Lateral partner moves in biglaw reached an all-time high in 2009, according to The American Lawyer’s annual Lateral Report. In the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2,775 partners left or joined the biggest firms in the country, which is a 10.6 percent increase over the previous year. “This was and will continue to be both a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a global law firm based in Los Angeles, was named the best litigation firm in the United States in this month’s issue of The American Lawyer Magazine. “Time and again in 2008-09, blue-chip clients in desperate straits have turned to Gibson Dunn lawyers to get them out of trouble at every [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sources are reporting that anywhere from 12 to 15 lawyers are moving from Dickstein Shapiro to the neighboring office of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, including the managing partner of Dickstein Shapiro’s New York office, Robin Cohen. Cohen, who represents corporations in insurance claims, was named one of the 50 most influential female lawyers [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
Good morning one and all. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Schulte Roth has sent out offers to its summer associates… McDermott Will & Emery picks up two well known faces… The American Lawyer put out this years Global 100… and Carlton Fields picks up four new lawyers…
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
The American Lawyer has published its Global 100 list for 2009. Even with the recession in full bloom, the top 100 law firms managed to increase revenues by two percent, but revenue per lawyer dropped by three percent. In the category of number of lawyers, US firm Baker McKenzie topped the list with 3,949 attorneys [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
Hughes Hubbard & Reed has expanded its bankruptcy practice in New York with two hires. Kathryn Coleman joins from Gibson Dunn, where she was a partner. She represents Chapter 11 debtors in possession, creditors’ committees, secured lenders groups, acquirers of distressed assets in and out of bankruptcy court, and equity stakeholders in connection with troubled investments [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Out of 92 firms surveyed, McKee Nelson did the best job of handling layoffs this year. According to The American Lawyer, the top five firms for appropriately and compassionately handling layoffs were McKee, Nutter McClennen, Michael Best, Stradley Ronon, and Patton Boggs. Associates at the firms surveys rated their employer for how well they handled the layoffs, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The American Lawyer expects a “a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites, terror-on-the-campus hiring and retention crisis” in 2009. If nothing changes, this fall the same law firms that recently laid off lawyers will start welcoming large groups of new lawyers, whom they will pay too well and for whom they will have too little work. If the layoffs [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The American Lawyer has been piecing together the evidence, and finds that Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost more partners than any other firm the site tracks. From Above the Law: Akin lost 17 percent of its partners to competitors, small firms, in-house positions, and government jobs. Some of those defections were anticipated–fallout from strategic [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 2, 2009
Incisive Media, publishers of various business-to-business magazines such as IT Week, Personal Computer World, and as relates to the legal profession, The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal, has announced layoffs. From a press release: As has been reported in trade outlets, Incisive Media eliminated 42 positions last week. These layoffs were distributed across positions in [...]
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