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BigLaw Partner Sues Legal Recruiter, Says She Lied to Get Him to Leap to Patton Boggs

Updated: A partner at Bryan Cave has sued a Dallas legal recruiter, contending that she lied to help persuade him to move from K&L Gates, where he was then a partner, to Patton Boggs. Diane Caldwell of Caldwell & Associates Inc. represented herself as an independent recruiter, when she wasn’t,…

Jul 18, 2011 9:37 PM CDT

Voted Into Milbank Partnership, SJ Berwin Competition Chief & 2nd Partner Opt Not to Make the Leap

Voted in as partners of New York’s Milbank Tweed 
Hadley & McCloy, two SJ Berwin competition lawyers changed their minds and rescinded their resignations from the London-based law firm, reports Legal Week. Competition chief Stephen Kon and fellow partner and practitioner Cameron Firth declined to comment, as did SJ Berwin.…

Jul 18, 2011 9:12 PM CDT

Allen & Overy Partner Is Charged in Child Porn Case in NJ

A senior international capital markets partner of Allen & Overy was arrested yesterday and charged with downloading and distributing child pornography over the Internet on peer-to-peer networks. Edward De Sear, 64, of Saddle River, N.J., was released on $250,000 bond by a federal magistrate judge in Newark and will be…

Jul 15, 2011 10:00 AM CDT

Former Kirkland & Ellis Partner Indicted, Accused of Cheating on Personal Income Tax

A former bankruptcy partner at Kirkland & Ellis has been indicted on four counts of income tax fraud. Theodore Freedman, 63, is accused of underreporting by over $2 million his nearly $5.4 million in total income between 2001 and 2004. He is also accused of claiming over $500,000 in expenses…

Jul 14, 2011 6:38 PM CDT

Citibank Objects to Howrey Plan to Pay Nearly $500K in Bonuses

Citibank has filed an objection in bankruptcy court to Howrey’s plan to pay nearly $500,000 in bonuses to workers helping wind down the law firm’s operations. Howrey is seeking to pay about 20 staffers up to 50 percent of their annual salaries in bonuses, reports Thomson Reuters News & Insight.…

Jul 13, 2011 11:20 AM CDT

Did Crowell & Moring Insult Appalachians with Inbreeding Suggestion?

News reports are suggesting that Crowell & Moring blundered when it posted an online critique saying consanguinity, rather than mountaintop mining, could be responsible for Appalachian birth defects chronicled in a new study. The law firm, which has ties to the National Mining Association, “has refuted the study’s findings, but…

Jul 12, 2011 12:06 PM CDT

Davis Polk Raids Mayer Brown to Open New Sao Paulo Office, Lures Away 2 of 3 Partners

Corrected: Davis Polk & Wardwell has raided Mayer Brown’s office in Sao Paulo for the lawyers it needs to open a new office in Brazil’s financial center this summer. Joining Davis Polk will be Mayer Brown partners Stephen Hood, the chief of Mayer Brown’s office there, and James Vickers, reports…

Jul 12, 2011 12:06 AM CDT

Lawyer Who Quit Sidley for Cross-Country Trek Credits Dog in Bear Battle

A bankruptcy associate who quit Sidley Austin to trek cross country has battled bad weather and a black bear, but he’s alive and still walking, thanks to his dog. Chicago lawyer George Tyler Coulson found that that BigLaw wasn’t right for him, so he decided to take his tent and…

Jul 11, 2011 3:18 PM CDT

Influenced by US Lawyers, UK Attorneys Relax Dress Rules, Experiment with Skinny Ties, Bright Socks

Influenced by United States law firm casual dress trends, British attorneys are starting to loosen up on their traditional suit-and-tie-at-all-times attire. But they are far from adopting the attorney “beachwear” accepted at Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where a founding partner recently told the careerist that the firm…

Jul 8, 2011 2:18 PM CDT

7 Drinker Biddle Lawyers Form New Environmental Firm, Brooman Buzzell & Garber

Headed by the former managing partner of the now-closed Berwyn, Pa., office of Drinker Biddle & Reath, seven attorneys from the law firm have formed a new environmental boutique. It will be known as Brooman Buzzell & Garber, reports the Legal Intelligencer in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer…

Jul 7, 2011 7:31 PM CDT

Top Antitrust Regulator to Join Cravath

The nation’s main antitrust regulator is moving to a New York law firm. Christine Varney will leave the antitrust division of the Department of Justice later this year to join Cravath Swaine & Moore, where she is expected to work on antitrust issues in mergers and acquisitions, reports the DealBook…

Jul 6, 2011 8:44 PM CDT

Edwards Angell Talking with Wildman Harrold About Possible Merger

A Chicago law firm and Boston-based Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge have confirmed that they are discussing a possible merger. If Edwards Angell and Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon tie the knot, that will add another 150 or so lawyers to the Edwards firm’s approximately 500-attorney roster, reports Crain’s Chicago…

Jul 6, 2011 7:57 PM CDT

‘New Reality’ Leads to Unusual Jobs for BigLaw Recruiting Manager and Ex-Prosecutor

Laid off in 2009 from her job as a recruiting manager for Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Janet Raiffa initially found what Fox News calls the “new reality” of the unemployment market depressing. But even though she now works six jobs to earn a fraction of what she did at Orrick,…

Jul 6, 2011 5:43 PM CDT

Before iPad Rollout, Proskauer IS Chief Considered Apps, Cloud, Permitted Uses

Proskauer Rose had to wrestle with a lot of questions before it gave its lawyers a choice between new iPads and desktops, or a Hewlett-Packard laptop. InfoWorld lists the issues: Should lawyers pay for apps? Which ones are mandatory? Can lawyers use iPads for personal entertainment? And how do you…

Jul 6, 2011 10:30 AM CDT

Allen & Overy ‘Quite Pleased’ with $1.87B Revenue Record

Boosted by a new Australia practice, London-based Allen & Overy saw its gross revenue rise to a record $1.87 billion in the fiscal year that ended at the end of April 2011. The magic circle firm is “quite pleased” with the year’s financial results, managing partner Wim Dejonghe tells the…

Jul 5, 2011 11:39 PM CDT

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