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Morning Roundup

joshua — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:21:44 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, November 30th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s headlines.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens gave an interview to 60 Minutes…

New York and Southern California law firms registered a slight increase in terms of revenue growth…

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joshua — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:19:52 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, November 23rd. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Russell Rogers, a partner in Thompson Hine LLP’s business litigation and product liability litigation practice groups, will assume leadership of the firm’s Atlanta office…

Davis Polk announced that Paul Chow, a leading Chinese and Hong Kong M&A lawyer, would join the firm as a partner in Hong Kong…

Clifford Chance added Meghan O’Reilly as counsel in the firm’s New York office…

Walmart’s legal department announced plans to form an in-house pro bono program…

International law firm King & Spalding added three partners to it finance practice…

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joshua — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:55:09 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, November 16, and here’s a quick look back at Monday’s headlines…

Threats against social security judges have increased in both nature and scope…

The FDIC has filed a suit against Bryan Cave…

Venable picked up five attorneys from Wilmer Hale…

and Dickstein Shapiro added 12 attorneys to its M&A practice on the east coast…

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joshua — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:16:26 +0000

Good morning everybody! Today is Tuesday, November 9th. Here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories.

Ballard Spahr will open its 13th office with the addition of a group of attorneys from the San Diego litigation boutique La Bella & McNamara LLP…

The partnerships at Squire Sanders & Dempsey and U.K-based Hammonds agreed to merge over the weekend…

Weitz & Luxenburg partner Robert J. Gordon was named the 2011 Mass Tort Litigator of the Year by legal publication Best Lawyers…

The partnership of Clifford Chance elected Malcolm Sweeting as the firm’s next senior partner…

The National Law Journal reported overall headcount at the nation’s 250 largest law firms fell for a second straight year…

Greenberg Traurig added six attorneys to its Orange County office, in its Real Estate, Real Estate Funds and REIT practices…

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joshua — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:03:44 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, November 2nd. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

The U.S. Justice Department charged former Seyfarth Shaw taxpPartner John Rogers in a $370 million tax scheme…

doeLEGAL announced the release of their cloud-based portal software which provides collaboration solutions for corporate legal departments and law firms…

The Lanier law firm added two attorneys to its Toxic Exposure and Asbestos practice…

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joshua — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:04:22 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, November 2nd. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

DLA Piper added three attorneys as partners in the litigation practice of its New Jersey office…

Goodwin Procter elected 12 attorneys to the firm’s partnership…

Crowell & Moring added two attorneys to its environmental practice…

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joshua — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:42:07 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, September 28th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

The Innocence Project and Winston & Strawn LLP launched InnocenceRecord.org…

The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) launched an initiative to increase corporate America’s use of minority and women owned law firms for intellectual property (IP) law matters…

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joshua — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:35:45 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, September 21st. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Brooks Kushman Diversity Officer Phyllis Golden Morey was honored among “2010 Women In Law”…

Fish & Richardson was chosen as an elite “National Tier 1″ IP law firm by U.S. News & World Report…

Fourteen attorneys in the Texas offices of McKool Smith were recognized in the 2010 Texas Super Lawyers…

Highly regarded litigator and advisor Elizabeth P. Papez joined Winston & Strawn…

Mintz Levin earned high marks in the U.S. News Law Firm rankings…

Sidley Austin bolstered its international trade practice…

McKool Smith was recognized in the 2010 “Best Law Firms” rankings…

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joshua — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:47:26 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, September 7th. Here’s a quick recap of Friday’s stories.

More details emerged in proposed Squire Sanders, Hammonds Merger…

Nixon Peabody elected four new members to its partnership…

Lathrop & Gage merged with Denver Based Kamlet Reichert…

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joshua — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:18:15 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, August 31st. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Business firm Cohen & Grigsby was honored in Super Lawyers: Corporate Counsel Edition…

Roger Clemens pled not guilty in federal court to charges he lied to Congress about taking performance enhancing drugs…

Hausfeld settled with Morgan Stanley for $4.95 Million…

Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check added a patent litigation practice and two established IP lawyers as partners and co-chairs…

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joshua — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:59:06 +0000

Good morning everyon! Today is Tuesday, August 24th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

