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Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everybody! Today is Wednesday, October 20th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories. According to the 2010 Law Department Survey from Hildebrandt Baker Robins, law departments reduced…

Survey: Legal Department Spending Took Rare Drop in ’09

Survey: Legal Department Spending Took Rare Drop in ’09

Law departments reduced their total legal spending for the first time in 10 years in 2009, according to the 2010 Law Department Survey from Hildebrandt Baker Robins. According to the survey,…

Littler Mendelson Plants Flag in Venezuela

Littler Mendelson Plants Flag in Venezuela

Littler Mendelson, the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, is opening an office in Caracas, Venezuela, which is the firm’s first outside the U.S. The new office…

White & Case Adds Former Oracle V.P. and General Counsel

White & Case Adds Former Oracle V.P. and General Counsel

Brady Mickelsen, former vice president and general counsel of Oracle Corp., has joined White & Case as a partner in its Silicon Valley M&A practice. Mickelsen most recently headed Oracle’s…

Baker Botts Promotes A Baker’s Dozen to Partnership

Baker Botts Promotes A Baker’s Dozen to Partnership

International firm Baker Botts said Tuesday it has promoted 13 lawyers to its partnership, effective Jan. 1. The group will be the 78th to be promoted to partner in the…

Crowell & Moring Announces Launch of New Top-Level Domain and Domain Name Practice

Crowell & Moring Announces Launch of New Top-Level Domain and Domain Name Practice

Today, the international law firm Crowell & Moring LLP announced the launch of its new TLD (Top-Level Domain) and Domain Name practice. As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everybody! Today is Tuesday, October 19th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories. Jones Day said Monday will an office in São Paulo, Brazil… Cravath Swaine &…

Jones Day Becomes Latest to Enter Brazil

Jones Day Becomes Latest to Enter Brazil

Jones Day said Monday it is opening an office in São Paulo, Brazil.  It will be the firm’s 33rd office and second in Latin America, joining Mexico City. Brazil is…

Cravath Swain’s Forrest Leaves Firm for Department of Justice

Cravath Swain’s Forrest Leaves Firm for Department of Justice

Cravath Swaine & Moore litigation partner Katherine B. Forrest is leaving the firm to serve the U.S. Department of Justice as deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division. According…

Greenberg Traurig’s Ballon Selected for IP Vanguard Award

Greenberg Traurig’s Ballon Selected for IP Vanguard Award

Ian Ballon, a shareholder in the Silicon Valley and Los Angeles offices of Greenberg Traurig, has received a 2010 IP Vanguard Award from the executive committee of the IP section…