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Monday, January 31, 2011
Chance Clifford is targeting significant cost savings with the launch of a technology platform backed by Microsoft. The magic circle firm has been working with the technology giant, which is considering a concerted push into the global legal market, for several months.
It is mulling plans for a new document management system (DMS) based on Microsoft's...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Applied Discovery has announced the release of Applied Discovery® Leverage Data Analytics, a hosted solution for early case assessment and for ongoing document analysis throughout the matter lifecycle.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is pleased to announce the promotion of 16 attorneys to the partnership, effective January 1, 2011. These accomplished men and women have demonstrated their dedication and commitment to our clients and to our firm.
Shar Ahmed is a partner in our energy and global transactions practice in Houston. Mr. Ahmed...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Fragomen has announced the election of new partners across individual corporate entities effective January 1, 2011. The knowledge and experience possessed by these newly promoted individuals strengthens the firm's global leadership and reflects the firm's commitment to providing outstanding guidance and client service both locally and globally.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
A multi-disciplinary pro bono team from Goodwin Procter LLP played a key role in providing corporate and legal infrastructure support for the recent successful launch of Jumo, a new social network connecting individuals and organizations working for global change. Jumo (a West African word meaning "to come together") is the brainchild of Facebook co-...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
McCarter & English has announced that Thomas J. Finn and Paula Cruz Cedillo have joined the firm as partners in the Business and Financial Services Litigation Practice Group. They will work out of the firm's Hartford office. Mr. Finn and Ms. Cedillo focus their practices on securities litigation, white collar criminal defense matters and complex...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Jones Day ranked #1 globally in M&A league tables for year-end 2010, maintaining a position it has held for 41 consecutive quarters. The firm also ranked #1 in the U.S.In M&A rankings released this month by Thomson Reuters, Jones Day led all law firms for number of completed deals worldwide, receiving credit for 345 transactions in 2010. The firm...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Duff & Phelps Corporation has announced that Ivan Lustig has joined the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory practice as a senior managing director. Lustig, who will be based in the New York office, brings more than 28 years of experience to Duff & Phelps.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Equivio has announced that it has tightened the level of integration of its technology with kCura's Relativity review platform. The enhancement encompasses the full range of the Equivio product suite, including products for assessing document relevance, grouping near-duplicates and capturing email threads. The Equivio software is available as a plug-in for...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Haynes and Boone, LLP has elevated four associates and two of counsel to partnership. The newly elected partners are David Bell, Karen Denney, Jeff S. Dinerstein, Trevor Hoffmann, Yasser Madriz and Ryan McConnell.
Associates Elected Partners
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Kelley Drye recently participated in The Future of Aging is in Our Hands, a national conference for LGBT older adults, organized by SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders) on November 12, 2010. This conference, the first of its kind, brought together LGBT seniors from around the country for three days of workshops...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Wiley Rein LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its Intellectual Property Practice with the addition of new partner David E. Weslow. A former software and web developer, Mr. Weslow regularly handles cutting-edge issues involving law and technology. He has a broad practice that includes litigating, prosecuting and licensing of trademarks and...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
CaseCentral, the leader in secure, cloud-based e-discovery software for corporate counsel and law firms to simplify and take control of e-discovery, and Mitratech, the leader in collaborative accountability applications including matter management, e-billing, and GRC management automation, today announced a strategic alliance to combine CaseCentral's e-...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, has admitted four attorneys to the firm's partnership: Christine M. Debevec of the firm's Philadelphia office, Joshua N. Silverstein and Catherine M. Ward of the firm's Cherry Hill, NJ office and David J. Winkowski of the firm's Malvern, PA office.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Workshare, a leading provider of document collaboration software, announced today that it has appointed John Safa as vice president, engineering. Mr. Safa brings more than 20 years of IT executive and engineering experience to the role, including the development of 20 patented technologies. In his new position, Mr. Safa will oversee the research and...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Datacert, Inc. has announced that Walmart Stores, Inc.has selected Passport, Datacert's patent-pending technology platform, to help strategically manage Walmart's domestic legal processes and systems. In addition, Walmart will implement Datacert's matter management and spend management systems, which are built on Passport.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
King & Spalding has announced the addition of corporate finance partner Ram Burshtine to its New York office - the eighth lateral partner to join the office since the start of 2010. King & Spalding's New York office has seen a substantial influx in talent over the past year. Burshtine's arrival follows that of professional liability and securities...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC, one of the country's largest trial consulting firms, has announced the opening of its office in New Orleans to better support litigators and their clients dealing with cases pending in Louisiana and throughout the south.
The expansion will be led by Victoria Exnicios who joins the company as a Director, bringing...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
King & Spalding has announced that Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, a former general counsel of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), has joined the firm's leading international arbitration practice as a partner in its New York office. Aguilar-Alvarez joins King & Spalding from Weil, Gotshal & Manges,...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
McCarter & English is pleased to announce that Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has appointed Thomas J. Rechen the Chair of the Public Defender Services Commission.
Mr. Rechen will complete the term of Carl D. Eisenmann, which concludes on December 20, 2010, and will then serve a full three-year term concluding December 20, 2013. He received the...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Justin Breen has joined Proskauer as a Partner in New York, expanding the firm's Capital Markets Group and further strengthening its high-yield and overall corporate finance capabilities.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
On December 8, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Claims Resolution Act of 2010, which provides $4 billion to individual American Indians and Indian tribes to resolve disputes over past royalties from oil, gas and timber extraction from their lands and water rights disputes in Arizona, New Mexico and Montana.Title IV of this Act - the Crow...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. is pleased to announce that Hervé Gouraige joined the Firm as a Member of its Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Gouraige practices in the areas of health care fraud litigation (False Claims Act cases), general commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense and internal corporate investigations. He has represented corporate...
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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...
