Barry Wolf, co-chair of Weil Gotshal’s corporate practice, has been named executive partner. He will succeed Stephen Dannhauser, who will focus on client development once Wolf takes over. Wolf joined Weil Gotshal as an associate in 1984 and made partner in 1992. In 2005 he was named co-chair of the firm’s corporate practice, a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw has added lawyers to its intellectual property and corporate & finance groups in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack D. Todd joins as a partner from Morris, Manning & Martin. His practice concentrates on patent and trademark prosecution, strategic counseling, enforcement and protection of IP, transactional, licensing, opinion, and clearance. His JD is from Duke University School [...]
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...Monday, July 27, 2009
Atlanta’s Morris Manning, which recently canceled its 2010 Summer Associate Program, is slashing salaries based on how much work a particular practice group is bringing in. The real estate, commercial lending, and general corporate practice groups are taking 15% salary cuts. All other groups will see 10% cuts. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, is 175-lawyer firm with [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
Florida’s Ruden McClosky, which laid off two lawyers and 18 staff in May, and cut associate and non-equity partner compensation in June, has laid off an additional eight lawyers. The layoffs affected associates at the firm’s litigation, corporate and land-use practices. Ruden’s gross revenue fell by 9%, to $85.3 million in fiscal 2008. Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s Ruden McClosky [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cozen O’Connor added two lawyers to its New York office last week. Angelo Savino joins from Mound Cotton as a partner in the global insurance group. He handles matters involving directors and officers, professional errors and omissions, and corporate indemnification. Savino earned his JD in 1981 from the Fordham University School of Law. Robert Fischer joins from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Gibson Dunn will open a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the next few weeks. The office will consist of New York corporate partner Lisa Alfaro, who is moving to Sao Paulo with her family, and an associate. Various teams of corporate and litigation lawyers will rotate through for active matters. Corporate partners Kevin Kelley and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 13, 2009
Porter Wright has hired on two partners for its corporate practice in Cincinnati. T. Stephen Phillips joins from Frost Brown Todd. He has taught Federal Estate & Gift Taxation and Estate Planning at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law. Marilyn Maag joins from Strauss & Troy. She was included among the “Top 50 Woman Lawyers” by [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden. The firm is recruiting corporate lawyers and commercial litigators. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
Dublin, Ireland’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is laying off 25 lawyers from the firm’s corporate & commercial, banking & financial services, and tax departments. The firm is also cutting salaries by 10%. Trainees are not being targeted. The firm made 20 people redundant in February, and blames the economic downturn. Matheson Ormsby Prentice is a leading Irish corporate law [...]
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