Two non-equity partners laid off from the Düsseldorf, Germany office of Clifford Chance are suing the firm over their termination. The partners were fired as shareholders, but claim they were actually employees. The distinction is important under German law, as employees are very difficult to dismiss under the Unfair Dismissal Act. If the suit is successful, then [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 11, 2009
Bryan Cave has brought on two lawyers for its Hamburg, Germany office. Philip Haleen joins as of counsel from Faegre & Benson’s Frankfurt office. He focuses on international tax matters and franchise & distribution law. He got his JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. Iliana Haleen joins as counsel, also from Faegre & Benson. She [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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 joins as counsel. They bring along two associates. K&L Gates’ German offices, in Berlin and Frankfurt, now have 45 lawyers. K&L Gates LLP employs over 1900 attorneys worldwide, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Davis Polk, home of stealth layoffs, will permanently close its office in Frankfurt, Germany in August. The office’s long-time resident partner, Patrick Kenadjian, is retiring at the end of the year. His successor, Harald Halbhuber, has decided to leave the firm as well. Much of the office’s work will be taken over by Davis Polk’s 31-lawyer London [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
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 estate transactions. He will work with an unnamed associate, formerly of Freshfields’ Dusseldorf office. Gleiss Lutz is a German law firm founded in Stuttgart in 1949 by Alfred [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 9, 2009
Most offices of London’s Norton Rose have approved a flexible hours scheme first announced in March. The firm hopes to avoid redundancies by reducing hours. The scheme has been approved by 19 of the firm’s 21 international offices. Norton Rose is still working to make the plan comply with the law in France and Germany. London lawyers and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
New York’s Curtis has added five lawyers to the firm’s international corporate practice in Frankfurt, Germany. Partners Christian Fingerhut, Jörn Hirschmann, and Markus Söhnchen join from the Frankfurt office of Munich-based law firm Sibeth, bringing along two associates. Founded in New York City in 1830, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is an international law firm with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Anglo-German law firm Taylor Wessing is asking for voluntary deferrals from its September 2009 and September 2010 incoming associate classes. The 750-attorney firm will pay a stipend of £7,500 ($10,872). Deferred trainees will not be required to accept public interest fellowships. The firm is offering its employees two extra weeks off each year, in exchange for a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Dehnen Lawyers, a small boutique firm in Dusseldorf, Germany, has launched a new office in Washington, DC. The firm, which has 10 lawyers in its Dusseldorf office, specializes in advising US clients on tax, legislative, and policy issues when working in Germany. Chairman Peter Dehnen says he will spend one week a month in the Washington office. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 20, 2009
Freshfields will add at least 15 lawyers to its Munich office, including four partners who will relocate from Frankfurt. Yorck Jetter, Matthias-Gabriel Kremer, Rick van Aerssen and Markus Fisseler will transfer to Munich at the start of the new financial year. Senior associate Wessel Heukamp will be promoted to partner and join the office, bringing the total [...]
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