Career & Practice

Crowe & Dunlevy to Merge with Another Oklahoma Law Firm

Crowe & Dunlevy, one of Oklahoma’s largest law firms, is merging with Day, Edwards, Propester & Christensen. Crowe & Dunlevy president Roger Stong told NewsOK.com that the merger will boost his firm’s practices in securities arbitration, banking and employment matters. Stong says the merger is a good cultural fit; there…

Mar 14, 2011 11:56 AM CDT

Top NY Firms with Banking Ties See Bigger Partner Profits, Outperform Their BigLaw Counterparts

Ties to investment banking clients were apparently a plus for several top New York law firms that saw double-digit percentage increases in partner profits last year. The good financial numbers contrast with those of BigLaw as a whole, which had mixed financial results, the Am Law Daily reports. The publication…

Mar 14, 2011 11:36 AM CDT

A ‘Small Bounce’ in Job Stats Chronicles a Better Year for Law Students

Things are looking up—ever so slightly—for law students looking for law firm jobs. A new NALP research report (PDF) reveals a “small bounce” in job recruiting numbers in the summer and fall of 2010, at least when compared to the previous year. The percentage of summer associates offered full-time jobs…

Mar 14, 2011 10:30 AM CDT

$1K Reward Offered for ID of Law Firm ‘Cubicle Thief’ Shown on Crisp, Clear Surveillance Video

The bad news: Someone took an unidentified Tampa, Fla., law firm worker’s wallet out of her purse when she left it unattended on her desk while she went to lunch on Feb. 10. The good news: Surveillance video of the “cubicle thief” suspect is crisp and clear and authorities are…

Mar 11, 2011 10:00 PM CST

Bipolar Lawyer Got in Over His Head, Committed $1M Fraud in ‘Manic Phase,’ His Lawyer Says

While he was still practicing in the $1,000-a-month law office his father established, Frank Plowden Jenkins II was doing fine. But the bipolar Maryland attorney got into trouble when, in a “manic phase,” he rented fancy new space at $6,500 a month in White Plains and started investing in a…

Mar 11, 2011 5:00 PM CST

Four Howrey Antitrust Partners in DC Join Covington

Four antitrust partners at Howrey’s Washington, D.C., office have found a new home. The lawyers are joining Covington & Burling, according to a press release. They are John Nields, Alan Wiseman, Andrew Lazerow and Jason Raofield. The press release describes Nields, the co-chair of Howrey’s white-collar defense practice, as one…

Mar 11, 2011 4:04 PM CST

Wong Fleming Breaks Away from Yoss to Become Nation’s Largest Women-Owned Law Firm

Wong Fleming will maintain its minority-owned status by breaking away from the troubled Yoss law firm less than a year after the two firms had merged. Wong Fleming will be the nation’s largest women-owned law firm and the third-largest minority-owned firm, its CEO, Linda Wong, told the New Jersey Law…

Mar 11, 2011 1:20 PM CST

Were Divorce Lawyer’s Reasons for Seeking Recusal of 3 Judges in One Case Frivolous?

Cyndi Cheatham says she was simply seeking to see that her client, who is married to a man in a well-known Franklin County, Tenn., family, got a fair divorce trial. The client, Marla Byrum says she couldn’t find a lawyer in Franklin County willing to represent her, and Cheatham says…

Mar 11, 2011 1:16 AM CST

Kirkland PPP Soars 23%, Topping $3M

Average profit per equity partner soared 23 percent at Kirkland & Ellis in 2010, topping the $3 million mark. Revenue at the Chicago-based international firm jumped 14 percent to $1.63 billion despite the fact that the firm’s attorney roster was cut from 1,461 to 1,379, reports Legal Week, relying on…

Mar 10, 2011 10:54 PM CST

Ex McGuireWoods Partner Pleads Guilty re Fake IRS Doc Purporting to Lift Levy on Her Draw

Apparently seeking money to which she was not entitled, a former partner of McGuireWoods admittedly provided a phony Internal Revenue Service document to the firm’s general counsel in February 2010. It purported to release a levy under which the IRS was seeking to collect, from partnership payments to Michelle Renee…

Mar 10, 2011 10:25 PM CST

Another Senior Partner Is Poised to Exit Struggling Yoss Firm

Jan Douglas Atlas, the managing partner of the Fort Lauderdale office of Yoss is poised to depart with “several” other lawyers from the firm, reports the South Florida Business Journal, relying on information from unidentified sources. The publication could not reach him for comment and reports that a law firm…

Mar 10, 2011 10:06 PM CST

Man Gets Life for Kidnapping His Ex-Lawyer

Frankie Covington was given a life prison term for kidnapping his former lawyer in Bourbon County, Ky., reports WLEX-TV. A Lex 18 article gives further details about the crime. The victim, who Covington was accused, but not convicted, of sexually abusing, is not identified in the article. Previously sentenced to…

Mar 10, 2011 7:36 PM CST

Blog Chronicles ‘BigLaw Dead Pool’

Remember Finley Kumble? It collapsed in 1987, long before the more recent dissolutions of firms such as Heller Ehrman, Thelen and now Howrey. The blog Law Shucks hasn’t forgotten. It has put together a list of failed firms and linked to articles on their demise. The articles contain some interesting…

Mar 10, 2011 4:43 PM CST

A General Counsel’s View of Law Firm Marketing Pitches: ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’

Wolverine World Wide general counsel Ken Grady confesses that he can identify with the dog in the old Bacon Bits commercial, who hears his owner this way: “Blah, blah, blah, Bacon Bits. Blah, blah, blah, Bacon Bits.” Speaking at Georgetown Law School’s annual conference on the state of law firms…

Mar 10, 2011 1:21 PM CST

Partnership Vote Seals Howrey’s Fate, But Future Is Unclear for Some of Its Lawyers

By late Wednesday evening, the partners had voted and the press release was issued: Howrey will dissolve, effective March 15. Even as Howrey’s fate was decided, the future of some of its lawyers remained unclear. Earlier reports had said Winston & Strawn had made offers to nearly 200 Howrey partners,…

Mar 10, 2011 11:39 AM CST