Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, March 10, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Akerman Senterfitt opens a Las Vegas office… Arent Fox names Mark Katz it’s new chairman… The Massachusetts Bar Association will honor Fish & Richardson for their pro bono work… Greenberg Traurig defends their firing of an alleged thief… K&L Gates bolsters it’s London [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The ABA Journal has confirmed with Dewey & LeBoeuf that the firm laid off 30 administrative staff members today. These layoffs occurred in the firm’s Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. offices. Dewey & LeBoeuf told The ABA Journal that “these changes are made necessary by an overall reduction in lawyer headcount.” There [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
It’s probably not a surprise that making partner has proven a more difficult task during the current recession. Not wanting to further cut into its partner’s profits, most firms have been extremely cautious to add to its ranks. Bloomberg gives further clarity to the trend in a report out today. Among the firms cited in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 8, 2010
Winston & Strawn has added two partners and a senior counsel to its New York office. Lawrence A. Larose and Samuel S. Kohn join as partners in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency group while William J. Grant has joined as senior counsel in the mergers and acquisitions practice. Larose, who will head the financial restructuring practice, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday, December 17, and here’s your snapshot of yesterday’s news… John Schulman, top counsel for Warner Bros for 25 years, has joined MS&K… Seyfarth Shaw picks up a lateral from Hogan & Hartson… WilmerHale’s new partnership class is over 50% female… The FTC wants a piece of Intel…. Dewey & Leboeuf match the Cravath bonuses… and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Same song, different singer. Dewey & LeBoeuf will follow the Cravath bonus scale (not the slightly better Sullivan & Cromwell scale). $5-$30k depending on class year. Cravath bonuses were announced November 2nd. Since then Cleary, Skadden, Wilkie Farr, Simpson Thatcher, Davis Polk, Debevoise & Plimpton, and now Dewey & LeBoeuf have matched the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
Hello everyone! Thanks to a minor electrical problem this isn’t so much a morning roundup as an early afternoon one. Pepe & Hazard is reported to be in merger talks… The couple who gained notoriety for crashing the state dinner has retained counselfrom Dewey & LeBoeuf… BigLaw wants to raise rates, and corporate America doesn’t want to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple that garnered national attention for showing up to dinner without an invitation at last week’s state dinner for the Prime Minister of India have retained counsel from the firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf. Stephen Best, the co-chairman of the firm’s white collar defense group and associate Derek Anderson, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Fasken Martineau has merged with the small Parisian firm of Gravel, Leclerc & Partners to set up their first office in France. This move gives Fasken the largest footprint of any Canadian firm in Europe. In addition to the attorneys gained in the merger, four attorneys from Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Paris office [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 21, 2009
Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose gender has been called to question, will be represented pro bono by the firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf. According the firm’s press release, “The plight of Ms. Semenya is a great matter of concern not just to South Africans, but to fair-minded people around the world.” Dewey & [...]
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