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K&L Gates Brings on Corporate, IP Attorneys

K&L Gates has hired David Bernstein and Tedd Van Buskirk. Bernstein, formerly of Clifford Chance, handled transaction and securities law…

Cohen Milstein has hired two new litigators for its New York office, Joel Laitman and Christopher Lometti, both from Schoengold…

Lamb McErlane has hired a three member group away from McCracken Walker & Rhoads. David MacMain was chair of McCracken's…

Pillsbury, which has delayed start dates for its incoming first year associates to January 2010, is now offering $60,000 to…

Two top lawyers at Switzerland's UBS have left the firm. Ash Gulati, executive director of UBS’s UK-based prime brokerage &…

The 2009 Summer Associate Program at Skadden has begun. And the 3Ls have been warned that, if they get an…

Akerman Senterfitt has announced a new partnership with the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Law School, one of Florida's oldest…

The Massachusetts Superior Court has informed 25 3Ls they will not be hired after all as court clerks. It appears…

Kilpatrick Stockton has hired Edward Henderson, formerly of Canadian law firm Torys LLP , as a partner in the firm’s…

DLA Piper has added two lawyers to its corporate and finance practices. Donald Borod, former chair of Brown Rudnick’s structured…

This week in law firm layoffs: Collas Day: 6 staff Matheson Ormsby Prentice: 25 lawyers Pannone LLP: 35 staff Thomson…

Maple Lawn's Offit Kurman has hired a team of ten lawyers away from Bethesda, Maryland's Deckelbaum, Ogens & Raftery. The…