Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, March 11, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… The Robert Half Legal Hiring Index reports that employment prospects are improving for the legal industry in the second quarter… Arnold & Porter adds three from Arent Fox… The National Jurist reports that the number of law school faculty has increased [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 10, 2010
King & Spalding added to its professional liability and securities litigation practices with the addition of two partners formerly of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Kenneth Y. Turnbull joins King & Spalding’s Washington D.C. office while David M. Fine will head to New York. Turnbull and Fine both have trial practices that focus on accountant liability defense [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
This case gets weirder by the day. James O’Keefe, along with Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan, were caught up in a scheme whereby two of them posed as telephone repairmen to gain access to Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. Early reports indicate that they were attempting to bug her phone lines and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 6, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news. A federal judge has upheld most of a new law regulating tobacco companies and advertising… Raymond Mullady has moved from Orrick to Blank Rome… Blank Rome in turn has lost four IP lawyers to Sterne Kessler… Dechert announced its bonuses and 2010 compensation…. and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Raymond Mullady, formerly the chair of Orrick’s litigation practice in Washington DC, is moving to Blank Rome. Mullady will handle product liability and mass torts for Blank Rome in Washington. In the past, Mullady has handled clients like the pharmaceutical company Wyeth, and says that Blank Rome’s geographic footprint is better suited to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Tuesday, December 15, and here’s a snapshot of yesterday’s news… Loeb & Loeb is opening in Washington… The Supreme Court will review a government employee’s right to privacy for text messages received on government owned equipment… Zico is setting up shop in Australia, the first Asian firm to do so… Seyfarth Shaw gets a [...]
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, December 8, 2009
DLA Piperhas joined the lockstep march away from lockstep compensation. In a memo today, the firm outlined its new associate compensation package. In broad terms, it looks familiar. The overall structure resembles the plan published recently by Orrick, a three tier system with levels within the tiers. Unlike Orrick’s plan, however, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
Orrick presented its new compensation plan to its associates today, and there was much rejoicing. Unlike many firms that cut base salaries with discretionary bonuses, Orrick kept the $160k starting salary for first year associates. After that associates will be arranged in three tiers, associates, managing associates and senior associates. The three [...]
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