By Roy Strom | October 2, 2017
Zach Fardon launched King & Spalding's Chicago office in August, and the former top federal prosecutor in the Windy City is already proving that the reputation he built in that office will translate to growing his new one. Patrick Collins, who spent the past dozen years at Perkins Coie, and Jade Lambert are now joining Fardon's team.
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By Vivia Chen | October 2, 2017
Time for another edition of quick and dirty news. Here's what's catching my eye.
By Rose Walker | October 2, 2017
Bird & Bird, a large British law firm that cheekily uses the marketing moniker “Two Birds,” is poised to set up shop in the Bay Area next year after relocating two partners from London and Milan.
By Brian Baxter | September 29, 2017
The two firms, which have partnered up on Chapter 11 cases for Gymboree and Gordmans, have now submitted court papers showing how much they intend to charge—and have already been paid—for their roles representing another ailing retailer. Another bankrupt Kirkland client paid $47.5 million to the firm within the past year.
By Anna Ward | September 29, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis partners Christopher Field and Jan Scobie have joined the London office of Dechert, an Am Law 100 firm that has been particularly acquisitive in recent weeks.
By Mike Scarcella and Erin Mulvaney | September 29, 2017
A Kirkland & Ellis employment litigation partner in Washington and daughter of a federal appeals court judge is on tap to be the U.S. Labor Department's chief in-house lawyer, extending the Trump administration's ties to the Chicago-based Am Law 100 firm.
By Brian Baxter | September 28, 2017
Steven McKinney, a former chair of the ABA's section on environmental energy and resources, has been indicted with fellow Balch & Bingham partner Joel Gilbert and a coal mining company executive over an alleged scheme to bribe former Alabama state representative and ex-National Basketball Association player Oliver Robinson Jr.
By Meghan Tribe | September 28, 2017
Becky James, a former chief of criminal appeals at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, has joined business litigation boutique Greenberg Gross as head of its appellate practice.
By Katelyn Polantz | September 28, 2017
Email may be essential for lawyers, but this week it felt like their worst enemy.
By MP McQueen | September 28, 2017
Allen & Overy partner Heath Tarbert, who led the firm's U.S. bank regulatory team in Washington, was confirmed Wednesday to a top post at the U.S. Treasury Department. Tarbert is leaving the Magic Circle the firm, one of the largest from the U.K., at a time when it's posting record numbers in several key metrics, including partner profits.
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