by Kevin Livingston | Featured Article, Latest News
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has snatched up a team of Orrick real estate and infrastructure attorneys. The team will join BLP Oct. 1. Led by two partners, the hires come shortly after BLP appointed nine lawyers from boutique law firm Haley & Co into its Hong...
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A French lawyer, Veronique Martinez, is spearheading a project aimed at bringing the Arthur Andersen moniker back from the dead after the accounting firm imploded during the Enron scandal 12 years ago. Martinez wants to launch “the new Arthur Andersen” in Europe in...
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Back in the ‘90s it was kind of funny to see the New York Lawyers show up in Silicon Valley in their suits only to be met by a receptionist in a Social Distortion T-shirt and clients pretty much dressed the same. It was kind of a joke among the legal and tech press in...
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Dechert LLP announced today (Sept. 1) that it has formed an association in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the Law Firm of Hassan Mahassni. “This association is of strategic importance to Dechert,” said Dechert CEO Daniel O’Donnell in a press release....
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According to a new study by Wells Fargo Bank Legal Practice Specialty Group, lawyers in the United States aren’t billing as much as they used to, but they charging more per hour for their services. While revenue rose an average of 4.1% at 60 of the nation’s...
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New York associates say goodbye to the dream of the office and swivel chair A new office space that Paul Hastings is moving into next spring in New York will separate new lawyers into pods, or cubicles, according to the Wall Street Journal. First and second year...