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Katten Earns Summary Judgment for Microsoft in Kinect Trademark Litigation

Simpson Thacher Achieves Dismissal For Citibank

Dewey & LeBoeuf Advises Spartan Capital Holdings and Eileme 2 AB on US$1.2 Billion High Yield Notes Offering

Goodwin Advises Cowen Royalty in $1 Billion Capital Raise

Cooley Advises Micromet on $1.16 Billion Sale to Amgen

Hogan Lovells Advises John Laing Infrastructure Fund in its Acquisition of a Portfolio of Social Housing Assets

Olswang, Latham & Watkins, Ashurst and Withers have all taken a role on the sale of a majority stake in private members’ club chain 
Soho House Group

Norton Rose and Maclay Murray & Spens have taken key advisory roles on the sale of Scottish dairy company Robert Wiseman Dairies to Germany’s Muller.

Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Eversheds are advising on DS Smith’s proposed €1.6bn acquisition of a packaging division of Sweden’s Svenska Cellulosa

Clifford Chance trainee retention dips to 76% as Ashurst keeps on 78%

Allen & Overy and Linklaters have topped Thomson Reuters’ EMEA rankings for bank roles on debt and equity capital markets transactions in 2011

SNR Denton partners have criticised a payout to former Denton Wilde Sapte chairman James Dallas of around £500,000 last year, despite profits per equity partner (PEP) falling by 36% in 
the UK partnership

The Government’s proposed legal aid reforms are facing further criticism

Baker Botts partner Mike Bengtson of Austin had a big year in the shale sector in 2011

Herbert Smith and Norton Rose are among the firms landing roles advising Carnival, while Irwin Mitchell is representing a group of Costa Concordia survivors

Ex-Client Sues Orrick for $95M

Amgen, Celgene Drug Acquisitions landed work for S&C, Clifford Chance, Cooley, Dechert, and Goodwin Procter

Too Old for Law School?

Sullivan & Cromwell, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz outpacing their rivals in terms of total M&A deal value

Size Matters: small law firms have adopted the mantra: merge or die

Recruiters Must Choose Quality Over Quantity

There’s a reason for the partner exodus as midsize or regional law firms merge with larger, more stable law firms, according to one Recruiter

Career official at Northwestern University School of Law points to a few hopeful signs of better times ahead for law graduates

This is the time of year when recruiters ask me about which industry conference to attend

Holman Fenwick Willan has made its first aerospace partner hire in Europe since launching the practice with an eight-partner team hire from legacy Barlow Lyde & Gilbert last year

Allen & Overy (A&O), Weil Gotshal & Manges and Herbert Smith are among the firms advising as College of Law gears up for sale

Greentarget found that blogs influence the hiring of lawyers

US Airways Group, the fifth-largest airline in the country, has retained Latham & Watkins for a potential merger with the bankrupt parent of American Airlines

Shearman, Fenwick & West Hired By Twitter and Facebook

Davis Polk, Dewey Advising as Roche Makes $5.7 Billion Hostile Bid for Illumina

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has signed on a new co-managing partner for its Washington office

Job searching today takes more work outside of one's comfort zone — both for students and career services professionals

Linklaters and five firms Central and South American are representing HSBC on the sale of Latin America Unit

Herbert Smith took out a £6.7m loan in 2010-11 LLP accounts, with part of the loan going towards fitting out the firm's new Belfast office

Weil Gotshal & Manges has strengthened its London finance practice with the hire of international finance partner Mark Donald from Hogan Lovells

DLA Piper has expanded its northwest corporate team with the appointment of Gareth McIntegart, the former head of corporate in DWF's Liverpool office

Honestly, how many law schools does Indiana need?

Goodwin Procter Names New York's Managing Partner

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Osborne Clarke has voted in new office heads for its London and Thames Valley practices

Bird & Bird has entered Denmark through a formal alliance with a local firm in a bid to expand its offering in the north European IT and media sectors

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Shearman & Sterling Advises Twitter on Acquisition of Dasient

Baker Botts Partner Mike Bengtson earned recognition as Dealmaker of the Week; negotiated for Hunt Oil Co. with Marubeni Corp

