Rebecca Cohen

February 02, 2017 | The Recorder

Snap Inc., the parent company of photo-sharing and messaging service Snapchat, is seeking to raise $3 billion through an initial public offering. The company, which is being advised by Cooley in its effort to go public, also disclosed in securities filings how much it has paid Munger, Tolles & Olson for legal work over the past three years.

By Rebecca Cohen

34 minute read

January 26, 2017 | The Recorder

When F. Daniel Leventhal started practicing corporate finance law 35 years ago, he said enjoyed being able to travel and meet people. Those aspects of the job dwindled over the past decade, but Leventhal is looking forward to new horizons.

By Rebecca Cohen

8 minute read

January 20, 2017 | The Recorder

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is promoting 18 lawyers to partner this year. The makeup of the 2017 class, half of which is spread around the firm's California offices, reflects Orrick's belief that technology will continue to drive the Golden State's economy, firm leaders said.

By Rebecca Cohen

10 minute read

January 19, 2017 | The Recorder

Fernando & Partners, a four-lawyer IP firm in Palo Alto, California, has agreed to join Squire Patton Boggs. The move comes almost a year after Squire Patton Boggs absorbed another Golden State-based litigation firm.

By Rebecca Cohen

26 minute read

January 17, 2017 | The Recorder

Marilyn Martin-Culver, a business litigation partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Costa Mesa, California, recently left the firm to become a name partner at Robertson & Culver in nearby Irvine. The firm, now known as Robertson & Olsen, recently saw a name partner depart.

By Rebecca Cohen

22 minute read

January 10, 2017 | The Recorder

Carrie LeRoy has joined White & Case's intellectual property practice as a partner in the firm's Silicon Valley office.

By Rebecca Cohen

30 minute read

January 09, 2017 | The Recorder

Stacey Rosenberg, a debt finance transactions expert at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles for the past decade, is poised to join Hogan Lovells in the City of Angels.

By Rebecca Cohen

27 minute read

January 06, 2017 | National Law Journal

As the lawyer hero of "Making a Murderer," Netflix's hit true-crime series from 2015, you might think Dean Strang would be optimistic about the power of TV to improve the public's understanding of what lawyers do. You'd be wrong.

By Rebecca Cohen

7 minute read

January 05, 2017 | National Law Journal

At this week's Association of American Law Schools conference, law professors and doctors alike urged a shift in the bar exam's structure to be more akin to med school, all in an effort to improve bar passage rates.

By Rebecca Cohen

7 minute read

January 04, 2017 | The Recorder

John Pierce, who left K&L Gates just months after his splashy hire earlier last year, has now formed his own firm with former fellow Quinn Emanuel alum David Sergenian.

By Rebecca Cohen

53 minute read