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joshua — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:17:11 +0000

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, December 1, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news.

Miller Thomson is reportedly in merger talks…

It was another rough year for Pennsylvania law firms…

Not everyone is happy with the Hammonds and Squire Dempsey merger…

and Jones Day is opening a new office in Boston…

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joshua — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:17:48 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, November 24th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s headlines.

The exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea set the stage for China to make a distinctive mark on the world stage…

The law firm bonus season began…

Crowell & Moring LLP & the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law established the Took Crowell Institute for At-Risk youth…

Wilmer Hale announced a plan for leadership succession…

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joshua — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:51:32 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, November 17th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s headlines.

Jones Day added three partners and three registered patent agents in Southern Calfornia…

Former Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, George H. Lowe, joined Brown Rudnick…

Former Health Policy Director Mark Hayes joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the firm’s Washington, DC office…

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joshua — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:09:37 +0000

Good morning everybody! Today is Wednesday, November 10th. Here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories.

DLA Piper announced Henry Koda and William L. Androlia joined the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology (IPT) practice as Senior Counsel in Tokyo and Los Angeles…

Greenberg Traurig shareholder William R. Clayton was chosen for fellowship in the Litigation Counsel of America…

Sheppard Mullin added five attorneys to its Labor and Employment Practice group…

Six Jones Walker attorneys based in Louisiana have been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2011 as “Lawyers of the Year”…

Eight partners fromThompson Hine were named “Leading Lawyers” for 2010 by Inside Business Magazine…

Perkins Coie launched an investment management group in its Washington D.C. office…

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joshua — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:12:23 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, November 3rd. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Katten Muchin Rosenman added a team of 13 structured finance lawyers from Dewey & Leboeuf…

A former female associate filed a discrimination suit against Clifford Chance…

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe launched a Social Sector Finance (SSF) practice group…

Best Lawyers named Cohen & Grigsby attorney Charles R. Brodbeck “Pittsburgh Public Finance Lawyer of the Year” for 2011…

Corporate Counsel will host a one-day Focus Europe Summit at The Concierge Conference Center in New York City…

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joshua — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:19:41 +0000

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

Dinsmore & Shohl welcomed former Deputy General Counsel for EPA…

A former Kennedy Chief of Staff Returned to WilmerHale…

A Thompson Hine Partner was reappointed to the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College board of trustees…

A Greenberg Traurig partner was named co-chair of the ABA Committee…

Cadwalader announced the launch of the Cadwalader International Law and Litigation Center…

48 Winstead PC Attorneys were selected as Texas Super Lawyers…

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joshua — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:40:36 +0000

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

The EPA threatened nine hydraulic fracturing companies with legal action…

Former Ambassador and Associate Attorney General Joins Fulbright & Jaworski…

Kramer Levin added three partners from Baker & McKenzie to its banking and finance group…

Andrews Kurth LLP added four attorneys to its Washington D.C. Office…

White & Case expanded its white collar and litigation practice…

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joshua — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:37:10 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, September 8th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

Electronic brokerage veteran Joseph C. Lombard joined Murphy & McGonigle as partner…

Veteran corporate governance attorney Heidi Lawson joined Chadbourne & Parke as partner…

Kramer Levin added two partners to its private equity practice…

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joshua — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:09:25 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, September 1st. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker added a biotech litigation team…

A 20 year veteran in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement left the government agency to be a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP…

Redgrave LLP, a new information law firm, opened three offices…

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joshua — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:57:01 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, August 25th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

Reed Smith added leading IP strategist Marc Kaufman to its Washington D.C. office…

For four years running, Greenberg Traurig had more attorneys listed in the annual The Best Lawyers in America Guide than any other firm…

Barnes & Thornburg hired Peter Zura as a partner in its IP division…

DLA Piper gained a 5 person IP team from Hogan Lovells…

TEX-ABOTA Inc. named Richard A. Sayles, acclaimed courtroom lawyer, “Trial Lawyer of the Year”…

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joshua — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:02:17 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, August 18th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Bradley Byrne, a former gubernatorial candidate, joined Jones Walker as a partner…

Cozen O’Connor was hired to regulate BP’s gulf compensation fund…

Texas Rangers Managing Partner Charles M. ‘Chuck” Greenberg moved to Reed Smith…

Former Greenberg Traurig shareholder joined Thompson Hine as a partner…

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joshua — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:06:41 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, August 11th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

Venable added corporate attorneys from DLA Piper as partners in its New York office…

Megafirm DLA Piper promoted two partners to the office of chair…

Thompson Hine’s Michael Zimmer was named ABA Committee Co-Chair…

The National Law Journal Survey of Law Firm Economics revealed a tough economic climate…

Employees laid off in Louisiana are suing over their job loss…

A National Law Journal study showed that law firms cut costs by cutting lawyers and law firm staff…

Joel M. Schoenfeld, music industry executive and lawyer joined Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp as a partner…

LeClairRyan selected a new CEO…

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joshua — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:25:46 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, July 28th. Here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories.