The “Tax Lady’ Roni Deutch was slapped with a $34 million lawsuit for fraud by California Attorney General Jerry Brown…

Dickstein Shapiro added two partners, previously from Patton Boggs…

The American Lawyer publication Corporate Counsel announced the top coporate law firms…

McCarter & English named a new managing partner…

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati added a partner, and expanded its Asia Practice…

Two principal members of Price Waicukauski & Riley were selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America…

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joshua — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:21:54 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, August 17th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Andrew J., “A.J.” Thomas joined Jenner & Block’s L.A. office as partner…

A Greenberg Traurig partner was named ABA Committee Co-Chair…

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP added two partners to its Hong Kong practice…

Kobre & Kim prepared to open an office in Hong Kong…

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joshua — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:28:51 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, August 10th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Mia Farrow testified in the ‘Blood Diamond’ Trial and contradicted supermodel Naomi Campbell’s testimony…

AmLaw Daily reported 800 legal jobs were cut in July…

Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP hired a new COO…

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joshua — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:42:46 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, July 27th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

Littler Mendelson hired a new international employment leader…

Baker Donelson significantly revised its pro bono policy…

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joshua — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:51:37 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, July 20th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Prominent litigator Caryn Jacobs joined Winston & Strawn as partner…

Crowell & Moring added a former federal prosecutor as partner…

DLA Piper opened an office in New Jersey and added two partners…

Sidley Austin added three partners to its L.A. office…

Shearman & Sterling’s Project Development & Finance Group ranked in Top 10…

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joshua — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:10:17 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, July 13th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

Thompson Hine added to its Executive Committee…

International firm Howrey is set to open a new office in Duesseldorf, Germany…

Despite law firm cuts, report showed an increase in law school applications…

Seyfarth Shaw LLP added patent attorney Alan M. Lenkin to its practice…

Snell & Wilmer added former Holland & Hart partner Daniel R. Frost to its construction practice…

Greenberg Traurig President Matthew B. Gorson was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of United Way…

Switzerland declined the United States’ request for extradition of Roman Polanski…

The National Law Journal released its 2010 “Hot List” of midsize law firms in the U.S….

Disney wiill pay “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” creator Celador nearly $270 mMillion in damages…

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joshua — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:57:01 +0000

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, June 29th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

The Elena Kagan hearings began…

Haynes and Boone added three attorneys to its NY real estate practice…

Gary Feulner returned to Chadbourne & Parke as Special Counsel…

Sidley Austin announced it’s teaming with MetLife in support of Sidley’s Prelaw Scholars Initiative…

The National Law Journal named its 2010 list of “Washington’s Most Influential Women Lawyers…

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joshua — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:57:18 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, June 22nd. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

In the last two years, at least 10 law institutions have altered their grading systems to make them more lenient…

Troutman Sanders added a transactional team in Orange County…

McDonough Holland & Allen, the second-largest law firm in Sacramento the firm will close…

Duane Morris selected a new head for its corporate practice…

Dechert LLP added three partners to its Washington, D.C. office…

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joshua — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:13:50 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, June 15th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Some SNR Partners were considering leaving prior to the merger with Denton…

Former White House counsel John Adams joined McGuireWoods…

Skadden snagged rival Global Antitrust head Simon Baxter…

A landmark $82.5 Million verdict was awarded for the death of a man killed in a 2007 natural gas explosion…

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher received Chambers’ annual Award for Excellence in the Antitrust Category…

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sara — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:02:20 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, April 13, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines…

Revenue is down but profits are up at Stevens & Lee…

Ruden McClosky struggles in the economic downturn…

Former head of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Susan Merrill joins Bingham McCutchen as a partner…

Joseph F. Speelman joins Blank Rome as a partner in the products liability, mass torts and insurance group…

Clifford Chance alters it’s associate bonus program…

Revenue is down and profits are up at Sutherland…

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sara — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:54:55 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, April 6, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Southeast Michigan law firms log thousands of non-billable hours over health care reform…

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens nears retirement…

The National Law Journal releases it’s annual Appellate Hot List…

Jackson Lewis adds two partners to its Denver office…

Massachusetts enacts a law requiring businesses to have a written security plan in place for handling client’s personal data…

