Sara Randazzo

January 24, 2014 | The American Lawyer

King & Spalding bolsters its white-collar group by recruiting a pair of partners of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Meanwhile, three Am Law firms open new offices with lateral hires. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].

By Sara Randazzo

7 minute read

January 23, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The City of Detroit's lead restructuring counsel has reaped 40 percent of the nearly $42 million in advisory fees paid out in the Chapter 9 case as of this week, according to a tally provided to The Am Law Daily by emergency manager Kevyn Orr's office.

By Sara Randazzo

4 minute read

January 23, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Birmingham–based Bradley Arant Boult Cummings welcomed 12 of its attorneys to the firm's partnership last week, none of them women. So far, seven Am Law 200 firm have announced new partner classes this year made up entirely of men.

By Sara Randazzo

3 minute read

January 22, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Dennis Thomas O'Riordan, a former Paul Hastings and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft partner, has been disbarred in the United Kingdom for claiming a slew of phony accomplishments, including degrees from both Oxford and Harvard universities.

By Sara Randazzo

3 minute read

January 21, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Epstein Becker hires Ted Kennedy Jr. in Connecticut; Reed Smith launches a Kazakhstan office with two Dewey alumni; and a former political adviser in Florida joins Shutts & Bowen. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

January 17, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

Randy Mastro, a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner and former New York City deputy mayor, has been hired to advise New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in connection with the ongoing fallout from last fall's closing of toll lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge.

By Sara Randazzo

4 minute read

January 16, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has retained a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team led by litigation cochair Randy Mastro to represent him in a series of inquiries focused on what role he and his aides may have played in a four-day traffic snarl that tied up traffic near the George Washington Bridge.

By Sara Randazzo

4 minute read

January 15, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Reid Schar, a former U.S. attorney in Chicago who served as the lead prosecutor in both of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trials, has been hired to serve as special counsel to a New Jersey General Assembly committee investigating the role Gov. Chris Christie and his staff members played in creating a four-day traffic snarl by ordering the closing of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge.

By Sara Randazzo

3 minute read

January 15, 2014 | Law.com

Dozens of former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners who opted not to join a $71 million settlement with the firm's bankruptcy estate continue to face suits seeking the return of compensation they received in Dewey's final years. For one of those former partners, the strain created by the firm's collapse contributed to financial woes that recently led him to file for personal bankruptcy protection.

By Sara Randazzo

6 minute read

January 10, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Four Am Law 100 firms—Baker Botts, Cooley, Hogan Lovells, and Sidley—have signed on to a new pilot program designed to put women lawyers who have stepped away from the profession for one reason or another back into a law firm setting.

By Sara Randazzo

7 minute read