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November 29, 2007 | National Law Journal

Arent Fox: Don't Call Us a 'Lifestyle' Firm

For years, Arent Fox embraced its image as a "lifestyle" firm, a concept popular with young associates. But now, the Washington, D.C., shop has reversed course. At a partnership retreat last month, Chairman Marc Fleischaker issued a directive to partners to cease using the terminology. The problem, Fleischaker says, is one of perception: "The implication is that you don't have to work hard. We do work hard and we make a lot of money, so I don't want people to misconstrue who we are."
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March 06, 2008 | National Law Journal

Heller Hires DLA's Seddon for Asian Top Role

Heller Ehrman has bagged a new managing partner for its Asia offices with the hire of former DLA Piper Asia chief Nick Seddon. Set to join the firm early in the summer, Seddon will head up Heller's four-office Asian network. He replaces current Asia chief Jonathan Palmer, who is returning to the U.S. after three years at the helm. At DLA Piper, Seddon acted as Asia head between 2004 and 2007, during which time he oversaw significant growth for the firm in the region, including opening two new offices.
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January 22, 2007 | National Law Journal

Bingham Adds Land Use Lawyers From Sedgwick

Bingham McCutchen's Orange County, Calif., office is expanding its land use and development practice group with the addition of partner Geoffrey Willis and four other attorneys from Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold. With the additions, Bingham now has more than 40 lawyers throughout California working on land use and development, according to Cecily Talbert, the co-leader of that practice.
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February 06, 2008 | National Law Journal

Linklaters Hires for Amsterdam Insolvency Launch

Linklaters has launched a restructuring and insolvency practice in Amsterdam after hiring a senior lawyer from U.K. rival Simmons & Simmons. Paul Kuipers joins the Dutch arm of the Magic Circle firm Tuesday as a counsel. Kuipers was previously a partner at Simmons, where he specialized in corporate recovery work and debt restructuring, advising banks, creditors and debtors. The move comes as a number of major firms are looking to boost their insolvency practices ahead of an anticipated economic downturn.
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November 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

Crowell & Moring Acquires 20 Lawyers From Litigation Boutique

Washington, D.C.-based Crowell & Moring added 20 lawyers last week from health care and labor litigation boutique King Pagano Harrison. Kent Gardiner, chairman of Crowell, says the lawyers will strengthen the firm's health care practice and labor litigation components in D.C. and build out the firm's recently opened New York office.
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February 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

ABA Retains Standard on Judicial Conduct

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates approved language Monday that will keep the Model Code of Judicial Conduct's bar against judges' engaging in impropriety or the appearance of impropriety as an enforceable rule. The vote came after a special committee reversed itself on the controversial issue. An earlier proposal had sought to downgrade the provision.
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January 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

Thelen Lawyer Helped by U.N. as a Child Heads to The Hague

Thelen Reid associate Hanh Nguyen is taking a leave of absence so she can work for the United Nations in The Hague. Starting in March, she will report to a senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as an assistant legal officer. Nguyen says she expects a fair share of grunt work, a lot of legal research, writing motions and maybe a role in court. A stint at a U.N.-run refugee camp when Nguyen was 11 left her with "a very favorable view" of the United Nations.
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September 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

Four Mayer Brown Litigation Partners Join Morrison & Foerster

Morrison & Foerster has recruited a four-partner litigation group from the New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. The group is led by Dennis P. Orr, one of Mayer Brown's most well-known New York partners who is currently representing in securities litigation 11 current and former directors and officers of American International Group, including billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad. The other partners in the group are Thomas Mueller, Grant Esposito and Stefan Engelhardt.
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August 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

King & Spalding Managing Partner Joins WilmerHale

WilmerHale has recruited Michael J. O'Brien, the New York managing partner of King & Spalding, to focus on mergers and acquisitions and private equity in WilmerHale's New York office. Last year, O'Brien led King & Spalding's team representing Caremark Rx Inc. in its $26 billion merger with CVS Corp.
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June 15, 2006 | National Law Journal

O'Melveny Rainmaker Fernandez Takes Latin America Group to Latham

The New York office of Latham & Watkins has recruited a six-lawyer Latin America practice from West Coast rival O'Melveny & Myers. The group is led by corporate partner Jose W. Fernandez, who specializes in representing corporations and financial institutions undertaking transactions in Latin America and has been involved in many of the region's largest deals. He will become co-chair of Latham's Latin America practice.
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