Kirkland Brings Back One Ex-Litigator, But Loses Two to Latham
After 41 years at Kirkland & Ellis, James Schink left the firm's Chicago headquarters in December for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Just six months later, however, Schink has quietly returned to his longtime home, which this week saw two other litigators decamp for Latham & Watkins in New York.
June 14, 2017 at 06:55 PM
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After 41 years at Kirkland & Ellis, James Schink left the firm's Chicago office in December for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Just six months later, however, Schink has quietly returned to his longtime home, which this week saw two other litigators decamp for Latham & Watkins.
Latham, the nation's largest firm by gross revenue, a title it took by beating out Kirkland, has landed a litigation quartet in New York led by Kirkland partners Joseph Serino and Eric Leon and associates Kuangyan Huang and Nate Taylor. The new recruits are part of a move by Latham to expand its litigation offering to a global client base.
“Latham was looking to expand its commercial complex litigation practice and add more depth to its already impressively deep stable of trial lawyer and so that was a real motivating factor for me,” Serino said.
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