A group of five trusts & estates attorneys is defecting from Sonnenschein’s Los Angeles office to Seyfarth Shaw. The group is led by partner Alan Yoshitake, a resident in the business service group. Yoshitake is joined by Mark Hansen and Edward McCaffery, both of counsel, and two associates. Seyfarth Shaw employs over 750 attorneys located in nine [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
Husch Blackwell Sanders has laid off 17 lawyers and 45 staff members. Chairman Dave Fenley said that more than a third of the attorneys were concentrated in real estate and that the rest were business attorneys, including some litigators. “We do this every year and most of the time we’re net up at the end of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Nixon Peabody has launched an Israeli business practice group, to counsel companies in the Jewish State and those doing business with them. The move may prove controversial, as there are calls to divest from Israel in the wake of the recent Gaza offensive. Sam Feigin and Mark Kass, partners in the New York-based law firm’s Washington, DC [...]
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