Littler Mendelson opens a new office in Lexington, Kentucky…

A new initiative slated to appear on California ballots in November seeks to delay a law from 2006 enacting greenhouse gas emission cuts…

David W. Ogden rejoins WilmerHale after working at the Justice Department for a year…

Toyota may face enormous civil penalties for failing to report defects in their brakes within the required period of time…

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joshua — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:37:16 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, March 30, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Take a look at some of the recent lateral moves…

Jones Walker scooped up a local firm in Birmingham, Alabama…

Ruden McClosky lost a few more attorneys in Miami…

and the National Law Journal published its list of the 40 most influential attorneys of the decade…

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sara — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:21:09 +0000

Good Morning! Today is March 16, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty open a new office in Akron, Ohio…

Cozen O’Connor is named No. 2 Bond Counsel in PA and No. 1 Underwriter’s Counsel in NJ…

Former Justice Department prosecutor Kirk Ogrosky joins Arnold & Porter…

Goulston & Storrs adds five partners to their land use and zoning practice…

Bryan Cave adds two partners and four counsel to it’s securities litigation practice…

W. Kam Quarles joins McDermott, Will & Emery as the firm’s director of legislative affairs…

Revenue and profits decline at Stroock…

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sara — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:40:59 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, March 9, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

An Illinois judge refuses to dismiss a lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld…

Former Greenberg Traurig partner Mark McCombs is charged with stealing $1 million from a local community…

Former New Jersey state official Karen J. Kominsky joins Cozen O’Connor…

Cravath, Swaine & Moore will represent Air Products and Chemicals in it’s attempted takeover of rival Airgas…

Swiss voters strike down an initiative giving free government appointed legal representation to animals…

A group of lawyers and the Brookings Institution have condemned recent attacks on Justice Department lawyers…

Chief Justice Roberts will speak at the University of Alabama…

The Supreme Court will review a case involving The Westboro Baptist Church during the Fall Term…

Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey promote a dozen lawyers…

Gross revenue remains almost unchanged profits increased slightly at Weil Gotshal…

Latham & Watkins add 8 energy partners to their Houston office…

Jackson Lewis welcomes three partners and two associates to its Raleigh office…

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sara — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:06:02 +0000

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 scaled back recruitment plan…

Kaye Scholer opens a new office in Silicon Valley…

Hogan & Hartson’s Warsaw office moves to K&L Gates…

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sara — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:03:13 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, February 23, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories…

Steve Epstein joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a partner…

Albert P. Halluin, Senior Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, passed away in a plane crash last Friday…

Kirkland & Ellis reported increases in profits and revenues in 2009…

Mayer Brown reported decreases in profits and revenues in 2009…

British law firm Ashurst asked more partners to leave and closed it’s India office…

Northwestern University School of Law topped The National Law Journal’s annual rankings…

K&L Gates global development partner Janice Hartman has overseen the rapid expansion of the firm…

Winston & Strawn outlined associate salaries in a memo…

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear were named one of the top intellectual firms in the nation by MIP Magazine…

Rosemary Becchi joined Patton Boggs Washington, D.C. office as a partner…

Revenues and profits decreased at Howrey in 2009…

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sara — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:30:52 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, February 16, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories…

Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, will not run for reelection…

The National Conference of Bar Examiners appeal a Federal Court ruling forcing them to allow a blind California law graduate to use specific software during portions of the bar exam…

Several Canadian law firms are involved with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver…

Kenneth Starr is named President of Baylor University…

The Chinese government says that missing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is living in Western China…

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joshua — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:22 +0000

Good Morning! Today is Tuesday, February 9, and here’s your daily round up…

A Senate report says that attorney-client accounts are being used to circumvent money laundering laws…

King & Spalding picked up three litigators from Orrick…

Winston & Strawn added three in New York…

Wilson Sonsini picked up an O’Melveny partner in San Francisco…

Former Michigan Chief Justice joined Miller Canfield…

Thompson Hine gets a lateral from Hogan & Hartson…

Lovells opened its second Saudi Arabia office…

Former California Bar Director sentenced for embezzlement…

Allen & Overy will open in Australia…

A class action against Dell has been reinstated by the Ninth Circuit…

Skadden picked up a pair of partnersfrom Dechert…

Wlikie Farr reported a drop in revenue and profits…

And Littler Mendelson has a new managing shareholder in Philly…

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joshua — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:22:25 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, February 2, and here’s a quick peek back at yesterday’s headlines…

