London based international law firm Allen & Overy announced that they will launch an Australian practice based in Sydney and Perth. 14 new appointed partners will work in the Sydney office and 3 new appointed partners will work in the Sydney office. The new practice will significantly bolster the firm’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 5, 2010
Thomas Amis, the chair of Alston & Bird’s renewable energy practice, and Nik Patel, an energy partner, have moved to Cooley Godward, and according to Amis another ten to twelve lawyers will be making the jump in the next two months. Amis will become the new chair of Cooley’s clean energy and technology practice. Cooley Goodward [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 4, 2010
Neil Upton will join Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP as the head of its UK Energy Practice. Upton comes to Greenberg Traurig from DLA Piper, where he was partner and Global Head of the Energy group, a practice that he built from scratch. Upton specializes in the power sector, including generation projects (renewable, gas, coal, and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
This week Morgan Lewis lost energy partner Jim Glasgow to Pillsbury, but gained Baker Botts‘ global Oil & Gas Practice head David Asmus. Michael King joins Asmus as a partner in Morgan Lewis’ Business & Finance Practice in Houston. Glasgow joins Pillsbury as a partner in the energy practice. He was an energy partner at Morgan [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie has hired a seven-lawyer energy law group from the crosstown office of Thompson & Knight. The team includes partners Michael Byrd, Louis Davis and Ben Welmaker; Glen White as of counsel; and associates David Wildes, Cody Carper and James Sonnier. They will support Baker’s Houston-based Major Projects/Energy practice. Byrd represents clients in all phases [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wiley Rein has added Douglas Walgren and Nova Daly to its Washington, DC office. Walgren, former Democratic US Representative from Pennsylvania, joins the firm as a consulting counsel. He served on the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the House Science & Technology Committee. He will lobby on health care and energy. Daly, a former deputy assistant [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Foley & Lardner, which announced three hires earlier this month, has brought on three more lawyers in New York. Barry Mandel joins from Merrill Lynch as a partner in securities enforcement & litigation and white-collar defense. He was co-head of global litigation, employment, and regulatory affairs at the global financial services firm. Howard Margulis and Ellen Wolchek, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 27, 2009
Quarles & Brady LLP is launching a new practice group specializing in clean energy, climate change and sustainability law. Over 50 attorneys from the firm’s offices in Wisconsin, Arizona and Illinois will form the new practice. Quarles & Brady LLP is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to the National Law Journal’s 2007 rankings, it is the 90th [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Bracewell & Guiliani’s headquarters in Houston is laying off a lot of people in corporate and energy, according to a JDJournal tip. If you have any further information on these firings, please send us a confidential tip. JDJournal relies on your tips to get the latest breaking legal employment news to you ASAP. Bracewell & Giuliani LLP [...]
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