Michael Sohn, former chairman of Arnold & Porter, has joined Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Washington office as general counsel. Sohn joined Arnold & Porter in 1969 and was made a partner in 1972. He left the firm briefly and served for 3 years as general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission beginning in 1977. Sohn [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 16, 2009
Legal Times is merging with one of its sibling publications, The National Law Journal. The combined publication will focus on national legal news, with a special emphasis on Washington, DC, and will be called The National Law Journal. It will publish continuously on the Web and weekly in print, with the first combined print edition expected [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Blog of Legal Times reports that profits are plummeting at New York-based tax & finance boutique McKee Nelson. The firm has reported a drop in revenue of nearly 16 percent, for gross revenue of $160 million in 2008. Profits per partner plunged 15 percent, or nearly $200,000, to $1.02 million. The down numbers were foreshadowed in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
The Blog of Legal Times reports from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal’s swanky Obama inauguration party: Saturday night, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal held an inauguration reception at The Phillips Collection in Washington. About 100 people showed up for the evening cocktail affair. On Tuesday morning, Sonnenschein will continue celebrating – hosting a breakfast for its clients in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 29, 2008
Frisco’s Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLC will freeze associate and consultant salaries in 2009. Associates were notified by the following e-mail, sent to Legal Times by Orrick’s Adi Weisman: …associates in the U.S. and Europe, and associates, senior consultants and consultants in Asia, will receive the same salary in 2009 as you received in 2008… of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The Legal Times Blog reports that a US district judge has dismissed Ralph Nader’s latest attempt to prove he was the target of a conspiracy by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to keep him off the presidential ballot. In October 2007, as much of the country began turning its attention to a new and promising presidential showdown, Nader filed [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
While no one expects the Senate to vote down the confirmation of Covington & Burling partner Eric H. Holder Jr. as the nation’s next attorney general. But key Republican lawmakers are signalling that they do not intend to make it easy. From Legal Times: While congressional leaders negotiated behind closed doors over proposed loans to Detroit automakers, several Republicans [...]
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