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Morning Roundup

joshua — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:56:53 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Friday, March 4, and here’s a quick glance at yesterday’s news…

WlimerHale jumped on the spring bonus bandwagon…

Howrey lost another big batch of lawyers…

Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole…

UK firm Kennedys merged with its Portugese partner…

and pop star Prince is facing some unpleasant legal troubles…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:57:02 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, March 2, and this is a quick look back at this week’s news…

The partnership has approved DLA Piper’s merger with its Australian partner…

Congress has reached a deal to temporarily avoid a shutdown…

Democrats in Congress have introduced an ethics bill that would cover the Supreme Court…

Barnes & Thornburg is entering the LA market…

and Gibson Dunn had a record breaking year in 2010…

Morning Update

joshua — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:38:39 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, February 24, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories…

Linsday Lohan is back in court…

Rahm Emanuel is the new Mayor of Chicago…

The Justice Department will not defend DOMA in court…

and Linklaters is paying a spring bonus to US associates…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:30:26 +0000

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, February 23, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

Zuckerman Spaeder absorbed a Baltimore boutique…

Dickstein Shapiro expanded its IP practice in Southern California…

And Congress is considering suspending the Equal Access to Justice program…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:53:30 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Friday, February 11, and here’s a recap of yesterday’s news…

Fiancial reports for 2010 continue to trickle in, and yesterday we talked about Reed Smith…

The 2012 election cycle is already underway and two more senators have announced their retirement plans…

Cadwalader is going to court to defend itself against a $13 million malpractice claim…

and King & Spalding picked up a 14 attorney team from an Oakland firm…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:35:46 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, February 10, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

South Carolina is debating a law to punish inmates for belonging to social networking sites…

Locke Lord’s revenues were flat in 2010…

Proft and revenues were up at DLA Piper last year…

Dewey & LeBoeuf added a large bankruptcy team from an LA Boutique…

and Pillsbury picked up a real estate team from Orrick…

Weekend Review

joshua — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:59:18 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, January 31, and here’s a quick look back at the end of last week…

Greenberg Traurig terminated a partner caught up in an SEC proceeding…

Kaye Scholer added a partner from Reed Smith…

Patton Boggs increased revenues and profits in 2010…

and DLA Piper is getting set to merge with its Australian partner, DLA Phillips Fox…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:02:36 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, January 24, and here’s a quick look back at the headlines from the end of last week…

Anderson Kill is opening a new office in Connecticut…

Wilmer Hale recruited a senior attorney from the Air Force…

Dewey & LeBoeuf picked up Howrey’s vice-chair…

and Kent Conrad will retire from the Senate in 2012…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:14:15 +0000

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 19, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines…

Gibson Dunn scooped up four partners from Vinson & Elkins…

Dewey added seven new partners from several firms…

The FBI is looking for information related to an explosive device left along an MLK Day parade route…

and Joe Lieberman is the latest Senator to announce plans to retire…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:59:34 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, December 22, and after a brief hiatus we are returning to bring you a quick review of the week’s top stories.

King & Spalding is expanding its government investigations practice in California…

Jones Day has a new Partner In Charge of its Dallas office…

Fulbright & Jaworski is relocating its Austin office…

Covington & Burling picked up a former Bush appointee…

Quinn Emanuel announced its new partnership class…

And Cleary Gottlieb has a new managing partner…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:54:55 +0000

Good Morning! Today is Friday, December 3, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories…

The US Senate is preparing to pass a new whistle blower law…

Cleary is moving into Hong Kong…

Collas Day and Crill Canavan are set to merge…

A new panel has been authorized to consider pay raises for New York judges…

And WilmerHale has named a new pair of managing partners…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:56:16 +0000

Good morning! Today is Thursday, July 22, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Lindsay Lohan lost another lawyer on her way to jail…

A UC Berkley report finds that law professors lean to the left…

Merger talksbetween Townsend & Townsend and Kilpatric Stockton have broken down…

Ulmer & Berne add three lawyers in Ohio…

and summer hiring among top law first is down significantly this year…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:22:25 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, February 2, and here’s a quick peek back at yesterday’s headlines…

Ropes & Gray adds a former Assistant to the Solicitor General…

McDermott Will & Emery added one to its IP practice…

A forthcoming DoJ report will admonish but not sanction the lawyers who authored the “torture memos“…

UC San Diego is working on plans for a new law school…

DLA Piper hired Pfizer’s assistant general counsel…

Lateral moves were at a record high in 2009…

A Federal Court has ruled in favor of a blind law student trying to take the bar exam…

Jones Day has issued a memo in opposition to the NALP recruitment report…

Two more Paul Hasting lawyers moved to Haynes and Boone, bringing the total to six…

Chadbourne & Parke added one to its anti-trust practice…

Latham & Watkins added eight more from White & Case…

And Paul Weiss had record high profits in 2009…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:19:41 +0000

