By Meghan Tribe | September 7, 2017
After nearly a decade working for the U.S. Department of Justice, Laura Perkins is getting off the federal government's payroll for a life in private practice. The veteran Foreign Corrupt Practices Act lawyer received some guidance from a legal recruiter with ties to the nation's top court to find her new perch in Big Law.
By Rebecca Cohen | September 7, 2017
Jean-Claude “J.C.” André, who spent the past decade as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in its U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice in the same city.
By R. Robin McDonald | September 7, 2017
An estate planning attorney hired by Atlanta lawyer Claud "Tex" McIver and his wife, Diane, has testified he drafted codicils for the couple's wills before McIver shot and killed his wife that, if executed, would alter Diane McIver's will that is now in probate.
By Roy Strom | September 7, 2017
It's been nearly a decade since Irving Picard was appointed trustee of the funds recovered for victims of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. The matter is still generating payouts for victims and Baker & Hostetler, where Picard is a partner in New York.
By Lizzy McLellan | September 7, 2017
Three out-of-town law firms—Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, Spilman Thomas & Battle and Cozen O'Connor—entered or expanded in the Pittsburgh market as the summer came to a close, keeping up the city's momentum as a hub for lateral hiring and law firm growth.
By Roy Strom | September 7, 2017
After helping to stock the Trump administration with legal firepower, Jones Day brought on a pair of high-profile names from the Obama Justice Department, Benjamin Mizer and Shirlethia Franklin.
By Brian Baxter | September 7, 2017
King & Spalding partner Bobby Burchfield, the Trump Organization's top ethics counsel, and ex-Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb, who joined the White House this summer as a member of the president's legal defense team in special counsel Robert Mueller III's Russia investigation, saw their names emerge in two eyebrow-raising reports.
By Brian Baxter and Rebecca Cohen | September 6, 2017
The first week of September saw Latham & Watkins pick up Wilson Sonsini's privacy and data protection co-chair Michael Rubin, while three other Wilson Sonsini partners are poised to join Cooley. Matthew Sonsini, the son of Wilson Sonsini's septuagenarian chairman Larry Sonsini, has also left the firm for another family business.
By Roy Strom | September 6, 2017
The Milwaukee-based Am Law 200 firm has taken on six lawyers in Salt Lake City from Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, including three of the local firm's name partners. The move is the latest expansion bid by Michael Best, the former home of Reince Priebus, as it seeks to outgrow its peers in a tepid market for demand.
By Rebecca Cohen | September 6, 2017
Ellisen Turner has been named the next managing partner of Irell & Manella as the Los Angeles-based firm's current leader, Andrei Iancu, was recently nominated to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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