Law Firm Hiring

Cravath coup as firm secures heavyweight lawyer from DoJ

By Legal Week | July 13, 2011

Cravath Swaine & Moore is strengthening its antitrust team with the hire of Christine Varney, a key player in the Obama administration's efforts to shore up the 
nation's antitrust enforcement efforts, from the Department 
of Justice (DoJ). Varney is due to join Cravath's New York office on 6 September, having taken her post as assistant attorney general of the department's antitrust division in April 2009.

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DWF turns to Watson Burton for Newcastle IP partner hire

By Simon Petersen | July 13, 2011

DWF has strengthened its intellectual property (IP) practice with a partner hire from Watson Burton. Ed Meikle, who specialises in advising on the capture, protection, commercialisation and enforcement of all IP rights, is set to join DWF's Newcastle office later this year.

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Brown Rudnick boosts London with Chadbourne partner hire

By Simon Petersen | July 13, 2011

Brown Rudnick has strengthened its European bankruptcy and restructuring team with a partner hire from the London office of Chadbourne & Parke. Insolvency partner Adrian Harris is set to join Brown Rudnick's London office in August, having been a partner at Chadbourne since 2006.

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Career Clinic: Should I follow my boss to a US firm in London?

By Legal Week | July 10, 2011

"I'm a 2PQE associate at a UK top 50 firm in London, where I qualified. I'm generally pretty happy where I am; the work as yet hasn't been mind-numbing and the firm's been pretty good to me so far - I'm still able to have something of a personal life alongside my time in the office. "However, the partner who's the head of my team is moving to a US firm's London office, and I've been offered the opportunity to go with him.

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Senior banking partner quits SNR Denton to join Norton Rose

By Sofia Lind | June 29, 2011

SNR Denton London banking partner Michael Black is set to leave the firm to join Norton Rose. Black, who is co-head of SNR Denton's financial institutions and funds sector group, joined legacy Denton Wilde Sapte in 2003 from Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard), where he had been the firm's head of banking. He originally qualified as a barrister and lawyer in New Zealand in 1992 and has been working in London since 1995.

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Mayer Brown seals hire of Nabarro IP partner for London base

By Friederike Heine | June 29, 2011

Mayer Brown has added a partner to its London intellectual property (IP) team with the hire of Jonathan Radcliffe from Nabarro. Radcliffe, who will join the US firm on 1 August, has expertise in patent and IP litigation, having acted on disputes in the pharmaceutical, life sciences and high-tech sectors. He joined Nabarro in 2005 from rival UK top 30 law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse.

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Ex-Simmons chief Dawkins quits for Bingham's 
London arm in wake of senior partner election

By Friederike Heine | June 27, 2011

Simmons & Simmons' former managing partner Mark Dawkins is set to join the London office of US law firm Bingham McCutchen. Dawkins, who stepped down as Simmons' managing partner at the end of April, is expected to join the firm's securities and financial institutions litigation group as a partner in early September after a sabbatical.

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Stephenson Harwood boosts City real estate with McGrigors hire

By Sofia Lind | June 22, 2011

Stephenson Harwood has added to its City real estate practice with the hire of McGrigors London partner Stephen Sumpton. Sumpton, who made the move between the two firms earlier this month (6 June), had been a partner at McGrigors since 2002. Before that he also spent 10 years at Baker & McKenzie in the firm's London and Moscow offices, as well as two years at legacy KPMG legal arm KLegal.

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Brown Rudnick bulks up in the City with two new partners

By Friederike Heine | June 22, 2011

Ashurst structured funds head Nick Terras is set to leave the firm to join Brown Rudnick's London office. Terras, who will become the US firm's 28th partner in the City, joined Ashurst last year from New York hedge fund specialist Schulte Roth & Zabel, when he was recruited as a consultant and handed a role to liaise between the UK firm's funds and derivates groups.

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Ex-Travers senior partner named CLLS chair

By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011

Travers Smith’s former senior partner Alasdair Douglas (pictured) has been named as the next chairman of the City of London Law Society (CLLS). Douglas…

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Law.com

Foreign Lawyer Recruitment Challenged by Singapore's Push for Local Hires

By Jessica Seah | November 20, 2020

The government raised the cost of hiring expatriates, imposed quotas to ensure businesses have a balance of local and foreign employees, and added 47 companies to a watch list for suspected discriminatory hiring practices.

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The American Lawyer

Even as Associate Attrition Wanes, Many Law Firms Will Keep 1st-Year Classes Robust

By Dylan Jackson | November 20, 2020

While law firms have seen historically low associate attrition in the pandemic, they aren't shrinking their incoming classes for fear of damaging the talent pipeline.

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Daily Report Online

COVID-19 Demands Prompt Dentons to Add Employment Law Partner—And Other 'On the Move' News

By Meredith Hobbs | November 19, 2020

Dentons recruited Rodney Moore from Ogletree as part of a push to expand its labor and employment practice, as employers struggle with COVID-19-related workplace challenges.

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The Recorder

On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers

By Aleeza Furman | November 19, 2020

New hires, promotions and awards from across the California legal market.

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Daily Business Review

As Renewable Energy Work Ramps Up, Holland & Knight Adds 2 M&A Partners

By Dan Roe | November 19, 2020

The new partners, including a former practice leader at DLA Piper, will help the firm meet continued demand for project financing and M&A in renewable energy, oil and gas and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Latin America.

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Daily Report Online

Justice Blackwell to Join Alston & Bird in January

By Meredith Hobbs | November 19, 2020

The judge has opted for Alston & Bird after announcing last February that he would leave the bench on Nov. 18 and return to private practice.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Nov. 19, 2020—Hoegen & Associates, Greenberg Traurig

By Aleeza Furman | November 19, 2020

John K. Lisman joined Hoegen & Associates as an associate, and Jessica Natali, a white-collar defense and special investigations shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office, is set to lead a panel at the 2020 White Collar Practice Seminar, presented virtually by the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

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Pro Mid Market

Midsize Moves: A Philly Title IX Partner, A New Orleans Office Leader

By Aleeza Furman | November 18, 2020

Montgomery McCracken brought on a partner to lead its new sexual misconduct liability and Title IX/institutional response practice groups, Kelley Kronenberg added a partner to lead its newly opened New Orleans office, and other midsize moves.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Nov. 18, 2020—Appellate Law Group, Stradley Ronon

By Aleeza Furman | November 18, 2020

Virginia Hinrichs McMichael, managing attorney of Appellate Law Group, was the presenter at a Continuing Judicial Education seminar for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judges, and Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young announced that Julie M. Murphy rejoined the firm's Cherry Hill, New Jersey, office as a partner in the financial services practice group.

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The American Lawyer

Freshfields Continues US Expansion With Washington DC Addition

By Rose Walker | November 18, 2020

The new hire adds to the firm's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States group.

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