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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Howrey Professional Fees Reach $3 Million as Trustee Steps In Top

With the bankrupt firm's estate now in the hands of a trustee, professional service firms including Wiley Rein lined up for the last time this week to request payments for work done since Howrey's Chapter 11 bankruptcy began in June.

 
Portland Firm Tells Ex-Shareholders Full Repayment of Capital Must Wait Top

Six years ago, Portland, Oregon-based Bullivant Houser Bailey had 236 lawyers and aspirations to be a national firm. After a scuttled merger and a series of lateral departures, the firm is down to 58 lawyers and the shrinkage is beginning to affect payments to some former shareholders.

 
Pillsbury Opens in Abu Dhabi Top

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman expands to the Middle East by opening a new office in the oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates.

 
Willkie Farr Duo Helps Exonerate Louisiana Man After 30 Years in Prison Top

Partner Thomas Golden and associate Jeanna Composti help the Innocence Project free a man that DNA evidence shows was wrongfully convicted of rape.

 
The Bankruptcy Files: Money, Poultry, Power—and Murder Inc. Top

Hughes Hubbard & Reed and Baker & Hostetler continue to clean up in the Chapter 11 cases of Lehman Brothers and Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, respectively, while corporate clients turn to Jones Day and Sullivan & Cromwell for advice on the latest round of potential restructurings.

 
V&E, Wachtell Land Roles as Plains Makes Hostile $1 Billion Bid for SemGroup Top

Spurned by the SemGroup board, Plains All American Pipeline is taking its unsolicited buyout offer directly to the rival oil and gas company's shareholders.

 
The Careerist: Female Partners Still Unloved Top

There might be more bonding among women lawyers, but what about the secretaries who work for them?

 
The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200 Top

Orrick adds an energy lateral and loses an environmental partner, Dechert poaches one from DLA in London, and Morgan Lewis gains a former bankruptcy judge. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to thechurn@alm.com.

 
How One Gibson, Dunn Partner Is Grooming the Next Generation Top

Dennis Friedman has cochaired Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's 250-lawyer M&A practice for the past decade. Along the way, he has taken steps that he hopes will ensure that the practice thrives well into the future.

 
Jenner's Andrew Weissmann Tapped as New FBI GC Top


Andrew Weissmann, the former director of the federal government's Enron task force, has left his post as cochair of Jenner & Block's white-collar defense and investigations practice to become the Federal Bureau of Investigation's new general counsel.

 

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