Midsize Firm

Anderson Kill adds 10-attorney firm known for representation of HOA boards

Anderson Kill has added to its ranks a 10-attorney New York corporate firm known for its real estate work, as well as the representation of the boards and management companies of condominiums, cooperatives and homeowner associations. The New York-based Anderson Kill, announced the acquisition in a Wednesday news release, which…

Jun 2, 2016 11:15 AM CDT

More midsize firms use lateral recruiting to hire nonlawyer managers

Nonlawyer managers with business and financial backgrounds are growing in popularity at midsize firms, and law firms are using lateral recruiting to find them, legal consultants say. Some midsize firms are hiring chief operating officers or executive directors, though their roles vary, the Legal Intelligencer (sub. req.). reports. Their responsibilities…

May 26, 2016 5:45 AM CDT

Judge OKs malpractice suit over law firm’s successful fight to uphold client’s postnuptial agreement

A New York trial court has OK’d a malpractice suit against Phillips Nizer, over the law firm’s handling of a divorce case that generated $1.4 million in legal fees for work done by 23 attorneys and 16 other professionals. At issue is a 2000 postnuptial agreement that the firm helped…

May 17, 2016 3:45 PM CDT

Resnick & Louis opens in Miami with 3-lawyer Akerman team, expects more hiring soon

A 55-attorney Arizona-based law firm known for its focus on complex litigation has opened an office in Miami headed by a former Akerman commercial litigation partner. Two other Akerman lawyers have joined Robert Squire in the new Resnick & Louis office, where the firm expects to have 10 attorneys on…

May 3, 2016 3:10 PM CDT

8-partner government contracts group leaps from Jenner to MoFo

An eight-partner government contracts group has exited Jenner & Block for Morrison & Foerster offices in the Washington, D.C., area. Headed by David Churchill and Jay DeVecchio, the group may also include some associates once the dust settles, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports. “The U.S. government buys every…

Apr 18, 2016 10:19 AM CDT

At 7th annual Avvo Lawyernomics, the emphasis will be on ‘unmarketing’

Scott Stratten, president of UnMarketing, has an interesting analogy for lawyer marketing in an increasingly competitive marketplace: One of his earliest jobs was serving as a sales training manager for a bubble wrap company. “The thing about bubble wrap is that everyone needs it, so my job is to tell…

Apr 7, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

Lawyer whose midtrial DUI setup by opposing counsel made headlines wins related malpractice suit

Three years ago, attorney C. Philip Campbell not only represented the losing party in a high-profile Florida defamation case but made headlines when the trial was interrupted by his drunken-driving arrest—due, as authorities later determined, to an unethical setup by his opposing counsel. Since then, the drunken-driving case against Campbell…

Apr 1, 2016 1:20 PM CDT

Suit by laid-off lawyers says Reilly Pozner jettisoned 17 at law firm to avoid sharing $391M verdict

One of the top trial law firms in Colorado laid off 17 workers last year in order to avoid sharing with them a $391 million verdict they helped win a few months earlier, a lawsuit contends. Filed by husband-and-wife attorneys Wendy and Eric Fisher in Denver District Court, suit alleges…

Mar 30, 2016 4:45 PM CDT

LA’s Liner firm opens NY office with former Dickstein lawyers

A 75-attorney Los Angeles law firm has opened an office in New York City, its first outside Southern California. Two insurance coverage lawyers who previously worked for now-defunct Dickstein Shapiro are the initial partners at the new Liner location in Manhattan, reports the New York Law Journal (sub. req.). Ten…

Mar 11, 2016 9:40 AM CST

Ford & Harrison grows again, acquires 5-lawyer boutique and new Connecticut office

National labor and employment boutique Ford & Harrison is growing again. The 155-attorney Atlanta-based firm announced Tuesday that it had acquired a five-lawyer firm, Rose Kallor. The merger establishes a new Hartford office for Ford & Harrison, its first in Connecticut. This is not the first merger this year for…

Mar 3, 2016 1:10 PM CST

Dentons tells ex-Luce Forward partners of $1.9M clawback years after they joined predecessor firm

Ex-partners at now-shuttered Dickstein Shapiro aren’t the only former law firm owners who recently learned they may have lost big bucks. In a letter this month to ex-partners of a law firm acquired in 2012 by a predecessor of Dentons, the megafirm told them partners of Luce Forward Hamilton &…

Feb 26, 2016 6:50 AM CST

Some BigLaw firms face associate shortages; boutiques are partly to blame

Career opportunities are getting better for some associates. Lateral hiring is strong for midlevel and senior associates in the areas of corporate, finance and litigation, recruiters tell the Am Law Daily (sub. req.). Other hot areas mentioned by some recruiters include regulatory and health-care compliance, real estate, intellectual property, restructuring,…

Feb 24, 2016 5:45 AM CST

Many lawyer departures prior to Dickstein’s demise were planned, former chairman says

Contrary to what one might believe from reading media reports, a steady stream of departures from Dickstein Shapiro in recent months was not lawyers leaving a sinking ship but part of a planned strategy, the former chairman of the now-defunct firm says. “Since July, with very few exceptions, all of…

Feb 22, 2016 4:45 PM CST

Squire Patton to acquire 50-lawyer California firm with international expertise

Squire Patton Boggs announced Monday that the 1,500-attorney firm is merging with a 50-lawyer boutique headquartered in California. Though Carroll Burdick & McDonough is U.S.-based, three of its five offices of are located overseas. On its website, the firm prominently features its global litigation management and international expertise—its attorneys speak…

Feb 22, 2016 12:10 PM CST

Minority-owned firm of more than 100 attorneys to close Feb. 29, lawyers are told in conference call

A minority-owned Milwaukee-based law firm with 15 offices throughout the country and more than 100 lawyers is closing for unspecified financial reasons, many attorneys there, including some partners, learned in a conference call Monday. “It’s stunning news,” partner Joe Fasi II of Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan told the Milwaukee Business…

Feb 17, 2016 1:55 PM CST