Freshfields will add at least 15 lawyers to its Munich office, including four partners who will relocate from Frankfurt. Yorck Jetter, Matthias-Gabriel Kremer, Rick van Aerssen and Markus Fisseler will transfer to Munich at the start of the new financial year. Senior associate Wessel Heukamp will be promoted to partner and join the office, bringing the total [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
York, UK’s Minster Law is recruiting 150 people for its two offices in York and Wakefield. CEO Matthew Briggs hopes to bring 40 jobs to York before Summer. The firm is the UK’s largest road traffic accident injury and loss recovery company. It recently shifted emphasis from business law to employment law, following an increase in redundancy [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Dayton, Ohio office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister has added eight new lawyers. The firm is bringing on all four lawyers from Crew & Buchanan in Dayton, effectively moving Crew & Buchanan to practice out of Taft’s local offices. The new lawyers from Crew & Buchanan include partners Joseph Buchanan, Jennifer Hann Harrison, Jeffrey Swillinger and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
Am Law 100 firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher reports that gross revenue rose 5.4% to $957 million in 2008. Gibson Dunn’s profits per partner declined 1.3% to $1.9 million, while revenue per lawyer dropped 4.3% to $1 million. In May, Gibson Dunn announced the opening of an office in Singapore, bringing the firm’s office total to [...]
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Jackson Lewis, a national workplace law firm with 541 attorneys in 40 offices, grew in 2008. Head count grew by 20% in 2008, through August 31; it has grown by another 12% since. Gross revenue rose 20% in 2008, to just over $233 million, and profits per partner rose 2.6% to $517,000. Revenue per lawyer was flat [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Nixon Peabody has launched an Israeli business practice group, to counsel companies in the Jewish State and those doing business with them. The move may prove controversial, as there are calls to divest from Israel in the wake of the recent Gaza offensive. Sam Feigin and Mark Kass, partners in the New York-based law firm’s Washington, DC [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
HR Bhardwaj, India’s justice minister, says his government has circulated draft regulations on allowing foreign law firms to practice in India. International law firms have been barred from practicing in India since a High Court ruling in 1995. Foreign lawyers have since either provided advice on Indian legal issues from offices in other countries, or more [...]
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From LawCrossing: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, a prominent intellectual property law firm in Alexandria, Virginia, is currently looking to hire qualified patent attorneys for its electrical/mechanical patent prosecution practice. To be considered for the positions, the firm requires a law degree, a degree in electrical/computer engineering or physics, and a license to practice before the United [...]
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