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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal plans to cut associate salaries, beginning June 1st. First year salaries, previously a Biglaw standard $160,000, will be reduced to $145,000. Sonnenschein seeks to make associate salaries performance-based, and will create an associate-partner committee to work out the details. This year, the firm will have a merit-based bonus program; bonuses will be paid [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Philadelphia’s Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which poached six partners from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal earlier this month, has added two more partners and five associates from the Chicago-based firm. The team of health care attorneys will join Morgan Lewis’ Washington, DC office, where five of the previously hired partners will be based. Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 6, 2009
Six partners from Sonnenschein have joined Morgan Lewis’ health care regulation practice. Joyce Cowan, Kathleen McDermott, John Rah, Albert Shay, and Howard Young are joining Sonnenschein’s Washington office, while Reece Hirsch is joining the firm in San Francisco. Sonnenschein has 18 lawyers in its FDA and health care regulation practice. Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a [...]
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, February 27, 2009
(The misspelling in the title is intentional — read it aloud.) Partners at Chicago’s Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal voted today to shut the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina office. The decision affects 11 lawyers and eight staff members. Sonnenschein chair Elliott Portnoy cited “local marketplace realities, the declining demand for legal services in the Charlotte legal and financial [...]
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