Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 27, and here’s a look back at Tuesday’s news… Bass Berry promoted seven to partner and added ten associates… Vinson & Elkins expanded its middle east practice with the addition of two laterals… A prison ban on Dungeons & Dragons was upheld by the 7th Circuit… Happy days are here againat Chadbourne & Parke… Seyfarth Shaw [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
Good Morning! Today is Monday, January 18th, and here’s a look at Friday’s top stories… Employment law firm Ogletree Deakins opens an office in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the help of six new attorneys… Seyfarth Shaw is laying of approximately 40 people, 20 lawyers and 20 staff… K&L Gates tops $1 billion in revenue… and as a result of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 15, 2010
Seyfarth Shaw is letting go of approximately 40 people, 20 lawyers and 20 staff. It’s been rough over at Seyfarth over the past year and they’ve taken several steps to keep costs down. In December, the firm cut salaries as part of a move toward merit based compensation. In November, it re-deferred [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Like many firms before it, Seyfarth Shaw is abandoning lockstep starting in 2011. Details haven’t been released, not even to the associates who must now spend next year trying to hit performance goals that have not been announced in order to receive salaries that have not yet been determined but that’s just part of the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday, December 17, and here’s your snapshot of yesterday’s news… John Schulman, top counsel for Warner Bros for 25 years, has joined MS&K… Seyfarth Shaw picks up a lateral from Hogan & Hartson… WilmerHale’s new partnership class is over 50% female… The FTC wants a piece of Intel…. Dewey & Leboeuf match the Cravath bonuses… and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Yesterday William Kahn was an associate at Hogan & Hartson, or an associate at what will soon be Hogan Lovells. Today Kahn is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw. With firms cutting back on partnership promotions, who wouldn’t want to make that kind of leap? Kahn has a mergers and acquisitions practice focusing on cross [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Tuesday, December 15, and here’s a snapshot of yesterday’s news… Loeb & Loeb is opening in Washington… The Supreme Court will review a government employee’s right to privacy for text messages received on government owned equipment… Zico is setting up shop in Australia, the first Asian firm to do so… Seyfarth Shaw gets a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Simeon Spencer is leaving the London office of Morgan Lewis and, along with associate Anna Margolis, joining Seyfarth Shaw in New York. The two new arrivals will join the firm’s International Labor & Employment Practice Group. Although they will be working out of New York, Spencer’s focus will remain on European multi-jurisdictional labor [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
Good morning everyone! As we head into Thanksgiving week, things have slowed down a bit. Here’s a look back at the end of last week. Seyfarth Shaw has redeferred half of its incoming class and cut salaries for all first years… Wilkie Farr and Simpson Thatcher have both put out their bonus schedules…. Scott Rothstein has [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw has told half of its deferred associates that they will not be starting in January as planned. Instead, they are being redeferred to October 2010, and will receive a stipend of $2000 dollars per month starting in January. If that wasn’t enough bad news, Seyfarth is also cutting the salaries of [...]
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