Steven Fagell, deputy chief of staff for Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer will leave to return to Covington & Burling LLP…

Stanford Dean Larry Kramer’s goal is to move past Yale and Harvard into the top spot on the U.S. News rankings…

Greenberg Traurig added an ex-health department official to its health and FDA business practice…

Sheppard Mullin added three partners to the firm’s Labor and Employment practice group…

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck hired three top Vegas commercial litigation attorneys from Jones Vargas…

Kaye Scholer added three partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf…

Cozen O’Connor announced it added a 15-lawyer team from Sher & Blackwell to its Washington D.C. office…

Steptoe & Johnson will put a significantly expanded energy practice into action…

Chambers USA recognized Cohen & Grigsby attorneys, and practice group…

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joshua — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:18:34 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, July 21st. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

BuckleySandler added three attorneys to its practice…

Head of Clifford Chance’s UK fund practice left for Simpson…

A Reed Smith partner committed suicide…

Wachtell topped the Vault Law 100 again…

Kagan’s confirmation was approved by judiciary committee…

Adam Taliaferro joined Duane Morris…

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joshua — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:47:10 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, July 14th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

DLA Piper was ranked first by deal volume in global mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2010…

A Cadwalader partner earned M&A Advisor Honor…

Reed Smith added four partners to its energy group…

Brownstein added two new partners to its practice…

The Senate Judiciary Committee delayed a preliminary vote on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan…

The Gibson law firm introduced a BP claims service…

Former U.S. Senator and HUD secretary Mel Martinez left DLA Piper for JP Morgan Chase & Co…

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joshua — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:15:26 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, July 7th. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Latham & Watkins announced its launch of an Asian litigation practice centered in Hong Kong…

Detroit-based firm Dykema hired Robin Radomski as its Chief Marketing Officer…

Saul Ewing added a four-person team focused on the gaming industry…

Sidley Austin named a new managing Partner in San Francisco…

Thompson Hine LLP received national recognition for leadership in promoting diversity…

Skadden was found to be first in M&A Advisements for first half of year…

A global study found tracking procedures lacking in lawyer-to-lawyer referrals…

Weil Gotshal received two international Legal Alliance Awards…

Fisher & Phillips opened an office in Washington, D.C….

The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed legal sector lost 3,900 jobs in June…

Clifford Chance named a new London practice head…

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joshua — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:40:50 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, June 30th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

Thompson Hine bolstered its Washington D.C. product liability practice group with the addition of Fern Phillips O’Brian…

Yesterday was Day 2 of the Kagan confirmation hearings…

Mayer Brown and Simmons & Simmons broke off merger negotiations…

Law firms sought recovery for creating ‘common benefit’ in 2003 Staten Island ferry disaster…

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joshua — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:03:52 +0000

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

Baker & McKenzie formally parted ways with 11 of its 12 re-deferred associates…

Cadwalader earned top honors at the Global M&A Network Turnaround Atlas Awards in Chicago…

Sidley Austin’s Ronald Flagg was awarded the 2010 Vincent E. Reed Award…

Dewey And LeBouef’s D.C. office filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of the Mexican government…

Greenberg Traurig is counseling Valeant Pharmaceuticals in a merger deal with Biovail…

Ross E. Eichberg joined Nixon Peabody as a partner in the firm’s D.C. office…

Sidley Austin announced that Thomas W. Albrecht will assume the responsibilities of managing partner for the Asia Pacific region…

A wide-ranging Altman Weil survey offered perspective on a multitude of issues facing law firms today…

Blank Rome added three attorneys to its Government Relations group in Washington, D.C…

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joshua — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:52:16 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, April 14, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s stories.

Reed Smith launched an employment law practice in Paris…

McKool Smith upped its headcount in New York…

Vinson & Elkins verified 1st year associates will begin in October…

Adobe is taking Apple to court…

UC Irvine’s law school is considering hiring an ex-con to teach law…

The White House has confirmed a short list of candidates to replace Justice Stevens…

and US firms had big declines in London offices last year…

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sara — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:54:25 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, April 7, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Quarles & Brady snag three attorneys from Holland & Knight and three from DLA Piper…

The U.S. Court of Appeals rules against the Federal Communications Commission in a net neutrality case involving Comcast..

