Mary Margaret Farren filed a lawsuit last week in Connecticut trial court against her husband, John Michael Farren. Farren, a former deputy general counsel to George W. Bush, has been charged with attempted murder, first degree strangulation and assault after he allegedly attacked his wife with a flashlight and choked her until she passed out. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 24, 2009
Prominent New York based firm Skadden Arps sent out offers to potential candidates for their 2010 summer program. The firm, which boasts over 2,000 lawyers, announced in August that there would be massive cuts to their summer hiring. They hired 225 students for this summer’s program and they plan to hire less than half of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, has announced its intent to make all of its offers to law students for summer of 2010 on September 22nd of this year. This goes against the grain of many other law firms, who have been holding off making staffing decisions until later in the year when they [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Skadden will hold its Summer associates program in 2010, but with less than half as many associates than in 2009. The firm had 225 summers this year, but will only have about 100 in 2010. No 2010 offers will be rescinded — if more than 100 associates accept their offers, they all will participate. As for the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The 2009 Summer Associate Program at Skadden has begun. And the 3Ls have been warned that, if they get an offer to join Skadden, they won’t be starting in 2010 — they will be deferred to 2011. There are no further details on 2011 deferrals, as those decisions, such as precise start dates and stipends, have [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
Blawgs are reporting that Skadden has lured over prominent attorney John Beisner and two others from O’Melveny & Myers. Beisner is the chair of O’Melveny’s Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice. He will bring with him Jessica Miller and Steve Harburg. Apparently Beisner is a major player at O’Melveny & Myers, and his loss would [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Skadden is sending three London lawyers to Hong Kong, plus bringing on a new lawyer, to handle cases related to the credit crunch. London’s Paul Mitchard will head the practice; and the firm has brought on an attorney formerly with Hong Kong’ s Pinsent Masons. The group will work with Asian firms under investigation for financial [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 30, 2009
New York’s Skadden has announced it will not raise salaries for counsel in 2009. Associates will not be affected. The firm still intends to offer discretionary, merit-based bonuses. Skadden is offering all its associates, about 1,300 worldwide, the option of taking one-third of their base pay not to work for a year. The firm in March laid off [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Skadden, which on Friday laid off an undisclosed number of staff attorneys and 50 support staffers, is introducing a litigation program for its incoming class. From the memo: … To address this issue, the relative underutilization of first year corporate associates, and with the firm belief that first year legal work should serve to set the groundwork [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
Timothy Pohl will leave Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to become a managing director in the restructuring group at financial services firm Lazard. Pohl was one of three co-heads of Skadden’s corporate restructuring group. Last spring Skadden promoted the 42-year-old Pohl to become one of three co-heads of Skadden’s 100-lawyer corporate restructuring group, along with [...]
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