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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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August 27, 2007 | National Law Journal

Bloggers Fan the Fury Over Hairstyle Advice to Cleary's African-American Lawyers

Geeky Wall Street law firms don't usually make the style pages. But Cleary Gottlieb has recently become a fixture on at least a dozen hipster blogs, all commenting on a summer women's luncheon the firm held and where a Glamour magazine editor advised black lawyers to avoid Afros and dreadlocks. Judging by the traffic on the blogs, that fury has spilled well beyond the halls of Cleary Gottlieb.
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December 05, 2006 | National Law Journal

Brownstein Hyatt to Merge With Las Vegas' Schreck Brignone

Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt & Farber has announced it will merge with Las Vegas' Schreck Brignone, creating a firm with seven offices and more than 170 lawyers and policy consultants. Brownstein Hyatt is known for its political, real estate, corporate and litigation practices, and the 25-attorney Schreck Brignone for its gaming practice. Steven Farber, founding partner and president of Brownstein Hyatt, says that after doing business in Las Vegas for some years, the firm was eager to expand there.
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May 31, 2006 | National Law Journal

Clifford Chance Reports $1.9 Billion Revenue

British legal giant Clifford Chance announced on Tuesday estimated revenue of $1.9 billion and profits per partner of $1.5 million for the fiscal year ended April 30, up a respective 13 percent and 24 percent from the year before. The London-based firm, which is not included in the annual Am Law 100 survey of The American Lawyer magazine, has 268 of its 2,500 lawyers in New York.
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October 25, 2006 | National Law Journal

Fried Frank Litigation Partner Joins Milberg Weiss

Embattled class action firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman has brought aboard a new senior partner. Matthew Gluck joins the firm from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where he had been a litigation partner since 1973 but was facing mandatory retirement. The addition follows a number of partner departures from Milberg Weiss, which was indicted by federal prosecutors in May for allegedly paying kickbacks to plaintiffs.
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May 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

Foley Poaches From Weil Gotshal for China Office

Catherine Sun, the Weil, Gotshal & Manges lawyer that Foley & Lardner lured away to head its future Shanghai office, may be on maternity leave, but she's raring to get started as the chairwoman of Foley's Asia practice. "I get an e-mail from her every day, so I can't say she's not at work," said Sharon Barner, who heads the IP department. It could be a while before Sun can work out of Shanghai, since the firm just filed an application to open an office and final approval could take months or years.
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July 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Proskauer Opens Office in Brazil

Proskauer Rose has opened an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to be led by partner Antonio N. Piccirillo. The Sao Paulo location is the second overseas office for 700-lawyer Proskauer, which has seven offices in the United States and one in Paris.
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October 16, 2006 | National Law Journal

Lawyer Goes From Large Firm to Alaska and Back

Associate Nathaniel Currall has rejoined the Los Angeles office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham after a two-year hiatus in Alaska. In his hometown of Ketchikan, Currall worked at his father's five-attorney firm and met for coffee every morning at a community lodge with other attorneys and judges. And during the long daylight of summer, he'd often take his boat out after work. But the isolated social life of the small island eventually pushed Currall and his family back to L.A.'s big-city culture.
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August 22, 2007 | National Law Journal

Law Firms Ask IRS for Extension to Comply With New Rules

A group of 92 large law firms wrote the IRS on Tuesday, requesting a one-year extension on compliance with �409A, which was intended to eliminate abuses associated with executive deferred compensation plans. The firms said the deadline did not give their clients enough time to adequately review their compensation agreements, especially in light of recently adopted corporate governance structures, and was imposing an "undue strain" on companies and their advisers.
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July 25, 2007 | National Law Journal

McDermott Will Recruits Sullivan & Cromwell Veteran

McDermott, Will & Emery has recruited to its New York office a former senior trusts and estates partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. Henry "Terry" Christensen, who was a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell for 30 years, will launch a New York private client practice for McDermott Will, whose Chicago home office has one of the nation's top practices in the area.
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