Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP signed a lease for 100,000 square feet in a building located at 801 17th St. NW in Washington, D.C. The firm will be the anchor tenant and move into the glass office building in early 2011. Currently Fried Frank has offices at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. The new building [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
Five securities litigation lawyers started working at Schulte Roth in Washington today after leaving Mayer Brown. The team is led by Richard Morvillo, who had been the chair of Mayer Brown’s securities enforcement practice group. Peter White and Pat Conti are also joining as partners, while Jeffrey Robertson and William Mann join as [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Crowell & Moring has snagged a team of five Patton Boggs partners, and two government lawyers, for its Environment & Natural Resources Group. Senior Counsel Michael Bogert is the former counselor to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. He is also the former Regional Administrator of the EPA’s Region 10, which oversees Alaska and other northwest states. Bogert [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Paul Hastings has hired a team of three IP attorneys from Skadden. Jeff Randall joins Paul Hastings’ Palo Alto and Washington DC offices, as co-chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice. He represents companies in multi-billion-dollar intellectual property cases. He earned his JD from the University of California Hastings College of Law. Allan Soobert joins in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Patton Boggs has hired away a team of six mortgage finance lawyers from Weiner Brodsky. Partners Richard Andreano and John Socknat join in Washington DC, along with associates Reid Herlihy, Heather Hutchings and Haydn Richards. Partner Michael Waldron joins in Dallas. In April, Patton Boggs has hired away a three-person bankruptcy team from Foley & Lardner. Patton Boggs [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
Nixon Peabody, which in February laid off 56 attorneys and staff, has hired away two partners from McKee Nelson. Keith Krasney and Peter Morreale will head up Nixon Peabody’s securitization and structured finance team. Krasney will work out of New York City, while Morreale will set up shop in Washington DC. Nixon Peabody LLP is one of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Shearman & Sterling has hired on three new partners. Antitrust litigator Edward B. Schwartz, formerly a Shearman & Sterling associate, returns to the firm from DLA Piper, where he was a partner and Chair of its US Antitrust & Trade Regulation Group. He is based in Washington, DC. Michael D. Bednarek and Scott Doyle join, also in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
PCT Law Group has opened a new office in Alexandria, Virginia, staffed by two new hires. Angela H. France joins as managing member from Albo & Oblon. She handles litigation and corporate transactions on a wide range of legal disciplines including business contracts, corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, employment matters, bankruptcy, and creditor’s rights. Her JD [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Hogan & Hartson, which laid off 30 senior associates last week, is deferring start dates for its current summer associates class to 2011. Summer associates in Washington DC and Virginia have been informed of the deferrals. Other offices have not yet decided about deferrals. No other details have been released. If you know anything about deferrals at [...]
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