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Breaking news and analysis of law firm partner moves, lateral hiring trends and law school graduate employment.
By Alex Newman | September 5, 2013
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has closed its Vienna base, with the departure of office managing partner Rainer Wachter to CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. Skadden said the decision was made following a strategic review which found that the firm could continue to provide advice on Austrian matters from other European bases.
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By Anna Reynolds | September 4, 2013
Hogan Lovells has added a third partner to its new Luxembourg office with the hire of tax lawyer Gérard Neiens from Allen & Overy.
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By Alex Newman | September 4, 2013
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) contentious tax head Liesl Fichardt is leaving to join Clifford Chance (CC) in the latest senior departure from the firm. Fichardt, who has been at BLP since 2008, is understood to be negotiating her exit from the firm, which has seen a number of partners leave in recent weeks.
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By Anna Reynolds | September 3, 2013
The head of Berwin Leighton Paisner's information law unit, Adam Rose, has left to join Mishcon de Reya, marking the latest move in a string of partner exits from the firm. Rose joined BLP in 1990 before becoming a partner in 1997. He lead BLP's commercial and technology group for 12 years, and was also the head of information law. He advises clients in the financial, information and publishing and outsourcing sectors and has experience in advising on a wide range of software and related IT contracts. Rose is also a vice-chair of Lex Anglo-Brasil and is involved with various Latin American chambers of commerce in the UK.
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By Alex Newman | September 2, 2013
SJ Berwin has hired highly-ranked international arbitration partner Paul Stothard from Dentons' London office. Stothard, who joined SJ Berwin yesterday (2 September), headed Dentons' Middle East dispute resolution practice from 2008 until 2012, when he returned to the City.
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By Alex Newman | August 30, 2013
Pillsbury has hired a five-strong London intellectual property (IP) team from Canadian firm Gowlings, including two partners. James Tumbridge and Paul Harris join the US firm's London office alongside associates Katerina Mikheev and Robert Peake and Dr Ashley Roughton, formerly an intellectual property and data protection barrister at Hogarth Chambers, who joins Pillsbury as special counsel.
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By Pui-Guan Man | August 30, 2013
DAC Beachcroft's Leeds office has lost a five-partner team to healthcare boutique Capsticks. The team comprises national health employment chief Rachael Heenan, who also heads up the health practice in the North, healthcare regulatory and public law partner Ian Cooper, health commercial specialist Robert McGough, employment lawyer Ron Simms and northern health sector partner Claire Reynolds.
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By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | August 27, 2013
Ropes & Gray has added to its corporate practice in Seoul with the hire of counsel Jaewoo Lee from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Lee, who joins the US firm as a partner, will initially be based out of New York and Hong Kong but will relocate to Ropes and Gray's Seoul office when his license to practice in the North Asian state is approved.
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By Alex Newman | August 20, 2013
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has made a rare partner hire in London with the appointment of Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom litigation and arbitration lawyer Penny Madden. An English-qualified solicitor who was promoted to the Skadden partnership in 2012, Madden has a practice focus on telecoms, international trade and insurance disputes.
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By Alex Newman | August 19, 2013
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) global head of private equity Raymond McKeeve has left to join Jones Day in a coup for the US firm's London office. McKeeve has spent four years at BLP after joining as private equity head in 2009, just a year after leaving Kirkland & Ellis in 2008, during which time he worked as an investment professional for property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz.
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By Aleeza Furman | March 1, 2021
Wilmington-based Cousins Law added Scott Jones as an associate, according to an announcement from the firm.
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By Sarah Tincher-Numbers | March 1, 2021
Joseph Barloon's return to Skadden follows the arrival of several other former top government lawyers since last summer.
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By Dan Packel | March 1, 2021
U.S. managing partner Tim House called the U.S. hires "the jewel in the crown" for the firm's global energy and projects capabilities.
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By Dylan Jackson | March 1, 2021
New Latham & Watkins partner Ian Conner led the Bureau of Competition through nine merger challenges in 2020.
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By Karen Sloan | March 1, 2021
Here's an early look at Law.com's 2021 Go-To Law School Big Law hiring report, featuring schools 41-50 on our annual ranking of the 50 law campuses that sent the highest percentage of recent graduates on to large firm associate jobs.
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By Justin Henry | February 26, 2021
Foley, Shearman, Jackson Walker, Ballard Spahr and King & Spalding, among others, brought more talent to their transactional groups this week.
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By Aleeza Furman | February 25, 2021
New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
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By Aleeza Furman | February 25, 2021
Chartwell Law Offices is expanding into Georgia with a new office in Atlanta and the addition of a partner, Herrick Feinstein announced that it formed a new Nordic practice, and other midsize moves.
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By Patricia Kane | February 25, 2021
And other announcements of recent hirings and promotions of New York attorneys.
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By Andrew Maloney | February 25, 2021
Foley was "very comfortable with the work we did and the due diligence we've done in bringing on this group," said the firm's CEO, Jay Rothman.
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