Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle spoke with the NLJ about his jump from Alston & Bird to DLA Piper and his role in his new firm's global operations.
Carrie Levine
Longtime Patton Boggs managing partner Stuart Pape is planning to step down at the end of 2010, passing the job to current deputy managing partner Edward Newberry as the firm tinkers with the way the position is structured.
Jeff Jeffrey
Most litigators at San Francisco-based Folger Levin & Kahn looked at Crowell & Moring and saw a firm that functions like a midsized outsider despite having more than 400 lawyers worldwide. Crowell's partnership was much more receptive.
Daniel Newhauser
One lawyer rejoins Clifford Chance and two promotions at Blank Rome. Plus, new lawyers at Cooley Godward, Eckert Seamans, Kaye Scholer, Knobb Martens, Littler Mendelson, Tully Rinckey, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Daniel Newhauser
Carrie Levine
When hedge funds bought up the Republic of Congo's debt and started chasing the impoverished African nation for repayment plus interest, the country's president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, took the battle to Washington.
Carrie Levine
The economy is still rocky, but the financial industry is showing one important sign of recovery: spending big bucks on Washington lobbying.
Carrie Levine
The Mormon church has hired A. Elizabeth Jones, a former high-level State Department employee and ambassador to Kazakhstan who is now an executive vice president at APCO Worldwide, to lobby the U.S. embassy in Italy to support the church's application for legal status in Italy.
Washington's top 25 revenue-generating firms show slow growth and consider themselves lucky.
It was another year of healthy growth for the area's biggest law firms, which posted a 3.8 percent increase in head count over last year's Legal Times 150. So why is everyone so nervous?
The Washington-area's top-grossing law offices pulled in more than $5 billion last year. See how they ranked in gross revenue.
Scandal, reform legislation, a drifting economy, a gridlocked Congress, campaign trail attacks. This may not seem like the best of times to be working as a lobbyist at a law firm or specialized lobbying shop. But given how revenues for their practices keep growing, it may not be a stretch to dub this "the golden age of lobbying."