Associates

42% of Lawyers Surveyed Fear Career Fallout from Lehman Woes

An increasing number of lawyers are worried that problems on Wall Street will hurt their careers. Forty-two percent of practicing lawyers responding to a survey through the blog Above the Law said the recent bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch would harm their careers. Only 27…

Sep 18, 2008 6:06 PM CDT

Heller Partners Reportedly Told Dissolution is Possible

Partners at Heller Ehrman were told in a meeting yesterday that the law firm is considering dissolution, anonymous sources told the Recorder. The firm hasn’t voted on the issue, but industry watchers said it may be the only alternative. Partners were told it was understood they would be looking for…

Sep 18, 2008 10:56 AM CDT

V&E Sustains Less Hurricane Damage than Associate’s House

Ara Ayles Hardig, an eighth-year appellate associate at Vinson & Elkins, had a tree fall through her Houston home during Hurricane Ike, but she counts herself among the lucky ones. Hardig and her family were staying with relatives when a tree fell through the roof of her home and into…

Sep 17, 2008 5:44 PM CDT

Worried Heller Staffers Vent on New Blog with Catchy Name

Heller Ehrman recently suffered twin blows when Mayer Brown called off merger talks with the firm and a legal publication reported that up to 40 of its intellectual property lawyers planned to leave. Some legal observers have suggested Heller’s decision to stop seeking a merger partner could be a sign…

Sep 17, 2008 2:30 PM CDT

Why Does Law Firm’s Ad Feature ‘Law Student’s’ Traffic Violations?

A major Canadian law firm has caught the attention of a local newspaper with a recent ad that features a business-suited “law student” with long blond hair. She is seemingly riding a red motor scooter through metropolitan traffic. Yet she isn’t wearing a helmet. Nor are her hands on the…

Sep 16, 2008 3:14 PM CDT

Lawyer Laments ‘Incredibly Shrinking Market’ as Wall Street Shudders

Turmoil on Wall Street has brought major business to a few well-known law firms, as Lehman Brothers sought bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be purchased by Bank of America in developments that hit the news over the weekend. And, for those in the right practice areas,…

Sep 15, 2008 8:55 PM CDT

6-Lawyer Pillsbury Team Launches New Public Policy Practice at Crowell

After moving in 2006 from Patton Boggs to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a six-lawyer public policy group has now shifted its operations to Crowell & Mooring. They are establishing a new public policy and political law practice at the Washington, D.C., law firm, which is also bringing C&M Capitolink, its…

Sep 15, 2008 5:21 PM CDT

Tyler Cooper is Likely to Close as New Group Leaves for LeClairRyan

A venerable Connecticut law firm is not only losing 25 lawyers to a New England competitor but reportedly will likely be closing entirely. After the announcement earlier this week that Tyler Cooper & Alcorn will be establishing a new office of Hinckley Allen & Snyder in Tyler’s current Hartford, Conn.,…

Sep 11, 2008 8:54 PM CDT

More Fed’l Judges Seek Law Clerks With Practice Experience

Traditionally, federal judges have hired law clerks straight out of law school or sometimes, in the case of appeals court judges, after they have completed a clerkship in a lower court. But now many are seeking law clerks with actual experience practicing law, often looking to big firms for prospects,…

Sep 11, 2008 5:49 PM CDT

Jones Day Sues Over Website Posting Attorney Home Purchase Info

Jones Day has sued a website that highlights lawyers—even posting their photos and linking to firm biographies—and other professionals who buy and sell their homes in Chicago, Las Vegas, St. Louis and South Florida. After two Jones Day associates were featured on the BlockShopper site, the Cleveland-based BigLaw firm sued,…

Sep 11, 2008 5:08 PM CDT

Thelen Tentatively Drops Next Year’s Summer Associate Program

Plagued by recent lawyer losses, Thelen has apparently decided to ditch its summer associate program next year. Thelen is not participating in fall interviews for summer associates, but will interview second-year students in the spring if it changes course and decides to hire students for the program, a spokesman told…

Sep 11, 2008 4:19 PM CDT

Most Big Calif. Firms Pay Associates $160K to $265K in Lockstep

Most California law firms responding to a new poll by the Recorder pay their associates lockstep compensation that begins at $160,000. The “vast majority” of the 17 law firms that responded to the survey (PDF) increased pay to $210,000 for fourth-year associates and $265,000 for seventh years, the Recorder story…

Sep 10, 2008 4:26 PM CDT

25 Tyler Cooper Lawyers Will Open New Hinckley Allen Office in Hartford, Conn.

As of next week, a venerable 100-lawyer New England law firm will be expanding its attorney roster by about 25 percent, as it adds 25 lawyers from a Connecticut counterpart to create a new office. The 25 are leaving Tyler Cooper & Alcorn to establish a Hartford office for Hinckley…

Sep 9, 2008 11:00 PM CDT

Yale Law Women List Top 10 Family-Friendly Law Firms

Updated: Last year, Quarles & Brady was No. 1. But this year, the Milwaukee, Wisc.-based law firm didn’t even make it on a list of the nation’s 10 most family-friendly law firms compiled by Yale Law Women. It wasn’t alone in being left out, however: Only three law firms—Arnold &…

Sep 8, 2008 11:21 PM CDT

Knobbe Martens Starts 46 Associates, Attorney Roster Now at 248

With the addition of 46 new associates this week, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear has now become the biggest law firm in Orange County, Calif. It will now have 170 attorneys there, compared to 152 at Rutan & Tucker, a business firm based in Costa Mesa which has long been…

Sep 8, 2008 3:31 PM CDT