• October 6, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Firms Cut Expenses, Expect Falling Profits

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partners are slumming it these days. Practice group retreats? Not this year. Flights to meetings? Try videoconferencing. If you need to fly, go b

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  • October 31, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    NEW PARTNERS O'Melveny & Myers: Theodore W. Kassinger joins the adversarial department as partner and will co-chair the global trade practice in the firm's Washington off

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  • October 11, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Standoff Continues Between Dewey Retirees, Bankruptcy Estate

    Giving a group of retired Dewey & LeBoeuf partners an official role in the defunct firm's Chapter 11 bankruptcy was a "misstep" that needs to be corrected, according to attorneys

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  • May 30, 2005 | Legal Times

    Burns, Doane Acquired By Buchanan

    The end came quickly for Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis. Following a month-long courtship, the struggling Northern Virginia intellectual property boutique announced last week it

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  • February 18, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Jeffrey J. Ansley and William C. McMurrey have joined Bracewell & Giuliani in Dallas as partners practicing criminal, regulatory and civil law. Both previousl

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  • August 4, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Movers is compiled and written by Roger Adler. Please send material to him at The National Law Journal, 105 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. Alston & Bird (Atlanta): Ralph F.

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  • January 31, 2008 | Daily Business Review

    Amid attorney departures, Akerman Senterfitt offers headhunters high fees as lure

    Akerman Senterfitt, which has been plagued by a recent wave of attorney defections and partner dissatisfaction, has stepped up recruiting efforts by offering headhunters unusually high fees t

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  • December 27, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Breach of Contract in Legal Malpractice Cases

    Traditionally, legal malpractice actions contain counts in professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of co , and perhaps fraud. Of those causes, though, only breach of co

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  • January 3, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Panel Finds Nassau's Gun Ban Preempted by State Law A state appeals panel has nullified a Nassau County ordinance banning "deceptively colored" firearms. In a

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  • January 27, 2012 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area has appointed Kimbe

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