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| Clifford Chance Captures New Prague Corporate Partner |
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| Clifford Chance has beefed up its corporate offering in Prague with the hire of a partner from White & Case. David Kolacek joined Clifford Chance May 5 from the U.S. firm's Prague office, where he focused on M&A, privatizations, joint ventures and private equity. Kolacek spent a total of 16 years at White & Case, including a one-year stint at the firm's New York headquarters. The hire represents t |
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| 1st Circuit Gets Its First Woman Chief Judge |
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| Judge Sandra Lynch will become the first woman chief judge of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals next month and the circuit's ninth chief since Congress created the job in 1948. She was previously an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, general counsel of the Massachusetts Department of Education and a partner at Boston's Foley Hoag. Lynch succeeds Michael Boudin, w |
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| Big-Firm Lawyers Partner to Open Women-Owned Boutique |
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| A new women-owned firm in Dallas, Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara, formed by five veteran lawyers, opened its doors May 1. The five lawyers -- all were previously partners in big firms in Dallas -- do litigation, labor and employment law, business immigration work and dispute resolution. Founding partner Jennifer Jackson Spencer says the time is right to launch a majority-women-owned firm i |
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| How Not to Change a Potential Lateral Hire Into the One That Got Away |
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| Few law firms work as hard to develop a system for recruiting lateral talent as they do for recruiting at the law student level. In contrast to the recruiting of inexperienced law students, firms competing for lateral talent face a more educated, and often more skeptical, audience, which makes it even more critical that the process work smoothly and cohesively. Legal recruiter Stacy Humphries has |
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| Bork Settles Lawsuit Over Fall at Yale Club |
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| One-time U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork settled a $1 million lawsuit Friday against the Yale Club after he fell stepping onto a platform to speak. Bork, 81, sued in Manhattan federal court last year, saying he injured himself so badly at a June 2006 event that he needed surgery and was left with a limp. He faulted the club for not having stairs or a handrail leading up to the platform. |
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| Bush Nominates Va. Judge to Fill Vacancy on 4th Circuit |
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| A federal judge in Virginia is President Bush's pick to fill one of several vacancies on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, widely viewed as the most conservative federal appellate bench in the country. The White House announced Thursday that Bush had nominated Glen E. Conrad to the Richmond, Va.-based appeals court, which has handled some of the country's biggest terrorism cases. Conrad has b |
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| Contract Attorney Company Opens Boston Office |
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| Contract attorney company Counsel on Call opened a Boston office with former Brown Rudnick partner Nancy Reiner as executive director. Counsel on Call attorneys handle cases and other matters on an assignment basis, either at the client's site or remotely. The company touts its business model as offering work-life balance to its lawyers. "This is a perfect opportunity, working with a great company |
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| Paul Hastings Denies Reports of Layoffs |
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| An e-mail from a fired Paul Hastings associate has spurred chatter that the firm is laying off attorneys. But the firm says that's not so. Spokeswoman Eileen King says that, while some associates have been let go, they were part of typical performance reviews and the numbers were in line with last year's cuts. Talk of Paul Hastings' head count has arisen in the wake of Shinyung Oh's leaked e-mail |
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| For Am Law 100 Firms, the Sky's the Limit |
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| 's first survey of firm finances in 1985. Of the 47 firms studied, six will gross more than $10 billion in 2025, and only two will have gross revenues of less than $1 billion. Sherer admits that predictions based on the past are risky, but he also notes that large U.S. firms have seen astonishing growth since the '85 survey. |
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| How to Manage Your Litigation Costs |
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| Your company wouldn't stay in business for long if it sold a lesser product at higher prices. So, asks attorney Stewart M. Weltman, why should you accept that state of affairs when it comes to your litigation matters? It's not enough to set flat fees or create litigation budgets, says Weltman. In-house counsel must learn how to proactively manage their outside counsel -- in the trenches, so to spe |
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