Good morning! Today is Thursday, January 21, and here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories…

Sidley Austin added an attorney in its new Palo Alto office…

Wilson Sonsini laid off 20 staff…

Fulbright & Jaworski promoted seven new partners…

Goodwin Procter thawed salaries and paid bonuses…

McKenna Long & Aldridge picked up another former congressman…

Jones Walker added three to its banking practice…

There’s a new firm, catering to the hospitality industry…

The numbers are in, and Cadwalader partners did very well…

Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith doubled their New York office space…

and the 90 year old former Manhattan DA has joined Wachtell Lipton…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:45:12 +0000

Good morning! Today is Friday, January 15, and here’s a look at yesterday top stories…

A study from Altman Weil predicts biglaw billing rates will rise this year…

The former COO of TARP has joined Cozen O’Connor..

White & Case has launched a arbitration practice in Singapore…

Dickstein Shapiro is abandoning lockstep compensation…

and the UK’s Appleby opened an office in Guernsey…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:38:11 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, January 14, and here’s a quick look at yesterday’s news…

The Supreme Court ruled against televising the Proposition 8 trial…

The Practicing Law Institute will hold a symposium on “hot button” topics on February 1…

Dyncorp is being sued by two National Guardsmen…

Robert Pringle is the antitrust lawyer of the year, says the California Bar Association…

Jones Walker adds two attorneys to its health care practice…

WilmerHale picks up a former DoJ Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General…

Bondurant Mixson & Elmore promoted two partners…

Kaye Scholer cuts salaries…

MG&C has eight new partners…

and Jackson Lewis opened an office in Baltimore…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:04 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, January 13, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines…

Morgan Lewis picked up a new senior counsel from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission…

Scott Pierpont moved from Mayer Brown to Jones Day….

Carter Ledyard picked up one from Dorsey & Whitney…

The SEC has filed a second suit against Bank of American over last year’s merger…

More DA’s have been let go in San Joaquin, California…

Miles & Stockbridge promoted three to principal…

Reinhart also promoted a new class…

McDermott Will & Emery is moving to merit based compensation and cutting salaries…

Butler Rubin promoted one to partner…

LG Electronics and the Department of Energy square off over stickers…

Bowditch & Dewey named a new managing partner…

Sterne Kessler promoted new directors…

Brinks Hofer opened an office in Washington, DC…

Chartwell expanded it’s New York office…

and Blank Rome added six in Los Angeles…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:20:47 +0000

Good morning! It’s Friday, January 8, and here’s a peek back at yesterday’s stories…

Two firmsin the Carolinas have merged…

California Governor Schwarzenegger has appointed three attorneys to state posts…

There are conflicting reports on the pace of law firm mergers in 2009…

Sedgwick picked up seven attorneys in California…

Jaffe Associates is now known as Jaffe PR…

Moore & Van Allen hired the former mayor of Charlotte…

Controversy is swirling around the legal protections offered to the Christmas bomber…

And some first years at Pillsbury are getting hit with a salary cut…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:30:30 +0000

Good morning! It’s Monday, January 4. I hope everyone had a fantastic New Year. Let’s take a look back at the stories making headlines over the last several days…

A federal judge has dismissed a case against several former employees of Blackwater Security…

Legal fees in the Madoff bankruptcy case are piling up….

Hastings College of Law has a new dean…

Congressman King of New York is pushing for a military trial for the Christmas bomber…

Nokia is going after Apple for allegedly violating its patents…

and Kramer Levin is matching the Cravath bonuses…

Daily Roundup

joshua — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:13:28 +0000

As we get closer and closer to New Years Eve, I want to remind everyone to be be careful and to have a fantastic and safe holiday. We want every single one of our readers back next year!

Here’s a look at yesterday’s news…

Ron Parraguirre is Nevada’s new chief justice…

A branch of Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas bombing…

Recruitment firm Sivin-Tobin has lost its appeal in its suit against Akin Gump…

Congress continues to be unsympathetic to the ABA’s appeal for debt relief for law students….

In house counsel at Fortune 500 companies have named Ulmer & Berne the “go to firm”…

And Mayer Brown announced bonuses, with no new surprises….

Morning Roundup

joshua — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:26 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, December 28, and here’s a look back at the news from last week.

Kirkland & Ellis paid out bonuses…

Newly released records detail Rothstein’s non profit activities…

Cravath confirmed that no new partners will be named this year…

A dozen lawyers have left Dickstein Shapiro….

