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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…

Morning Roundup

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…

Morning Roundup

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…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:13:49 +0000

Today is Wednesday, November 11. At 11 am on November 11, 1918, all fighting stopped in World War 1 and Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the day Armistice Day. It wasn’t until Veterans started to return from World War 2 that the day became a day to celebrate all of our vets.

Here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Scott Rothstein was spotted and filmed having lunch and sounding upbeat…

Covington & Burling are freezing associate salaries…

Katten split its deferrals into three groups, with group number three losing their jobs…

Reed Smith cut associate salaries….

and the DC Sniper was executed by lethal injection last night….

In memoriam for Veterans Day:

Michael Cahill

Eduardo Caraveo

Justin DeCrow

John Gaffaney

Frederick Greene

Jason Hunt

Amy Krueger

Thomas Nemelka

Michael Pearson

Russell Seager

Francheska Velez

Juanita Warman

Kham Xiong

Wednesday Roundup

joshua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:10:07 +0000

Good morning everyone! Getting the day started early this morning with today’s look back at yesterday’s news.

Eckert Seamans snags four lawyers from Troutman Sanders and opens an office in Virginia.

Scott Rothstein is back in Florida. We will continue to update this story as it develops…

Winston & Strawn defers the already deferred….

and law blog abovethelaw.com has been sued…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:42 +0000

Good morning everyone! Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news…

Reed Smith is the latest firm to abandon lockstep compensation…

NAWL has released its annual survey and it’s a good news/bad newssituation for women in BigLaw…

A new law in California guarantees the right to counsel in some civil matters…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:45:22 +0000

Good morning everyone. Here’s a look back at yesterday’s news…

Nine IP lawyers from Fish & Richardson head for Bracewell & Giuliani…

Bloomberg is set to unveil its new legal search engine…

A new law makes it easier for foreign firms to open in South Korea…

and Kenneth Glazer has joined K&L Gates…

Morning Roundup

joshua — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:25:59 +0000

Good morning one and all! For what seems like the 100th day in a row, the biggest story in the blawgosphere yesterday was Roman Polanski. If you haven’t been following it, you can read about it here…

Meanwhile, on the business end of the law, things were a bit slower. We do have the following stories for you from yesterday….

Patton Boggs adds a former FCC Chariman to its roster…

Cohen Milstein starts a public client practice with the help of a former DC Attorney General…

and the FTC stopped taking applications from attorneys ahead of the scheduled deadline…