Legal News

Chester Willcox Partners to Form New Firm

Columbus, Ohio-based lawyers J. Richard Emens and Beatrice Wolper, until recently partners at Chester Willcox & Saxbe, are founding their…

Gretchen Jacobs has left the Phoenix office of Greenberg Traurig, to set up her own autism lobbying group. Jacobs has…

Memphis, Tennessee's Bourland Heflin has added hired on two new partners. David Rudolph practices labor & employment and commercial litigation.…

Sidley Austin is offering its incoming associates an optional deferral plan. The "Pro Bono Assistance Program" offers a $75,000 stipend…

Simmons & Simmons plans to use external lawyers for litigation and corporate due diligence work. The firm seeks to outsource…

Four partners at Clifford Chance's New York office have left to found their own firm. Peter Chaffetz, David Lindsey, Charlie…

Rachel Folberg and Miles Locker, two former California state labor lawyers, have announced the founding of their own San Francisco…

Three key partners of the financial services group of the former WolfBlock have joined the Jenkintown, Pennsylvania firm of Friedman…

Houston lawyer Greg Myers has announced the launch of The Myers Law Firm. Myers defends physicians, dentists, and hospitals against…

Senior legal executives from The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and 11 more Fortune 500 companies, with the managing partners of…

A JDJournal tipster points us to Harvard Law School's announcement this week that the nation's second ranked law school will…

Covington & Burling, which likes to hire former Republican bigwigs, is bringing on two more Bush administration veterans. The firm…