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December 15, 2008 |

Ratner Prestia to Freeze Rates for First Half of 2009

Valley Forge, Pa.-based intellectual property boutique Ratner Prestia has announced it will freeze "essentially all attorney billing rates for at least the next six months" in an effort to help clients "weather the current economic storm," according to a press release.
6 minute read
February 04, 2009 |

McDermott lays off 60 attorneys, 89 staff

McDermott Will & Emery has laid off 60 lawyers and 89 staff employees, citing a slowdown in clients' business and a resulting impact on the firm. McDermott follows in the footsteps of other major law firms across the country, including Morrison & Foerster, Blank Rome and Mayer Brown, that have also cut their attorney workforces in recent months in the face of decreased client demand in certain areas, such as real estate and financial securities work.
3 minute read
October 08, 2003 |

Inching Forward

Firms tend to define diversity in terms that allow them to make some women partners, and hire some ethnically diverse associates, then declare victory and wonder why we have to keep talking about this. Lost in the shuffle is the less easily discernable, but growing minority of lesbian and gay attorneys. They are the canary in the mineshaft when it comes to measuring talk about diversity against the action taken to make it real.
4 minute read
March 30, 2009 |

Billing out of the box

When it comes to billing, it's time to get creative. Midsize and small firms are responding to the tanking economy by doing everything from adopting flat rates and packaging legal services to bartering their work in limited situations.
7 minute read
June 19, 2006 |

Keeping it clean

Profile of Corey Grauer, vice president, general counsel and secretary, Sterigenics International Inc.
5 minute read
July 23, 2007 |

MOVERS

Adam Sak joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as partner in the outsourcing and IT procurement practice in Palo Alto, Calif. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
5 minute read
August 22, 2011 |

MOVERS

Julie Bahret joins Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton's real estate finance and capital markets team as counsel to the San Francisco office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
3 minute read
February 13, 2006 |

Movers

Foley & Lardner: Stephen P. Fox joins the intellectual property department and the electronics practice group as partner in the firm's Palo Alto, Calif., office- and other personnel moves.
4 minute read
October 03, 2007 |

Record number of general counsel charged in 2007

THIS HAS NOT BEEN a good year to be a general counsel. In the first nine months of 2007, a record 10 GCs were charged with or pleaded to civil or criminal fraud in federal courts, most in the wake of the stock-options backdating scandal. "This is unprecedented," said David Bayless, former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's San Francisco office and now doing white-collar defense for Covington Burling.
6 minute read
April 13, 2009 |

Many GCs still fighting backdating charges

After two years during which eight general counsel ran afoul of federal regulators for alleged improper stock-options backdating, four are still fighting charges, three have settled or pleaded guilty and just one was acquitted. SEC enforcers view this as a successful effort against corporate improprieties, while the defense side says it shows the difficulty of linking corporate lawyers to accounting-related misconduct.
4 minute read

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