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  • September 12, 2008 |

    Gibson Dunn recruits top SEC lawyer as partner

    Mark Schonfeld, the regional director of the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) New York office, is set to join Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as a partner, reports The American Lawyer. Schonfeld joined the SEC's Boston office in 1996, before being promoted to the top role in New York in 2004. He will join Gibson Dunn's New York office at the end of September, where he will co-head the firm's securities enforcement practice group.

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  • September 5, 2008 |

    McCain VP adviser re-elected as O'Melveny chair

    O'Melveny & Myers' policy committee has selected Arthur Culvahouse to lead the firm for another four-year term, reports The Recorder. An email to the partnership on Thursday (4 September) said: "The policy committee selected Arthur Culvahouse as the chair of the firm, subject to a partner vote in accordance with the partnership agreement," as relayed by a current partner. The Recorder reported on Thursday that Culvahouse led a five-way race with about a third of the partnership supporting him. Votes will be cast in an email ballot, which has not yet been sent out. Current and former partners expect the selection to be ratified, despite Culvahouse not winning a majority of support in the informal survey.

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  • August 27, 2008 |

    Eyeing the door

    When Arnold & Porter's director of professional development, Caren Ulrich Stacy, started working in law firm recruiting in the mid-1990s, she says there was one question she could count on hearing from every incoming associate, be it a new law school recruit or a potential lateral hire: how long does it take to make partner here? Today, Ulrich Stacy says, it goes largely unasked. "I have maybe had that question once in the past five years," she says.Why doesn't anyone ask the partnership question any more? It's not the well-documented reluctance of big law firms to make new equity partners. In The American Lawyer's most recent mid-level associate survey, which polled 7,259 respondents from 180 firms, more than 70% of respondents said they are on their firm's partnership track, and only a few indicated they strongly view partnership as an impossibility.

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  • August 7, 2008 |

    Falconer joins elite litigation panel line-up

    Lord Falconer has agreed to chair the Legal Week Litigation Forum, with the former Lord Chancellor to lead an elite line-up of judges, barristers and solicitors at the event in September. Falconer, who last month took up a senior counsel role with the London arm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, completes a heavyweight roster that includes keynote speaker former attorney general Lord Goldsmith QC, Bar Council chair Timothy Dutton QC and Herbert Smith litigation chief Sonya Leydecker.The event, now in its fourth year, has swiftly built up a reputation for attracting leading figures in commercial litigation.

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  • July 9, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 09/07/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and more

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  • July 8, 2008 |

    Gibson Dunn secures hire of ex-Lord Chancellor

    Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer has joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's London office as a senior counsel, the West coast US law firm announced today (8 July). The unusual hire, which saw Falconer join the firm yesterday, ends month of speculation over Falconer's future after he stepped down from Government last year.The move comes less than a year after former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith QC, moved to the City arm of Debevoise & Plimpton to head its European litigation practice.

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  • July 8, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 08/07/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today, plus the pick of the day's posts

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  • June 18, 2008 |

    Gibson Dunn boosts New York IP practice

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has added a partner to its New York patent litigation team. Ben Hershkowitz joins from Goodwin Procter, where he was also a partner. Hershkowitz focuses his practice on intellectual property (IP) litigation, particularly patent infringement matters in the technology sector. Gibson Dunn managing partner Ken Doran said growing its IP practice had been a priority for the past few years. He added: "Ben brings a wealth of experience which will help us continue to grow our IP practice and provide clients with the highest level of service."

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  • June 11, 2008 |

    Gibson Dunn bolsters property in Munich

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has hired Peter Decker for its Munich property practice. Decker joins the US firm as a partner in its German real estate practice. He formerly headed the real estate practice at Graf von Westphalen and has experience advising on real estate development, construction and commercial property projects.

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  • June 4, 2008 |

    Hot topic

    Kenneth Berlin and his team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have been working on climate-related matters for years. He headed the Justice Department's Environmental and Natural Resources Division, chaired the Environmental Law Institute and has shepherded a mountain of environmental litigation for major corporations. Skadden had not needed a climate change group before: it simply tapped environmental, energy regulatory, intellectual property and tax lawyers to help out when the need arose. Partners at the US's highest-grossing law firm have, however, changed their minds: this month, they were scheduled to launch a 23-lawyer group specifically devoted to climate change issues.

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