Global law firm Proskauer announced it has opened an office in Beijing. In so doing, the firm significantly expands its global capabilities and Asia practice. The firm counts the office…
Winston & Strawn has opened offices in Beijing and Shanghai. In Beijing, the firm has hired Ge Xiangyang away from Bakey & McKenzie to head up its new office. The…
Washington State’s Perkins Coie, which cut 12 attorneys and 26 staff in April, has hired seven intellectual property attorneys away from Proskauer Rose. Proskauer Rose partners Colin Sandercock, Paul Booth,…
The estate of Heller Ehrman, the San Francisco-based law firm that imploded spectacularly in November 2008, may sue Washington DC’s Covington & Burling, which hired 14 ex-Heller partners last September.…
Former employees of San Francisco’s defunct Heller Ehrman, which declared bankruptcy in December, are suing 179 former partners for $32 million. The suit alleges that the firm’s shareholders failed to…
A California appeals court ruling from 1984 that a firm can sue a departing partner for profits lost from open cases. Six partners who moved to Heller Ehrman from another…
Dissolving Thacher Proffitt & Wood is pursuing its former first-year associates over money provided for bar expenses. The firm’s dissolution committee and bank are going after the former associates for…
The Recorder takes a look at Cupertino, California intellectual property boutique Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder, which last fall cut seven associates, nearly 20% of the firm’s lawyers, and two…
Bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman paid out more than $7 million to 35 departing or retiring partners in 2008. The departures led to the firm breaking a loan covenant and…
Philadelphia’s Dechert has become the latest Am Law 100 firm to announce a decline in revenues and profits for 2008. Profits per equity partner fell by 9% to $2.14 million.…
 |
||
| Search Thousands of Legal Jobs | ||
|
Job Type: |
||
 |
||
|
Browse Jobs by Location: |
||
|
||
| Keyword Search: | ||
|
||
Recent comments