Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has joined the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The 90 year old Morgenthau said he has long admired Wachtell and its impact on the law and legal profession. Morgenthau served as District Attorney in Manhattan for 35 years. Cyrus Vance Jr. was elected to replace Morgenthau [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
A total of eleven District Attorneys were laid off last year in San Joaquin, California, with seven of those happening last month. The department, like most California state and local government offices, is facing steep budget cuts. The DA’s that were cut mainly handled misdemeanor prosecutions, including DUI’s and some domestic abuse cases. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Lynne M. Abraham, the former district attorney of Philadelphia, is set to join Archer & Greiner, P.C., as a partner based in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Abraham became the first woman to serve as Philadelphia’s district attorney when taking over the position in May 1991. Her duties at Archer & Greiner will include government relations, mediation, litigation [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 15, 2009
Lawyers for the City of San Francisco have voted to continue a 2% pay cut for another year. The Municipal Attorney’s Association, the union representing the lawyers, approved the continued salary cut by a members vote of 167-73. MAA lawyers salaries start at $98,500 a year, but can earn as much as $172,600. Those at the top [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Alameda County, California’s new budget calls for layoffs and program cuts to close a $178 million funding deficit, including cutting 14 attorney positions in the District Attorney’s Office and 15 in the Public Defender’s Office. The cuts will likely force prosecutors to limit prosecutions. The County will eliminate 285 full-time equivalent positions. It currently has 9,300 such [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
Colorado’s Boulder County District Attorney’s Office has terminated six prosecutors, including well-known attorneys Colette Cribari and Bryan Quiram. Deputy district attorneys Lisa Hunt, Phil Davis, Jessica Lasky and Chris Leh have also been shown the door. No official reason has bee given for any of the terminations. New DA Stanley L. Garnett, who started in January, let [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 23, 2009
White & Case, which laid off 200 associates and 200 staffers in March, has added two new partners to its litigation practice in New York. Gregory Little and Scott Hershman come from Hunton & Williams, where Little was head of the firm’s New York Litigation Group and a former member of the firm’s executive committee. Hershman was [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris laid off at least five staffers and two attorneys last week. Harris blamed the City by the Bay’s $500 million budget deficit. The staff laid off include three paralegals and two investigators. The office had 253 total employees, including 123 lawyers, before the layoffs. City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Public Defender Jeff Adachi [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has decided not to run for re-election, thus ending a long era for the prosecutor. A high-ranking person in Morgenthau’s office announced the decision. Morgenthau, 89, has been a prosecutor in New York City since the Kennedy administration, when he was appointed Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor. “We owe much of our city’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has rescinded offers to 12 incoming attorneys who were set to start in the fall, according to hiring committee head Kathleen McDonnell. The 300-attorney office typically sees about 10% attrition each year, which enables it to bring in a class of up to 35 people. But in this latest fiscal year, [...]
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