Kelley Drye responds to an age discrimination suit filed against them by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…

Former Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour will join Fulbright & Jaworski…

Akin Gump tops the National Law Journals “influence 50″ rankings of the highest grossing Washington, D.C. lobbying practices…

Lawyers find delayed mercy in the Qualcomm discovery scandal ruling…

Latham & Watkins establishes a presence in Saudi Arabia…

Merchant & Gould opens a New York office and announces the addition of new partners…

Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has refused to join a suit against the Health Care Reform bill…

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joshua — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:53:27 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, March 24, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Simpson Thatcher is facing allegations of cover up related to its representation of PrediWave…

Days before the Hogan Lovells merger finalizes, 18 partners in Germany have left to form a new firm…

CSH partner Frank Albetta is moving to Raleigh as part of a firm wide effort to broaden its scope in North Carolina…

In Canada, Blakes has been named among Canada’s best diversity employers for the third time…

A former DLA Piper partner has been convicted of fraud in Singapore…

Baker Hostetler has been retained as outside counselby several state AG’s in their efforts to overturn the sweeping health care reform bill…

and Pepe & Hazard is merging with MDM&C…

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sara — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:43 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, March 10, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

Akerman Senterfitt opens a Las Vegas office…

Arent Fox names Mark Katz it’s new chairman…

The Massachusetts Bar Association will honor Fish & Richardson for their pro bono work…

Greenberg Traurig defends their firing of an alleged thief…

K&L Gates bolsters it’s London practice with a pair of partners…

Dewey & LeBoeuf lay off 30 staffers…

Loeb & Loeb create a new video game practice…

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sara — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:53:12 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, March 3, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

Revenue is down at Winston & Strawn…

DLA Piper forms an alliance with a Brazilian law firm…

Former Arnold & Porter chairman Michael Sohn joins Davis Polk…

A former secretary sues Drinker Biddle over a pay dispute…

Ex Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo hires prominent D.C. lawyer Brendan Sullivan…

New research finds that U.S. News and World Report Law School rankings have an adverse impact on diversity efforts…

Irell & Manella wins an unanimous decision on behalf of Novellus Systems…

Fulbright & Jaworski names James K. Dixon their new executive director…

Wilkinson Barker Knauer scoops up Morrison & Foerster’s communication law group…

Patton Boggs partner Rodney E. Slater will advise Toyota on quality and safety issues…

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sara — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:55:22 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, February 24, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories…

Curtis Mallet reports an increase in profits and revenues in 2009…

Revenue is down and profits are up at Patton Boggs…

Arnold & Porter report that revenue and profits increase…

Honolulu law firms are the target of an email scam…

Revenue and profits fall at Munger, Tolles…

Maryland courtrooms will ban electronic devices….

Christopher J. Austin joins Goodwin Procter’s Boston office…

Jonathan Guest joins McCarter & English’s Boston office…

DLA Piper increases their presence in Turkey…

Massachusetts challenges the Defense of Marriage Act…

The University of Maryland investigates payments to former law school dean Karen Rothenberg…

Sam Buffone leaves Ropes & Gray for BuckleySandler…

Revenue and profits increase at Crowell & Moring…

Alice Thomas earns her law degree at age 79…

Cannabis shops fight legal action in Los Angeles…

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sara — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:19:23 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, February 17, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories…

Lincoln Fabrics will pay $4 million dollars to settle a lawsuit with the U.S. government…

A couple wins a lawsuit against their former stockbroker…

Profits are up and revenues are down at Shearman & Sterling…

Profits and revenues are up at Irell & Manella…

Elaine Johnston leaves White & Case for Allen & Overy…

Civil rights activists will challenge a California affirmative action ban in college admissions…

A student suspended for writing critical statements on Facebook may proceed with her lawsuit against her former school…

Jury pools have been hit by the recession…

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joshua — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:08 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, February 10, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories…

The lateral market is heating up for what promises to be a brisk year…

Michael Jackson’s doctor is going to trial, and here’s a look at his legal team…

Shepherd Smith is investigating what could be another Ponzi scheme…

Retired Justice David Souter will speak at Harvard’s commencement…

Faegre & Benson is mourning the loss of partner Robert Matthews who died this weekend in a place crash…

Judge Vaughn Walker has been outed by the SF Chronicle…

Seyfarth Shaw picked up a lateral in New York…

Revenues, profits were up in 2009at Sheppard Mullin…

and at Cozen O’Connor…

but down at Schulte Roth…

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joshua — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:56:19 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, February 3, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Arthur Cutillo plead not guilty in court yesterday to charges stemming from the Galleon Group insider trading case…

