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Law Firms Collas Day and Crill Canavan To Merge in 2011

Law Firms Collas Day and Crill Canavan To Merge in 2011

Collas Day in Guernsey and Crill Canavan in Jersey revealed their merger plan, which will take effect sometime in the spring of 2011. The combined law firms will be known as Collas…

New York Judges May Get Pay Raises Soon

New York Judges May Get Pay Raises Soon

The New York Law Journal (NYLJ) reported that 1, 300 New York judges could finally see their paychecks increase with the creation of a commission to recommend new salary levels.…

WilmerHale Names its New Co-Managing Partners

WilmerHale Names its New Co-Managing Partners

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) revealed its co-managing partners for a three-year term effective  January 1, 2012. The law firm named Susan W. Murley and Robert T. Novick…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone!  Today is Thursday, December 2, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines. Chadbourne & Parke has a new managing partner… The US Senate approved a pro-lawyer…

New Leadership at Chadbourne & Parke

New Leadership at Chadbourne & Parke

Effective today, Andrew Giaccia will take over leadership of Chadbourne & Parke from Charles O’Neill, who has served as managing partner since 1998.  Giaccia has been the managing partner of…

Senate Approves Changes to “Red Flag” Rule

Senate Approves Changes to “Red Flag” Rule

Despite Republican promises to block any legislation in the Senate until the Bush tax cuts are extended, the Senate moved quickly yesterday to approve a bill co-sponsored by John Thune…

UK to Ban Export of Capital Punishment Drug

UK to Ban Export of Capital Punishment Drug

There is a domestic shortage of the anesthetic thiopental sodium, which is used for lethal injections in every state but Oklahoma.  To make up for the shortfall, states have been…

Ruden McClosky Names its New Managing Partner

Ruden McClosky Names its New Managing Partner

After the recent real estate crash and economic downturn, Florida law firm Ruden McClosky will soon employ a new managing partner starting January 1, 2011 according to “The Daily Business…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning!  Today is Wednesday, December 1, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news. Miller Thomson is reportedly in merger talks… It was another rough year for Pennsylvania…