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Monday, January 3, 2011
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today that it has awarded partner Robert S. Gerber the firm's 2010 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award.Gerber was also named Sheppard Mullin's Pro Bono Attorney of the Decade.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
On November 19, 2010, Australia Acquisition Corp. closed its initial public offering of 6.4 million units at a price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit issued in the IPO consists of one ordinary share and one warrant to purchase one ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50 per ordinary share. Prior to the effectiveness of the public offering, the company...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
The Financial Times named Jones Day's "transformative" pro bono work on affordable housing as the outstanding U.S. pro bono project of the year in its U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report 2010, published December 1, 2010. The newspaper noted that the Washington initiative "empowered tenants suffering from housing violations" and "created a template way of...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Richard J. Davis, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and a vice chair of The Legal Aid Society, was elected Chairman of the Board of the 134-year-old organization by the Board of Directors today. Davis, a highly respected litigator, has served on the Society's Board for more than a decade. Mr. Davis succeeds Alan Levine, partner in charge of the...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Former Assistant United States Attorney Arnold Spencer has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a Dallas partner in the firm's white collar criminal defense practice group. Mr. Spencer returns to private practice after more than ten years at the United States Attorney's Office. Most recently, Mr. Spencer served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP recently announced the launch of its "green" blog, "GreenEsq." at www.GreenEsqBlog.com. The blog is an interdepartmental effort of the Manhattan-based law firm's Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practices. The blog will serve as a helpful resource to the real estate community by reporting on the latest...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
As part of its strategy to accelerate growth in New York and Silicon Valley, four new attorneys have joined Lowenstein Sandler as Members of the firm. Renowned white collar defense attorney Ira Lee ("Ike") Sorkin, securities litigator Donald Corbett, and insurance litigator Joseph Jean join the firm's New York office; and venture capital/tech attorney Matt...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
On November 17, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and the firm of Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP co-sponsored a live webinar examining issues with international trade titled Taking Advantage of Customs and Trade Laws. The speaker, Robert Silverman, partner of the Grunfeld, Desideiro Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt firm,...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Richard E. Wiley, managing partner of Wiley Rein, has been named the Washington, DC Best Lawyers' "Administrative Lawyer of the Year" for 2011. Only one attorney in each community and specialty area receives this annual honor. According to Best Lawyers, the honorees received particularly high ratings in the publication's surveys "by earning a high level of...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Renowned white collar defense attorney Ira Lee ("Ike") Sorkin has joined Lowenstein Sandler as a Member of the firm. Mr. Sorkin comes to Lowenstein Sandler with well-known securities litigator Donald Corbett, who also joins as a Member of the firm, counsel Nicole P. De Bello and associates Daniel K. Roque and Elliott Z. Stein. All five attorneys join...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Proskauer has announced that Cornell University has established a new professorship in the firm's name at the Cornell School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship will advance scholarly work in employment law, labor law, employee benefits, compensation, conflict resolution and...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
King & Spalding ranks among the nation's top mergers and acquisitions legal advisors, according to league-table reports for the first nine months of 2010 issued this month by Thomson Reuters.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
McCarter & English LLP has been named as the recipient of The Leadership Award by the Delaware State Bar Association for its pro bono service.The award was presented at DSBA's Christopher W. White 2010 Distinguished Access to Justice Awards Breakfast on Oct. 26 at 8:00 a.m. in the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Jones Day has announced that it will open an office in São Paulo, Brazil. This will be Jones Day's 33rd office and its second in Latin America after Mexico City.
The office will launch as a foreign legal consultancy, as required by the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and will open as soon as all regulatory approvals are obtained. Jones Day will open...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Mark Mansour has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the health industry practice in Washington, focusing on FDA law and policy, the firm announced today.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Weil is the recipient of Lawyers Alliance for New York's 2010 Cornerstone Award honoring outstanding pro bono legal services to nonprofits. The award, presented on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, is for "for exemplary leadership reflected in all aspects of [the firm's] pro bono program."
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP announced today that partner John E. Villafranco has been named the 2011 "Lawyer of the Year" for Advertising and Marketing Law in Washington, D.C., by Best Lawyers.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
On November 10, 2010, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) announced the launch of a Compliance Training Portal intended to help organizations strengthen their compliance efforts and enhance their ethical business culture.Developed with WeComply, Inc., an ACC Alliance Partner and a leading provider of compliance training and services, the portal...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
AmLaw Daily featured Weil business finance & restructuring partner Jacqueline Marcus as the 'Dealmaker of the Week' for the week ending October 15, citing Ms. Marcus's role in the $3.9 billion sale of hotel chain Extended Stay to a private equity consortium, effectively bringing the company out of bankruptcy.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts has honored Gil Menna with the NAREIT Industry Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the REIT industry. The award was presented in New York City at this year's annual REITWorld 2010 Conference, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legislation establishing real estate investment...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Phillips Lytle LLP has been included in Chambers USA 2010: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for outstanding expertise in Environmental Law. Considered the most widely used legal directory by in-house counsel for retaining outside counsel, Chambers is released annually by U.K. publisher Chambers and Partners, and is based on extensive independent...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a Tier 1 law firm as part ofthe 2010 Best LawFirms rankingsby U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers. A snapshot of the rankings is featured in the October 2010 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation has awarded Haynes and Boone, LLP a 100 percent rating in its 2011 Corporate Equality Index measuring private companies' policies and treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees.
Haynes and Boone has received a 100 percent rating for three consecutive years.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable recently filed a legal challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) final rules requiring a corporation to include in its proxy materials director nominees put forward by a shareholder (or group of shareholders) who have owned three percent or more of company stock for at least three years...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Renowned white collar defense attorney Ira Lee ("Ike") Sorkin has joined Lowenstein Sandler as a Member of the firm. Mr. Sorkin comes to Lowenstein Sandler with well-known securities litigator Donald Corbett, who also joins as a Member of the firm, counsel Nicole P. De Bello and associates Daniel K. Roque and Elliott Z. Stein. All five attorneys join...
