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UBS Loses Two Top In-House Counsel

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

Skadden Warns Summers: You Will Be Deferred to 2011

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

Akerman Senterfitt Creates Florida’s First Minority Legal Pipeline Program

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

Massachusetts Superior Court Fires Clerks Before They Begin

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

Kilpatrick Stockton Brings on Lawyers

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

DLA Piper Hires Duo From Brown Rudnick

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

The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

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

Offit Kurman Poaches 10 from Deckelbaum

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

Morris Manning Hires Group from Bryan Cave

Atlanta's Morris, Manning & Martin has hired 12 lawyers and staff this year, including a seven-member timber & forest products…

Top Skadden Partners Head to Kirkland & Ellis

Two key partners at New York's Skadden have jumped ship to Kirkland & Ellis. David Fox is leaving after more…

Kilpatrick Stockton Hires Day Pitney IP Group

Kilpatrick Stockton, which in April laid off 24 lawyers and endured the resulting tragedy, has hired a group of three…

Confirmed: Skadden Gets O’Melveny’s Beisner & Team [UPDATE]

Blawgs are reporting that Skadden has lured over prominent attorney John Beisner and two others from O'Melveny & Myers. Beisner…