Ropes & Gray adds a former Assistant to the Solicitor General…

McDermott Will & Emery added one to its IP practice…

A forthcoming DoJ report will admonish but not sanction the lawyers who authored the “torture memos“…

UC San Diego is working on plans for a new law school…

DLA Piper hired Pfizer’s assistant general counsel…

Lateral moves were at a record high in 2009…

A Federal Court has ruled in favor of a blind law student trying to take the bar exam…

Jones Day has issued a memo in opposition to the NALP recruitment report…

Two more Paul Hasting lawyers moved to Haynes and Boone, bringing the total to six…

Chadbourne & Parke added one to its anti-trust practice…

Latham & Watkins added eight more from White & Case…

And Paul Weiss had record high profits in 2009…

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joshua — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:01 +0000

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, January 26, and here’s your morning roundup…

A Pepper Hamilton Partner is the lead investor in a deal to purchase the Texas Rangers…

Wilmer Hale’s numbers are out and per partner profits are up seven percent (guess they don’t mind that story leaking to blawgs) …

Wilson Sonsini is thawing salaries and paying bonuses…

And so is Hughes Hubbard…

NBC has triumphed over Conan when it comes to the IP rights of various characters from his show…

Chadbourne & Parke has a new IP partner…

It wouldn’t be a new year without a list of predictions, and seeing as how it’s almost the end of January, we thought we’d better find one…

Crowell & Moring snags one for its international arbitration practice…

Cozen O’Connor adds one in anti trust…

MLA gets a big contract from the government of Bermuda…

Our condolences go out to friends and family of Baker Hostetler partner John Mings…

Westlaw and Lexis/Nexis are redesigning their interfaces in reaction to competition from free search engines like google…

Drinker Biddle picks up one in New York…

A former McGuireWoods partner and former aide to NC Governor Mike Easley is facing corruption charges…

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sara — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:27:09 +0000

Good Morning! Today is Tuesday, January 19th, and here’s a look at Monday’s top stories…

Mann Bracken’s abrupt closure nationwide creates chaos for courts and consumers…

Chicago defense attorney Allan Ackerman is leaving former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s defense team…

Human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng is missing after being detained by the Chinese government…

Former New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco is the newest partner in the firm Lippes Matthias Wexler Friedman…

David Savner, former senior vice president and general counsel of General Dynamics, is returning to Jenner & Block as partner…

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joshua — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:25:56 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, January 12, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories.

Thomas Russo has been offered the GC job at AIG…

A court in New York has rejected the SEC’s attempt to broaden its case against B of A…

Another 2100 legal jobs were lost in December, according to the BLS…

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked broadcasts of the proposition 8 trial…

and Latham & Watkins is opening an office in Houston…

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joshua — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:26:11 +0000

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, January 5, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news.

Three partners moved from Baker Hostetler to Cozen O’Connor…

There was a gunfight in a Las Vegas courthouse….

Arnold & Porter announced a salary thaw and bonuses…

and Latham & Watkins opened an office in Beijing…

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joshua — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:13:28 +0000

As we get closer and closer to New Years Eve, I want to remind everyone to be be careful and to have a fantastic and safe holiday. We want every single one of our readers back next year!

Here’s a look at yesterday’s news…

Ron Parraguirre is Nevada’s new chief justice…

A branch of Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas bombing…

Recruitment firm Sivin-Tobin has lost its appeal in its suit against Akin Gump…

Congress continues to be unsympathetic to the ABA’s appeal for debt relief for law students….

In house counsel at Fortune 500 companies have named Ulmer & Berne the “go to firm”…

And Mayer Brown announced bonuses, with no new surprises….

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joshua — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:00 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Tuesday, December 15, and here’s a snapshot of yesterday’s news…

Loeb & Loeb is opening in Washington…

The Supreme Court will review a government employee’s right to privacy for text messages received on government owned equipment…

Zico is setting up shop in Australia, the first Asian firm to do so…

Seyfarth Shaw gets a pair of laterals in New York…

and Orrick picks up one…