The Senate confirmed Ronald Machen as U.S. Attorney for D.C. on Thursday. Machen was a partner at WilmerHale. He was assistant attorney in DC from 1997 to 2001. Machen faced no opposition and was confirmed without a formal vote. Andre Birotte Jr., former inspector general of the Los Angeles Police Department was confirmed as the U.S. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Washington D.C. based firm WilmerHale has sent out inquiries to real estate brokers in New York City. The firm is looking for between 200,000 and 225,000 square feet of new office space. This is significantly larger than the space it currently occupies at Boston Properties’ 399 Park Avenue. At 399 Park Avenue WilmerHale occupies 163,000 [...]
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...Monday, January 25, 2010
After a rocky first half of the year, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr posted a seven percent per partner profit increase last year, going from $1.08 million to $1.16 million. Total firm revenue was down slightly overall, but so was the partner headcount at 318, down from 330. The number of associates [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Carl Nichols, a former senior litigator for the Department of Justice has joined WilmerHale as a partner. Nichols worked in the DoJ under President George W Bush from 2005 until 2009, serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, and later as the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Good morning everyone! It’s Thursday, December 17, and here’s your snapshot of yesterday’s news… John Schulman, top counsel for Warner Bros for 25 years, has joined MS&K… Seyfarth Shaw picks up a lateral from Hogan & Hartson… WilmerHale’s new partnership class is over 50% female… The FTC wants a piece of Intel…. Dewey & Leboeuf match the Cravath bonuses… and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
WilmerHale announced its new partnership class this week. Nine associates have been promoted to partner and of those, five are female. Three new partners were promoted in Washington DC and three in New York, with two more coming in Boston and the last one in London. Last year WilmerHale promoted ten partners, four of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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…
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
WilmerHale is abandoning lockstep compensation and adopting a merit based three tiered system that should look familiar to anyone that’s read these pages over the past few months. The new compensation plan, cleverly titled “career advancement program” or “CAP” will take effect in 2012. But not to worry, WilmerHale has found another time [...]
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