The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Vivia Chen | October 2, 2017
Time for another edition of quick and dirty news. Here's what's catching my eye.
By Rose Walker | October 2, 2017
Bird & Bird, a large British law firm that cheekily uses the marketing moniker “Two Birds,” is poised to set up shop in the Bay Area next year after relocating two partners from London and Milan.
By Lizzy McLellan | October 2, 2017
Duane Morris is expanding its presence in Texas with a new office in Austin, starting with two lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright and King & Spalding.
By Anna Ward | September 29, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis partners Christopher Field and Jan Scobie have joined the London office of Dechert, an Am Law 100 firm that has been particularly acquisitive in recent weeks.
By Meghan Tribe | September 28, 2017
Becky James, a former chief of criminal appeals at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, has joined business litigation boutique Greenberg Gross as head of its appellate practice.
By Lizzy McLellan | September 27, 2017
Cozen O'Connor is acquiring a real estate boutique in Santa Monica, California, the firm announced Monday, adding a new office to the growing Philadelphia-based firm.
By Roy Strom | September 26, 2017
Liisa Thomas, the former chair of Winston & Strawn's global privacy and data security practice, has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Chicago office, treading a path familiar to four of her colleagues that have made a similar move in the Windy City.
By KAREN SLOAN | September 26, 2017
Most experienced attorneys know that the acronym PPP refers to profits per partner—a shorthand measure of a law firm's finances.
By Meghan Tribe | August 28, 2017
Law firms' biggest asset is their talent, and forward-thinking firms are bending traditional rules to make their organization attractive to the millennial talent pool. It has the positive side-effect of meeting client needs, too.
By Roy Strom | August 16, 2017
Rather than return to Latham & Watkins, Zachary Fardon chose to build a King & Spalding office from the ground up in Chicago. He said he will build his new firm's Windy City outpost with a focus on “caring, kindness and civility,” noting that those “those couplings are maybe too rare in the Big Law business.”
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