Diaz Reus & Targ has launched a new office in Shanghai, China. Firm partners Robert Q. Lee and Adam Ehrlich will manage the office. They are joined by associates Federico Tabja, Xiaomin Hu and Xin Zhang. Miami, Florida-based Diaz Reus & Targ LLP focuses on trade and business transactions; complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation; and arbitration [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Indiana’s Barnes & Thornburg, which recently expanded into Georgia and Ohio, is now gaining an office in Minnesota through the acquisition of the 22-attorney Parsinen Law Firm. The Minneapolis office, with 14 partners, will be Barnes & Thornburg’s 10th location. The deal has been in the works since 2008. The Parsinen Law Firm was founded in 1981. With [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
Guernsey’s Collas Day has made six staff redundant, three of them voluntarily. The firm is reorganizing, and recently launched a London footprint. Collas Day, headquartered in St. Peter Port, employs eight partners and 74 staff. The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel, off the coast of Normandy.
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Skadden is sending three London lawyers to Hong Kong, plus bringing on a new lawyer, to handle cases related to the credit crunch. London’s Paul Mitchard will head the practice; and the firm has brought on an attorney formerly with Hong Kong’ s Pinsent Masons. The group will work with Asian firms under investigation for financial [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 4, 2009
Lewis & Daggett is opening a third office in Statesville, North Carolina, to be run by retiring Superior Court judge Kim Taylor. She will handle personal injury cases. Taylor is an area native, and received her law degree from the University of North Carolina. She was a judge for over 20 years. She was voted Judge of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 16, 2009
Atlanta’s Constangy, Brooks & Smith is expanding into Boston. The employment law firm has hired Ellen Kearns, of counsel to the Boston office of Foley & Lardner, to run the new office. Three more attorneys will join her. In the last 12 months, the 120-lawyer firm has opened new offices in Chicago; Milwaukee; Greenville, South Carolina; and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 15, 2009
California’s Michelman & Robinson has opened an office in Manhattan, and plans to hire associates for its current offices. Since 2004, the firm has doubled its attorney headcount to 60. The New York office is opening with three partners who focus on corporate and securities work. The firm also plans to expand their San Francisco and Orange [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Atlanta-based Morris, Manning & Martin, which last month fired incoming associates, is launching a new office in Beijing, China. The firm just opened an office in Taiwan. Morris’ Asian offices will deal with patent prosecution and potential litigation, as well as corporate and securities matters. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, is 175-lawyer firm with offices in Atlanta, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Today we received a lengthy tip from a frustrated employee of Bracewell & Giuliani, reporting support staff layoffs at the firm’s Washington, DC office. Here’s is what the tipster had to say, edited for length & clarity: I work for the firm Bracewell & Giuliani, and would like to share the layoff process they conducted this past [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 2, 2009
Littler Mendelson announced today the opening of an office, its 47th, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. New Milwaukee shareholder Jon Levine and his staff will represent clients in employment litigation in state and federal courts and before the National Labor Relations Board, as well as collective bargaining, labor arbitration and union avoidance. Prior to joining Littler, Levine was a [...]
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