Recent Updates
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Ice Miller Expands Chicago Area Operations
Law Firm News 07/02/2007Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis' largest law firm, announced today the opening of an office in DuPage County, Illinois. The new office marks the Firm's expansion in the Chicago area and is the result of the attorneys from the Lisle, Illinois office of C...
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Nelson Levine acquires law office in N.Y.
Law Firm News 06/29/2007Law firm Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst said Thursday it has acquired the eight-lawyer New York office of Chicago-based Querrey & Harrow. The group adds three partners to an existing small New York office for Nelson Levine, which represents in...
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Sedgwick buys boutique real estate law firm
Law Firm News 06/26/2007Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP bought a boutique law firm that specializes in representing landlords, expanding the San Francisco firm's real estate practice.Led by Jeffery Woo, the boutique focuses on institutional and regional property hold...
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Attorney Admits Stealing from Clients/Firm
Law Firm News 06/25/2007A Memphis attorney admitted in court this morning to stealing more than $60,000 in client funds from clients and his law firm. John House Parker, 60, who was disbarred in December, entered his plea in Criminal Court, where he was scheduled to go on t...
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State Representative to Join Indianapolis Law Firm
Law Firm News 06/21/2007Ice Miller LLP is pleased to announce that State Representative Bob Kuzman has joined the Firm as a partner in its Public Affairs Group. Kuzman will focus on state, local and federal government issues and public affairs management including legislati...
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Jenner law firm demoting 15-20 partners
Law Firm News 06/13/2007Jenner & Block, a Chicago-based law firm that focuses on litigation, is shifting 15 to 20 of its equity partners to non-equity status, the National Law Journal reported Monday, citing anonymous sources.Some of the partners are being asked to leav...
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Gibson Dunn Named Best Corporate Firm in LA
Law Firm News 06/12/2007Corporate Board Member magazine ranked Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP as the best corporate law firm in Los Angeles and ninth nationally in its seventh annual survey of general counsels. In a separate survey, the firm ranked seventh by director...
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Pepper Hamilton Expands New York Office
Law Firm News 06/12/2007[##_1L|1385873805.jpg|width="208" height="41" alt=""|_##] Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that it has expanded its New York office with the addition of Joseph F. Voyticky as of counsel in the Financial Services Practice Group. Mr. Voyticky represents h...
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Cravath Represents IBM in its Acquistition of Watchfire
Law Firm News 06/06/2007Cravath represented IBM in its acquisition of Watchfire Corporation, a privately held security and compliance testing software company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The lawyers involved in this matter are partner George F. Schoen and associates Ma...
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Littler Opens Office in Orlando, Hires the Competition
Law Firm News 06/06/2007[##_1L|1406470136.jpg|width="225" height="78" alt=""|_##]The nation's largest labor-and-employment law firm, Littler Mendelson, has opened an office in Orlando, the company announced this week, filling its roster with attorneys from a national compet...
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Skadden, Arps to provide free legal aid to VT panel
Law Firm News 06/06/2007[##_1L|1305312850.jpg|width="260" height="74" alt=""|_##] A gubernatorial panel investigating the Virginia Tech shootings has enlisted an international law firm to provide free counsel as it wades through a thicket of legal issues related to its inqu...
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Watkins Ludlam Receives National Recognition
Law Firm News 06/04/2007Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis has been recognized by American Lawyer Media (ALM) as a "Go-To Law Firm" in the area of Litigation. The firm will be recognized as a Go-To Law Firm in a national reference guide which is being released at the end o...