King & Spalding is adding three partners to its litigation practice. Trial lawyers James J. Capra Jr. and James P. Cusick will join the firm’s New York office and Diana L. Weiss will be resident in the Washington D.C. office. All three are former partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and have backgrounds in accountant liability [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Lori Kalani is leaving DISH Network, where she is currently senior counsel and director of government affairs, and joining Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Kalani will be part of Orrick’s government and strategic affairs practice group in the Washington, DC office. Through her work for DISH Network, Kalani has had the opportunity to get to know [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Since the start of the recession, law firms have increasingly turned to alternative fee agreements to keep business flowing in. Now Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has signed what might be the broadest alternative fee agreement ever with Levi Strauss. Under the agreement, Orrick will handle all of Levi’s non IP legal work for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
This is not you normal pair of lawyers. Lanny Davis was White House special counsel under Bill Clinton and acted as a spokesman for the President on matters ranging from campaign finance investigations to the scandal involving Monica Lewisnky. He was a big supporter of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary campaign and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The American Lawyer has updated its list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than 3,067 attorney jobs have been cut, or 2.75%. Here are the top five, as of today: Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft: 36.3% Dechert LLP: 14.6% Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe: 14.3% McKee Nelson: 13.3% White & Case: 13.0%
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...Thursday, July 9, 2009
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers will not start until January 2012. Those offered positions will defer for one year, and participate in a public interest fellowship program in 2011. Also the firm, which usually recruits on campuses in late Summer/early Fall, will [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, is abandoning lock-step compensation for associates. Under a lock-step scheme, associate salaries are determined entirely by how long the associate has been with the firm. Orrick’s new compensation model places associates on the partner track into one of three levels: Associate, Managing Associate, and Senior Associate. Compensation [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
The American Lawyer has assembled a list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than 2,900 attorney jobs have been cut, or 2.62%. Here are the top five, as of today: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft: 29.8% Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe: 14.3% McKee Nelson: 13.3% White & Case: 13.0% Dechert LLP: 11.8%
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is recruiting recent law school graduates for its Global Operations Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. The positions are entry level Career Attorneys in the Emerging Companies Group. In the beginning of March, Orrick laid off 100 associates and 200 staff. The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 1863, has over 1,100 lawyers worldwide in 21 [...]
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