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Morning Roundup

joshua — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:45:27 +0000

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, December 1, and here’s a look back at the stories making news yesterday…

BigLaw is promoting fewer to partner this year…

An aspiring lawyer in New York has been refused admission to the bar because of his excessive student loans…

Nelson Mullins opens a new office in West Virginia…

Chadbourne & Parke is paying associates the money originally cut from their salaries…

and another firm has matched the Cravat bonus schedule…

Nelson Mullins Opening in West Virginia

joshua — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:45:34 +0000

Nelson Mullins, already the largest firm in South Carolina, is opening its 12th office this week in Huntington, West Virginia. Three prominent West Virgina litigators, Marc Williams, Robert Massie and Melissa Foster Bird, will be joining the firms as partners and kicking off the West Virginia office. Litigation represents a little over half of Nelson Mullins work.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is a large US law firm and lobbying group based in Columbia, South Carolina. The firm ranked 127th in profit per attorney on the 2007 AmLaw 200 survey.

Wolf Block Groups Join Nelson Mullins

Erik Even — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:15:24 +0000

Lawyers from the Washington, DC and Boston offices of now-defunct Wolf Block will join the Columbia, South Carolina office of Nelson Mullins.

Those resurfacing at Nelson Mullins include five Boston partners, including Wolf Block Public Strategies CEO Robert Crow; two associates and two lobbyists from Boston; and a lobbyist from Washington.

Crowe was co-chairperson for finance for the Democratic National Committee during the 2004 presidential campaign, and is co-chairperson of Senator John Kerry’s finance committee and political action committee.

Wolf Block’s partnership dissolved the 106-year-old firm on March 23th.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is a large US law firm and lobbying group based in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2007, the National Law Journal ranked the firm the the largest in South Carolina and 111th largest in the United States. The firm also ranked 127th in profit per attorney on the 2007 Am Law 200 survey.

Nelson Mullins Launches Florida Office

Erik Even — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:34:36 +0000

Nelson Mullins has hired five attorneys from Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan’s Tallahassee office, to form a new Florida office. The new group represents automobile manufacturers in dealer, distribution and business matters.

The attorneys include partners Dean Bunch and Andy Bertron, of counsels Melissa Fletcher Allaman and C. Everett Boyd, Jr., and associate Virginia L. Gulde. These attorneys represent most of the automobile manufacturers and importers doing business in Florida.

The group plans to remain at their current Tallahassee offices.