A federal appelate court has upheld a large judgement against Microsoft….

and Weil Gotshal’s bonuses are out…

Holiday Roundup

joshua — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:03:37 +0000

Good morning everyone. Today is Wednesday, December 23. We’ll be taking a break for a few days to celebrate Christmas so this is your last roundup until Monday…

UC Irvine students who start next year will get a 50% scholarship for all three years…

Quinn Emanuel announced bonuses…

So did Wachtel Lipton…

HBJ Gateley Wareing bought out a small Scottish firm…

A new law prohibits mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts of defense contractors…

Hogan & Hartson is paying a bonus and partially thawing compensation…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:08:41 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday, December 17, and here’s your snapshot of yesterday’s news…

John Schulman, top counsel for Warner Bros for 25 years, has joined MS&K…

Seyfarth Shaw picks up a lateral from Hogan & Hartson…

WilmerHale’s new partnership class is over 50% female…

The FTC wants a piece of Intel….

Dewey & Leboeuf match the Cravath bonuses…

and Simpson & Thatcher is the only firm that we know of paying bonuses to deferred associates doing public interest work…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:13:07 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Wednesday, December 16, and here’s a quick look at yesterday’s news…

Sonnenschein lays off some staff and abandons lockstep compensation….

WilmerHale also ditches lockstep….

Nixon Peabody associates get a last minute deferral…

and the partnerships at Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have approved the merger plans…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:20:35 +0000

Good morning everyone! This is your morning roundup for Wednesday, December 9.

Tiger Woods has reportedly retained LA Boutique Lavely & Singer…

Justice Sotomayor has issued her first opinion as a Supreme…

More deferralsat Mcdermott Will & Emery…

and DLA Piper is abandoning lockstep compensation…

Friday Roundup

joshua — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:37:46 +0000

Hello everyone! Thanks to a minor electrical problem this isn’t so much a morning roundup as an early afternoon one.

Pepe & Hazard is reported to be in merger talks…

The couple who gained notoriety for crashing the state dinner has retained counselfrom Dewey & LeBoeuf…

BigLaw wants to raise rates, and corporate America doesn’t want to pay…

And Orrick is moving away from lockstep in a big way….

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:42 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday December 3 and this is your morning review.

The New York Senate has rejected a bill that would have permitted same sex marriages…

Two firms have announced bonus schedules that are a little different… but not much…

Sidley Austin is opening in Silicon Valley with the help of some laterals…

and while Dubai World melts down, a few British firms are scoring big…

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…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:30:41 +0000

Good morning one and all! It’s Friday, November 27, and now that the triptophan has hopefully worn off, here’s a look at wednesday’s headlines.

Scott Rothstein has been officialy disbarred…

Debevoise & Plimpton announced their bonus schedules…

And so did Davis Polk…

and in Switzerland, film director Roman Polanski has been granted bail…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:01 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Wednesday, November 25 and here’s a snapshot of yesterday’s news.

Howard Rice is losing four partners in its business division…

South Carolina has hired a lawyer to represent the office of the Governor during the upcoming impeachment hearings…

California’s Governor Schwazenegger seems to share his wife’s disdain for traffic laws…

Bowman & Brooke opens its seventh office in Colombia, South Carolina…

and Orrick has signed a very broad alternative fee agreement with Levi Strauss…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:28 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, November 19 and this is your quick look back at the headlines.

A judge in Louisiana held that the US Army is liable for some Katrina damage…

Google debuts its new case law database….

Winston & Strawn has two new offices in Asia…

David Hamilton is getting his up or down vote for confirmation…

and the ABA is looking for a new leader….

Morning Roundup

joshua — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:52:17 +0000

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 17, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news.

The Chicago school district has been ordered to allow students immediate transfers in the wake of the killing of a student…

Proskauer Rose has a new class of partners…

Jackson Lewis opened a new office in Cincinnati…

Merger talks continue, but partners at Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have settled on a name….

and Reed Smith is asking non equity partners to cough up…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:35:44 +0000

Good morning everyone. It’s Monday, November 16, and here’s a quick look back at the recent news.

Justice Sotomayor is the most active questioner on the Court, accoding to the National Law Journal…

A group of students and parents is suing the Chicago school district in the wake of the violent death of a student…

Now that Intel and AMD have come to terms, we look at the law firms behind the battle…

and Greg Craig is stepping down as White House chief counsel…

For my fellow skywatchers, tonight the earth will pass through the debris of the swift-tuttle comet, treating us to what is commonly referred to as the Leonids – a bright and colorful meteor shower named for the constellation Leo. For best times to view and more information, check this link.

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:25:41 +0000

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 around to making some of its offers to its summer class…

Ropes & Gray adds another attorney to its new office in London…

A beauraucratic snafu may cost Pepsi $1.2 billion…

and our condolences go out to the family and friends of Texas lawyer Sidney Davis, who died this week from complications due to the swine flu…

Also of note – several sites yesterday were carrying stories about a possible merger between Hogan & Harston and the UK firm Lovells. We reported on this story a few weeks ago, and there isn’t really anything new to report yet. For our original story, look here. We will of course bring you any updates as they arise.

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:30:35 +0000

Good morning! Here’s a look at yesterday’s news…

Covington & Burling announced its new partner class…

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Salazar v Buono…

Fenwick & West is paying new associates to go away…

and Belmont University is opening a new law school…