Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, March 2, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Revenue and profits are down, while PPP is up at Dickstein Shapiro… Steptoe & Johnson open a new office in Beijing… According to Am Law Daily’s “Diversity Scorecard” diversity at major law firms declined in 2009… The NALP settles on a heavily [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday December 3 and this is your morning review. The New York Senate has rejected a bill that would have permitted same sex marriages… Two firms have announced bonus schedules that are a little different… but not much… Sidley Austin is opening in Silicon Valley with the help of some laterals… and while Dubai [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Sidley Austin is opening an office in Silicon Valley and picking up four laterals in the process. Thomas DeFilipps is joining the firm from Wilson Sonsini and will be the managing partner. Three attorneys are moving from Howard Rice. They will be joined by eight more from Sidley Austin’s San Francisco office. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The New York firm of Chadbourne and Parke is heading west and establishing a presence in Silicon Valley. Duane Valz, previously the in-house IP lawyer for yahoo, will be joining C&P next month. Although not traditionally a large part of Chadbourne’s business, the firm has recently taken on other IP lawyers, like former Goldman and Sachs [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
At its San Francisco and Silicon Valley locations, law firm Quinn Emanuel is deferring half its incoming first year class to until January 2010. No deferral stipend or any other consideration has been announced. Some, but not all, of the deferrals are voluntary. Less than ten incoming associates have been affected. The firm waited to make the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Dewey & LeBoeuf has lured away from Cooley Godward Kronish a team of top lawyers, including the head of Cooley’s technology transactions group. Former Cooley management committee member and M&A practice honcho Richard Climan is moving to Dewey’s Palo Alto, California office. He will serve on Dewey’s executive committee, and work to expand its global M&A [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Howrey, which we reported a little over a week ago was in talks to acquire scandal-plagued intellectual property firm Day Casebeer, has announced that the merger is official. Twenty-five of the 26 attorneys at Day Casebeer joined Howrey’s Palo Alto, California office, effective this week. The partners include James Batchelder, Linda Sasaki-Baxley, Renee Dubord Brown, Lloyd Day [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 21, 2009
Howrey is in advanced talks to acquire troubled intellectual property firm Day Casebeer. Founded in 1998, Cupertino, California’s Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder is an intellectual property boutique with 27 lawyers. The firm has been rocked by a discovery scandal in a patent case between client Qualcomm, and Broadcom. Five Day Casebeer lawyers were sanctioned in 2008 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
Phoenix, Arizona-based Lewis & Roca has launched a new Mountain View, California law office, staffed with an intellectual property team from the Palo Alto office of White & Case. The three attorneys and two paralegals will be joined by further hires as business picks up, and may move to Palo Alto. Lewis and Roca LLP is based [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
Scott M. Wornow joined Baker Botts L.L.P. today as a partner in the firm’s Corporate department. The firm cited Wornow’s “extensive corporate legal practice representing clients on technology, capital markets, securities and merger and acquisition matters” in their announcement of their new partner. Wornow will be based in Palo Alto, California, extending Baker Botts’ global corporate [...]
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