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December 11, 2007 | National Law Journal

Bryan Cave Launches Chinese Alliance With Local Firm Alpha & Leader

Bryan Cave has brokered an exclusive alliance with Chinese firm Alpha & Leader as the firm looks to boost its presence in the Far East. The tie-up was announced Monday and pairs Bryan Cave with a 100-lawyer firm with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. Bryan Cave, a 900-lawyer firm that already has offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai practicing U.S. law, can now claim its first local-law capability in the region.
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April 03, 2007 | National Law Journal

Jeffer Mangels Opens Third Calif. Office

Los Angeles-based Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro is opening an office this month in Costa Mesa, Calif., the 150-lawyer firm's third office in the state. The decision was fueled by a recent hire: Gordon Schaller, the former managing partner of Greenberg Traurig's Orange County office. "We found the right person to run it for us," managing partner Bruce Jeffer said. "When he became available, we moved quickly."
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March 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

Locke Liddell Jumps on Associate Raise Bandwagon

Texas-based Locke Liddell & Sapp has raised the base salary scale for associates in all five of its offices -- Austin, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. -- to the level announced last week by Baker Botts. The new annual base salary for a first-year at Locke Liddell is $140,000; bonuses have yet to be determined. Firms based in L.A. started the associate salary wars last fall, but the big-firm Texas market didn't jump into the fray until this month, with Vinson & Elkins' higher salaries.
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May 09, 2006 | National Law Journal

Senate Defeats Bill to Cap Med-Mal Jury Awards

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked Republican medical malpractice legislation during the GOP's opening session of a "health week" of proposals designed to win support from conservative voters, if not passage. Republicans forced votes on the bills to demonstrate the GOP's commitment to fighting what Majority Leader Bill Frist called a "litigation lottery." Added Frist: "It really boils down to the fact that health care dollars should be spent on patients and not on lawyers who are out abusing the system."
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June 06, 2006 | National Law Journal

Arbitration Ordered in Skadden Arps Discrimination Suit

A former tax supervisor at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom will have to arbitrate claims that the firm fired him in retaliation for his complaints about racial discrimination, a New York federal judge has ruled. Judge Michael Mukasey said former Skadden employee Jonathan Jung had signed a valid arbitration agreement as a condition of his employment at the firm, and the agreement continued to apply even though Skadden had taken some steps to litigate the matter.
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April 16, 2008 | National Law Journal

Salans Snares In-Houser for Russia Real Estate Team

Salans has hired a senior in-house lawyer as a partner in Russia, with Xavier Poulet-Mathis joining the firm's real estate practice in Moscow. Poulet-Mathis moves after a spell as head of legal affairs at Bouyguesstroi, the Russian subsidiary of French construction giant Bouygues Batiment International. Poulet-Mathis had led the legal affairs division at Bouyguesstroi since 2004. The hire brings the number of partners in Salans' Russian real estate team to five.
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November 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

Ex-Partner Drops Freshfields Age Claim

Former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Lois Moore has unconditionally dropped her age discrimination case against the London giant, it emerged Wednesday. Moore -- now a partner at the London arm of Shearman & Sterling -- had claimed that the introduction of a new, less generous pension scheme by the firm represented discrimination against its older partners. Last month Freshfields defeated a similar claim brought by former restructuring head Peter Bloxham.
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April 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

Former Milberg Partner Seeks Dismissal of Kickback Charge

One of the indicted former name partners of New York's Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman has moved to dismiss federal criminal charges against him. In motion papers filed Friday, Steven G. Schulman took issue with the government's characterization of alleged payments as "kickbacks." He also claimed the government's case is deficient because it fails to demonstrate how the lead plaintiffs' interests diverged from those of other class members.
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March 22, 2006 | National Law Journal

Latham Tops Off Associate Raises

Latham & Watkins has tacked on an additional $5,000 to the $5,000 raises it gave associates earlier this year. In January, Latham raised first-year salaries by $10,000 -- to $135,000 -- and all other years by $5,000 for its offices outside New York. The new raise, which is retroactive to Jan. 1, applies to all offices except for New York.
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December 06, 2007 | National Law Journal

Foley & Lardner Opens Shanghai Office

Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner is opening an office in Shanghai, China. Partner Catherine Sun, chairwoman of the firm's Asia practice and currently based in New York, will relocate and oversee the new outpost, which initially will include one other lawyer. The Shanghai office is 900-lawyer Foley's second office in Asia following the Tokyo office, which opened in 2003.
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