International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bolstered its U.S. litigation practice with the addition of three new partners. Marshall H. Fishman and Walter B. Stuart will join the firm’s…
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the first top U.K. law firm to announce associate salary rates for 2010, with the firm lifting the freeze on associate lockstep put in place last…
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has added Jeff Roberts as a partner in its London office. Roberts, who joins the firm from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, practices corporate law with a focus…
Freshfields has lost two top partners, both of whom joined the firm from White & Case less than two years ago. Maurice Allen is one of the UK’s top banking…
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has reported a 9% rise in revenue for the last fiscal year. Revenue was £1.29 billion pounds ($2.39 billion), up from £1.18 billion pounds ($2.36 billion) in…
In May, London’s Freshfields announced that only 14 of its class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall would be retained. Now mainstream press sources are faulting Freshfields for…
K&L Gates has snagged a four-lawyer team from the Berlin office of Freshfields. Partner Ludwig Hausmann joins the Berlin office of K&L Gates, along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert, who…
This week in law firm layoffs: LG: 12 lawyers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer: 14 lawyers Weil, Gotshal & Manges: 79 staff Snell & Wilmer: 40 staff Covington & Burling: undisclosed lawyers…
London’s Freshfields will only hire 70% of its September 2009 trainees. Fourteen of the class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall in London will not be retained. Those…
Germany’s Gleiss Lutz will launch a new Dusseldorf office in August, headed by corporate partner Thomas Menke, last of Baker & McKenzie. Menke handles international mergers & acquisitions and real…
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