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N.J. First-Year Associate Pay Pushed Up 7 Percent
New Jersey firms bumped up first-year associate salaries this year to an average of $106,410. The fact that salaries, which had been increasing only modestly since the late 1990s, are entering a boom phase means law firms are busy and need to staff up. And while they can't match New York or Philadelphia salaries, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham's William Hyatt Jr. says New Jersey has an edge in other respects: "the number of hours expected from associates, the camaraderie, the quality of life."Hogan and Lovells Partners Approve Merger
Partners at Hogan & Hartson and Lovells signed off on their megamerger in separate votes that ended at midnight on Monday. The move is one of the last big hurdles before the two firms officially set up shop, which is planned for May 1. "This is a great day for us," Hogan's chairman J. Warren Gorrell Jr. said Tuesday. In spite of the vote, the two firms still have several issues to work out, including overlapping offices and practice areas. The merged firm, with 2,500 lawyers, will be called Hogan Lovells.Law Firms Raise $800,000 So Far to Aid South Asians
New York lawyers are making sizable contributions to the worldwide tsunami disaster relief effort.Cozen Adds Dilworth Securities Group to Its D.C. Office
Cozen O'Connor has almost doubled its presence in Washington, D.C., by acquiring a four-attorney corporate and securities group from Dilworth Paxson led by partner Ralph V. DeMartino. Cozen O'Connor opened its Washington office four years ago with two corporate partners from Kutak Rock, and last year acquired four-attorney criminal defense boutique Asbill Moffitt & Boss, which included three partners and an associate. The Dilworth group brings Cozen O'Connor's D.C. lawyer head count to nine.Judge Shapiro Rules Vaccination Lawsuit Is State Court Case
Senior U.S. District Judge Norma L. Shapiro has ruled that a drug products liability lawsuit over a child who was allegedly rendered autistic due to adverse reactions to a battery of vaccinations must be litigated in the state courts even though the defendants plan to argue that the plaintiff failed to comply with the federal National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.Female workers suing Wal-Mart got some good news last month, when a judge in San Francisco green-lighted a regional version of the nationwide employment class action that the Supreme Court rejected last year. But this week Gibson Dunn reminded the plaintiffs that pursuing their regional strategy is going to be tough.
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