Growing up in Los Angeles, I was always jealous of kids living on the east coast because in my 12 years of public education I never once got to take a “snow day”. Reading about the blizzard that’s hitting the Washington DC area today, I am no longer regretting my days filled with sunshine. The Washington [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 4, 2010
Thor Hearne is joining Arent Fox’s Washington D.C. office. A former national election counsel to President George W. Bush , Hearne will continue his federal litigation practice and advise clients on election, political and campaign finance law. Prior to joining Arent Fox, Hearne was partner in charge of Lathrop & Gage. Hearne is a nationally recognized [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Deputy Director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets is ending his four year tenure at the agency to return to private practice. Daniel Gallagher Jr. will leave his position at the end of the month and become a partner in the Washington D.C. office of WilmerHale. Gallagher joined the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 14, 2010
Howard Schweitzer, former Chief Operating Officer of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, has joined Cozen O’Connor in the firm’s Washington DC office. Schweitzer spend 12 years prior to working for the Treasury Department with the Export-Import Bank of the United States, serving in several roles including General Counsel. Unsurprisingly, his practice at Cozen [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Raymond Mullady, formerly the chair of Orrick’s litigation practice in Washington DC, is moving to Blank Rome. Mullady will handle product liability and mass torts for Blank Rome in Washington. In the past, Mullady has handled clients like the pharmaceutical company Wyeth, and says that Blank Rome’s geographic footprint is better suited to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 4, 2010
At the start of 2009 Arnold & Porter announced that it was freezing salaries but held out the hope that some or all of the difference might be paid out later if economic situations warranted. At the end of December a firm wide memo went out in which Arnold & Porter announced that all [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
2009 salaries and bonuses at Fulbright have been frozen at the 2008 level. According to tipsters in the Washington DC office, however, Fulbright has decided to advance everyone one level for bonuses, although base salaries will remain frozen. Because Fulbright’s compensation model is heavily weighted toward bonuses, this is good news indeed for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Eight lawyers are moving from Day Pitney to Loeb & Loeb, four of whom will help their new firm get off the ground in Washington, DC. The new office will focus on energy regulation to begin with but the firm plans to grow the office and do work in securities regulation and intellectual property [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Lori Kalani is leaving DISH Network, where she is currently senior counsel and director of government affairs, and joining Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Kalani will be part of Orrick’s government and strategic affairs practice group in the Washington, DC office. Through her work for DISH Network, Kalani has had the opportunity to get to know [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Jeffrey L. Hare has decided to join DLA Piper as a partner in the Government Affairs group. He will be working in the Washington, DC office and will be the chair of the Financial Services subgroup. He is planning on focusing on bank law and representing banks and credit unions, as well as companies associated [...]
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