O’Connor Brings on Lawyers

Cozen O’Connor Brings on Lawyers

Cozen O’Connor added two lawyers to its New York office last week. Angelo Savino joins from Mound Cotton as a partner in the global insurance group. He handles matters involving…

Deacons Australia to Merge with Norton Rose

Deacons Australia to Merge with Norton Rose

Deacons Australia will join the Norton Rose Group. The decision follows successful votes by the respective partnerships yesterday. The new international legal practice will be called Norton Rose Group, and…

American Discovery to Hire 100 Attorneys

American Discovery to Hire 100 Attorneys

Document review and research services provider American Discovery is expanding its Insurance Litigation Practice Area, hiring an additional 100 attorneys for its review offices in the US and the Philippines…

Study: Lateral Partners Moving “Downstream”

Study: Lateral Partners Moving “Downstream”

A new study by management consultant firm KermaPartners reveals that increasingly, law firm partners are taking jobs with less profitable firms in search of job security. KermaPartners examined 240 lateral…

Pinsent Masons Sends Litigation Work to South Africa

Pinsent Masons Sends Litigation Work to South Africa

Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, will outsource litigation work to a firm in South Africa. It is unclear if any US or UK jobs…

Morning News Roundup for Tuesday

Morning News Roundup for Tuesday

Good morning! Here are the top stories: Barnes & Thornburg has acquired the Parsinen Law Firm in Minneapolis… At least seven lawyers have walked out of the New Jersey office…

Phoenix Legal Not in Formal Deal with Lovells

Phoenix Legal Not in Formal Deal with Lovells

Phoenix Legal says recent press reports that the Indian commercial law firm has penned a formal agreement with the UK’s Lovells are not true. Partner Abhishek Saxena, who co-founded the…

Howrey Adopts Apprenticeship Model for First Years

Howrey Adopts Apprenticeship Model for First Years

Howrey, which laid off 25 staff in April, is adopting an “apprenticeship” program for its incoming associates, similar to that proposed by Drinker Biddle in May. Under Howrey’s Tier 1…

University of Minnesota Law School May Raise Tuition 15%

University of Minnesota Law School May Raise Tuition 15%

In an effort to minimize tuition increases for undergraduates, the University of Minnesota is considering major tuition increases for professional and graduate students, including a 15.3% increase for 1L law…

Kummer Kaempfer Group Arrives at Greenberg Traurig

Kummer Kaempfer Group Arrives at Greenberg Traurig

In May we reported that Las Vegas, Nevada’s Kummer Kaempfer was losing founding partner Thomas Kummer and managing partner Michael Bonner, along with other lawyers and staffers. The group planned…