Good morning! Today is Tuesday, January 26, and here’s your morning roundup… A Pepper Hamilton Partner is the lead investor in a deal to purchase the Texas Rangers… Wilmer Hale’s numbers are out and per partner profits are up seven percent (guess they don’t mind that story leaking to blawgs) … Wilson Sonsini is thawing salaries and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday, October 29th and here in Las Vegas it feels like winter has already arrived. As I write this, my house is being buffeted by gusts of wind up to 50mph. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories… Foley & Lardner has struck a deal with the NIH… McGuire Woods gets [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The weather has turned cold, the leaves are falling from the trees in bright shades of orange and red, pumpkins are in season so that must mean it’s time to get around to making offers to your summer class, or at least, some of your offers, right? Well that’s what McGuireWoodsis doing this week. Long [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 17, 2009
Former North Carolina Democratic Governor Mike Easley is joining the Raleigh offices of Richmond, Virginia’s McGuire Woods. Two former aides from Easley’s scandal-ridden administration, Franklin Freeman and Ruffin Poole, will also join the firm. Another ex-Governor, North Carolina Republican Jim Martin, joined McGuire Woods as a senior adviser last summer. McGuire Woods is a 900-lawyer firm that has [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 3, 2009
Richmond, Virginia-based McGuire Woods will receive a Family Friendly Employer award from Charlottesville’s Children, Youth and Family Services. The agency is recognizing McGuire Woods’ liberal family leave and child care coverage policies. The law firm’s parental leave policy is not gender-specific, and offers time off even if the staffer involved is not the primary caregiver. Children, Youth and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 23, 2009
Am Law 200 firms Covington & Burling, K&L Gates, Dickstein Shapiro, and McGuireWoods were among the law firms that made the most cash from lobbying in 2008, according to Legal Times’ annual listing of the “Influence 50.” But Akin Gump came in first place, with $98 million in lobbying revenues in 2008, up 9% from 2007. Covington [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 23, 2009
Richmond, Virginia-based McGuire Woods will acquire London’s Grundberg Mocatta Rakison. The merger will add 36 attorneys to the McGuire roster. US law firm McGuireWoods LLP announced today that it has reached formal agreement to combine practices with 36-lawyer London-based international practice Grundberg Mocatta Rakison LLP (GMR). The agreement will become effective as of 1 May [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 16, 2009
Many law firms are using the economic meltdown as an excuse to end seniority-based pay for associates, adopting “merit-based” systems similar to those used outside the legal profession. Examples in the US include Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Shearman & Sterling and WolfBlock. Firms are also cutting salaries for starting associates, just two years after top firms raised [...]
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