Tax partner Stephen E. Shay is leaving Ropes & Gray to join the US Treasury as deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs. Before joining Ropes & Gray in 1987, Shay was international tax counsel for the Treasury. Meanwhile, Mark Popofsky joins Ropes & Gray in Washington DC as co-head of the antitrust practice group. He was [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: James Donato joins Shearman & Sterling’s San Francisco office as a partner. He was previously with Cooley. Donato is an antitrust lawyer and past president of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Also, Donato served as a trial attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. Jesse Witten joins [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Howrey, which we reported a little over a week ago was in talks to acquire scandal-plagued intellectual property firm Day Casebeer, has announced that the merger is official. Twenty-five of the 26 attorneys at Day Casebeer joined Howrey’s Palo Alto, California office, effective this week. The partners include James Batchelder, Linda Sasaki-Baxley, Renee Dubord Brown, Lloyd Day [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Howrey, which laid off 25 staff in April, is adopting an “apprenticeship” program for its incoming associates, similar to that proposed by Drinker Biddle in May. Under Howrey’s Tier 1 Program, new associates will spend only one-third of their time in their first year on billable client work. The rest will be spent on pro bono [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
Two months after launching, law firm Hausfeld LLP has moved into permanent space in Washington, DC. The firm was founded by Michael Hausfeld, former chairman and named partner of Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, which has since changed its name to Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll. Hausfeld was “expelled” in November after 37 years at Cohen [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Thomas Barnett, former head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, will return to Covington & Burling next week to head its global anti-trust and competition practice. Barnett led the antitrust division for three years, working on matters like the Delta-Northwest merger and Google’s ill-fated joint advertising agreement with Yahoo. Barnett resigned in mid-November. Barnett first joined Covington [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
Fortune Magazine says DC law firm Arnold & Porter is not only the best DC law firm for which to work; it is the 21st best company to work for in the United States. Fortune cited features like Arnold & Porter’s generous paid maternity leave and on-site child care options. It also offers a sliding scale [...]
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