Former Los Angeles, California City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is joining Goodwin Procter as counsel. He still plans to run for state attorney general in 2010. Delgadillo is joining the firm’s 400-attorney litigation department. He will work out of the firm’s Century City and downtown LA offices. Meanwhile, US Attorney Thomas O’Brien will be step down from his [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Connecticut’s Democratic Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is shutting down the Nationwide Home Relief Law Group, an “illegal” law firm Blumenthal says bilked 200 Connecticuters of more than $750,000. Blumenthal says that the firm, which offered mortgage foreclosure rescue services to Connecticut consumers for up to $4,000 a pop, was in fact selling an arbitration service that [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 26, 2009
Three Detroit lawyers have founded Hafeez & Youssef, a new firm to serve the city’s Muslim community. Managing Partner Tariq Hafeez was previously at Dickinson Wright, handling business law and real estate. He was also an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan. His JD is from the University of Michigan. Managing Partner Mona Youssef is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Arizona’s State Attorney General, Terry Goddard, has announced the layoffs of 29 employees from the Attorney General’s Office. Goddard blamed the state budget crisis. The Arizona legislature still has a $3 billion deficit to close. Those affected were notified this morning. It is not clear how many of the layoffs affected attorneys. If you have any details about [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
New Jersey state Attorney General Anne Milgram’s new Volunteer Associates in Public Service Program will offer unemployed lawyers part-time work at no pay. Volunteers must work 20-hour weeks for at least three months. While it’s certainly not optimal to ask lawyers to work for free, membership in the program might look better on a CV than not [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Stephanie Heilborn joins Fulbright & Jaworski in New York as a partner in its trusts and estates practice. Most recently she was a solo practitioner as Heilborn LLC; and she was an associate at Milbank. Heilborn received her AB cum laude from Harvard University, her M.Sc from The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Tom Reilly joins Cooley Manion Jones in Boston, from Greenberg Traurig. He joins the firm as of counsel. Cooley is a former two-term Massachusetts state attorney general Gordon Peilow joins the City of London’s Cubism Law, where he will advise on trademark & copyright matters, IT contracts & litigation, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is to reopen 170 estates of deceased people, in order to reimburse heirs who were gouged by a greedy Brooklyn lawyer Louis Rosenthal. Rosenthal piled up millions of dollars in fees with the approval of his former law school pal, disgraced ex-Surrogate Court Judge Michael Feinberg. On December 4th, the state [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
The speaker of the Illinois house is convening a special panel to determine if Governor Rod Blagojevich should be impeached on corruption charges. Also, an internal review by the Obama transition team concluded there was no improper contact between the President-elect’s camp and Blagojevich’s office. Blagojevich is accused of trying to barter Obama’s vacated US Senate seat [...]
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