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06-21-2005

BCG News - 06/21/05

Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman is launching a London office specializing in hedge fund, money manager, and financial institutions representation. The office will be lead by Martin Cornish, former principal of five-lawyer MW Cornish and will be known in London as Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish.....[more]
06-14-2005

BCG News - 06/14/05

Cisco Systems longtime chief patent counsel, Robert Barr, is leaving to become executive director of Boalt Hall School of Law's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Barr began representing Cisco as patent counsel in 1994 when the company had just one patent. He joined the staff in 2000, and now the....[more]
06-07-2005

BCG News - 06/07/05

The largest law firms in Chicago held onto their rankings in 2004, with only small changes in their total numbers of attorneys. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood remained the largest, with 512 lawyers in Chicago (up from 509 in 2003). Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw held onto the number-two spot, with 497 lawyers (....[more]
06-01-2005

BCG News - 06/01/05

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough has added seven business litigators to its Charlotte, NC, office from Kilpatrick Stockton, bringing its total to 25 attorneys in that office. Nelson Mullins is based in South Carolina and has nine offices throughout the Carolinas, as well as others in Atlanta and W....[more]
05-24-2005

BCG News - 05/24/05

New York-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has opened an office in Washington, DC. The new office is slated to focus on the firm's antitrust work. This is Simpson Thatcher's fourth domestic office, in addition to branch offices in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, CA. The firm also has international offices....[more]
05-17-2005

BCG News - 05/17/05

Dorsey & Whitney is acquiring 15-lawyer Palo Alto, CA, litigation boutique Ritchey Fisher Whitman & Klein. Three Palo Alto mayors have come out of Ritchey Fisher in the firm's 40-year history. Dorsey & Whitney entered the San Francisco Bay Area market three years ago by acquiring intellectual proper....[more]
05-10-2005

BCG News - 05/10/05

Effective next month, New Orleans-based Adams and Reese is merging with Nashville's Stokes Bartholomew. The newly merged firm will operate as Adams and Reese/Stokes Bartholomew in Tennessee and as Adams and Reese in all other markets. It will have close to 300 attorneys and eight offices, including ....[more]
05-03-2005

BCG News - 05/03/05

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham opened a new Palo Alto office on May 2, to be headed by Deborah Bailey-Wells, administrative partner of the firm's San Francisco office. In addition, the head of Coudert Brothers' Bay Area practice, IP litigator and employment law lawyer ....[more]
04-26-2005

BCG News - 04/26/05

Nineteen mergers and acquisitions involving American firms were completed during the first quarter of 2005, one less than during the first quarter of 2004, according to Hildebrandt International's MergerWatch. Nine of the mergers were announced in 2004 and completed on January 1, 2005, while the res....[more]
04-19-2005

BCG News - 04/19/05

A suit filed by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman seeking more than $600,000 in unpaid legal fees may turn on whether firing a firm constitutes a form of objecting to its bill. The firm's case against real estate magnate Richard Kramer will go forward, since a Manhattan judge denied the firm's mot....[more]