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Morning Roundup

sara — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:56:26 +0000

Good morning! Today is Thursday, March 18, and here’ a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

Polsinelli Shughart announces plans to acquire Hendren Andrae…

Fox Rothschild expands their West Palm Beach office…

Fish & Richardson pick up five lawyers from Darby…

Former Apple general counsel Daniel Cooperman returns to Bingham McCutchen…

Former Homeland Security deputy general counsel Jason Klitenic joins Holland & Knight…

Hawaiian officials consider a bill to ignore repeated and “vexatious” requests for President Obama’s birth certificate…

Bradshaw & Herrington Merges With White Goss

Erik Even — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:11:03 +0000

Kansas City, Missouri law firm Bradshaw & Herrington is merging into local firm White Goss.

With the four lawyers from Bradshaw & Herrington, including name partners Tom Bradshaw and Daniel Herrington, the combined firm will have 22 lawyers.

Founded in 2000 by five Polsinelli Shughart lawyers, White Goss Bowers March Schulte & Weisenfels focuses on real-estate, land-use law, municipal law and corporate litigation.

The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

Erik Even — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Here are the law firm layoffs reported this week:

Troutman Sanders: undisclosed

Dunlap & Seeger: 2 attorneys, 3 staff

Mayer Brown: 55 lawyers and staff

Hood Vores & Allwood: 2 lawyers, 4 staff

Katten Muchin Rosenman: 23 lawyers, 46 staff

Jenner & Block: 34 staff

Polsinelli Shughart: 9 attorneys, 16 staff

Morris, Manning & Martin: 6 incoming first-year associates

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips: 12 attorneys, 35 staff

Denton Wilde Sapte: 37 lawyers, 39 staff

Sughrue Mion: undisclosed number of incoming first year associates

Alston & Bird: undisclosed

Blake Lapthorn: 20 lawyers & staff

Total : 91 lawyers, 177 staff, 75 unidentified; 343 in all.

That’s way better than last week’ s 574 lawyers, 812 staff!

Polsinelli Shughart Lays Off 9 Attorneys, 16 Staff

Erik Even — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:20:27 +0000

Kansas City law firm Polsinelli Shughart, the result of a merger last month, has laid off nine attorneys and 16 staff members.

Chairman Russell Welsh said the layoffs were from various practices, and were both “economy related” and the result of redundancies due to the merger.

Four of the lawyers laid off were the firm’s Kansas City HQ.

Polsinelli Shughart PC is the result of a merger between Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy. The firms had combined revenue of about $174 million in 2008. Polsinelli ranked fifth and Shughart sixth on the Kansas City Business Journal’s most recent list of the top area law firms.

Polsinelli Shughart Merger Finalized

Erik Even — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:56:20 +0000

Last week we reported that former Republican Missouri US Representative Kenny Hulshof was joining the law firm that will emerge from the pending merger of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy.

Today, that merger is final.

The new firm, Polsinelli Shughart PC, came into existence Sunday. The move creates a firm with nearly 500 lawyers in several cities, effectively becoming one of Kansas City’s biggest law firms.

The firms had combined revenue of about $174 million in 2008. Polsinelli ranked fifth and Shughart sixth on the Kansas City Business Journal’s most recent list of the top area law firms.

The Polsinelli firm was known for work in real estate, financial services and life sciences practices, and Shughart was noted for its work in business litigation, health care and construction law.

Polsinelli Chairman and CEO Russell Welsh holds those titles with the combined firm, and Shughart CEO Jack Kilroy Jr. becomes vice president.

Shughart litigator Larry Ward is the combined firm’s chairman emeritus.