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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
In its annual survey of the top practice groups in the world, Law360 has identified King & Spalding as a “Practice of the Year” in five areas of the law: class action, environmental, healthcare, intellectual property and real estate. Winners were selected by a team of Law360 editors based on the significance, size,...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Jon Hanifan has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to lead its European hedge fund tax advisory team. He joined the firm today from Ernst & Young, where he was a director in the hedge fund tax practice.
Mr. Hanifan will work closely with the investment management practice, which was recently joined by partners Tim Pearce and Ian...
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., a corporate law firm known primarily for representing policyholders in insurance coverage disputes, has announced the opening of a new office in Burlington, Vermont.
Marshall Gilinsky, a shareholder in the firm’s Insurance Recovery Group who moved from New York City to Burlington several years ago, will...
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Friday, February 15, 2013
The Diversity Honors Gala, the nation’s premier awards program honoring leaders in the legal profession for diversity and inclusion, will return to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on September 17. Hosted by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), the gala will recognize legal departments...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Nine Jones Day lawyers have been chosen by clients as “Client Service All-Stars” in BTI Consulting Group’s 2013 survey. The survey identifies lawyers who demonstrate exceptional legal skills and client focus; deliver outstanding results and superior value; and understand, and share a commitment to achieving, their clients’ business...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Paul J. Wessel has joined Weil’s New York office as a partner and leader of the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice group.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), a global bar association representing more than 30,000 in-house counsel, recently released the largest global survey of the most pressing issues and challenges facing chief legal officers in corporate legal departments around the world.
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Greg Cirillo, co-chair of Wiley Rein’s internationally recognized Aviation Practice, has been appointed vice chairman of the Virginia Bar Association’s (VBA) Transportation Law Section. Mr. Cirillo will also continue to serve as chair of the section’s Aviation Committee.
The VBA’s Transportation Law Section, founded in 1994,...
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Tony K. Mou has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Corporate practice group and will be based in the firm's Shanghai office. Mr. Mou joins from Morgan Lewis in Beijing.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented WBI Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU), in the formation of Dakota Prairie Refining, LLC, a $300 million joint venture with Calumet Specialty Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: CLMT) that will develop, build and operate a diesel refinery in southwestern...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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Friday, February 1, 2013
In ContractExpress for SharePoint 4.3, the new approval engine is optimized for the contracting process, supporting ad-hoc, sequential and parallel approvals driven by document data.
“This is more than just an incremental release. We revamped the entire approval engine and added enhanced support for outside party paper to match the...
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Marcum LLP led the entire accounting industry in most new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to an article published by Accounting Today. The article was based upon research reported by Audit Analytics, a company that analyzes changes in auditors of Public Companies. With six net SEC client wins...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Concourse, a powerful new matter-centric suite of integrated tools and information designed expressly for corporate counsel and the law firms that support them. Concourse is cloud-based and built around an intuitive dashboard, and provides an integrated, collaborative platform to support the...
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Marcum LLP, a top national accounting and advisory firm, has announced that Michael F. D’Addio, J.D. and Gail J. D’Addio, CPA have joined the firm’s New England tax practice, effectively immediately. Mr. D’Addio joins as a principal and Mrs. D’Addio joins as a director, based in Marcum’s...
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Stradley Ronon partner Lee A. Rosengard has been appointed to the Directors and Officers’ (D&O) Liability Insurance Group, recently launched by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR). The group will explore ways to incorporate the use of mediation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Evidence Exchange, a national leader in e-discovery services to law firms and corporate law departments, announced today an expansion of its strategic partnership with Equivio, a leading provider of analytical solutions for e-discovery. The terms of the renewed agreement include the addition of Equivio Zoom, an integrated e-discovery platform for...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Complete Discovery Source, the leader in ediscovery, is unveiling several key offerings, most of which are new or updated for 2013. These “game-changers” are available for review through exclusive pre-scheduled, quick briefings at LegalTech in the company's private suite. Depending on guests' particular needs or interests, several...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
McCarter & English LLP has elected four new partners and one special counsel in its offices in Boston and Newark, effective January 1, 2013. The new partners are Maneesh Gulati, Yu Lu and Jonathan Short, members of the Intellectual Property / Information Technology group; and Joseph E. Ruccio III, a Construction and Infrastructure...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP (MP&S) has named a new partner to its Real Estate Group and two new principals to its Tax Practice and Litigation and Corporate Financial Advisory Services Group.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Gibbons P.C. has announced that Robert E. Rudnick, a director in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, has been elected president of the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association (NJIPLA). Mr. Rudnick has been an NJIPLA board member for the past four years.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Weil, Gotshal & Manges finished 2012 on a high in Asia, working with its global and regional clients on their investments, acquisitions and joint ventures in the region. This work received considerable recognition in 2012:
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
David L. Douglass, chair of the ABA Health Law Section, has joined the Washington, DC office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Government Contracts, Investigations & International Trade practice group and the firm’s Healthcare practice. Mr. Douglass joins Sheppard Mullin from Shook, Hardy & Bacon...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
