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King & Spalding Add 14 From Filice Brown

joshua — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:54:14 +0000

Fourteen litigators from Oakland’s Filice Brown Eassa & McLeod have joined King & Spalding. The group is led by named partner Gennero Filice and includes a total of three partners, four counsel and seven associates. The move will double King & Spalding’s San Francisco office, while cutting Filice Brown (now known as Brown Eassa & McLeod) almost in half.

All 14 will be assigned to the San Francisco office, but two of the associates will continue to work in Los Angeles. The team of lawyers specializes in groundwater litigation, representing chemical companies, dry cleaners and other industries that impact groundwater. The move is part of a King & Spalding plan to have a west coast litigation team that can take a case from discovery to appeal all in house.

McKool Smith Ranks High in “Top 100 Workplaces in Dallas/Fort Worth”

joshua — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:10:41 +0000

The Dallas Morning News‘ 2010 listing of the Top 100 Workplaces in Dallas/Fort Worth ranked McKool Smith number 7, which is the highest ranking received by a law firm in the area.

The Dallas Morning News surveys of thousands of employees from companies located throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth area to compile the Top Workplaces list. Questions focus on areas such as leadership, ethics, career opportunities and company direction, in addition to life/work balance, employee compensation and the effectiveness of company leaders.

Nearly 70 attorneys work at the firm’s Dallas office, along with 100+ staff members.

With more than 125 litigators working as an integrated team across offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Marshall, New York, and Washington, D.C., McKool Smith has established a reputation as one of America’s leading trial firms.

Carl Nichols Joins WilmerHale

joshua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:16:41 +0000

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. While with the Justice Department, Nichols handled several high profile cases, including cases enjoining state investigations into alleged acts of the National Security Agency and various lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies over their participation in national security programs. Prior to his stint at Justice, Nichols was with Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

At WilmerHale, Nichols practice will be in the Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Government and Regulatory Litigation and Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice Groups, as well as the Business Trial Group.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP has twelve offices across the US, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004 through the merger of the Boston’s Hale & Dorr and the Washington’s Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, and employs more than 1,100 attorneys worldwide. As of 2008, it was the 23rd largest law firm in the world in terms of revenue.

Raymond Mullady Moves to Blank Rome

joshua — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:00:20 +0000

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 his practice.

Blank Rome LLP is the 84th largest law firm in the US according to the AmLaw 100. It employs about 500 at its eight offices in the US and Hong Kong.

Changing of the Guard at Kirkland & Ellis

joshua — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:36:14 +0000

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 their private equity practice beyond Chicago. He was also instrumental in establishing the firm’s foothold in northern California.

Kirkland & Ellis has 9 offices total, with 6 in the United States. They are best known for their litigation, bankruptcy, and intellectual property departments. They have a track record of high revenues and profits, topping $1.3 billion in revenues in 2007.

More Deferrals at Foley & Lardner

joshua — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:31:30 +0000

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, and will receive a $5000 per month stipend, but no health care, in the mean time. Some litigation associates will start in February, the date of the original deferral, while the rest will start this December, earlier than planned.

McDonald Hopkins Picks up Four Attorneys

joshua — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:13:12 +0000

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 advisory and advocacy law firm with more than 130 attorneys. The firm has offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and West Palm Beach.

Cohen Milstein Hires Litigators Away from Schoengold

Erik Even — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:05:11 +0000

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 specializes in the representation of individuals, Taft-Hartley pension and benefit funds and other Institutional Investors in securities fraud class action and derivative litigation.

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll is a plaintiffs’ class action law firm, with offices Washington DC, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Duane Morris Rescues 24 from Wolf Block

Erik Even — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:50:31 +0000

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 lawyers joining Duane Morris are litigators, but the group also includes real estate and corporate lawyers.

Founded in 1904 as Duane, Morris, Heckscher & Roberts, Duane Morris LLP employs more than 650 lawyers in 23 offices in the United States, London, Singapore and Vietnam. In addition to legal services, Duane Morris has independent affiliates employing approximately 100 professionals engaged in other disciplines.