Firm Profiles

Revenue Growth Modest at Many Firms, But Profits Surge

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Julia Love : The Recorder : February 15, 2013

California firms managed to boost their profitability by controlling costs and cutting partners. Orrick chairman Ralph Baxter said his firm was following the lead of clients by doing more with less.

Revenue Growth Modest at Many Firms, But Profits Surge

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Julia Love : The Recorder : February 15, 2013

Add a little bit of revenue. Subtract partners. Control costs. That formula helped a number of California law firms boost their profitability last year despite shaky demand for legal services.

Four Am Law Firms at Table as Berkshire, 3G Snap up Heinz in $28 Billion Deal

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Tom Huddleston Jr. : The Am Law Daily : February 14, 2013

Warren Buffett has teamed with Brazilian-backed investment firm 3G Capital to acquire H.J. Heinz Company in a deal worth $28 billion, including the assumption of debt. Munger Tolles and Kirkland are advising Berkshire and 3G, respectively, on the transaction, while Davis Polk is representing Heinz, and Wachtell is acting as counsel to a special committee of the Heinz board.

Judge accepts Transocean's guilty plea in Gulf disaster

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Amanda Bronstad : The National Law Journal : February 14, 2013

A federal judge has approved a Transocean Ltd. subsidiary's criminal plea as part of a $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over liability for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

J. Paul Getty Trust GC on the Art of In-House Law

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Lisa Holton : The Recorder : February 8, 2013

After spending 14 years in-house at New York's MoMA, Clark made the move across the country to serve as the J. Paul Getty Trust's general counsel.

At Half-Century Mark, Munger Tolles Sees Big Jump in Profits

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Susan Beck : The Am Law Daily : February 4, 2013

The Am Law 100, the Early Numbers: At Half-Century Mark, Munger Tolles Sees Big Jump in Profits

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Susan Beck : The Am Law Daily : February 4, 2013

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Munger, Tolles & Olson's founding—and the second straight year that the Los Angeles–based firm saw a double-digit increase in its profits per partner, according to The American Lawyer's reporting.

Stephen Clark

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Lisa Holton : The Recorder : January 31, 2013

After spending 14 years in house at New York's MoMA, Clark made the move across the country to serve as the J. Paul Getty Trust's general counsel.

FTC continues fight to unseal Solvay memo on paying rivals

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R. Robin McDonald : Daily Report : January 14, 2013

A fight by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to make public a Georgia pharmaceutical company's copnfidential memo detailing a strategy to pay rival drug companies not to compete has become part of a larger antitrust battle that has now reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Fisher Taking Senior Status, Creating Another Slot on Ninth Circuit

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Scott Graham : The Recorder : January 4, 2013