Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, March 1, and here’s a quick look back at Friday’s news… Profits and revenue decline at Debevoise & Plimpton… Ogletree Deakins open a new office in Orange County, California… Donchess & Notinger claim in a court filing that a bankruptcy case is creating a financial hardship for the firm… Seyfarth Shaw releases details [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Greg Yates has joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in the firm’s New York office. The former partner at Steptoe & Johnson joins the firm’s bankruptcy practice. Yates focuses his national practice in the areas of debt/creditor relations, including workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy. A particular area of focus is advising clients on creative solutions to distressed [...]
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...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, July 6, 2009
Seyfarth Shaw, which last week brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird, is expanding its Atlanta office with lawyers poached from Troutman Sanders. Robert C. Stevens joins as a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Labor & Employment Department. He concentrates his practice on litigation and counseling matters involving employment discrimination, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 27, 2009
A group of five trusts & estates attorneys is defecting from Sonnenschein’s Los Angeles office to Seyfarth Shaw. The group is led by partner Alan Yoshitake, a resident in the business service group. Yoshitake is joined by Mark Hansen and Edward McCaffery, both of counsel, and two associates. Seyfarth Shaw employs over 750 attorneys located in nine [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
Employment lawyers across the San Francisco Bay Area say their employment work surged in Q4 2008, and those interviewed by The Recorder said they expect more of the same this year. Billings at Littler Mendelson’s 24-lawyer San Jose office were up 20% in November and 23% in December over the same months in 2007. Nixon Peabody’s national [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
From LawCrossing.com: A leading full-service law firm in America, Seyfarth Shaw has announced it is expanding its business immigration practice. The expansion comes from the addition of eight business immigration lawyers and nine additional team members, including para-professionals and staff, according to a firm press release. The additions all come from Paparelli & Partners LLP, an immigration [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
From Am Law Daily: The Am Law Daily is running out of leads for layoff stories, so we were relieved when we saw that Meredith Hobbs at the Fulton County Daily Report, an Am Law Daily sibling publication, got the managing partner of Seyfarth Shaw’s Atlanta office to open up a bit about the recent layoffs [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
On Heller Highwater blog, a “a support site for the professional support staff of a global law firm in turmoil”: I’m not sure whether this [one] just slipped by us and the rest of the media or what. But back on October 29, 2008, MEPT St. Matthews LLC – the landlord of Heller’s DC office [...]
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Monday, March 1, 2010
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