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Women Partner Watch
A package featuring an interactive chart offering a firm-by-firm look at the percentage of women elected partner at Am Law 100 and Second Hundred firms this year, as well as stories breaking down the previous four years of new partners by gender and exploring various trends gleaned by examining the 2012 partner class.

The Churn
The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
Quinn Emanuel broadens its D.C. office to include white-collar expertise, Dinsmore & Shohl opens its second Pennsylvania office in a Philadelphia suburb, and Ballard Spahr adds five lawyers in Atlanta. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to thechurn@alm.com.
Posted by Sara Randazzo | Comments
The Work
Jones Day, Kirkland Work Advise on Eastman Chemical's $4.7 Billion Solutia Buy
Eastman Chemical is set to acquire specialty chemicals manufacturer Solutia Inc. for $4.7 billion, including debt, that will allow the former Eastman Kodak subsidiary to expand its Asian Pacific operations.
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Tom Huddleston Jr.
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The Score
The Am Law 100, The Early Numbers Revenue: Revenue, Profits Surge at Quinn Emanuel
The litigators at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Quinn saw the firm's gross revenue rise more than 30 percent last year, to just over $732 million. Profits per equity partner, meanwhile, jumped nearly 15 percent, to $4.16 million, according to an announcement issued by the firm Friday.
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Irene Plagianos
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The Firms
Edwards Wildman Hits Back at Allegations Over Managing Partner's Affair
Edwards Wildman Palmer has responded to a salacious suit filed earlier this month in which two former partners accuse the Am Law 100 firm's soon-to-be-former managing partner Walter Reed of putting his amorous pursuits ahead of the firm's interests in negotiating a merger last year.
Posted by Brian Baxter | Comments
The Firms
Bankrupt Howrey May be Off Hispanic Farmers' Suits, But Ex-Firm Lawyer Vows to Soldier On
With the defunct firm exiting litigation that accuses the federal government of discriminatory lending, some of the affected plaintiffs are asking the judge overseeing Howrey's bankruptcy to ensure they aren't simply abandoned. What they apparently don't know is that their legal team is in fact still on the case.
Posted by Sara Randazzo | Comments
The Talent
The Ultimate Lateral Hire
Among 2011's noteworthy lateral big law hires, one?and his new firm?stand out as symbols of the profession's transformation.
Posted by Steven Harper | Comments
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