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The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200
Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge both lose partners ahead of a merger vote that would unite the two firms; Hogan Lovells hires three corporate partners from Kaye Scholer; and Troutman Sanders adds three lawyers to three different offices. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements and news releases to [email protected].Muni markets provide oasis for Wall Street job seekers
The $3.7 trillion municipal market is proving a benefit for Wall Street job hunters as the dwindling role of bond insurance and yields at four-decade lows fuel demand for analysis of the 89,000 U.S. local governments.GOP Senators Want Gorton On 9th Circuit
In a letter to President Bush signed by 49 of 50 Senate Republicans, former Washington state Sen. Slade Gorton, 73, has been suggested for a spot on either the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia or the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Both courts have seats open, but the possibility of Gorton being nominated to the circuit he criticized while in the Senate is the more compelling possibility.Associate is a Leading 'Cybersmear' Lawyer
Fifth-year associate Megan Gray is one of the nation's leading private cybersmear defense lawyers. "Cybersmear" is what corporations claim they suffer when anonymous posters defame them on the Web. In 1999, Gray represented the first John Doe to try to defend himself against a cybersmear claim. This summer, she represents the first John Doe to actually fight back against such a claim, suing Yahoo! for disclosing his identity.View more book results for the query "University of Pittsburgh"
Fired Calif. Court Employees Can't Claim Misconduct
The 9th Circuit Judicial Council has ruled that judges cannot commit judicial misconduct when dealing with routine personnel matters. The unusual opinion helps define the line between judges' administrative and adjudicative duties. The case at hand, involving a fired Probation Department provisional employee, "does not directly implicate the 'effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts,'" wrote Senior Judge A. Wallace Tashima.Associates: Cybersmear Pioneer
When Megan Gray was a first-year, she felt discouraged from developing her own small-bore clients. Gray promptly left O'Melveny & Myers for the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Baker & Hostetler. Today, as a fifth-year, she has a million-dollar book of business and is the nation's leading private cybersmear defense lawyer.With new strategies and new co-counsel, the plaintiffs in the massive Amazon environmental case against Chevron Corporation are back on the offensive. Will Chevron be able to make its fraud claims stick?
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