Orrick Advises San Diego Gas & Electric in Major Wind Power Investment

Baker & McKenzie to Offer Employees Tax Offsets for Health Benefits

Roland Hlawaty Named Dealmaker of the Week by American Lawyer

Hunton & Williams Advises on Project Finance International 2011 Deal of the Year

Covington & Burling LLP represented ChemGen Corp. in its definitive merger agreement with Eli Lilly and Company

McDermott Advises A. M. Castle on $165 Million Acquisition of Tube Supply

Goodwin Represents High Liner Foods in Acquisition of Icelandic Group’s U.S. and Asian Operations

City media boutique Wiggin has become the latest law firm to confirm plans to take advantage of the Legal Services Act with the addition of a non-lawyer CEO to its partnership

Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells, DLA Piper and Irwin Mitchell all advising the administration of Peacocks and associated sale of Bonmarche

Lehman Brothers bankruptcy hitting $1.5 billion; Kaye Scholer, Simpson Thacher, Hogan Lovells, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy All Advise

Fried Frank, Dorsey & Whitney Advise on $1.15 Billion SPX sell of its automotive products business to Germany's Robert Bosch

Medical equipment maker Olympus has hired Shearman & Sterling and Blank Rome to represent it in securities litigation brought in the U.S.

Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200: Patton Boggs, Akin Gump, Bradley Arant, Carlton Fields, DLA Piper

Quindell Portfolio plans to acquire Silverbeck Rymer to expand the array of claims-management services it offers to insurers.

Some people have taken to suing law schools because despite the education and expense, they find themselves unemployed

Recruiter Corner: The Power Of Fast Rejection

The Growth in Temps May Be Here to Stay

Former co-heads of Hunton & Williams’ commodities trading group have joined Sutherland Asbill & Brennan’s Washington office

Chevron reveals that its legal team includes attorneys from 15 Am Law firms: Akin Gump; Ballard Spahr; Boies, Schiller; Crowell; Gibson Dunn; Holland & Knight; Jones Days; King & Spalding; Mayer Brown; Nutter McClennen; Pillsbury; Schulte Roth; Skadden; Sonnenschein; and Steptoe

CMS Cameron McKenna's limited liability partnership accounts have revealed financial details of the City firm's controversial back-office outsourcing arrangement with Integreon

Value Added Services in a Slow Job Market

Scots firm Tods Murray and Edinburgh boutique Fyfe Ireland are to merge, creating a combined practice to be known as Tods Murray LLP

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy have announced trainee retention rates for 2012, with both firms set to see 89% of their newly-qualified lawyers staying on

Liverpool's Silverbeck Rymer is set to be acquired by software and outsourcing firm Quindell Portfolio

Linklaters has taken the lead role for China Investment Corporation on its acquisition of a 9% stake in Thames Water

K&L Gates has become the latest US firm to announce its global partner promotions, with one new partner made up in its London base

Cleary Gottlieb Advises on Home Depot's First Acquisition Since 2006

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Baker & Hostetler, and Jones Day are advising on the planned $750 million sale of AmSafe Global Holdings

Bracewell & Giuliani, Andrews Kurth, and Thompson & Knight snag roles on a deal that would more than double Apache's oil and gas reserves along the Texas-Oklahoma border

Associate Bonus Watch: latest firm to make Cravath bonuses look small is Latham & Watkins

New York's largest and most controversial foreclosure law firm may be going out of business, but two former high-ranking attorneys at Steven J. Baum P.C. are picking up cases

Five-attorney patent prosecution and litigation team has made the jump from Patton Boggs to Venable

If your law school is ranked poorly, waiting for your grades has made you stressed all January

Societe Generale has drawn up a roster of law firms to provide advice in France, with Linklaters, White & Case and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom among those making the cut

White & Case Advises on Ruspetro IPO

Baker & Mckenzie SCP Advises PTT Global Chemical

Skadden is representing Pan American Silver Corp. in connection with the U.S. securities, antitrust and tax matters of its $1.5 billion acquisition of Minefinders Corporation

Bracewell Represents Apache Corp. in $2.85 Billion Acquisition of Cordillera Energy Partners III LLC

Simpson Thacher Represents ITC Midwest LLC in $100 Million Mortgage Bonds Offering

McDermott Moves Thriving Orange County Team to New Office

Paul, Weiss Advises Pembina Pipeline Corp. in the Purchase of Provident Energy Ltd.

