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May 04, 2007 | National Law Journal

Sonnenschein Poaches 18 Kilpatrick Stockton Attorneys, Opens New Office

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal is taking 18 attorneys from Kilpatrick Stockton to start an office in Charlotte, N.C., a new outpost for the firm. John Nicholas Suhr, one of the attorneys coming over from Kilpatrick Stockton, will be managing partner in Charlotte. The new location is Sonnenschein's 13th office in the United States; the firm also has an office in Brussels.
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February 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

Another Boies Schiller Partner Moves to Quinn Emanuel

A second partner from Boies, Schiller & Flexner has left the firm to join litigation boutique Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges. Philippe Selendy, a Boies Schiller partner since 2000, worked last summer with senior partner David Boies on a $1 billion lawsuit brought by investor Carl Icahn in an ultimately successful bid to stop a planned merger between two drug companies. Selendy's move follows that of former Boies Schiller partner Stephen Neuwirth, who joined Quinn Emanuel earlier this year.
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April 17, 2008 | National Law Journal

Calgary's Bennett Jones Adds to Toronto Office

Susan G. Seller has joined Calgary's Bennett Jones as a partner in the Toronto office. She was most recently in the Toronto office of Baker & McKenzie. Seller focuses on pension and employee benefits law, with particular experience in advising clients on matters related to plan governance, administration and compliance, pension fund investment, executive compensation, and pension benefit issues arising in corporate reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
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December 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Williams & Connolly Raises First-Year Salaries to $180,000

The race to throw vast sums of money at first-year associates continues. Amid speculation as to which Washington, D.C., firm would be the next to raise salaries to $160,000, Williams & Connolly has reportedly jumped out of the pack and boosted first-year pay all the way up to $180,000. One reason for the firm's sometimes higher base salaries: Unlike most firms, Williams & Connolly doesn't offer year-end bonuses.
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March 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

Nabarro Gains Best Friends in Italy and Spain

Nabarro has extended its European "best friends" network with the addition of new preferred firms in Italy and Spain. Nunziante Magrone comes aboard as the firm's best friend in Italy, with Rodes & Sala Abogados named as Nabarro's new Spanish ally. Nunziante has offices in Rome, Milan and Bologna. Rodes & Sala has offices in Madrid and Barcelona. Nabarro's network, which also includes German outfit GSK Stockmann & Kollegen and French practice August & Debouzy Avocats, will now work as a five-firm alliance.
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January 22, 2007 | National Law Journal

Panel Advises IP Litigators to Wake Up and Smell the Reversals

With intellectual property litigation, the stakes are often exceedingly high, but so is the uncertainty about how it will turn out. This mix of high vulnerability and low predictability makes these disputes perfect candidates for alternative dispute resolution, and especially mediation, according to a panel of experts who gathered to talk about the subject last week. Their main message for attorneys? Pursue mediation early and often, and do your best to get your clients in that mind-set too.
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August 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

Two Prominent Attorneys Subpoenaed in KPMG Case

Two of Hogan & Hartson's most prominent attorneys -- Prentiss Feagles, co-director of the firm's tax practice, and Paul Rogers, a partner in the firm's health practice -- have been subpoenaed at the request of KPMG's lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who are defending their client over work done on behalf of Bernard Salick. Salick is a Los Angeles physician and entrepreneur who filed suit in California in 2005 against KPMG after shady tax shelters were sold to him by the company.
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April 13, 2007 | National Law Journal

Greenberg Raises First-Year Salaries, Urges Pro Bono Work

Greenberg Traurig this week raised the starting base salaries of its rookie lawyers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to $135,000 and their total compensation packages to more than $150,000. In addition, Matthew Gorson, Greenberg's national operating partner in Miami, says the firm now will let associates count 20 hours of pro bono work toward their billable-hour targets. Florida Supreme Court justices recently have pushed lawyers and law firms to step up their work on behalf of poor people in the state.
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March 31, 2006 | National Law Journal

Akin Gump Bumps Associate, Counsel Pay in Texas

Associates and counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's Texas offices are getting a raise. First-year associates will earn a base salary of $135,000, plus a $5,000 guaranteed bonus. Partner Daniel Micciche says Akin Gump will still award yearly merit-based bonuses, which range up to $50,000 and are based on more factors than other firms' "mechanical system based on billable hours." Earlier this year, Akin Gump hiked salary scales for associates and counsel in California, New York and Washington, D.C.
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March 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

Andrews Kurth Raises Associate Salaries Retroactive to Jan. 1

Following Vinson & Elkins' lead, Andrews Kurth is the second large Texas firm to raise its associate salary scale. But Andrews Kurth upped the ante: While V&E's salaries are retroactive to March 1, Andrews Kurth will pay its new salaries retroactive to Jan. 1. The last time the Texas market took a leap was in 2000, when the market stabilized with first-year associate salaries at $115,000. Now the question is: Which firms will get in line on this go-around?
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