Greenberg Traurig has opened an office in San Francisco, its fifth in California. The new office will have two managing shareholders — Samuel B. Shepherd and Kenneth Steinhal. Shepherd, an IP and employment litigation attorney, was previously a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges. Steinthal’s practice focuses on trying cases in the music and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges reported a 6% decline in profits per partner for 2009 with the firm’s 388 partners averaging $3.1 million in profits. In 2008 Quinn Emanuel reported an average of $3.3 million in profits per partner. Revenues declined 5%, from $442 million to $420 million. Revenue per lawyer dropped from $1.1 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
At its San Francisco and Silicon Valley locations, law firm Quinn Emanuel is deferring half its incoming first year class to until January 2010. No deferral stipend or any other consideration has been announced. Some, but not all, of the deferrals are voluntary. Less than ten incoming associates have been affected. The firm waited to make the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
McKool Smith, which brought on two new partners in March, has now hired five attorneys for its New York office. Eric P. Berger joins from Quinn Emanuel in New York. He handles intellectual property matters, including electrical engineering patent litigation. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, before graduating [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 11, 2009
This week in law firm layoffs: Brownstein Hyatt: 15 lawyers, 22 staff Chapman and Cutler: undisclosed lawyers Quinn Emanuel: 10 staff DLA Piper: estimated 32 lawyers Willkie Farr & Gallagher: 24 undisclosed Vedder Price: 9 lawyers Townsend and Townsend and Crew: 16 lawyers, 45 staff Bracewell & Giuliani: undisclosed staff Baker & McKenzie: 38 lawyers, 86 staff De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek: 90 staff Clifford Chance: 10 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 9, 2009
A JDJournal tipster informed us yesterday that Quinn Emanuel held layoffs at their Los Angeles office. Today the firm confirmed that our tipster was reliable: Quinn Emanuel laid off 10 staff members in LA this week. No lawyers were affected. Quinn Emanuel’s revenues climbed 15% to $442 million in 2008, and profits per partner rose 11% to $3.34 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
According to a JDJournal tipster, Quinn Emanuel held more layoffs at their Los Angeles Office yesterday. There are no further details. The last rumored layoff was held last month, and there were no numbers released then as well. If you know anything about the situation at Quinn Emanuel, please — send us a confidential tip! Quinn Emanuel Urquhart [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 28, 2009
This week in law firm layoffs: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher: 36 staff Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: undisclosed lawyers, 50 staff Bose McKinney & Evans: 10 lawyers, 15 staff Clifford Chance: 24 lawyers Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge: 25 lawyers, 35 staff Dechert LLP: 63 lawyers, 62 staff Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP: undisclosed Saul Ewing: 7 lawyers, 7 staff Goldberg [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Quinn Emanuel has confirmed it laid off “a handful” of people for lack of work today. Rumors in the blawgosphere say six people were let go. The firm denied a rumor that up to 25 were sacked. There are no further details available at this time. If you know anything about what’s going on at Quinn, send [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 12, 2009
Los Angeles-based O’Melveny & Myers announced that profits per partner were down more than 7% to $1.5 million. Gross revenues for 2008 were $908 million, an almost 3% drop from the prior year. O’Melveny lost two high profile partners this winter. The co-head of restructuring, Michael Sage, joined Dechert in mid-January. And white collar practice group [...]
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