Arent Fox LLP has added labor and employment lawyer Harry I. Johnson III as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Prior to joining Arent Fox Johnson served in the labor and employment practice at Jones Day. The addition of Johnson is part of an ongoing expansion at Arent Fox’s L.A. office, which opened in 2007. Last [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 8, 2010
Kristine Grady Derewicz has been named the new managing shareholder for Littler Mendelson’s Philadelphia office. She was preceded in the position by Thomas Bender, who is credited with expanding the office from an original 10 attorneys and 6 staff members in March 2001 to 29 attorneys and 19 staff by 2010. Derewicz’s practice focuses on labor [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
Joshua Sable, a former partner at Bryan Cave, has been named general counsel of Los Angeles-based CPEhr, a human resources outsourcing firm. Sable previously headed Bryan Cave’s labor and employment law practice at its Santa Monica office. CPEhr had been a client of Sable’s for several years. CPEhr was founded in 1982 and provides HR solutions to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Six attorneys formerly of Ford & Harrison have left the firm to join the Phoenix office of Jackson Lewis. Richard Cohen and Stephanie Cerasano have joined Jackson Lewis as partners while Justin Pierce will serve as of counsel. Joining as associates are Stephen Coleman, Sonya Boun and Kylie Crawford Tenbrook. With the addition, Jackson Lewis will [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 15, 2010
Employment law firm Ogletree Deakins has opened an office in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the help of six new attorneys. Tony Martin, who will head up the office, along with shareholders Suzanne Martin and Jill Garcia and associates Christian Zinn and Christopher Pastore have come on board from Lewis & Roca. Shareholder Jeff [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Employment boutique Jackson Lewis has opened a new office in Baltimore, with the help of four laterals from DLA Piper. The four partners are Richard Hafets, Larry Seegull, Brook Amiont and Emmett McGee. This is the 45th US office of Jackson Lewis, and gives the firm an office in 30 different states. It has [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Blank Rome has expanded its Los Angeles office with the addition of six new lawyers to the roster. Dennis Codon is joining the firm as Partner in the Public Companies and Capital Formation group. Codon is moving to Blank Rom from the firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. Prior to that, Codon spent [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Simeon Spencer is leaving the London office of Morgan Lewis and, along with associate Anna Margolis, joining Seyfarth Shaw in New York. The two new arrivals will join the firm’s International Labor & Employment Practice Group. Although they will be working out of New York, Spencer’s focus will remain on European multi-jurisdictional labor [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 7, 2009
A transgender teen in Orlando has filed a complaint against McDonald’s after a manager refused to interview her and subsequently left a message on her answering machine containing a common epithet. Zikerria Bellamy applied for a job at McDonald’s in July and left the box on her application for gender blank. The online [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Four attorneys have left the Washington DC office of McDermott Will & Emery to join up with Proskauer Rose. Led by Paul Hamburger, who joins as partner, the team will establish an employee benefits practice at their new firm. Joining Hamburger as senior counsel are Todd Castleton, Eugene Holmes, and James Napoli. Founded in [...]
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