Rebecca Cohen

August 30, 2017 | The Recorder

Wilson Sonsini has welcomed aboard of counsel Elizabeth George, a former associate White House counsel in the Obama administration who most recently served as deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington, D.C., for its privacy and data protection practice in San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

47 minute read

August 29, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Second- through sixth-year associates at bonus-happy Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan will receive supplemental rewards based on the firm's performance, chairman John Quinn announced in a memo Tuesday. But there's a catch.

By Rebecca Cohen

24 minute read

August 25, 2017 | The Recorder

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' consulting arm is no more. Monarch Global Strategies LLC opened on Aug. 1 with offices in four cities after Manatt Global Strategies closed its doors. The new venture is comprised of several Manatt Global executives, including the latter's former president Michael Camuñez and ex-chairman James Jones.

By Rebecca Cohen

7 minute read

August 23, 2017 | The Recorder

King & Spalding has hired white-collar litigation partner Brian Michael in Los Angeles, where he was deputy general counsel at 21st Century Fox and group chief compliance officer at the Fox Networks Group. Michael comes to King & Spalding a week after the firm opened an office in Chicago by adding another ex-federal prosecutor.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

August 15, 2017 | The Recorder

Latham & Watkins corporate partner Casey Fleck, who joined the firm in 2012 from Skadden, has left for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's office in Century City, California.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

August 11, 2017 | The Recorder

Goodwin Procter has hired Cooley private investment funds partner Ian O'Donnell in San Francisco. The two firms have been busy this year poaching talent—sometimes from one another—for their private equity and technology groups.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

August 10, 2017 | The Recorder

Drivers in Solano County who can't pay their traffic fines will be less likely to have their licenses suspended, thanks to a settlement in a pro bono suit filed by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and several legal service organizations.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

August 09, 2017 | The Recorder

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired intellectual property litigator L. Scott Oliver as a partner in the firm's Silicon Valley office. Oliver, who represented a music publisher in the 2000 suit that led to Napster's collapse, was most recently a partner at K&L Gates.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

August 03, 2017 | The Recorder

Keller Sloan Roman, a San Francisco-based litigation boutique founded in 1998, is poised to close its doors as managing partner Kenneth Keller joins Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read

August 03, 2017 | The Recorder

D'Anne Gleicher, who started Alameda, California-based Wise Gleicher in 2006, has left her own firm to join labor and employment giant Jackson Lewis as a partner in San Francisco.

By Rebecca Cohen

3 minute read