Seyfarth Shaw has released more details about its move to a merit-based associate compensation plan. This plan will be phased in over several months in 2010 and place associates in three different tiers or “bands”. The tiers are the rough equivalent to junior, mid level and senior associate positions at big firms. Instead of seniority [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, February 3, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news… Arthur Cutillo plead not guilty in court yesterday to charges stemming from the Galleon Group insider trading case… Thomas Russo has officially started at AIG, leaving Patton Boggs behind… Mayer Brown has thawed salaries and given associates a double bump… McDonald Hopkins [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Leon R. Sequeira has joined Seyfarth Shaw as of counsel in the labor and employment department. Sequeira most recently served as assistant secretary of labor for policy at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2007-09. Seyfarth Shaw’s labor and employment department has nearly 350 employment attorneys nationally. Sequeira will join other two other recent additions to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Daniel J. Schwartz has joined Seyfarth Shaw’s Chicago office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, the firm announced Tuesday. Schwartz was previously with Jenner & Block. Schwartz focuses on the areas of intellectual property litigation and counseling with a special emphasis on patent, trade secrets and trademark litigation, according to a press release. [...]
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 [...]
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