Snell & Wilmer has announced the opening of their new sports agency, Athlete Management Professionals LLC, as reported by the National Law Journal on March 8. Snell & Wilmer corporate and finance attorney Travis Leach will run the spin off agency; Leach represented clients in the sports industry before taking on this new role. Leach [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
Today The National Law Journal published its annual rankings of top law schools throughout the United States. The National Law Journal bases its rankings on which schools sent the highest percentage of graduates to first-year jobs at the largest firms in the country. No other factors were taken into account in formulating these rankings. Northwestern [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Last week 8 lawyers at Ruden McCloskey, including some prominent partners, left the firm for Adams and Reese. The firm is down to 123 lawyers from 175 at the beginning of 2009 and has fallen out of the National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the nation’s 250 law firms. The firm laid off 35 staffers [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sources are reporting that anywhere from 12 to 15 lawyers are moving from Dickstein Shapiro to the neighboring office of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, including the managing partner of Dickstein Shapiro’s New York office, Robin Cohen. Cohen, who represents corporations in insurance claims, was named one of the 50 most influential female lawyers [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
Nobody expected her to be a wallflower, but Justice Sotomayor has exceeded expectations when it comes to questioning lawyers during oral arguments. In a report issued by the National Law Journal, Sotomayor came out on top in the number of questions asked so far this term with 146. Chief Justice Roberts followed with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
A recent survey done of the top 250 law firms in the U.S. shows a loss of over 5,000 lawyers over the past year. 5,259 lawyers, to be exact, were laid off, which amounts to a drop of 4 percent. This is the largest decline ever reported by the National Law Journal, which started collecting information [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
According to a report issued by the National Law Journal, the top 250 law firms cut 5,259 attorney positions this year in the worst year since the NLJ began compiling the statistics. The firm shedding the most jobs was Latham & Watkins which has 444 fewer lawyers than last year. The number of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden. The firm is recruiting corporate lawyers and commercial litigators. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
Phoenix, Arizona-based Lewis & Roca has launched a new Mountain View, California law office, staffed with an intellectual property team from the Palo Alto office of White & Case. The three attorneys and two paralegals will be joined by further hires as business picks up, and may move to Palo Alto. Lewis and Roca LLP is based [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 27, 2009
Quarles & Brady LLP is launching a new practice group specializing in clean energy, climate change and sustainability law. Over 50 attorneys from the firm’s offices in Wisconsin, Arizona and Illinois will form the new practice. Quarles & Brady LLP is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to the National Law Journal’s 2007 rankings, it is the 90th [...]
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