A scant few hours ago I promised to bring you any updates on the Hogan & Hartson/Lovells merger talks, and so here it is… The two firms issued a joint press release this morning announcing that the management of both firms unanimously supports the merger. If the partner vote scheduled for mid December goes as [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
Las Vegas’ Oshins & Associates has brought on the members of the Jeffrey M. Verdon Law Group. Jeffrey M. Verdon joins Oshins as of counsel. He was Managing Partner at the Jeffrey M. Verdon Law Group. He specializes in estate & income taxation planning and asset & lifestyle protection planning for high-net worth clients. Professor Jerry Hesch [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Milwaukee’s Techmeier Law Firm is merging with national personal injury and criminal defense firm The Cochran Firm. Techmeier will operate under the Cochran Firm name. Will Techmeier, founder of the 10-lawyer firm, will become the managing partner of the Cochran Milwaukee office. Founded in 1979, the Techmeier Law Firm specializes in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 29, 2009
Bermuda’s Appleby Global, which just announced a merger with the Isle of Man’s Dickinson Cruickshank, is opening an office in the Seychelles. It will be the only offshore firm operating there. The office in Victoria will managed by partner-in-charge of the firm’s Mauritius office, Malcolm Moller. Appleby opened the office in Mauritius in February 2007. Appleby has [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 16, 2009
Perth, Australia law firm Christensen Vaughan will merge with national firm Gadens Lawyers, to form an expanded commercial legal practice in Western Australia. The combined practice will have six partners and 45 staff. The merger will extend Gadens’ practices in banking and finance, insolvency, property, financial services recovery, commercial litigation, aged care, resources and infrastructure. Gadens Lawyers is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Chicago law firms Schuyler Roche and Crisham & Kubes are merging as of April 1st, 2009. The combined firm will be called Schuyler, Roche & Crisham. James L. Komie, president of Schuyler Roche, will continue to serve as president of the new firm. Tom Crisham and Jeff Kubes will be members of the Board of Directors. Crisham [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Dallas, Texas-based Am Law 200 firm Haynes and Boone is absorbing San Jose, California intellectual property boutique MacPherson, Kwok, Chen & Heid. MacPherson Kwok , a 21-lawyer firm founded in 2002, is merging into Haynes and Boone, a corporate firm with more than 500 lawyers. The deal gives Haynes its first offices in California, in San [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The partners of Moldo Davidson Fraioli Seror & Sestanovich (aka MDFS Law), a Century City, California-based business law firm, will join Ervin Cohen & Jessup (aka ECJ) of Beverly Hills, starting February 1st. The MDFS Law group includes Byron Moldo, Peter Davidson, Patrick Fraioli, David Seror, Tom Sestanovich, Jeffrey Glassman, Ken Miller, and Howard Camhi, along [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Alvin Davis, managing partner of Squire Sanders‘ Miami office, has told the National Law Journal that Miami employees laid off at the firm include “a couple runners, some staffers and a few people in accounting.” A long-time administrative assistant was also laid off, according to sources within the firm. Davis said he did not know if there [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
The new firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, the result of the merger between Bradley Arant Rose & White with Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, has named 17 attorneys to the partnership. “We are very happy to elevate these members of the firm to the partnership,” said John B. Grenier, managing partner. “Each of these attorneys [...]
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