Covington & Burling announced its new partners, nine in Washington and one in London. Last year’s class had twelve new partners, but two years ago there were only six. Congratulations to Marney Cheek, David Fagan and Kimberly Strosnider in the international practice group, IP lawyers Kevin Collins and Lucinda Osborne, litigators Sarah Wilson and Matthew O’Connor, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Covington & Burling has hired two prominent attorneys away from Montgomery, Alabama’s Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett. Robert Brock joins the Washington DC office of Covington & Burling as a partner in the litigation group. He will chair the product liability & mass tort practice group. Brock was with Rushton Stakely for 25 years. His practice [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
According to stories in the blawgosphere, Covington & Burling is in the process of laying off an undisclosed number of staff attorneys. Those affected have been offered one or two weeks of severance depending on length of service, in exchange for a promise not to sue the firm over the circumstances of their termination. The firm says [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
Covington & Burling, which likes to hire former Republican bigwigs, is bringing on two more Bush administration veterans. The firm is bringing on George Frampton, former chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, as senior counsel in New York; and Gerald Masoudi, former chief counsel of the Food & Drug Administration, as a partner [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Legal bloggers have been thrilled to comment on this quote from Covington & Burling’s recently-published Diversity Update: Our balanced mix of practices; our longstanding, deep and broad client relationships; and our careful management have mitigated some of the worst impacts of the economy to date. We have not seen a need for any cutbacks in the [...]
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