By McKenna Moore | August 17, 2017
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, known for its work in the pro bono arena, has named Lauren Connell as its new pro bono counsel. Connell succeeds Fiona Brett, a well-regarded pro bono lawyer who suffered a personal tragedy last year, as she prepares to leave the firm.
By Miriam Rozen | August 17, 2017
Do the prominent lawyers representing President Donald Trump, his family and his administration—many of them Jewish—have a duty to object publicly to his comments about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia?
By Anna Zhang | August 17, 2017
Matthew Durham, a former consultant at the U.K. firm, has returned as a partner in Shanghai.
By David Bario | August 16, 2017
After President Donald Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” of the violent clashes in Charlottesville, one of his top lawyers circulated an email equating Confederate general Robert E. Lee with George Washington and saying Black Lives Matter had been “totally infiltrated” by terrorists, The New York Times reported.
By Meghan Tribe | August 16, 2017
Ricardo “Rick” Martinez, co-leader of the trade and export finance practice at Haynes and Boone, has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in New York.
By Lizzy McLellan | August 16, 2017
In the dog days of summer, legal recruiters aren't used to seeing much activity. But this year, Pennsylvania recruiters said, seems to be an exception.
By Roy Strom | August 16, 2017
Rather than return to Latham & Watkins, Zachary Fardon chose to build a King & Spalding office from the ground up in Chicago. He said he will build his new firm's Windy City outpost with a focus on “caring, kindness and civility,” noting that those “those couplings are maybe too rare in the Big Law business.”
By Rose Walker | August 16, 2017
Less than a month after six partners left London-based legal giant Ashurst's New York office, one of those defectors, Lawrence Berkovich, has reemerged at Allen & Overy.
By Lizzy McLellan | August 15, 2017
Cozen O'Connor is once again adding to its growing labor and employment department, this time tapping a lawyer fresh off more than four decades with the National Labor Relations Board.
By Rebecca Cohen | August 15, 2017
Latham & Watkins corporate partner Casey Fleck, who joined the firm in 2012 from Skadden, has left for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's office in Century City, California.
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