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Baker & McKenzie Says So Long to Deferred Associates

Baker & McKenzie Says So Long to Deferred Associates

Baker & McKenzie, which replaced Skadden atop the AM Law 100 with 2009 revenue of $2.11 billion, has formally parted ways with 11 of its 12 re-deferred associates from the…

Cadwalader Cleans Up at Atlas Awards

Cadwalader Cleans Up at Atlas Awards

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s advisory work on the General Motors bankruptcy reorganization was among several transactions the firm earned top honors for at the Global M&A Network Turnaround Atlas Awards in Chicago.…

Sidley’s Flagg Honored For Public Education Work

Sidley’s Flagg Honored For Public Education Work

Sidley Austin’s Ronald Flagg, a partner and chair of the firm’s committee on pro bono and public interest law, was awarded the 2010 Vincent E. Reed Award from the Washington…

Dewey And LeBouef Files Amicus Brief On Behalf Mexico

Dewey And LeBouef Files Amicus Brief On Behalf Mexico

Dewey and LeBouef‘s D.C. office has filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of the Mexican government, reports the site Yesbuthowever.com.  The brief is filed in support of a…

Greenberg Traurig At The Helm Of Huge Pharmaceutical Merger

Greenberg Traurig At The Helm Of Huge Pharmaceutical Merger

PRWeb:  The Miami-based firm, Greenberg Traurig is playing financial advisor to Valeant Pharmaceuticals in a merger deal with Biovail.  The deal is valued at $3.3 billion.  The definitive merger agreement…

New Real Estate Partner For Nixon Peabody

New Real Estate Partner For Nixon Peabody

According to the site RealEstateRama, Nixon Peabodyhas brought Ross E. Eichberg on board.  Eichberg arrives as a partner in the firm’s D.C. office in its real estate practice group.  Prior…

Sidley Austin Names Albrecht New Asia Pacific Boss

Sidley Austin Names Albrecht New Asia Pacific Boss

Sidley Austin announced that Thomas W. Albrecht, a member of the firm’s management and executive committees, is relocating from its Chicago office to its Hong Kong office to assume responsibilities…

Survey Shows The Winds of Change in Legal Field

Survey Shows The Winds of Change in Legal Field

A wide-ranging Altman Weil survey released Tuesday offers some perspective on a multitude of issues currently facing law firms today. The survey of 218 firms, which was conducted in April…

Blank Rome Adds Three Attorneys to Washington, D.C. Office

Blank Rome Adds Three Attorneys to Washington, D.C. Office

Blank Rome has added three attorneys to its Government Relations group in Washington, D.C. Singleton B. McAllister has joined as Partner, and Weldon J. Rougeau and Ronald F. Thomas II…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, June 22nd. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories. In the last two years, at least 10 law institutions have altered their grading systems to…