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Eight Legacy Fulbright Partners Defect for Baker Botts
Baker Botts has bolstered its Middle East practice by hiring eight legacy Fulbright & Jaworski partners from Norton Rose Fulbright in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Riyadh—the latest in a series of merger-related defections from the London-based global legal giant.Pay-to-Play Contribution Ban Remains in ABA Limbo
On Tuesday, the American Bar Association's policy-making body, the House of Delegates, narrowly defeated a proposed rule aimed at curbing "pay-to-play" -- the practice of lawyers making political contributions to get government work. The fate of any specific prohibitions on this loaded brand of political gift-giving rests once again in the hands of individual lawyers and bar groups. However, even if the rule passed, it would have required adoption in some form by individual states to be enforceable.Magic Circle Firms, Gunderson Take Roles on Two Notable Legal Industry Deals
Allen & Overy and Slaughter and May are advising on Thomson Reuters's purchase of the Practical Law Company, while Gunderson Dettmer, a technology shop already busy this week advising Current TV on its sale to Pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera, is representing Jules Kroll's K2 Intelligence on its acquisition of Thacher Associates.
Lateral Market Heating Up, but Will It Last?
In 2010, lateral hires and group acquisitions seem to be a trend for Pennsylvania law firms. Blank Rome, Marshall Dennehey and Morgan Lewis & Bockius are some of the firms that have added laterals to their rosters in the past two weeks. But not all consultants agree the trend will last. Jerome Kowalski warns firms to be cautious, saying, "My expectation is that after this initial spurt of lateral activity, these law firms are all going to be terribly disappointed because the business flow just isn't there."New Trends in Age Discrimination
In an area of employment litigation that had flattened out and simmered for years, age discrimination cases are roaring back toward the top of the pack. Just last week, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed reverse discrimination claims filed by employees under 40 years of age.Lawyers' Sanctions Lifted, but 3rd Circuit Judge Delivers Lecture
Be careful what you ask for, the old saying goes, because you just might get it. That aphorism was perhaps ringing all too true recently for a group of Philadelphia lawyers who had been hoping an appeals court would overturn a federal judge's 2007 decision that sanctioned and sharply chastised them for using litigation tactics that, in the judge's view, were designed to "frustrate" and "impede" the discovery process.Covenant Policyholders Receive $9.75 Million
Former policyholders of Covenant Life Insurance Co. received a $9.75 million settlement in a case that arose out of the 1994 merger of Covenant and Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co.Erdos, Green-Ceisler Defy Ballot Position, Earn C.P. Spots
If the conventional wisdom dictates that the top ballot positions often determine the winners of local judicial races, Tuesday's primary election for Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas judge yielded a couple of surprises.
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