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Lateral Trend Is ‘Rise of the Lone Wolves’

There is a trend emerging in last year’s record number of lateral partner moves: the rise of the lone wolves. According to the American Lawyer, 2,775 partners left or joined the largest 200 firms in the country last year. Of that number, 114 left to form their own firms. Some…

Feb 3, 2010 12:00 PM CST

How Lawyers Can Help Depressed Colleagues

Lawyers who are concerned about colleagues at work who seem depressed should be aware of some of the warning signs of suicide. It only takes one person to make a difference in another’s life, and lawyers may be in a unique position to help friends or colleagues in a mental…

Feb 3, 2010 11:30 AM CST

Top-Paid Partner at Freshfields Made About $5.27M Last Year, Filing Shows

Despite a dip in average profit per equity partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the firm’s top-earning lawyer made about $5.27 million last year, a filing by the London-based firm’s limited liability partnership shows. That compares to earnings of about $4.31 million for the firm’s highest-paid partner the previous year, according…

Feb 2, 2010 7:39 PM CST

Economic Meltdown Spurred Record Number of Partner Lateral Moves

The number of partners moving to or from the nation’s top 200 law firms jumped 10.6 percent last year, reaching an all-time high. The American Lawyer tallied the numbers for the year ending Sept. 30, 2009. The publication found that 2,775 partners left or joined the biggest firms in the…

Feb 2, 2010 2:30 PM CST

Want to Leave the Law? Ex-Lawyer Explains the Upside

If you are an unhappy lawyer considering another career, Cari Sommer has some advice for you. Sommer practiced law for seven years before she co-founded Urban Interns, a website that connects small-business owners with job hunters seeking part-time work, the Wall Street Journal reports in a Careers column. Don’t think…

Feb 2, 2010 12:58 PM CST

Circle of Patriotic Friends at Harvard Law: Two Die, Leaving Another Twice Widowed

In the span of six years, tragedy ended the lives of two best friends at Harvard Law School who were considered oddities because of their patriotic interests. Now a third classmate who married one and then the other is twice widowed, and other grads are re-evaluating their own career choices.…

Feb 2, 2010 11:30 AM CST

Another Attorney Leaves the Law to Drive a Cupcake Truck

Inspired by a New York attorney who started his own business driving a cupcake truck, a Pennsylvania lawyer is also tasting the sweets of cupcake-selling success. Kate Carrara now offers her Buttercream Philadelphia cupcakes from a converted mail truck she found on eBay and painted a creamy white with sprinkles.…

Feb 2, 2010 2:00 AM CST

6 Paul Hastings Real Estate Partners Join Growing Haynes and Boone

A six-partner real estate group has left Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker and joined Haynes and Boone in what their new firm trumpets in a press release today as a major expansion of its East Coast real estate practice. The new Haynes and Boone partners are: Kenneth Friedman, Robert Grados,…

Feb 1, 2010 7:46 PM CST

Winstead Revokes Offer 4 Days Before New Associate Was to Start Work

An incoming first-year was expecting to begin work today at Winstead. But on Thursday, four days before she was to start, the firm revoked her offer, reports the Tex Parte blog of Texas Lawyer. In a written statement, the 262-attorney Dallas-based firm cited the economy as the reason for the…

Feb 1, 2010 6:54 PM CST

Jones Day: NALP Plan for Delayed Job Offers Is Radical and Anticompetitive

One law firm has come out swinging in its critique of NALP’s call for delaying summer associate job offers. Jones Day was an early critic of the plan for an “offer kick-off day” in mid-January during students’ second year of law school. Now the law firm is offering more details…

Feb 1, 2010 6:07 PM CST

Eight More White & Case Partners Jump to Latham

Eight more partners at White & Case are moving to Latham & Watkins offices in New York City; London; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Two of the lawyers who are going to Latham’s London office will join four others who already made the move there from…

Feb 1, 2010 4:00 PM CST

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Lateral Trend Is ‘Rise of the Lone Wolves’

How Lawyers Can Help Depressed Colleagues

Top-Paid Partner at Freshfields Made About $5.27M Last Year, Filing Shows

Economic Meltdown Spurred Record Number of Partner Lateral Moves

Want to Leave the Law? Ex-Lawyer Explains the Upside

Circle of Patriotic Friends at Harvard Law: Two Die, Leaving Another Twice Widowed

Another Attorney Leaves the Law to Drive a Cupcake Truck

6 Paul Hastings Real Estate Partners Join Growing Haynes and Boone

Winstead Revokes Offer 4 Days Before New Associate Was to Start Work

Jones Day: NALP Plan for Delayed Job Offers Is Radical and Anticompetitive

Eight More White & Case Partners Jump to Latham

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