Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the 160-year-old New York-based law firm, will close forever. Â The subprime crisis slashed demand for its structured-finance practice,...
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Chicago’s Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has announced it will hire 100 lawyers (NYT says 40) away from New York CIty’s Thacher Proffitt...
Richard Hans, who left DLA Piper two years ago to join Thacher Proffitt & Wood, is heading back to his old firm as...
Former Bush Administration Solicitor General Paul Clement is returning to the Washington, DC office of Atlanta’s King & Spalding. “We are very...
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Palo Alto, California-based social networking web site Facebook is looking for private US law firms willing to help resolve an on-going patent...
Via Law.com: Atlanta-based King & Spalding is in talks to acquire most, but not all of Thacher Proffitt & Wood’s lawyers, according...
