Cohen Milstein has hired two new litigators for its New York office, Joel Laitman and Christopher Lometti, both from Schoengold Sporn Laitman Lometti. Laitman and Lometti will handle complex securities…
Two key partners at New York’s Skadden have jumped ship to Kirkland & Ellis. David Fox is leaving after more than 20 years with Skadden. He is joined by Daniel…
Columbus, Ohio-based lawyers J. Richard Emens and Beatrice Wolper, until recently partners at Chester Willcox & Saxbe, are founding their own family business law firm. Emens & Wolper was launched…
Herbert Smith will launch a new office in Madrid, Spain with a group from Linklaters. Alvaro Sáinz, Miguel Riaño and Ignacio Paz were partners at Linklaters. Ignacio Díez-Picazo was a…
Essex County, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Donald Goldman has ruled that defunct law firm Ravin Sarasohn may sue Lowenstein Sandler over partner defections that killed the firm. The judge…
Two partners from Skadden’s Washington, DC office, Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, are leaving the firm to form their own firm, BuckleySandler. The firm will include all 36 attorneys from…
A California appeals court ruling from 1984 that a firm can sue a departing partner for profits lost from open cases. Six partners who moved to Heller Ehrman from another…
Dallas’ Haynes and Boone yesterday laid off one associate, one of counsel and one staff in their New York City office. The terminations resulted from the upcoming departure of two…
US Securities and Exchange Chairman Mary Schapiro has named David Becker, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, as chief legal officer and senior policy adviser, one of her…
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