There were apparently few signs of a recession at Cozen O’Connor in 2009. The firm Monday reported signifcant increases in gross revenue, profits per equity partner and revenue per lawyer. Gross revenue jumped 22 percent to $290 million in ‘09, profits per partner were up 19 percent to $650,000 and revenue per lawyer was up 11 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: John H. Tatlock joins Denver’s The Harris Law Firm as special counsel, handing the firm’s complex litigation and appeals. He was previously with McKenna Long & Aldridge. His JD is from the University of Denver College of Law. Carl Singley joins Philadelphia’s Ciardi, Ciardi & Astin from Blank Rome; he [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Ohama, Nebraska’s Kutak Rock has launched an office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and brought on a former Wolf Block attorney to run it. Jeffrey Blumenfeld joins as of counsel. He spent 24 years at Blank Rome, before joining Wolf Block in 2007, where he was chairman of its public finance practice. He represents public entities in the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cozen O’Connor added two lawyers to its New York office last week. Angelo Savino joins from Mound Cotton as a partner in the global insurance group. He handles matters involving directors and officers, professional errors and omissions, and corporate indemnification. Savino earned his JD in 1981 from the Fordham University School of Law. Robert Fischer joins from [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 23, 2009
Pepper Hamilton has expanded its labor & employment practice with the hiring of two former Wolf Block attorneys, Richard Reibstein and Russell Adler. Reibstein joins Pepper Hamilton in New York as a partner. He ran Wolf Block’s labor & employment practice there. Adler joins as counsel; he defends employers against discrimination and other claims. Founded in Philadelphia [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
Blank Rome hired former Hodgson Russ partner Jeffrey Rinde, and former Wolf Block partner Bruce Lesser, last month. Rinde advises Chinese and US companies financial and corporate law. Lesser co-chaired Wolf Block’s banking & financial services group. A group of three Wolf Block refugees also landed at Blank Rome in April. Blank Rome LLP is the 84th largest law [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
Three key partners of the financial services group of the former WolfBlock have joined the Jenkintown, Pennsylvania firm of Friedman Schuman. Lawrence R. Lesser, David E. Stern and Elizabeth A. Grzywacz have joined Friedman Schuman, which now employs 21 attorneys. Lesser was co-chair of WolfBlock’s financial service department. He was previously a founding partner of Lesser & [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 4, 2009
Wolf Block laid off 428 workers when it dissolved — and no, this isn’t a repeat from March. The law firm has released its WARN Act filings, which show that 235 people were laid off from Wolf Block’s Philadelphia headquarters; 15 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; 121 in New Jersey; and 57 in New York. At the time of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The five-lawyer Norristown, Pennsylvania office of dissolving Wolf Block will join Weber Gallagher. The office’s two partners, Lynne Gold-Bikin and Daniel Clifford, three other lawyers, and seven staff will stay in the old Wolf Block offices. The office specializes in family law. Wolf Block’s partnership dissolved the 106-year-old firm on March 23th. With more than 90 lawyers and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 21, 2009
We’ve reported here and here about hires of former Wolf Block attorneys by Philadelphia’s Duane Morris. Now Duane Morris has released complete information about the hires. The firm picked up a total of 50 former Wolf Block lawyers from the dissolving firm’s litigation, employment, corporate, real estate, bankruptcy and government affairs practice groups. The lawyers will join [...]
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