Carl Nichols, a former senior litigator for the Department of Justice has joined WilmerHale as a partner. Nichols worked in the DoJ under President George W Bush from 2005 until 2009, serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, and later as the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Raymond Mullady, formerly the chair of Orrick’s litigation practice in Washington DC, is moving to Blank Rome. Mullady will handle product liability and mass torts for Blank Rome in Washington. In the past, Mullady has handled clients like the pharmaceutical company Wyeth, and says that Blank Rome’s geographic footprint is better suited to [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Earlier this month tipsters alerted us to layoffs at Foley & Lardner, which the firm later confirmed. Like many firms, Foley & Lardner deferred its incoming associate class, but now it appears that some of those associates are being deferred again. Incoming IP associates have been pushed back to September of next year, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
Three partners and one associate have left Butzel Long and signed on with McDonald Hopkinsin Detroit. The three partners are James Boutrous II, James Giszczak and Miriam Rosen. Dominic Paluzzi come aboard as an associate. The four have joined the firm’s labor and employment counseling and litigation practice. McDonald Hopkins is a business [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Cohen Milstein has hired two new litigators for its New York office, Joel Laitman and Christopher Lometti, both from Schoengold Sporn Laitman Lometti. Laitman and Lometti will handle complex securities fraud and investor protection litigation. Both were name partners at Schoengold. New York City’s Schoengold Sporn Laitman & Lometti is a leading securities fraud law firm that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Philadelphia’s Duane Morris has hired 24 lawyers, including 12 partners, from dissolving Wolf Block. Wolf Block’s partners voted to dissolve the 106-year-old law firm on March 23rd. So far, more than half of Wolf Block’s 290 lawyers have found new firms. Wolf Block Chairman Mark Alderman has yet to join with a new firm. Most of the [...]
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