Thomas Russo has officially started at AIG, leaving Patton Boggs behind…

Mayer Brown has thawed salaries and given associates a double bump…

McDonald Hopkins expanded its health care practice…

Chadbourne & Parke added a litigator in New York…

Seyfarth Shaw picked up one from the Department of Labor…

Greenberg Traurig has a new CEO…

Revenues were up in 2009 for Bryan Cave, but per partner profits dropped a bit…

WilmerHale is in the market for more office space in New York…

And Dechert picked up two from Goodwin Procter…

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joshua — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:30:35 +0000

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 27, and here’s a look back at Tuesday’s news…

Bass Berry promoted seven to partner and added ten associates…

Vinson & Elkins expanded its middle east practice with the addition of two laterals…

A prison ban on Dungeons & Dragons was upheld by the 7th Circuit…

Happy days are here againat Chadbourne & Parke…

Seyfarth Shaw added one to its IP practice…

A Florida firm is suing over the fraudulent copying of its website…

A former AG has been retained by a private school to help block UMass from opening a law school…

Wilmer Hale adds a former deputy director of the SEC…

And the Florida Bar sent its members a request for donations for Haiti relief efforts…

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joshua — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:17:09 +0000

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 20, and here’s a look back at Tuesday’s news.

Jones Walker picks up a former US Attorney…

Gibson Dunn has launched an E-Discovery practice…

Patton Boggs expanded its international arbitration group…

Drinker Biddle announced its new merit based compensation plan…

Mischon de Reya opened its doors in NYC…

Jackson Lewis added six attorneys in Phoenix…

LG Electronics has sticker shock after losing in court…

Eckert Seamans expanded in Richmond…

K&L Gates opened offices in Tokyo and Moscow…

Walkers has new leader in its investment funds group…

Clifford Chance snagged a senior partner from Millbank Tweed…

and Sidley Austin has a major new client…

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joshua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:04 +0000

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

Morgan Lewis picked up a new senior counsel from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission…

Scott Pierpont moved from Mayer Brown to Jones Day….

Carter Ledyard picked up one from Dorsey & Whitney…

The SEC has filed a second suit against Bank of American over last year’s merger…

More DA’s have been let go in San Joaquin, California…

Miles & Stockbridge promoted three to principal…

Reinhart also promoted a new class…

McDermott Will & Emery is moving to merit based compensation and cutting salaries…

Butler Rubin promoted one to partner…

LG Electronics and the Department of Energy square off over stickers…

Bowditch & Dewey named a new managing partner…

Sterne Kessler promoted new directors…

Brinks Hofer opened an office in Washington, DC…

Chartwell expanded it’s New York office…

and Blank Rome added six in Los Angeles…

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joshua — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:15:12 +0000

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 6, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news.

A federal judge has upheld most of a new law regulating tobacco companies and advertising…

Raymond Mullady has moved from Orrick to Blank Rome…

Blank Rome in turn has lost four IP lawyers to Sterne Kessler…

Dechert announced its bonuses and 2010 compensation….

and there’s new leadership in Skadden’s Chicago office…

Holiday Roundup

joshua — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:03:37 +0000

Good morning everyone. Today is Wednesday, December 23. We’ll be taking a break for a few days to celebrate Christmas so this is your last roundup until Monday…

UC Irvine students who start next year will get a 50% scholarship for all three years…

Quinn Emanuel announced bonuses…

So did Wachtel Lipton…

HBJ Gateley Wareing bought out a small Scottish firm…

A new law prohibits mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts of defense contractors…

Hogan & Hartson is paying a bonus and partially thawing compensation…

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joshua — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:13:07 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Wednesday, December 16, and here’s a quick look at yesterday’s news…

Sonnenschein lays off some staff and abandons lockstep compensation….

WilmerHale also ditches lockstep….

Nixon Peabody associates get a last minute deferral…

and the partnerships at Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have approved the merger plans…

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joshua — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:20:35 +0000

Good morning everyone! This is your morning roundup for Wednesday, December 9.

Tiger Woods has reportedly retained LA Boutique Lavely & Singer…

Justice Sotomayor has issued her first opinion as a Supreme…

More deferralsat Mcdermott Will & Emery…

and DLA Piper is abandoning lockstep compensation…

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joshua — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:01 +0000

Good morning everyone! It’s Wednesday, November 25 and here’s a snapshot of yesterday’s news.

Howard Rice is losing four partners in its business division…

South Carolina has hired a lawyer to represent the office of the Governor during the upcoming impeachment hearings…

California’s Governor Schwazenegger seems to share his wife’s disdain for traffic laws…

Bowman & Brooke opens its seventh office in Colombia, South Carolina…

and Orrick has signed a very broad alternative fee agreement with Levi Strauss…