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Saul Ewing Hires Buchanan Ingersoll Team

Erik Even — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:55:20 +0000

A group of seven attorneys, including three partners, from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney will join the Wilmington, Delaware office of Saul Ewing.

William E. Manning, Teresa K.D. Currier and Richard A. Forsten are joining Saul Ewing as partners, while James D. Taylor joins as Special Counsel. Joining the firm as associates are Jennifer Morgan Becnel-Guzzo, Michael J. Farnan and Andrew H. Lippstone.

Manning joins the Litigation Department and will serve, with Stabler, as Co-Office Managing Partner. He will also Co-Chair Saul Ewing’s Higher Education Practice Group with James A. Keller.

Currier joins the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department, and Forsten will be a partner in the Real Estate Department.

Taylor, Becnel-Guzzo and Farnan will join the Litigation Department, and Lippstone will be a member of the Real Estate Department.

Three secretaries and two paralegals from Buchanan Ingersoll will join the attorneys.

Saul Ewing LLP is a full service law firm with 260 lawyers in nine offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, New York and the District of Columbia.

Shipman & Goodwin Cuts 5 Lawyers, 21 Staff

Erik Even — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:04:57 +0000

Shipman & Goodwin will cut 26 jobs, including five lawyers, across its four offices in Connecticut.

The Hartford headquarters is the most affected, losing four lawyers, one of them a partner, and 16 paralegal and administrative jobs.

Also this week, Hartford’s Robinson & Cole cut 11 lawyers and 19 staff.

Founded in 1919, Shipman & Goodwin has 335 employees, including 135 lawyers. In Hartford, the firm has 100 lawyers and about 150 support staff. Its other offices are in Stamford, Greenwich and Lakeville.

Calfee, Halter Dismisses Four Lawyers

Erik Even — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:44:42 +0000

Cleveland’s Calfee, Halter & Griswold dismissed four lawyers, a paralegal and another staffer. All were among Calfee’s 160 lawyers in Cleveland except one, a lawyer in the 15-lawyer Columbus office.

Calfee, a general business firm, has large practices in intellectual property law, capital markets and litigation.

“Their departures are a direct result of matching our head count with projected business,” Philip Dawson, the firm’s COO, said.