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February 08, 2007 | National Law Journal

Latham Hires Another Enron Prosecutor

Latham & Watkins nabbed a second former Enron prosecutor last week when Kathryn Ruemmler joined the Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the litigation department. Ruemmler, who delivered the closing arguments in the trial of Enron founder Kenneth Lay and chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, follows former task force director Sean Berkowitz, who joined the firm's Chicago office in November.
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October 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

Missouri Firms Explore Possible Merger

Leaders from Blackwell Sanders and Husch & Eppenberger say they are in the early stages, "with serious intentions," of a possible merger. Blackwell Sanders, based in Kansas City, Mo., has about 330 attorneys, while Hush & Eppenberger, based in St. Louis, has about 300 attorneys. A merger deal would create the second-largest firm in Missouri.
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January 11, 2008 | National Law Journal

Five Intergenerational Relations Blunders

Law firms are struggling with generational divides because they make five significant blunders, says consultant Phyllis Weiss Haserot. She describes those blunders -- such as assuming that people of other generations have the same work-life goals and objectives as you do as well as accusing another generation of an "entitlement mind-set" when each generation is guilty of that in its own way -- and explains what managers should do to alleviate the generation gap.
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March 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

Kirkland London Strategy Under Pressure as McKeeve Quits

Kirkland & Ellis' much-vaunted assault on London's private equity market has suffered a blow with the resignation of one of its high-profile recruits, Raymond McKeeve. McKeeve is set to leave the firm for a role outside the law, two years after joining from Linklaters along with private equity chief Graham White in one of the most high profile team hires by an American firm in London. The move follows claims that Kirkland's London M&A team was struggling to build a profile in the European buyout market.
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April 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

Miami Litigator to Lead Carlton Fields

Benjamine Reid, a partner in the Miami office of Carlton Fields, has been elected chairman of the 225-lawyer firm. Reid, a litigator, was a shareholder at Popham Haik in Miami, a firm that merged with Carlton Fields in 1997 and became the Tampa-based firm's Miami office. Established in Tampa in 1901, Carlton Fields also has offices in Atlanta and the Florida cities of West Palm Beach, Orlando, St. Petersburg and Tallahassee.
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January 12, 2007 | National Law Journal

GCs Likely to Spend More on Outside Counsel This Year

In what may be a reflection of corporate America's cautious stance on legal matters, in-house attorneys across the country report that they'll be giving more work to outside firms this year. An Association of Corporate Counsel survey released this week found that 25 percent of in-house counsel plan to increase their use of outside counsel, up from 16 percent last year. There's speculation that SOX is the central reason. Recruiter Martha Fay Africa believes companies hope to spread the responsibility around.
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February 07, 2008 | National Law Journal

Ashurst Adds to Tokyo Project Finance Team

Ashurst has hired a new project finance partner in Japan with the addition of White & Case partner Matthias Schemuth, who joined the British giant on Monday. Schemuth becomes the third partner in Ashurst's Tokyo finance group. He spent seven years at White & Case, where he was a partner in the Hong Kong energy, infrastructure, project finance and asset finance group. The hire "shows we are keen to bolster our presence in Asia," said Ashurst senior partner Geoffrey Green.
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December 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

Allen & Overy Hit With Discrimination Suit by Former N.Y. Associate

Allen & Overy faces a religious discrimination suit by a former associate who claims he was fired because he insisted on observing the Jewish Sabbath. Norman D. Schoenfeld claimed in a suit filed in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the British law firm fired him because one partner in particular was upset that Schoenfeld was unable to work on matters from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. In a statement responding to the suit, Allen & Overy said Schoenfeld was fired for performance reasons.
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June 05, 2006 | National Law Journal

Perelman-Suit Lawyer Gets Another Day in Court

Thomas A. Clare, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis' Washington, D.C., office who lost his ability to appear in the Morgan Stanley case last year in Florida's Palm Beach Circuit Court, has won reinstatement of his pro hac vice status. Clare represented Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York financier Ronald O. Perelman's fraud lawsuit in West Palm Beach against the giant investment banker.
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April 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

What Is Life Like at the Top?

How do the managing partners, chairmen and presidents of law firms spend their time? A recent Altman Weil survey shows that while most of them devote 35 percent of their time to firm management, at larger firms, lawyer-managers spend 70 percent of their time on firm management. Then again, managing partners at big firms get paid more, at $750,000, versus $500,000 overall. And nonlawyer-managers get paid a median $450,000 at firms with 130 lawyers or more, versus a median of $155,000 overall.
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