Clifford Chance, which has been bleeding litigation partners, just lost two more. Securities litigators Joel Cohen and George Schieren will depart the firm’s New York office. At the end of…
McKool Smith, which brought on two new partners in March, has now hired five attorneys for its New York office. Eric P. Berger joins from Quinn Emanuel in New York.…
Boston’s Goodwin Procter is deferring start dates for 60 members of its 125-person incoming associate class. Half will be pushed back to January 2010, the rest to October 2010. At…
Despite the fact that February 12th is still known as Black Thursday and generally considered the worst day for law firm layoffs since the economic meltdown began, the truth is…
Yesterday, Thursday, February 12th, 2009, six prominent firms fired over 700 attorneys and legal staffers, in what is becoming known as Black Thursday in the legal industry. DLA Piper; Holland…
Perkins Coie has filed a breach of contract suit against former intellectual property associate David Xue. According to court documents, Xue left the firm for Goodwin Procter in September 2008.…
Boston’s Goodwin Procter today added two nationally-recognized attorneys to its Financial Services Group. Robert M. Kurucza joins as co-chair, bringing along Marco E. Adelfio. Both are residents of Washington, DC.…
A federal jury in Manhattan has convicted Raymond Ruble, a former partner at Brown & Wood, along with Robert Pfaff and John Larson, two former executives of BIg Four auditor KPMG,…
We hear from a reliable source that Boston’s Goodwin Procter is asking some associates to leave for “performance reasons” — but it’s really a layoff. We don’t have any details about how many…
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