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At Holme Roberts & Owen, a new manager is all business
While big firms hire business-minded recruits to handle administrative or operational tasks, Holme Roberts & Owen is experimenting with another idea. The 250-lawyer firm, based in Denver, has put a seasoned business executive -- formerly a lawyer -- on the front lines of its leadership. The firm announced last month that Robert Starzel, who recently rejoined the firm as of counsel, will co-manage the 18-lawyer office alongside current San Francisco managing partner Robert Stolebarger.Kirkland launches Asia private equity funds team
Kirkland & Ellis is setting up an Asian private equity funds practice with the relocation of two partners, including London partner Justin Dolling, who will move in January to Hong Kong, where he will be joined by New York partner Albert Cho. Although Kirkland's Hong Kong office has helped clients with fund formation matters, the pair will be the office's first partners dedicated to the practice.High court says attempted burglary can bring longer sentence under 'career criminal' law
The Supreme Court on Wednesday underscored the broad impact of a federal law allowing longer sentences for violent "career criminals." In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled against Alphonso James, a Florida man with three prior felony convictions, including one for attempted burglary. As long as an offense presents a serious potential risk of injury to another person, it satisfies the requirements of the Armed Career Criminal Act, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.One day's notice of firing makes one an employee
For vicarious liability purposes, a Maine federal court determined that the owner and driver of a tractor-trailer who leased the vehicle to a company and drove it on company business was an employee of the company because the company could terminate the relationship with one day's notice. Rich v. Brookville Carriers Inc., nos. 01-113-P-H, 01-173-P-H (D. Maine April 14).
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O'Melveny pledges $1.5M to Stanford's Christopher chair
Partners at O'Melveny & Myers have pledged $1.5 million to permanently endow a professorship in international law and diplomacy at Stanford Law School honoring former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who is credited with negotiating the release of 52 American hostages from Iran in 1980.A prelude to layoffs? Mayer Brown evaluates practice areas
Mayer Brown is conducting a firmwide evaluation of its staffing needs in light of a slowdown in some practice areas, the firm said. U.S. law firms generally have seen a decline in some practice areas such as mergers and acquisitions, real estate development, and securitization work as access to credit in the U.S. has dried up and lending terms have become more demanding. Many firms have cut lawyers while some firms have simply been forced to dismantle.
Mass. high court allows employer to modify employee's job to avoid disability payments
Employees in Massachusetts who injure themselves at work may not be entitled to disability retirement benefits if their employer accommodates them with a lighter job. A recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling held that employers can change an injured worker's duties to keep him on the job and prevent him from going into retirement and collecting disability.
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