Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, February 23, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories… Steve Epstein joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a partner… Albert P. Halluin, Senior Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, passed away in a plane crash last Friday… Kirkland & Ellis reported increases in profits and revenues in 2009… Mayer [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
Kirkland & Ellis reported that gross revenues increased by 2% in 2009, from $1.4 billion in 2008 to $1.428 billion. Net revenue increased by 16%, from $580 million to $674 million. Profits per equity partner at the firm increased by 1% from $2,468,085.11 in 2008 to $2,495,000 in 2009. In 2009 the firm’s ranks increased overall [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
Baylor announced today that Kenneth Starr has been chosen as the university’s 14th president. Starr will assume the office on June 1st. Since 2004 Starr has been the Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu. Starr earned his BA at George Washington University in 1968. He earned an MA from Brown University [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Joseph Jacobi, a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has joined the Chicago office of McDonald Hopkins as a member of its litigation department and intellectual property practice. Jacobi’s IP litigation experience includes patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright litigation matters. He has also litigated before the U.S. International Trade Commission. McDonald Hopkins is a business advisory [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Former deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation Jennifer Brosnahan McIntyre has joined Boeing as their chief counsel for Washington Operations. At Boeing McIntyre will supervise lobbying, regulatory and administrative law activities. At the Department of Transportation McIntyre dealt with litigation, regulation, legislation and policy issues. Previously she worked in the White House [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 25, 2010
Good morning everyone! I hope you had a terrific weekend. Today is Monday, January 25, and here’s a look back at Friday’s news. The plaintiff’s have rested their case in the prop 8 trial, and the defense will begin today… Cooley Godward thawed out salaries, and we look at the current state of the market [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 28, 2009
Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, December 28, and here’s a look back at the news from last week. Kirkland & Ellis paid out bonuses… Newly released records detail Rothstein’s non profit activities… Cravath confirmed that no new partners will be named this year… A dozen lawyers have left Dickstein Shapiro…. A federal appelate court has upheld a large [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Kirkland & Ellis is wildly popular with its associates most of the time but things may have changed a bit this year. Associates received their bonuses this week. No standardized scale has been announced but some details have begun to trickle out. Some associates are reporting bonuses lower than the Cravath scale, and other [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Tuesday, December 8, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines… Kirkland & Ellis is under new management… A transgender teen is suing McDonald’s… There’s a new round of layoffs at DLA Piper’s middle east offices… and Mayer Brown has asked some of its incoming associates to voluntarily defer their start dates…
Continue reading...Monday, December 7, 2009
Kirkland & Ellis built its reputation on the backs of trial attorneys Thomas Yannucci, who has headed the firm’s worldwide management committee since 2001. He is being replaced by Jeffrey Hammes, a corporate attorney from the private equities practice who has been with the firm since 1985 and has helped Kirkland & Ellis expand [...]
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