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December 26, 2002 |

Long Aldridge Merges; Blackstock Leaves PoGo

Julia D. [email protected] Highlights for the city's law firms in 2002 included a big merger and name change for Long Aldridge Norman. And while the usual array of lawyers switched firms in 2002, one move stood above the rest: veteran litigator Jerry B. Blackstock left Powell, Goldstein, Frazer Murphy.Long Aldridge merged with Washington-based McKenna Cuneo, creating a 376-lawyer firm with eight offices.
24 minute read
August 15, 2001 |

Cooley Godward Rated Best Law Firm to Work for

For the second year in a row, Vault Inc. has ranked Cooley Godward as the best law firm in the country to work for. Based on a survey of 9,000 associates at 120 firms, Vault determined the best 20 law firms to work for as well as the top 100 most prestigious firms. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cooley snagged top billing in several quality of life categories.
3 minute read
July 17, 2007 |

Cooley Sets Up Boston Office

The striking similarities between the tech markets in Silicon Valley and Boston have largely been ignored by California firms as most continue to target New York City with their East Coast strategies. But Cooley Godward Kronish is promising to take advantage of the affinity between the markets with a brand-new Boston office. The 580-lawyer Silicon Valley-based firm announced Monday that 10 partners are joining the firm to start the office.
3 minute read
February 03, 2000 |

The Fine Print

Welcome to the new world of associate salaries, where -- despite proud announcements by senior partners -- the fine print reveals it's not easy to make straight comparisons of law firm pay scales.
3 minute read
May 26, 2000 |

The Virus Has Spread

Brits have been throwing their weight around in the former colonies lately. "We'll take Manhattan!" cries Clifford Chance, as it preaches its message of globalism to anyone who will listen. But now, literally, it's payback time. The price comes in the form of starting-salary ripples that started south of San Francisco, inundated New York, and have now washed up in the City.
9 minute read
February 05, 2001 |

Cooley Won't Match Associate Salary Hikes

Cooley Godward associates will not be receiving a salary increase this year, the firm announced last week. Cooley follows fellow Palo Alto, Calif., firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in deciding to keep associate base pay at year 2000 levels. Both firms have declined to match San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's recent $10,000 across-the-board salary hike.
4 minute read
December 20, 2001 |

Going It Alone

6 minute read
April 07, 2000 |

Choppy Water in Equity Pool

James Fulton Jr. is one of the few associates in his class of fifth-years at Cooley Godward who has not succumbed to the stock option temptation offered by Silicon Valley. To encourage Fulton and others like him to stay, Cooley is planning to cut its 300 or so associates into the firm's client investment pool. The idea is not without complications. The 420-lawyer San Francisco firm must first prepare an appeal to the Securities and Exchange Commission to avoid jumping through a host of regulatory hoops.
5 minute read
June 19, 2000 |

Sidebar

"I have never been a quitter," Richard Nixon told the nation when he resigned the presidency in 1974 -- and he wasn't kidding. Before his death in 1994, he sued the government seven times to regain ownership of presidential records Congress had ordered seized.
3 minute read
June 14, 2007 |

N.Y. firms lead raises, lag in living costs

IT MAY BE A STRETCH to argue that beginning lawyers at big law firms need more money, but those practicing in New York could make a strong case for a raise. With more law firms now paying first-year associates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston the same amount they are doling out to their starting lawyers in New York, it seems that attorneys in the Big Apple are getting shortchanged in the deal.
6 minute read

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