Recent Updates
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Equity Partner Joins Latham & Watkins in Munich
Law Firm News 06/01/2007[##_1L|1113099639.jpg|width="268" height="27" alt=""|_##]Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Volkmar Bruckner has joined the firm's Munich office as a partner in the Corporate Department effective June 1, 2007. Bruckner's practice fo...
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Law firm brings 2 D.C. offices under one roof
Law Firm News 06/01/2007Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP has combined its two D.C. offices in one location, bringing together more than 200 lawyers and government affairs professionals.The law firm, resulting from the Jan. 1 merger of Kirkpatrick & Loc...
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Buchanan Ingersoll acquires San Diego firm
Law Firm News 05/31/2007Two months after losing its San Diego office managing partner, Buchanan Ingersoll said Thursday it has acquired seven-lawyer San Diego law firm Alhadeff & Solar. Buchanan said it will maintain its four-lawyer office in Del Mar, Calif., as well as...
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Gibson Dunn Adds Litigation Attorney to LA Office
Law Firm News 05/28/2007Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Heiko Kai Schultz has joined the Los Angeles office as of counsel. Previously a partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Schultz practices commercial litigation.Schultz's practice covers a wid...
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Gallop, Johnson & Neuman Names General Counsel
Law Firm News 05/23/2007[##_1L|1038406879.jpg|width="238" height="135" alt=""|_##] John W. Traeger, a law partner at Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C. in St. Louis with extensive experience dealing with federal, state and local environmental regulatory authorities, has bee...
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Shutts & Bowen LLP Launches Complex Loan Group
Law Firm News 05/23/2007[##_1L|1279587772.jpg|width="172" height="136" alt=""|_##] Shutts & Bowen LLP has launched a complex loan workout practice group to focus on clients who are grappling with the effects of a slowdown in the real estate market. For the new group, th...
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Gibson Dunn adds Litigation Attorney to LA Office
Law Firm News 05/22/2007Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Heiko Kai Schultz has joined the Los Angeles office as of counsel. Previously a partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Schultz practices commercial litigation.Schultz's practice covers...
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Stinson Morrison Hecker to Combine Practices
Law Firm News 05/22/2007[##_1L|1236726665.jpg|width="173" height="49" alt=""|_##]The combined firm will be called Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP and will have nearly 360 attorneys. The combination won't affect Stinson's Kansas City office, a spokeswoman said. That office has 1...
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Gibson Dunn Among Top Firms for Client Relationships
Law Firm News 05/16/2007Gibson Dunn has been ranked 10th among the top 20 law firms featured in BTI Power Rankings: The BTI Client Relationship Scorecard for Law Firms 2007. The 20 firms, called the BTI Power Elite, received the highest marks from clients in four area...
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Richard Levin Joins Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Law Firm News 05/09/2007On July 1, 2007, Richard Levin will join Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as a partner to head the Firm's newly established restructuring and insolvency practice. Rich, who served as counsel to a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee from 1975...
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Hispanic Law Firm Espinosa & Espinosa Gets Boost
Law Firm News 05/09/2007The Morristown law firm McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter has acquired a 49 percent stake in the Hispanic-owned law firm Espinosa & Espinosa, in hopes of fostering greater diversity in New Jersey's legal community. McElroy Deutsch, the sev...
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Racy Law Firm Billboard Stripped Down
Law Firm News 05/09/2007A racy billboard proclaiming "Life's short. Get a divorce" caused enough of an uproar, city workers stripped it from its downtown perch after a week.It wasn't so much about the partially clothed man and woman on the law firm's ad. It was the phrase t...