Law Firm Hiring

Up the bracket – BLP vows to stick to high-end market strategy despite PEP hit

By James Boxell | August 1, 2013

""In the past five years, we've invested a lot in people from the very best firms. They have been getting up to speed and now we are competing for higher-quality work than we used to – part of the reason we found last year challenging..."

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Partner numbers across top 50 grow 7% as equity partner ranks see more modest rise

By Anna Reynolds | August 1, 2013

Partner numbers across the UK top 50 have grown almost 7% this year, as a number of significant mergers continue to drive headcount growth at leading law firms. Across the 2012-13 financial year there were an average of 10,115 partners working at the top 50 firms, up 6.9% from 9,458 the previous year. Following a spate of mergers, DWF saw the largest growth in partner numbers across the group, leaping from 152 to 285 over the year as a result of tie-ups with Biggart Baillie, Fishburns and Buller Jeffries as well as taking on a number of partners from now defunct Cobbetts.

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Weil Gotshal loses high-flying London litigator to Sidley Austin

By Alex Newman | August 1, 2013

Sidley Austin has hired Weil Gotshal & Manges litigation partner Matthew Shankland to its disputes resolution group in London. Shankland, who represents clients in commercial disputes in the higher courts, the European court and arbitration tribunals, has a particular practice focus on alternative dispute resolution and cross-border bankruptcy and insolvency work for financial institutions.

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K&L Gates adds second City energy partner in a month with Pinsents hire

By Alex Newman | July 29, 2013

K&L Gates has hired Pinsent Masons energy disputes partner Mike Stewart, the firm's second lateral partner addition in the City in a month. Stewart advises contractors and owners on major construction and energy projects, specialising in international dispute resolution work.

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Hill Dickinson offloads four-partner Chester office to Knights

By Gerard Starkey | July 29, 2013

Hill Dickinson has sold its Chester office to Knights Solicitors for an undisclosed fee following a review of its UK-wide business. The move, which will see the transfer of four partners and 20 staff, is the first acquisition by the Knights since the James Caan-led private equity house Hamilton Bradshaw bought a stake in the firm in June 2012.

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Minter Ellison launches Asia tax practice with Ernst & Young duo in Hong Kong

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | July 29, 2013

Minter Ellison has launched a tax practice in Asia with the hire of two tax specialists from Ernst and Young in Hong Kong. The Australian firm, which earlier this month said it wanted to boost the amount of regional work it did in a bid to combat a sharp decline in domestic M&A activity, has recruited the E&Y duo Christian Pellone and Edward Lean to join its Hong Kong office and to spearhead the new practice for the whole of Asia Pacific.

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Mishcon boosts property litigation group with Olswang hire as part of three-year strategy

By Anna Reynolds | July 26, 2013

Mishcon de Reya has appointed Olswang head of construction Nick Lane to join its property litigation group. Lane - who will start at the firm on 2 September - will join Mishcon's property litigation group as a contentious construction specialist. His move will bring the group, which sits within the firm's real estate practice, to a total of four partners and 12 fee-earners. Mishcon's wider real estate department has 19 partners and a total of 78 fee-earners.

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MoFo lands two Norton Rose veteran dealmakers

By Alex Newman | July 26, 2013

Norton Rose Fulbright has lost high-profile dealmakers Jake Robson and Adam Summerly to Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) in Singapore. Robson and Summerly, who have been based in the city-state for eight and 14 years have been brought in to support increasing demand from MoFo's clients for work based in and out of South and Southeast Asia. The English-qualified Robson focuses on M&A, private equity, cross-border investment and joint venture work throughout Asia, as well as capital markets transactions in public securities offerings in the region.

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Goldman Sachs deputy GC to rejoin Fried Frank as co-chair

By Alex Newman | July 24, 2013

Goldman Sachs deputy general counsel David Greenwald is set to rejoin Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson as co-chair of the US firm. Greenwald, who also holds the post of international GC at the bank, will serve alongside Valerie Jacob, current chair of the New York-headquartered firm, until February 2015.

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Wragges takes four-strong Paris real estate team from Bird & Bird

By Gerard Starkey | July 16, 2013

Wragge & Co has moved to strengthen its Paris real estate offering with the hire of a four-lawyer team from Bird & Bird led by partner Constance de La Hosseraye. La Hosseraye joins the firm to head up the Paris real estate practice and brings with her associates Fleur Gaffinel, Jeremy Roigt and Katy Bonixe, with the team plugging the gap left following the departure of partner Henry Ranchon to French law firm Franklin at the start of the month. After being called to the bar in 1992, La Hosseraye joined local firm De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 1993 before joining Bird & Bird's Paris office in 2007 as partner. Her arrival at Wragges brings its Paris partner count to ten.

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New York Law Journal

Job Hunting Rules for the (Post) COVID-19 Era

By Steve Cohen | February 18, 2021

COVID-19 has changed the process of getting hired. It is not better or worse, just different.

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Pro Mid Market

Mid-Market Recap: You Wanna Bet?

By David Gialanella | February 18, 2021

In uncertain times, do even routine law firm moves seem like gambles?

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The American Lawyer

Ex-SEC Chairman Clayton, Former Acting Solicitor General Wall Rejoin Sullivan & Cromwell

By Krishnan Nair | February 18, 2021

Before his three-and-a-half-year term as SEC chairman, Clayton was among Wall Street's top-earning corporate partners. He will also take a new role with Apollo Global Management's board of directors.

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Legaltech News

The Rise of the Highly Skilled Talent Platform in Legal

By Basha Rubin, Priori | February 18, 2021

The marketplace or talent platform model has reshaped how we live and work—including now, legal. But despite the increasing popularity of highly skilled talent platforms, many organizations don't yet have an effective strategy for working with them.

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Daily Report Online

McGuireWoods Scoops Up Trio of Insurance Coverage Partners From King & Spalding

By Meredith Hobbs | February 17, 2021

Tony Tatum, who co-led King & Spalding's insurance coverage and recovery practice, Shelby Guilbert and Joe Englert said McGuireWoods offers a "clear runway" for their practice, with no impediments to representing policyholders against insurers.

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Daily Business Review

Jones Day Hires Miami Litigation Partner Amid Flurry of Latin American Laterals

By Dan Roe | February 17, 2021

Eliot Pedrosa was Greenberg Traurig's Miami litigation chairman before he took a two-year, Senate-appointed role with the Inter-American Development Bank. He is the latest in a series of Big Law hires focused on Latin America.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Feb. 17, 2021—Saxton & Stump, Capehart Scatchard

By Aleeza Furman | February 17, 2021

Kathy L. Pape, Elaine A. Stanko and Richard S. Calabrese joined Saxton & Stump, and Capehart Scatchard shareholder Sanmathi Dev, was sworn in as a trustee of the South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey.

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New Jersey Law Journal

On The Move: Giordano Halleran; Helmer Conley; Parker McCay

By Jonathan Erway | February 17, 2021

Giordano Halleran Names Practice Chairs Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla in Red Bank named two practice chairs effective Jan. 1: C. Justin McCarthy,…

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National Law Journal

Intelligence IG Who Handled Trump Whistleblower Complaint Lands at Crowell

By Christine Simmons | February 17, 2021

Michael Atkinson will co-lead Crowell's national security practice.

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The American Lawyer

Weil Hires Akin Gump's NYC Office Leader for Private Equity Group

By Dan Packel | February 16, 2021

Trey Muldrow, the first African American to lead Akin Gump's New York office, spent nearly 25 years at the firm.

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