Good Morning everyone! Today is Monday, February 22, and here’s a look back at Friday’s news… Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels is suing WC&C for defamation… A former Toyota lawyer claims the company destroyed evidence about rollovers… Blank Rome posted increased revenues and profits last year…. The federal government and big tobacco are moving their fight to the Supreme Court… A [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 1, 2010
Haynes and Boone has added six partners to its East Coast real estate practice. All six will be coming from Paul Hastings New York-based real estate finance and restructuring practices. Initial reports had the number at four, but two more have been confirmed to be making the move. In a press release, Haynes and Boone [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, January 28, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines… President Obama took on the Supreme Court in last night’s State of the Union… James O’Keefe’s lawyer says his client was not trying to bug Senator Landrieu’s phones… Reed Smith picked up two corporate partners in New York… Four partners jumped from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Four real estate partners in New York, including Steven Koch, the head of Paul Hastings real estate practice, have moved to Haynes & Boone. Bob Grados, Ken Friedman and Walter Schleimer round out the group. There is some controversy surrounding the move, with Paul Hastings confirming that Grados, Friedman and Schleimer have left the firm [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
In a year that has been notable for salary cuts, layoffs, associate deferrals and smaller bonuses, it should come as no surprise that promotions to partner are also down across the board. Profits are down, and firms are reluctant to increase the number of slices of the shrinking pie. Although not every firm [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Monday was a slow news day. The biggest story of the day was one we wrote about on Friday thanks to a heads up from an anonymous tipster… Cooley picked up three new partners in Palo Alto… Dewey & LeBoeuf and Paul Hastings were involved in the Disney/Marvel deal… and the Florida Bar will be screening the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
In what has to be the largest industry merger of the year, Disney picked up 5000 new cartoon characters from Marvel Entertainment today. Peter Parker will head up a new urban justice practice group for Disney, while Professor Xavier will help Disney develop new talent. In all seriousness, there is legal news to report here. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 21, 2009
Charles D. Holland joins K&L Gates from Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the Palo Alto office. He focuses on intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in patent prosecution, portfolio review and strategic advice, ex-parte and inter-partes reexaminations, interferences, non-infringement and invalidy analyses and opinions, due diligence reviews for companies and investors, pre-litigation [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Although Los Angeles’ Paul Hastings has not finished informing this year’s Summer associates which ones will get job offers, the firm is promising the 70% to 75% who are accepted that they will start in Fall 2010, and will not be deferred. Last year, the firm offered jobs to 90% if its Summer associates. Founded in LA [...]
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