Good morning! Today is March 15, the Ides of March, and here’s a look back at Friday’s news… A former aide to Vice President Joe Biden has joined Holland & Knight… The 9th Circuit upheld references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on currency… Justice Ginsburg spoke out against judicial elections… DLA Piper is facing a lawsuit [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 12, 2010
Sidley Austin has added two partners to its insurance practice in London, Martin Membery and Matthew Griffin. Both are formerly of UK-based Pinsent Masons. Membery served as head of the insurance sector practice at Pinsent Masons. His practice focuses on a wide range of insurance and reinsurance work, with a particular emphasis on joint ventures, distribution [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
Good Morning everyone! Today is Monday, February 22, and here’s a look back at Friday’s news… Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels is suing WC&C for defamation… A former Toyota lawyer claims the company destroyed evidence about rollovers… Blank Rome posted increased revenues and profits last year…. The federal government and big tobacco are moving their fight to the Supreme Court… A [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Douglas A. Axel, a former assistant United States Attorney in the central district of California, has joined Sidley Austin’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Axel had been with the U.S. Attorney’s office since 2001. While there he served as chief of its major frauds section, where he was responsible for all federal white-collar crime prosecutions [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Friday, February 19. Let’s kick the weekend off with a look back at yesterday’s stories… JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has been named in a plagiarism suit… BuckleySanders brought on a new attorney as Counsel… A school district in Pennsylvania has been accused of violating the privacy of its students [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 18, 2010
A decline in gross revenue in 2009 didn’t stop profits per equity partner (PPP) from inching up at Sidley Austin. The firm, which saw its number of equity partners decrease from 332 in 2008 to 304 last year, reported a PPP increase of just over two percent to $1.46 million. Gross revenue was $1.49 billion, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, February 15, and as the 3rd Monday in February it is also Presidents Day. For those of you not fortunate enough to have a three day weekend, let’s take a look at Friday’s news… Tipsters tell us that Hawkins & Parnell is opening in Austin… Colson Hicks is opening in Washingtonwith the help of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
After issuing another round of paychecks at 2008 salary levels, Sidley Austin today announced its 2010 compensation plan. Salaries have been thawed and associates will be getting a double bump in salary, putting them back to where they would have been if they had never been frozen in the first place. Unlike some of the firms [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
Winston & Strawn froze salaries last year and now it appears that the freeze is still on. Associates received emails today regarding their compensation and across the board, they are still the same as they were two years ago. Third year associates are still making $160k. This might seem like a way to increase business at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 2010
In its report released last week, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP transferred approximately $21 million for a government official, Teodor Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, who’d long been suspected of misappropriating the country’s oil and timber resources for personal gain. The report’s findings may prompt [...]
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