In its report released last week, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP transferred approximately $21 million for a government official, Teodor Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, who’d long been suspected of misappropriating the country’s oil and timber resources for personal gain.
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King & Spalding is adding three partners to its litigation practice. Trial lawyers James J. Capra Jr. and James P. Cusick will join the firm’s New York office and Diana L. Weiss will be resident in the Washington D.C. office.
All three are former partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and have backgrounds in accountant liability [...]
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Winston & Strawn has added two partners and a senior counsel to its New York office. Lawrence A. Larose and Samuel S. Kohn join as partners in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency group while William J. Grant has joined as senior counsel in the mergers and acquisitions practice.
Larose, who will head the financial restructuring practice, [...]
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Over the past week, I’ve had several friends of mine (all of whom are either attorneys or investment bankers) ask me, “Is it normal to not hear from my recruiter for several weeks?” “Is it normal that my recruiter did not call me back in 24 hours?” They are asking me this because, quite simply, [...]
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I am currently working with well-credentialed eight year litigator who has never moved law firms. This person has everything it takes to make partner but for various political reasons, he is unlikely to make partner. While this person has not been asked to leave the firm, this person knows now is the time to begin [...]
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Last week’s Economist (www.economist.com, subscription required) discusses the causes and effects of an every growing female workforce. Women do currently populate equal or greater-than-equal proportions in our universities and workforces at large, and there is much to be said and written about how this apparent equality is changing industry and economy.
From my law firm lens, [...]
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I spent the summer following my first year of law school working at the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) in Washington, DC. The entire summer and the events leading up to it resulted in one of the strangest experiences I have ever had. After I got the job with the DOJ, I was required to [...]
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My specialties are writing, editing, and communications. However, I have spent virtually my entire career working for legal publishers and legal-service providers, and I now speak legalese very well. My experience has taken me to the point where odd phrases like ''of counsel'' and ''sexy boutique firm'' no longer confound me.
What does confound me, however, is the consistency with which I see the same old mistakes in the writings of attorneys and non-attorneys alike.
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Prominent Beverly Hills law firm Ervin Cohen & Jessup has reason to celebrate after associate David Bricker won a $16.5 million verdict on behalf of his clients last Friday, January 29, 2010.
Networking and Your Job Search
Are you an attorney or law student who has just started your job search or is interested in transitioning to a new job? If you are, then don’t forget to include networking as part of your job search.
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