Los Angeles based firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton reported slight increases in revenue and profits in 2009. Revenue increased 2.5% to $361 million. Profits per equity partner were $1.244 million, an increase of 3.5%. Revenue per lawyer though decline to $753,645, 1.8%. Last year the firm cut 25 lawyers in the first two months. In [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
DLA Piper has shed four attorneys from its real estate practice in recent months. Pamela Westhoff left the firm’s Los Angeles office, joining Sheppard Mullin as a partner. San Francisco attorneys Donald Archer and Sara Hansen Wilson moved to Drinker Biddle & Reath as partners. Chicago’s Michael Ben-Isvy joined Quarles & Brady as a partner. DLA Piper is one [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Los Angeles’ Sheppard Mullin has recently hired three new attorneys in Los Angeles and China. This week the firm announced that corporate partner Brian D. Weimer from Latham & Watkins, and real estate partner Pamela L. Westhoff from DLA Piper, were joining Sheppard Mullin. Earlier this month, the firm hired corporate partner Todd Bissett of O’Melveny & [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sheppard Mullin, which instituted salary freezes in January, now admits it has been shedding attorneys since the beginning of 2009. At yesterday’s meeting of the Sheppard Mullin Associates’ Forum, firm management announced that by the end of this week about 25 attorneys firmwide will have been let go since the beginning of the year. Some of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 5, 2009
If you’re an associate of AmLaw 100 firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, and you haven’t checked your email because you were busy figuring out whether to spend your big 2009 salary increase on a solid gold car bra for your BMW M6 Convertible or on that Lladro figurine that will complete your collection, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 2, 2009
In the Los Angeles Times, a feature on law firms creating specialized practices for the video games industry: A year ago, newly minted lawyer Shawn Foust approached a senior partner at his Century City firm with an idea: dedicate an entire practice to the video game industry. Today, the 26-year-old coordinates a team of 20 lawyers at [...]
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