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The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200
By Diane Jeantet, May 17, 2013
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Perkins Coie's Double Identity
In fits and starts, the Seattle-based firm saw the benefits of going national.
Ugliness Inside the Am Law 100, Part II
Average partner profit figures posted by large law firms have lost much of their value as a way of measuring anything meaningful about those firms. The metric that's really worth focusing on—the ever-widening compensation gaps within these partnerships—remains largely out of public view.
The Score: Dentons Partner Doubles as Fantasy Sports Pro
Like many lawyers, Glenn Colton is a baseball fan. But the Dentons white-collar and government investigations practice head has taken his love for America's national pastime to the next level, scoring his own fantasy baseball column and SiriusXM radio show. In June, Colton will be inducted into the Fantasy Sports Trade Association's Hall of Fame. Also: Covington advises the U.S. Open on a new $770 million TV deal with ESPN and Bracewell & Giuliani and Loeb & Loeb get involved in two high-profile memorabilia fights in our regular look at sports and the law.
Continental Breakfast: Adam Shutkever, Riverview Law
American Lawyer chief European correspondent Chris Johnson meets regularly with senior legal sector figures at their favorite breakfast joints to chew over the industry's tastiest talking points. This week, Adam Shutkever, COO of DLA Piper-backed fixed-fee legal services company Riverview Law, discusses the firm's alliance with U.K. law firm DMH Stallard and the company's forthcoming conversion to an Alternative Business Structure.
The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200
Andrews Kurth heads to London; Bingham McCutchen grabs seven lawyers in Tokyo; and a Munger, Tolles & Olson partner plans a move to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to thechurn@alm.com.
Edwards Wildman Plans Istanbul Launch
The firm is opening an office in the Turkish city to cater to clients in the region and to support the practice of private equity partner Ted Cominos, who joined the firm last year.
Am Law Firms Aboard as Leagues Sink Kings, Coyotes Deals
Lawyers from Covington, Katten Muchin, and Milbank were watching closely Wednesday as owners of the National Basketball Association's 30 teams voted against a $625 million deal that would have sent the Sacramento Kings north to Seattle. Meanwhile, in a move that might result in another major sports team heading to the Pacific Northwest, the National Hockey League and its attorneys from Skadden nixed a $278 million bid for the Phoenix Coyotes.
Judge Vacates Ropes Client's Double Murder Conviction
After a dozen years spent trying to clear the name of a man imprisoned for more than three decades, Ropes & Gray counsel Ryan Malone got a phone call he says he will never forget.
Cleary, Linklaters Advise as Citi Sheds Brazil Assets
Citigroup is selling Brazilian unit Credicard to São Paulo–based Itaú Unibanco in a cash deal worth $1.38 billion. Brazil's Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados is serving as local counsel to Citi on the sale.
Kirkland Cleans Up on PE Shop's $1.4 Billion Buy
Kirkland & Ellis clinched its latest large M&A deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as well as a leading automobile tire inflation service.
Find an Am Law 200 Firm
- Andrews Kurth
- Arent Fox
- Ashurst
- Bingham McCutchen
- Bracewell & Giuliani
- Chadbourne & Parke
- Covington & Burling
- Crowell & Moring
- Denton Wilde Sapte
- Dewey & LeBoeuf
- Dickstein Shapiro
- DLA Piper
- Freehills
- Goulston & Storrs
- Heller Ehrman
- Herbert Smith
- Holland & Knight
- Howrey
- Husch Blackwell
- Irwin Mitchell
- Jones Day
- K&L Gates
- Katten Muchin Rosenman
- Keker & Van Nest
- Kilpatrick Townsend
- King & Spalding
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Lathrop & Gage
- Locke Lord
- Loeb & Loeb
- Mallesons Stephen Jaques
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
- Morrison & Foerster
- Munger, Tolles & Olson
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Patton Boggs
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Perkins Coie
- Porter & Hedges
- Proskauer Rose
- Ropes & Gray
- Shearman & Sterling
- Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
- Slaughter and May
- Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
- Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Sullivan & Worcester
- Thompson Hine
- Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- White & Case
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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