Louis W. Zehil, a former securities lawyer and partner at McGuireWoods, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud in the Southern District of New York Monday. The New York Law Journal reports Zehil admitted to making $10 million in illegal profits by using his role as counsel to illegally trade shares in seven [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Friday, February 26, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… A judge ordered the shutdown of debt settlement firm Allegro Law LLC… Motley Rice LLC and Burke PLLC have joined forces to pursue claims for clients in the Kellogg, Brown, and Root, Inc., Burn Pit multidistrict litigation… Jeff Roberts joins Gibson, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 25, 2010
There was mixed news on the financial front for McGuireWoods in 2009. Gross revenue and profits per equity partner (PPP) managed to increase last year, but net profits and revenue per lawyer suffered slight drops. The firm reported gross revenue of $509 million last year, an increase of 6.7 percent from the $477 million registered in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 25, 2010
C. Ruffin Poole has been charged by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina with 51 counts of corruption. Poole is a former partner at McGuireWoods (he left the firm last month) and former chief legal aide to North Carolina Governor Michael Easley. In a 64 page indictment Poole is charged with bribery, racketeering, [...]
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...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers have announced their 2009 Best Law Firms for Women. The accolade is awarded based on attention to work-life and women’s issues, and the increased use of part-time and other family-friendly policies. Firms with at least 50 lawyers were eligible to apply, and the application included detailed questions about issues that are [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
On Friday, President Obama nominated four lawyers as United States Attorneys. Daniel Bogden was nominated for the District of Nevada. He is a partner at McDonald Carano Wilson. He was previously US Attorney for the District of Nevada; Reno Division Chief in the US Attorney’s Office; and an Assistant US Attorney and member of the Organized [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Barnes & Thornburg, which recently acquired the 22-attorney Parsinen Law Firm, has brought on five new attorneys. Heather L. Fesko joins from McGuireWoods as a partner in Barnes & Thornburg’s Healthcare Department. She concentrates her practice on representation of hospitals in transactional, regulatory and compliance matters related to the health care industry. Mary Innis joins from Loeb [...]
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...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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