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K&L Gates Names 30 New Partners

Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce that Jean De Ruyt has joined the firm’s government affairs group as a senior European policy advisor in Brussels

Sedgwick Names New Partners for 2012

Sedgwick San Francisco Is on the Move

Sedgwick LLP announces the opening of its Washington, D.C. office, with the addition of 14 attorneys from Wallace Partners, PLLC

Sedgwick LLP has announced the opening of its newest office in Seattle

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announces the election of two new partners and two new counsel in the Houston office Litigation Practice Group

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP today announces the election of nine new partners and six new counsel in 2012

Goodwin Procter represented Gibson Guitar in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of the Stanton Group

Brown Rudnick Achieves Record High Firm Revenue and Profits

Kramer Levin was chosen as counsel to the official committee of unsecured creditors of Hostess Brands Inc.

Fisher & Phillips LLP Relocates Columbia Office

Polsinelli Shughart Expands Financial Services in Delaware

Deborah Festa Joins Milbank in Los Angeles

Polsinelli Shughart’s National Health Care Practice Adds Chicago Attorney Aaron Perry

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Represents Group of Hedge Funds Regarding Restructuring of Capital Structure of the Endemol Group

Michael Stanley Joins Nelson Mullins in Boston

DLA Piper advises CPA Global management on acquisition

Todd Rowden named vice-chair of Thompson Coburn’s Business Litigation Group

Mayer Brown advises Caterpillar in sale of part of former Bucyrus sales, service and support business

Bradley Arant hires 9 Health Attorneys

Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Andrew W. Lennox and Thomas “T.J.” Ferrante, Jr. joined the firm’s Tampa office as shareholder and associate

Janet Vaughan Robertson Joins Houston Office of Haynes and Boone, Brings Valued Experience to Public Law Practice Group

Ballard Spahr attorneys Mark Pollak, Jon M. Laria, and Eben C. Hansel represent sportswear maker Under Armour Inc

Squire Sanders Boosts Benefits Practice in New York Office: Lawyer Candace L. Quinn Joins Taxation and Benefits Practice

Paul Hastings LLP represented Artemis Real Estate Partners, LLC, in the formation of Artemis Real Estate Partners Fund I, L.P., a $436 million fund

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Societe Generale has drawn up a roster of law firms to provide advice in France, with Linklaters, White & Case and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom among those making the cut

Herbert Smith and Irwin Mitchell are among a growing list of firms picking up advisory roles stemming from the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster earlier this month

Nabarro's international alliance has added a new Spanish firm with the addition of Roca Junyent, the country's fifth-largest independent law firm

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed its first-ever chief operating officer for its US arm, with the hire of Sullivan & Cromwell's former chief legal personnel and development officer

Norton Rose, Berwin Leighton Paisner, SJ Berwin and Stephenson Harwood have all confirmed trainee retention rates for their first intake of 2012

Roland Hlawaty of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy lead Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in $7.3 billion deal

Lead outside lawyers defending the NCAA in a class action fight with former college athletes jump from Miller Canfield to Schiff Hardi

Lateral Moves and Promotions in the Am Law 200: Baker Botts, Cadwalader, Epstein Becker Green, Fenwick & West, Foley Hoag

MegaUpload.com landed a Mega lawyer: Hogan Lovells’s Robert Bennett

Philadelphia-based Duane Morris has added sports and entertainment attorney Kenneth L. Shropshire as special counsel

Law Firm Mergers Abound Overseas: McKenna Long & Aldridge and Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps; Jackson Lewis and Littler Mendelson; Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert

Four law firms were ranked among Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For: Alston & Bird; Bingham McCutchen; Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz; and Perkins Coie

More Law Firms Face Choice: Merge or Die

A bleak jobs picture for law graduates is apparently dissuading more would-be lawyers from applying to law school

Hausfeld LLP has filed a securities class action lawsuit on behalf of those who sold HearUSA common stock

Hausfeld LLP has filed a securities class action lawsuit on behalf of those who sold HearUSA common stock

Lateral moves from the past year are narrowed down into the 10 lateral moves that made the biggest waves

Los Angeles office of Texas-based firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld filed a complaint against an entertainment executive who allegedly looped the firm's lawyers into a loan brokering scheme

Tom O'Connor has returned to the vendor-side of e-discovery, joining Avansic E-Discovery & Digital Forensics as director of professional services

Littler Mendelson is merging with another labor and employment law firm, Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Prather in Memphis

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