Back in March, we told you that Alston Bird was deferring its incoming class of new associates. With so many firms doing this, it hardly seems like news anymore. Now, however, the same group of new associates have been deferred again, and this time the deferral is indefinite. This does not bode well for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 18, 2009
Good morning and TGIF. To paraphrase Jerry Garcia, what a long strange week it’s been…. Here’s a look back at the highlights… The two man firm of Singer & Deutsch opened a third office… Marks & Clerk become the 2nd UK firm to grace our pages in August with some downsizing… The Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 14, 2009
The ides of September are nearly upon us, and Alston & Bird still haven’t decided who they want to keep. Not to worry, says the firm, offers are forthcoming, just as soon as they get it all figured out. The firm has decided to coordinate offers as a firm this year, but decision [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Stuart Levy joins Sughrue Mion as of counsel in the firm’s electrical/mechanical practice group in Washington, DC. Levy spent 37 years at the Patent & Trademark Office. Most recently, he was an administrative patent judge with the Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences. His JD is from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers have announced their 2009 Best Law Firms for Women. The accolade is awarded based on attention to work-life and women’s issues, and the increased use of part-time and other family-friendly policies. Firms with at least 50 lawyers were eligible to apply, and the application included detailed questions about issues that are [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 2, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Greg L. Berk joins Orange County, California’s Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger as a partner, to chair the new Immigration Practice Group. He joins from Atkinson Andelson in Irvine. Berk is a past Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Immigration Section, and currently serves on their Lawyer [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw, which last week brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird, is expanding its Atlanta office with lawyers poached from Troutman Sanders. Robert C. Stevens joins as a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Labor & Employment Department. He concentrates his practice on litigation and counseling matters involving employment discrimination, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which in May laid off 50 people and reduced salaries, has brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird. Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. is an outsourcing lawyer who co-founded Alston & Bird’s energy infrastructure team. He received his JD from the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Today Atlanta’s Alston & Bird informed its associates that the firm is reducing all associate salaries by $5,000. At this time, the firm expects to reverse the salary cut at the end of the year. In April, Alston & Bird laid off 14 lawyers and 38 staff, but offered the lawyers affected what amounts to a public [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Morrison & Foerster has hired two outsourcing experts from Alston & Bird. Christopher Ford and Scott Stevenson advised the state of Georgia in a $1.7 billion contract to outsource information technology services for various state agencies. The two join Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, DC office. Ford joins as a partner, and Stevenson as of counsel. In May, the [...]
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Monday, September 21, 2009
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