Law Firm Hiring

Eversheds recruits Cobbetts partner to boost London real estate team

By Friederike Heine | July 27, 2011

Eversheds has strengthened its London real estate practice with the hire of planning partner David Hardy from regional firm Cobbetts, taking the number of partners in its planning practice to 11. Hardy, who is qualified as both a barrister and a solicitor, will join from Cobbetts alongside planning associate Michelle Smith and personal assistant Michelle Brown.

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Stephenson Harwood hires Weil energy head for practice push

By Sofia Lind | July 14, 2011

Stephenson Harwood has hired Weil Gotshal & Manges' London head of energy and renewables Andrew McLean, who will transfer to the top 30 UK law firm in September. The corporate partner helped establish Weil Gotshal's consumer and financial services practice in Europe when he joined as a partner 11 years ago from Clifford Chance, where he had been an associate. He specialises in commercial contracts, private company M&A and joint ventures.

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DLA Piper boosts energy practice with CMS and Ofgem hires

By Simon Petersen | July 13, 2011

DLA Piper has bolstered its City energy and infrastructure and project finance teams with the appointment of a former CMS Cameron McKenna partner and a lawyer from Ofgem. Former CMS partner Trevor Butcher, who left his previous firm at the end of April, is due to join DLA Piper in August.

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Stephenson Harwood hires Weil energy head for practice push

By Sofia Lind | July 13, 2011

Stephenson Harwood has hired Weil Gotshal & Manges' London head of energy and renewables Andrew McLean, who will transfer to the top 30 UK law firm in September. The corporate partner helped establish Weil Gotshal's consumer and financial services practice in Europe when he joined as a partner 11 years ago from Clifford Chance, where he had been an associate. He specialises in commercial contracts, private company M&A and joint ventures.

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SJ Berwin competition chief cancels Milbank resignation

By Sofia Lind | July 13, 2011

SJ Berwin has persuaded EU and competition head Stephen Kon to remain with the firm after he resigned last month to join Milbank Tweed 
Hadley & McCloy. Kon was voted into the Milbank partnership in mid-June alongside fellow competition partner Cameron Firth, but both partners subsequently retracted their resignations and opted to stay with the top 20 City law firm.

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Cravath coup as firm secures heavyweight lawyer from DoJ

By Legal Week | July 13, 2011

Cravath Swaine & Moore is strengthening its antitrust team with the hire of Christine Varney, a key player in the Obama administration's efforts to shore up the 
nation's antitrust enforcement efforts, from the Department 
of Justice (DoJ). Varney is due to join Cravath's New York office on 6 September, having taken her post as assistant attorney general of the department's antitrust division in April 2009.

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DWF turns to Watson Burton for Newcastle IP partner hire

By Simon Petersen | July 13, 2011

DWF has strengthened its intellectual property (IP) practice with a partner hire from Watson Burton. Ed Meikle, who specialises in advising on the capture, protection, commercialisation and enforcement of all IP rights, is set to join DWF's Newcastle office later this year.

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Brown Rudnick boosts London with Chadbourne partner hire

By Simon Petersen | July 13, 2011

Brown Rudnick has strengthened its European bankruptcy and restructuring team with a partner hire from the London office of Chadbourne & Parke. Insolvency partner Adrian Harris is set to join Brown Rudnick's London office in August, having been a partner at Chadbourne since 2006.

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Career Clinic: Should I follow my boss to a US firm in London?

By Legal Week | July 10, 2011

"I'm a 2PQE associate at a UK top 50 firm in London, where I qualified. I'm generally pretty happy where I am; the work as yet hasn't been mind-numbing and the firm's been pretty good to me so far - I'm still able to have something of a personal life alongside my time in the office. "However, the partner who's the head of my team is moving to a US firm's London office, and I've been offered the opportunity to go with him.

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Senior banking partner quits SNR Denton to join Norton Rose

By Sofia Lind | June 29, 2011

SNR Denton London banking partner Michael Black is set to leave the firm to join Norton Rose. Black, who is co-head of SNR Denton's financial institutions and funds sector group, joined legacy Denton Wilde Sapte in 2003 from Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard), where he had been the firm's head of banking. He originally qualified as a barrister and lawyer in New Zealand in 1992 and has been working in London since 1995.

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Texas Lawyer

Newsmakers (for Dec. 7, 2020)

By Jonathan Erway | December 7, 2020

Amy M. Stewart, a Dallas-based lawyer and founding partner of Stewart Law Group PLLC, has been named the 2020 Trailblazer of the Year from the Texas Minority Counsel Program.

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Delaware Law Weekly

Trusts and Estates Associate Joins McCollom D'Emilio

By Aleeza Furman | December 7, 2020

Tara Hersh left her role as an associate attorney in MacElree Harvey's estates practice group to join McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler.

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Texas Lawyer

Large Texas Firms Are Growing More Interested in Texas A&M Law Grads

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 7, 2020

Since A&M bought its law school from Texas Wesleyan University seven years ago, school leadership is noticing the effects of the "Aggie ring on the finger."

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International Edition

Allen & Overy Adds New York Private Equity Partner

By Simon Lock | December 7, 2020

It is the firm's second New York lateral hire this year, following the arrival of Norton Rose Fulbright partner Paul Keller in March.

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The American Lawyer

Hire Up: The DC Revolving Door Starts Turning

By Dan Packel | December 4, 2020

Attorneys from Capitol Hill and regulatory agencies are starting to find new homes in Big Law, while demand remains high for government veterans who've already established themselves in private practice.

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The Recorder

On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers

By Aleeza Furman | December 4, 2020

New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.

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The American Lawyer

Legal Industry Job Recovery Is Slow and Steady, With 5,000 New Jobs in November

By Dan Roe | December 4, 2020

The legal industry has yet to regain even half of the jobs it lost in April.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Dec. 4, 2020—Greenblatt Pierce, Capehart Scatchard

By Aleeza Furman | December 4, 2020

The partners at Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt & Flores announced that Rocco DePersia joined the firm in an of counsel capacity, and Capehart Scatchard is set to offer a live interactive webcast titled "Diagnosis & Treatment of Work-Related Injuries to the Hand & Wrist."

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New York Law Journal

Soyun Park Joins Sheppard Mullin from Winston & Strawn

By Patricia Kane | December 3, 2020

And other announcements of recent hirings and promotions of New York attorneys.

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The American Lawyer

Firms Will Continue to 'Clean House' Next Year, Lawyers Included

By Dylan Jackson | December 3, 2020

A mix of layoffs and hiring will continue through 2021, experts and firm leaders say, as the industry absorbs lessons learned in the pandemic.

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