Chicago’s Sidley Austin saw revenue grow by 7% in 2008, while profits increased 4%. The firm brought in $1.489 billion in revenue, up from $1.386 billion in 2007. Profits per…
We reported last month that former Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll partner Michael Hausfeld was ousted from the firm. Now The BLT reports that the renamed Cohen Milstein Sellers &…
The WSJ Law Blog summarizes the findings in a report by The American Lawyer about the enormous rise in laterals over the last year. Overall, 2,509 partners moved laterally between…
London’s Eversheds is opening of a new office in Singapore, and beginning work on developing a presence in Hong Kong. The firm has recruited DLA Piper’s former Singapore managing partner…
Bingham McCutchen saw both revenue and profits rise in 2008, the firm reports. Gross revenue for the Boston-based firm totaled $767 million in 2008, a 3.2% increase over 2007; profits…
Nixon Peabody has recruited as its China practice chair a former general counsel of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Henry Liu, who will be based in Nixon Peabody’s Manhattan office…
According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs between December 2007 and December 2008. The numbers include lawyers,…
What’s left of San Francisco’s Heller Ehrman, which dissolved in November, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Former Heller partner Peter Benvenutti said the firm filed not because it is out…
A San Francisco landlord for Heller Ehrman won a court ruling earlier this month, that means bankruptcy is now likely for the defunct law firm. The San Francisco Superior Court…
Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the 160-year-old New York-based law firm, will close forever. The subprime crisis slashed demand for its structured-finance practice, and more than half of its attorneys have…
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