Latham & Watkins has added Raymond Kwok as a real estate partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Kwok previously served in the Hong Kong office of Blank Rome. Latham & Watkins launched its Hong Kong law capability and further expanded its English law practice in the region in early 2009 with the addition of seven [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Gregory Page, formerly of Pickrel Schaeffer & Ebeling, is launching his own practice in Springboro, Ohio, and will hire two attorneys and three staff before the end of the year. Gregory S. Page Co. LPA will focus on commercial and residential real estate, construction and business litigation. Page spent over a decade years at Pickrel Schaeffer, and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Atlanta’s Morris Manning, which recently canceled its 2010 Summer Associate Program, is slashing salaries based on how much work a particular practice group is bringing in. The real estate, commercial lending, and general corporate practice groups are taking 15% salary cuts. All other groups will see 10% cuts. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, is 175-lawyer firm with [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
London law firm Speechly Bircham has hired 90 people, including 17 partners, from the dissolving Campbell Hooper. The hirings, which are not being characterized as a merger, give Speechly Bircham a total of over 400 employees. The firm says the move makes Speechly Bircham on of the top 50 UK firms. Speechly Bircham has also reorganized, creating [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 18, 2009
Eckert Seamans has picked up two Seyfarth Shaw partners for its real estate practice. Ralph Stone and Rachel Gould join Eckert Seamans in Boston. Stone will handle commercial, industrial, and residential properties. He earned his JD from Harvard Law School. Gould will represent parties in commercial real estate matters. She earned her law degree from Northeastern University School [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 18, 2009
Dayton, Ohio lawyer Ted Gudorf has founded the Gudorf Law Group, bringing on three new attorneys. Gudorf, who has practiced law in Dayton for 23 years, specializes in estate planning, estate administration and asset protection planning. He is board certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in the areas of estate planning, trust [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: US District Court Judge Bruce Kauffman is stepping down next week, and will join Philadelphia’s Elliott Greenleaf law firm. Kauffman will co-chair the firm’s executive committee. He is a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. Paul Battaglia joins Williams Kastner in Seattle as of counsel. He handles real estate, leasing, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Cadwalader, the AmLaw 200 firm that leads in percentage laid off, has asked 34 junior associates to accept a one year, unrestricted sabbatical. The sabbaticals target lawyers in the Capital Markets and Real Estate Finance groups in New York and North Carolina. Participating lawyers will get one-third of their current compensation, plus medical benefits.The firm intends [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Florida’s Ruden McClosky, which laid off two lawyers and 18 staff in May, is cutting associate and non-equity partner compensation by 8%. Equity partners are not likely to receive the holdbacks of 18% of their pay. The firm is struggling, as it relies heavily on real estate transactional work, which has been negatively affected by the global [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
Winstead has added three attorneys from the San Antonio office of Bracewell & Giuliani. Frank Ruttenberg joins Winstead in San Antonio as a shareholder. Elizabeth Breazeale joins as of counsel, and D. Farr Nolen joins as an associate. All three join the real estate development and investment practice. Winstead PC has offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, [...]
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