Four transactional lawyers from Epstein Becker & Green have joined the Atlanta office of Chicago-based Schiff Hardin. The group specializes in the design and implementation of Employee Stock Ownership Plans and leveraged ESOP transactions. Preston C. Delashmit and Robert E. Lesser join as partners, and Randolph R. Smith Jr. and Danielle R. Doerhoff join as associates. Schiff Hardin’s Atlanta office opened in 2003; the firm also has offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco.
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Jones Day’s San Diego office announced the addition of two new lateral hires. Nicola Pisano joins as an IP partner from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps; Lin Yu, Ph.D., joins the firm as a patent agent from Gordon Rees. The firm’s San Diego office relocated last month to a space three times as large as its previous location; it has 22 lawyers. Jones Day has 30 locations worldwide and over 2,200 attorneys.
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Dallas-based firm Jenkens & Gilchrist has shrunk from 600 lawyers in 2001 to less than 200. Over the past few years the firm was sued by former clients over improper tax shelter advice and has been strategically downsizing in response. Its most recent move was the handing over of its entire 19-lawyer L.A. office to Baker Hostetler. Jenkens also moved most of its Chicago office, about 15 IP lawyers, to Nixon Peabody this week. It is also rumored that some of Jenkens’ Dallas lawyers might join Hunton & Williams.
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. recently gained a new Member to its Real Estate practice. Scott Biel joins the firm’s San Diego office from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. His work deals with the representation of owners, developers, tenants and lenders in a variety of real estate transactions; he specializes in the financing, development and leasing of offices, research and manufacturing facilities for corporate users in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and telecommunication industries. Mintz Levin is a 480-attorney AmLaw 100 firm with offices in the U.S. and U.K. The firm is especially known for its expertise in industry.
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Perkins Coie announced that David Frazee joined the firm’s Menlo Park, CA office. As a partner in the firm’s Business group, Frazee will focus on helping companies develop comprehensive corporate, business, and intellectual property strategies. Perkins Coie has over 600 attorneys in 15 offices in the U.S. and China. In 2007 it was named by Fortune Magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”.
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San Francisco bankruptcy boutique McNutt & Litteneker has been hit hard by the downturn in bankruptcy business over the past couple years. Around the same time the firm started to lose its lawyers; it shrank from 10 full-time lawyers to only two – the two name partners. Three of the former associates moved to the San Francisco office of Philadelphia-based Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. The associates cited various reasons for their departures, from little opportunity for professional development to being underchallenged. Others saw a lack of mentoring as a problem.
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Nixon Peabody announced this week the opening of their new Palo Alto, CA office. Five lawyers from the Silicon Valley Law Group opened the office, and will be later joined by Nixon Peabody attorneys from San Francisco. The Silicon Valley group was led by corporate partner James Chapman, who claims to bring a business worth up to $2 million. Nixon Peabody has 622 lawyers nationwide.
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Foley & Lardner LLP announced today the opening of another office in Los Angeles. Adding to the Century City branch, the firm will open an office in downtown LA catering more to its corporate and litigation practices. Jack Lasater, the current managing partner in Century City, will also oversee the new LA office. This office is the firm’s 7th in CA and 20th worldwide.
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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal plans to open two more offices after the opening of its Menlo Park office in March. The Chicago-firm will open an office in Dallas this month, and by the end of March will have another somewhere in southeastern U.S. Sonnenschein currently has 10 U.S. offices and one in Brussels. The firm is positioned for growth and wants to have more than 1,000 attorneys to increase profits and attract new talent; lateral hiring of lawyers from other firms is the firm’s strategy for increasing its numbers.
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