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Breaking news and analysis of law firm partner moves, lateral hiring trends and law school graduate employment.
By Alex Novarese | April 19, 2012
"Even if the individual is a superstar, why would you ever want to base a business on such recruits? And forget fluffy stuff about collegiality, why would high performers want a guarantee? They're selling the chance to profit from their delivery..."
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By Friederike Heine | April 19, 2012
"Maher's departure forced the US to take a closer look at the firm's remaining corporate clients in London, and it looked pretty grim. The City office had to redefine itself and change its client focus, which inevitably resulted in departures..."
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By Suzi Ring | March 15, 2012
US law firms grew their partner count in the City by close to 10% during 2011 as they continued to increase their share of the European legal market. Legal Week's research into the hiring activity and penetration of US firms in London found total partner count at the 45 US and transatlantic firms in London taking part in the survey increased by 91 in the year to January 2012, to 1,199.
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By Friederike Heine | March 15, 2012
Partner hiring by US firms in London increased by over 25% in 2011, with firms adding more partners to their City bases than at any time over the last five years. Legal Week's annual survey of hiring trends at the City operations of some of the largest US and transatlantic firms found there were 116 partner hires during 2011 across the 45 firms taking part in the survey. The overwhelming majority of these (101) were partners at their previous firms.
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By Rose Orlik | March 8, 2012
Robust insurance and infrastructure sectors are drawing legal advisers to Mexico and Brazil. Rose Orlik reports
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By Suzi Ring | March 8, 2012
Wragge & Co has grown its City real estate practice with the hire of SJ Berwin partner Duncan Field. Field, who is also a qualified barrister, is set to join the law firm's planning and regeneration team this spring after 13 years at SJ Berwin, where he has been a partner since 2005.
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By Rose Orlik | February 16, 2012
Charles Russell has bulked up its employment and pensions team with the hire of Pinsent Masons employment partner Robert Mecrate-Butcher. Mecrate-Butcher, who joined Pinsents in 2007, works across both contentious and non-contentious employment law, with a particular focus on advising clients in the insurance and banking sectors. He specialises in TUPE advice, with his practice also covering diversity and equality issues, executive departures and the enforcement of restrictive covenants. The hire takes the combined employment and pensions group to 11 partners.
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By Rose Orlik | February 9, 2012
Eversheds has added three partners to its London pensions practice with the hire of two laterals from Squire Sanders and an of counsel from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The Squire Sanders partner duo, Emma King and Sarah Franklin, both join from the firm's Birmingham arm, where King headed up the local practice.
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By Suzi Ring | January 12, 2012
Suzanna Ring sizes up Davis Polk & Wardwell's prospects as the US leader makes its English law debut in the City...
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By Suzi Ring | December 7, 2011
Withers has launched a tax litigation practice in London with the hire of Irwin Mitchell's business and tax investigations head Maurice Martin. Martin joined the firm on 1 December after five years at Irwin Mitchell, four of which he spent as practice head. He will lead the tax litigation team at Withers, which will sit within the firm's wealth planning group. The firm is planning to add a team of junior lawyers to the group over the coming months.
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By Zack Needles | February 1, 2021
The rise of remote work has, in a number of ways, eased the logistical burden of lateral hiring. But it's also created new concerns: namely, how can firms integrate new partners and make them stick when books of business are arguably more portable than ever?
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By Dylan Jackson | February 1, 2021
Former Goodwin partner Michael Russell has represented major tech platforms such as Slack, Uber, Fitbit and Twitter.
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By Dylan Jackson | February 1, 2021
Firm founder John Quinn said the firm is looking to grow the new Atlanta office immediately.
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By Justin Henry | February 1, 2021
"Anytime you're facing the government, especially the federal government with all its awesome powers and resources, you're kind of like an underdog, and I love a good underdog story," McSwain said.
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By Jonathan Erway | February 1, 2021
McGinnis Lochridge welcomed Traci M. Clements as a partner in Dallas.
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By Phillip Bantz | February 1, 2021
"What attracted me was an opportunity to build an antitrust group at a firm that's successful and large," said Gary Zanfagna.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | February 1, 2021
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer brought on Big Law laterals in Houston, Washington, D.C., New York and Denver, the firm announced Monday.
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By David Gialanella | January 29, 2021
Schenck Price managing partner Gary Werner said in an interview that the addition "dramatically strengthens" the environmental and commercial litigation practices, and "simultaneously helps make us younger."
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By Justin Henry | January 29, 2021
The firm is promoting within to fill its new role of chief talent officer.
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By Patrick Smith | January 29, 2021
Entire groups and practice heads were among the moves we saw this week as January 2021 continues to be a time of migration in Big Law.
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