By Brian Baxter | June 27, 2017
Haley Guiliano, a boutique firm specializing in patent prosecution and other intellectual property work, will officially separate from Ropes & Gray on Aug. 1. The new firm will combine operations with Shvarts & Leiz, a small shop comprised of fellow Ropes & Gray alums, and have offices in London, New York and San Jose, California.
By Celia Ampel | June 27, 2017
The Boies Schiller Flexner lawyer is up for the prestigious Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
By Rebecca Cohen | June 27, 2017
Erik Swanholt, a litigator at Jones Day in Los Angeles for the past 16 years, has joined Foley & Lardner's business litigation and dispute resolution group in the city.
By Roy Strom | June 26, 2017
Barry Mandel, a retired partner at Foley & Lardner and former head of the firm's securities enforcement and litigation practice, and Denis Salmon, a former co-chair of the intellectual property group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, are making the move to a California-based litigation financier.
By Katelyn Polantz | June 24, 2017
The annual Battle of the Law Firm Bands took place in Washington, D.C., on June 22, featuring acts like the “Estoppelgangers,” “Nuclear Covfefe,” “Sutherland Comfort,” “The Perks” and “The Precedents.” Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law and federal government hires and other Washington, D.C., legal news.
By Miriam Rozen | June 23, 2017
British comedian John Oliver has a good defense in a defamation suit filed against him and HBO, the cable network that produces “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” said Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment litigation veteran and senior partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 22, 2017
Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal scored a game changing win in a SCOTUS case that fundamentally alters the growing practice of mass tort litigation--starting right now. How'd he do it? Hint: “It's not like I sit in my room and read the briefs.”
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | June 22, 2017
Houston lawyer Michael Pohl, sued last week in connection with a "barratry pyramid scheme," has been sued twice again, this time for participating in a barratry scheme for automobile accidents.
By Rebecca Cohen | June 21, 2017
Leslie Caldwell has become the latest former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division to join Latham & Watkins. The firm announced Wednesday that Caldwell will join its white-collar defense and investigations practice in September. The former partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius will work out of San Francisco.
By Rebecca Cohen | June 20, 2017
Andrea Jeffries, a high-profile intellectual property and technology litigation partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Los Angeles, is headed to Jones Day. Jeffries, who spent more than six years at Wilmer, is the latest lateral recruit by Jones Day this year.
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