Katten Muchin Rosenman picked up four litigators today from Hunton & Williams. Three partners, Steven Solow, Whitney Ellerman, and Karl Heisler along with one associate, Kristine Rembach, are making the move to Katten’s Washington DC office. This marks the start of a new white collar litigation practice for Katten, which will be headed [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Stephen Lamb joins Paul Weiss at the firm’s new office in Wilmington, Delaware as a partner in both the corporate and litigation departments. He was a judge with the Delaware Court of Chancery for 12 years. Lamb earned his JD in 1975 from the Georgetown University Law [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Winston & Strawn has lured three partners and an of counsel away from Hunton & Williams, to join the firm in Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington DC. T. Thomas Cottingham III will serve as head of the litigation in Charlotte. He was previously the managing partner of Hunton & Williams’ Charlotte office and head of its [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Mayer Brown has brought on two attorneys for its Global Projects Group. Robert H. Edwards, Jr. joins from Hunton & Williams as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office. He handles project finance and development, with particular strength in projects and policy issues related to renewable energy, climate change, the development and financing [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
This week in law firm layoffs: Collas Day: 6 staff Matheson Ormsby Prentice: 25 lawyers Pannone LLP: 35 staff Thomson Playford Cutlers: 19 lawyers, 5 staff Fennemore Craig: 7 lawyers, 10 staff DLA Phillips Fox: 12 lawyers Blake Dawson: 23 lawyers, 66 staff Minter Ellison: 11 lawyers, 24 staff Hunton & Williams: 23 lawyers, 64 staff Hogan & Hartson: undisclosed DLA Piper: 24 lawyers, 100 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
Foley & Lardner has hired three new partners. Robert Huey, formerly of Hunton & Williams, will join in Washington DC. He handles international transaction and securities work. Two former Katten Muchin lawyers, Russell Selman and Bradley Rochlen, are joining in Chicago. Selman does corporate real estate and public utility environmental compliance. Rochlen handles environmental litigation. Foley & Lardner [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
Virginia’s Hunton & Williams has laid off 87 people across its US offices. From the memo: Today, we reduced approximately 23 associate and counsel positions and 64 staff positions in our U.S. offices. The reductions are spread among most of our teams and offices. We did not come to this very difficult decision lightly. We have, over [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 23, 2009
White & Case, which laid off 200 associates and 200 staffers in March, has added two new partners to its litigation practice in New York. Gregory Little and Scott Hershman come from Hunton & Williams, where Little was head of the firm’s New York Litigation Group and a former member of the firm’s executive committee. Hershman was [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 9, 2009
Richmond, Virginia’s Hunton & Williams posted $668 million in gross revenue in the fiscal year that ended March 31st, a 2.2% increase from the previous year. Net revenue was $229 million, a 9% increase. The firm’s payout to equity partners was down 2.5% due to a 12% increase in the number of partners. Hunton & Williams has 19 [...]
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