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Breaking news and analysis of law firm partner moves, lateral hiring trends and law school graduate employment.
By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Osborne Clarke has hired its first dedicated funds partner, bringing in Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Tim Simmonds. Simmonds, who was based in London until he left BLP at the end of May, is set to join Osborne Clarke in Bristol next week (20 June), where he will be responsible for developing the firm's funds practice across all types of investment funds, including private equity, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Lateral partner hiring by international firms in London rebounded by almost 50% last year, according to new Legal Week research. Legal Week's annual international firms in London survey, which includes submissions from most major foreign practices operating in the Square Mile, found that 93 lateral partner hires were made across the 62 firms surveyed, up 41% from just 66 the previous year.
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
US firms' aggressive European private equity drive continues as Weil Gotshal makes significant team hire from CC
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By Alex Novarese | June 15, 2011
Legal Week's in depth strand has been timely of late. While May's focus on libel and privacy coincided with sustained hysteria about injunctions, this month's international firms in London focus comes as Weil Gotshal & Manges pulls off arguably the most significant City raid yet inflicted on a leading UK law firm. If nothing else, the resignation of a four-partner funds team from Clifford Chance (CC) is evidence that a select band of US law firms is becoming a steadily more menacing threat to the City's finest.
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By Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Suzi Ring | June 15, 2011
Macfarlanes corporate and M&A partner Garrett Hayes has left the firm to join Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in London. Hayes, who specialises in M&A and private equity advice and acts primarily for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, restructurings and auctions, joins the US firm after 16 years at Macfarlanes. He had been a partner since 2005.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Addleshaw Goddard has boosted its Manchester corporate team with the hire of a partner from DLA Piper. Neal Shepherd, who has been at DLA in 1992 and made partner in 1996, is set to join Addleshaws at the end of August.
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By Friederike Heine | June 8, 2011
Ropes & Gray has launched a tax and benefits practice in its fledgling London office with the hire of tax partner John Baldry from Kirkland & Ellis. Baldry, who joined Kirkland's London office in 2006 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, advises on most areas of corporate tax, including structured finance, private equity fund structuring, M&A and restructurings.
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By Sofia Lind | June 8, 2011
Bird & Bird is set to target standalone UK tax advisory work after sealing the hire of a second City tax specialist. The law firm has recruited LG partner Julian Hickey to practise alongside UK tax head Mathew Oliver – currently the firm's only dedicated London partner in the practice area.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 3, 2020
Philadelphia City Solicitor Marcel S. Pratt is set to rejoin Ballard Spahr in January as the managing partner of the firm's Philadelphia office and a partner in its litigation department, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Minority Attorney Conference planning subcommittee of the minority bar committee received the 2020 Award for Outstanding Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion from the PBA diversity team.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 2, 2020
A trio of trusts and estates lawyers join Pierce Atwood, Thompson Coe hires a new chief financial officer, and other midsize moves.
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By Dylan Jackson | December 2, 2020
Three other Boies Schiller partners are joining Nick Gravante at Cadwalader.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 2, 2020
Wisler Pearlstine announced that Courtney A. Keaveney joined the firm as an associate in its Blue Bell office, and the Philadelphia Bar Association is bringing Philadelphia's public interest community together virtually this year for the annual Public Interest Law Day.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 1, 2020
Baker Botts and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius each bring on a new environmental partner in Texas, as work is expected to increase under the Biden administration.
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By Dan Roe | December 1, 2020
The 175-lawyer Fort Lauderdale firm added litigator Sean P. Sullivan to lead its New Orleans office, amid more opportunities to serve insurers after a series of storms hitting the region.
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By Aleeza Furman | December 1, 2020
Health care liability attorney Ronald M. Puntil Jr. returned to Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin's Pittsburgh office as a shareholder in the health care department, and Clark Hill announced the addition of Nicole Phatak as a member in its tax and estate planning practice, resident in the firm's Pittsburgh office.
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By Jonathan Erway | November 30, 2020
Houston attorney Alexander A. Kuiper, an alumni of South Texas College of Law Houston, has established an endowed distinguished professorship of national security law at STCL Houston in anticipation of the law school's centennial year in 2023.
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By Aleeza Furman | November 30, 2020
Wechsler & Cohen will close its doors on Nov. 30, when its attorneys move to Harris St. Laurent.
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By Dan Roe | November 29, 2020
Law firms are preparing for the future as they navigate the present, illuminating some clear trends about what staffing will look like when the crisis is over.
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