Carl Nichols, a former senior litigator for the Department of Justice has joined WilmerHale as a partner. Nichols worked in the DoJ under President George W Bush from 2005 until 2009, serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, and later as the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
David O. Krier and Christopher E. Rechlicz have been named shareholders in Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, a business-oriented law firm with offices in Wisconsin and Illinois. Krier is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice while Rechlicz is a member of the organization’s Business Law and Banking and Finance Practices. Reinhardt Boerner Van Deuren employs more [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
London law firm Speechly Bircham has hired 90 people, including 17 partners, from the dissolving Campbell Hooper. The hirings, which are not being characterized as a merger, give Speechly Bircham a total of over 400 employees. The firm says the move makes Speechly Bircham on of the top 50 UK firms. Speechly Bircham has also reorganized, creating [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana business law firm Alerding Castor is merging with the practice of Brian Hewitt, and setting moving to a new location in Greenwood. The new firm will be called Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP. Alerding Castor is an Indianapolis law firm focusing on business law, information technology law (including SaaS law and legal technology consulting), private [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Pennsylvania law firm Tallman, Hudders & Sorrentino is merging with New Jersey’s Norris McLaughlin & Marcus. The merger goes into effect next Monday. Each office will keep it’s original name. The new firm will be the largest independent business law firm in the region, with 150 lawyers across offices in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Bridgewater, New Jersey; and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Montréal, Quebec’s Harvey Simard Law Corporation has moved its headquarters to Hong Kong, and brought on Gaston Bruneau to head its Business Law Section there. The firm has operated in East Asia for 15 years, and is a Registered Foreign Law Firm in the Law Society of Hong Kong. Founded in 1995, Harvey Simard is a Canadian [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Phoenix, Arizona-based law firm Fennemore Craig has announced it cut 17 jobs. Ten staffers were let go this month; and seven attorneys were shown the door this February. The firm blames the economic meltdown. Business law firm Fennemore Craig, PC employs over 200 attorneys, across offices in Phoenix, Tucson, and Nogales, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Denver, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Chicago’s Pugh, Jones, Johnson & Quandt and Newark’s McCarter & English are forming an alliance. While remaining separate and independent law firms, they will recommend and provide coordinated legal services to their respective clients, including complex litigation, corporate transactions, municipal finance, commercial real estate, employment matters, and property tax appeals. Pugh, Jones, Johnson & Quandt, one of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 16, 2009
McMillan LLP is merging with Calgary, Canada’s Thackray Burgess. The Calgary firm will become part of McMillan, and all of its 30 lawyers and 70 staff will remain. The merger, which will become official May 1st, will increase McMillan’s total workforce to 200 lawyers and 350 staff. Prior to the agreement, McMillan was a two-city firm with [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
Yale announced today it has created a joint juris doctor and master of business administration program for completion in three academic years. The program is in addition to the school’s existing four-year joint JD and MBA program. Both programs are partnerships between Yale Law and the Yale School of Management. Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis and [...]
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