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Former Assistant to Solicitor General Joins Ropes & Gray

Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, formerly Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, has joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in its Appellate…

Crowell & Moring has snagged a team of five Patton Boggs partners, and two government lawyers, for its Environment &…

Tax partner Stephen E. Shay is leaving Ropes & Gray to join the US Treasury as deputy assistant secretary for…

Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Stephen Lamb joins Paul Weiss at the firm's new office in Wilmington,…

Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: James Donato joins Shearman & Sterling's San Francisco office as a partner.…

The Obama administration has recently tapped three Biglaw bigwigs for ambassadorships. Howard Gutman, a partner at Williams & Connolly, was…

We reported yesterday that Kilpatrick Stockton had laid off 24 lawyers. This morning, police and firefighters responded when Mark Levy,…

Arent Fox has hired two new partners, one on each coast. Maurice Bellan joins the litigation department in Washington, DC.…

Two top California law schools have created a DC internship program to expose law students to the intricacies of law-…

Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired former White House deputy counsel William Burck as a partner in its investigations &…

Jonathan Cohn, who recently stepped down as one the Justice Department’s top civil lawyers, is returning to Sidley Austin as…

Newsday reports that federal prosecutions of white-collar crime and securities fraud have dropped off from higher levels earlier in the…