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The Recorder

Duane Morris Beefs Up SF Office With Sidley VC Co-Leader

Former Sidley Austin corporate venture capital group co-leader Marc Gottschalk has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the firm's San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.
15 minute read

The Recorder

McDermott Grows Silicon Valley Presence With MoFo Hire

McDermott Will & Emery has hired MoFo partner David Lipkin as part of an effort to expand its mergers and acquisitions practice in Silicon Valley.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

McIver's Lawyer Says 'No Criminal Aspect' to Shooting

Criminal defense attorney Stephen Maples, who was called to the hospital the night his friend Claud "Tex" McIver's wife, Diane McIver, died from a gunshot wound, said he expected no criminal charges to be filed against Tex McIver in what Maples said was an accidental shooting.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

Winston, Orrick Reprise Roles as Top Firms for NBA Players

The National Basketball Players Association, now under the leadership of former Skadden litigation partner Michele Roberts, recently filed its annual report with the U.S. Department of Labor. The union spent more than $1.8 million on legal fees to 14 firms in 2015-16.
46 minute read

National Law Journal

Seyfarth Shaw Acquires Entrepreneurial IP Boutique in DC

Seyfarth Shaw, a national firm with historic labor-and-employment law roots, has charted an expansion into intellectual property law in Washington through the acquisition of Fanelli Haag, a boutique whose partners won big last year after it sold a cancer vaccine it partially owned.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Proskauer Partner Leaves Firm for Federal Bench

Katharine Parker, a partner in Proskauer Rose's labor and employment department, was appointed to a Southern District magistrate judgeship.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Homeland Security Official Alejandro Mayorkas To Join Wilmer

Alejandro Mayorkas, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, announced Wednesday that he will join Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr near the end of this month.
10 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Bradley Arant Opens in Houston With Coats Rose Team

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, based in Birmingham, Alabama, opened an office in Houston with nine lawyers, including eight coming from Coats Rose.
25 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Kim Kardashian Robbery Makes Hypothetical in Opening SCOTUS Arguments

The U.S. Supreme Court's opening session Tuesday featured two hours of argument over the intent of jurors who gave inconsistent verdicts and what elements prosecutors must prove for bank fraud. The answers were as clear as the skies over the Caribbean as Hurricane Matthew spins up the coast. Not even hypotheticals involving such real-life characters as Kim Kardashian and Jesse James could clear the clouds in the courtroom.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-Whitewater Prosecutor Jumps to Thompson & Knight

Robert Ray, who succeeded Kenneth Starr on the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations, joins the firm from Fox Rothschild.
10 minute read

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