Dechert partners James Elacqua and Andrew Thomases have left the firm to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Silicon Valley. James Elacqua won a $57 million verdict in August for his client Medtronic Inc. against AGA Medical Corp., and then scored a settlement with W.L Gore & Associates Inc. later in the same [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Mary Margaret Farren filed a lawsuit last week in Connecticut trial court against her husband, John Michael Farren. Farren, a former deputy general counsel to George W. Bush, has been charged with attempted murder, first degree strangulation and assault after he allegedly attacked his wife with a flashlight and choked her until she passed out. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Gregory Craig, former White House counsel under President Obama, has joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as a partner in its Washington D.C. office. Craig will lead Skadden’s new global policy and litigation strategy practice Group. Craig, a former partner in Williams & Connolly, has a long history of public service. Prior to joining the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Skadden will hold its Summer associates program in 2010, but with less than half as many associates than in 2009. The firm had 225 summers this year, but will only have about 100 in 2010. No 2010 offers will be rescinded — if more than 100 associates accept their offers, they all will participate. As for the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Paul Hastings has hired a team of three IP attorneys from Skadden. Jeff Randall joins Paul Hastings’ Palo Alto and Washington DC offices, as co-chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice. He represents companies in multi-billion-dollar intellectual property cases. He earned his JD from the University of California Hastings College of Law. Allan Soobert joins in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
BuckleySandler, founded in March when two Skadden partners left the firm’s Washington DC office, has grown to 55 lawyers with the addition of two lawyers. Stephen Ambrose Jr. joins from GE Capital, where he was general counsel of the consumer finance unit. He will be managing partner of the firm’s new New York office. He earned [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden. The firm is recruiting corporate lawyers and commercial litigators. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
First, Manhattan’s Skadden announced that 2009 Summer Associate Program 3Ls, if they are offered jobs, will not begin until 2011. Now Atlanta’s Morris Manning has said they will not have a 2010 Summer Associate Program at all. From the memo: This decision was made because we don’t know when the economy will pick up, we feel that our [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Skadden has been ranked the top corporate law firm in the US for the ninth year in a row, according to Corporate Board Member magazine. The rankings are based on a poll of 6,300 directors and general counsel. Here are the top 20 on the America’s Best Corporate Law Firms list, including last year’s ranking: 1. Skadden Arps [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The 2009 Summer Associate Program at Skadden has begun. And the 3Ls have been warned that, if they get an offer to join Skadden, they won’t be starting in 2010 — they will be deferred to 2011. There are no further details on 2011 deferrals, as those decisions, such as precise start dates and stipends, have [...]
Continue reading...
Sponsored by |
Monday, February 8, 2010
0 Comments