• October 4, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Akin Gump, Orrick consider merger, but many obstacles lie ahead.

    A combined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe — should the actually pull off a merger — might look something like this. The two

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  • September 5, 2000 | The Recorder

    Pool Party

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley Godward, both based in Palo Alto, Calif., are leading the way in creating venture capital-like investment pools for their legions of associates.

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  • March 8, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Venable has opened a new office in Wilmington, Delaware, its seventh on the East Coast and eighth nationwide. The firm announced Tuesday that is has hired JAMIE EDMONSON, a l

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  • August 30, 1999 | The Recorder

    Into Thin Air

    Move over Los Angeles, here comes Silicon Valley.While Southern California law firms used to take the lead in setting associate salaries statewide, their northern counterparts are now settin

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  • March 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Zynga IPO Zynga Inc. went public on Decembe r 16 in the largest initial public offering by a technology company since that of Google Inc. in 2004. Zyng

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  • February 4, 2002 | Daily Report Online

    Andersen actions weaken case for MDPs

    Brenda Sandburg [email protected] The controversy over Arthur Andersen's handling of Enron Corp.'s books may not only stain the accounting giant's reputation, but coul

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  • September 16, 2008 | The Recorder

    Out the Door

    Highlights from 2008 Heller Departures The list of Heller alumni just keeps growing. Here are details on a number of this year's outward-bound laterals, culled from our coverage between Janu

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  • June 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

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

    Barnes & Thornburg is expanding with the addition of one partner in its Chicago office and three partners and two of counsel in Los Angeles. I

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  • June 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    Rising From the West

    If partners weren't clear that Latham & Watkins was in trouble, they knew it as soon as they stepped into the tacky hotel conference room near the Los Angeles International Airp

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  • July 18, 2000 | The Recorder

    MoFo's Makeover

    How do you join the technology firm glitterati when most of your competitors think of you as an old-economy workhorse?Try handling the largest tech merger in history.Last week,

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