The Portland office of Seattle’s Foster Pepper is striking out on its own. The new law firm, Roberts Kaplan LLP, keeps Foster Pepper’s 26 Portland-based attorneys and their staffs. The…
Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie has hired a seven-lawyer energy law group from the crosstown office of Thompson & Knight. The team includes partners Michael Byrd, Louis Davis and Ben Welmaker;…
Winstead has added three attorneys from the San Antonio office of Bracewell & Giuliani. Frank Ruttenberg joins Winstead in San Antonio as a shareholder. Elizabeth Breazeale joins as of counsel,…
Much Shelist has added three attorneys to its health care practice. Kevin Ryan joins from Epstein, Becker & Green as a Principal in the Much Shelist Business & Finance group…
Since January, Greenberg Traurig has recruited 45 lateral partners, and plans to acquire more this year. In 2008, the firm hired 51 lateral partners in the entire year. The firm’s…
In May, London’s Freshfields announced that only 14 of its class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall would be retained. Now mainstream press sources are faulting Freshfields for…
Berwin Leighton Paisner, CMS Cameron McKenna and Norton Rose are the top three UK firms for lawyer satisfaction, according to a survey by Legal Week of 4,000 solicitors below partner…
Good morning! Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865. Here are the top stories: Miller Canfield has established an office in Toronto, Ontario… Bermuda’s…
The Obama administration has recently tapped three Biglaw bigwigs for ambassadorships. Howard Gutman, a partner at Williams & Connolly, was nominated to be ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium. He…
The Judicial Conference, the policymaking arm of the US Federal Courts, is urging Congress to fill 13 new permanent bankruptcy judgeships in 10 judicial districts; convert 22 existing temporary judgeships…
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