Rebecca Cohen

September 20, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Few occupations in San Francisco have as large a gender pay gap as the legal industry, the civic data analytics company LiveStories reported this week. And the inequality is growing.

By Rebecca Cohen

2 minute read

September 15, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Crystal Nix-Hines, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has returned to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as a partner in Los Angeles. The former reporter for The New York Times has also moonlighted as a television show script writer.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

September 14, 2017 | The American Lawyer

David King, a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associate who spent nearly the past seven years at buyout giant The Carlyle Group LP, has joined Kirkland & Ellis as an investment funds partner in the Bay Area.

By Rebecca Cohen

4 minute read

September 12, 2017 | The Recorder

Duane Morris has hired Sidley Austin corporate partner Robert Kadlec in Los Angeles, where the Philadelphia-based Am Law 100 firm bolstered its local operations earlier this year after absorbing a local corporate boutique.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

September 08, 2017 | The Recorder

Jackson Lewis has landed Tracy Costantino, a partner and vice chair of the wage-and-hour class actions practice at Lewis Brisbois, as a partner in Los Angeles.

By Rebecca Cohen

38 minute read

September 07, 2017 | The Recorder

Jean-Claude “J.C.” André, who spent the past decade as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in its U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice in the same city.

By Rebecca Cohen

4 minute read

September 06, 2017 | The Recorder

The first week of September saw Latham & Watkins pick up Wilson Sonsini's privacy and data protection co-chair Michael Rubin, while three other Wilson Sonsini partners are poised to join Cooley. Matthew Sonsini, the son of Wilson Sonsini's septuagenarian chairman Larry Sonsini, has also left the firm for another family business.

By Brian Baxter and Rebecca Cohen

103 minute read

September 06, 2017 | The Recorder

Ellisen Turner has been named the next managing partner of Irell & Manella as the Los Angeles-based firm's current leader, Andrei Iancu, was recently nominated to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

By Rebecca Cohen

12 minute read

September 05, 2017 | The Recorder

Joshua Morse, who joined Jones Day five years ago from now-defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf, is headed to DLA Piper in the Bay Area.

By Rebecca Cohen

35 minute read

September 01, 2017 | The Recorder

The Am Law 100 firm, which has been busy on the lateral hiring front in 2017, has added two intellectual property partners in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

43 minute read