Large Firm

4-Lawyer White-Collar Defense Team Leaps from Winston & Strawn to Pillsbury Winthrop

A four-lawyer white-collar defense team has jumped from Winston & Strawn to the Washington, D.C., office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, their new firm announced in a press release. It is headed by William Sullivan, who will co-chair the practice group at Pillsbury Winthrop. The firm has also recently expanded…

Jul 21, 2011 5:55 PM CDT

Some Law Firm Leaders Are Clearly Hitting a Mental Wall When Confronted with a Chance to Change

I was watching TV with my boys the other night. As usual, The Discovery Channel was our choice, and the show that we were watching was Surviving the Cut. The Discovery Channel website describes the program this way: “Surviving the Cut takes viewers into the intense world of military elite…

Jul 21, 2011 2:31 PM CDT

Decades Ago, I Took a Newspaper’s File of Unflattering Photos of a Federal Judge, Law Partner Says

Women, more so than men, tend to be portrayed in an unflattering manner in photos as their popularity wanes, writes former Congressman and current law firm partner Martin Frost in a Politico opinion column. And, while female politicians tend to suffer the most, others including lawyers, have also felt its…

Jul 20, 2011 10:48 PM CDT

Federal Judge OKs $97.5K Verdict Won By Goodwin Procter in Pro Bono ‘Contempt of Cop’ Arrest Case

The chief federal criminal trial judge in Washington, D.C., yesterday rejected the city’s call for a new trial in a “contempt of cop” arrest case in which a jury awarded a woman $97,500. Represented by Goodwin Procter on a pro bono basis, Lindsay Huthnance contended she had been unconstitutionally arrested…

Jul 20, 2011 9:27 PM CDT

Recruited by Skadden as She Neared 70, Chicago Lawyer’s Job Is to Bring in Business, Mentor Women

Sheli Rosenberg had retired in 2002, well-to-do and weary after decades as a high-profile Illinois lawyer. When Wayne Whalen of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom asked her to breakfast last year at the Chicago Club, Rosenberg, who is now 69, expected him to pitch her about making a political…

Jul 19, 2011 5:20 PM CDT

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