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- Up to 20 Lawyers Leaving Willkie for Client Bloomberg L.P.
- How One Gibson Dunn Partner Is Grooming the Next Generation
- Former Linklaters Chief Tony Angel Set to Join DLA Piper in Top Role
- 'Post-Retirement' Lawyers Finding Greater Satisfaction With Nonprofits
- Anatomy of a Lateral Move
- Veteran Lawyers Expound on Value of Public Service
- Report Tracks In-House Salaries and Projects 2012 Pay
- Sheppard Mullin Poaches Fish & Richardson IP Partner
- Former Justice Department Antitrust Official Signs On With Wilmer
- Under N.Y. Plan, Lawyers Who Counsel Poor Would Get Loan Help
- Fannie and Freddie Will Let Mortgage Servicers Hire Own Attorneys
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| Up to 20 Lawyers Leaving Willkie for Client Bloomberg L.P. | Top |
| Five partners and up to 15 associates and counsel are leaving Willkie Farr as of Jan. 1 to take in-house jobs with one of the firm's largest clients, Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg will get a new chief legal officer, Willkie corporate partner Richard DeScherer, a longtime confidant of company founder Michael Bloomberg. | |
| How One Gibson Dunn Partner Is Grooming the Next Generation | Top |
| Dennis Friedman, 67, who has co-chaired Gibson Dunn's 250-lawyer M&A practice for the past decade, is a natural mentor, as younger partner Eduardo Gallardo can attest. Friedman's willingness to coach younger lawyers is his way of giving back and, according to Gallardo, the only meaningful way for a firm to build a solid foundation. | |
| Former Linklaters Chief Tony Angel Set to Join DLA Piper in Top Role | Top |
| DLA Piper is set to hire former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel as co-global chairman and senior partner of its business outside of the U.S. If the move is approved by the partnership, Angel will become co-chair of the firm alongside Frank Burch and senior partner of DLA Piper International. | |
| 'Post-Retirement' Lawyers Finding Greater Satisfaction With Nonprofits | Top |
| After his 30-year career as a litigator at Hogan & Hartson ended in 2001, Allen Snyder still had the itch to practice law, but wanted to put his skills to use helping people. There are many attorneys like Snyder, and nonprofits, with challenging cases and a desperate need for quality legal help, are filling the void. | |
| Anatomy of a Lateral Move | Top |
| Each year about one in 20 partners faces a lateral move, writes consultant Laurence R. Latourette. He explains how firms evaluate candidates, the materials that candidates should produce, the typical sequence of events involved in a lateral move and how candidates can best prepare for those events. | |
| Veteran Lawyers Expound on Value of Public Service | Top |
| Federal appeals court Judge David Tatel and U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. shared their pro bono experiences and what inspired them to take up public service jobs during a panel discussion Friday, part of the Equal Justice Works Annual Conference and Career Fair. | |
| Report Tracks In-House Salaries and Projects 2012 Pay | Top |
| Legal placement firm Robert Half Legal has released its annual Salary Guide, highlighting legal compensation and hiring trends for the current and coming years. The report finds that the tendency among general counsel is toward "expanding their internal teams to bring more work in-house, contain costs, and support business growth." | |
| Sheppard Mullin Poaches Fish & Richardson IP Partner | Top |
| Nagendra (Nick) Setty has joined Sheppard Mullin's Palo Alto and San Francisco offices as co-chair of the firm's IP group. Setty, who joins from Fish & Richardson, has served as lead counsel in more than 120 IP cases involving a range of technologies for such clients as Bank of America, Cisco Systems and EchoStar. | |
| Former Justice Department Antitrust Official Signs On With Wilmer | Top |
| Molly Boast, the former deputy attorney general of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, has joined WilmerHale as a partner in New York. While at the DOJ, Boast oversaw such merger investigations as the unions of NBC/Comcast and Oracle/Sun Microsystems. She also has high-level experience at the Federal Trade Commission. | |
| Under N.Y. Plan, Lawyers Who Counsel Poor Would Get Loan Help | Top |
| New attorneys who volunteer to represent low-income New Yorkers would receive state money to help them repay their student loans under a proposal being considered by court administrators. The judge who advanced the plan argued that it would provide opportunities for law school graduates facing a slack job market. | |
| Fannie and Freddie Will Let Mortgage Servicers Hire Own Attorneys | Top |
| Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dumping their law firm networks and instead will let mortgage servicers hire their own lawyers to process foreclosures. Fannie Mae's Retained Attorney Network currently includes 191 firms, some of which have been accused of "robo-signing" documents, losing records and levying inappropriate fees. | |
| Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm? | Top |
| After 15 years at a litigation boutique, I need to move on. Do I go in-house or move to another firm? And any networking advice? | |
| Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm? | Top |
| I am a lawyer currently working for a Big 4 accounting firm, and I'd like to transition to a law firm and practice tax law. Is it true this is a difficult move? Any advice on making the transition easier? | |
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