The number of Paul Hastings real estate partners fleeing for Haynes and Boone keeps growing. Initially, Paul Hastings admitted that three of its real estate partners were leaving. But then Haynes and Boone sources confirmed that they were poaching four PH RE partners — including Steven Koch, the administrative head of Paul Hastings’s real estate practice.
Today, HayBoo is out with an announcement that they’ve picked up six PH partners, all in the real estate group. From the Haynes and Boone press release:
In a major expansion of its East Coast real estate, finance and real estate restructuring practices, Haynes and Boone, LLP announces the addition of six partners who bring a wealth of experience, particularly representing top-tier New York financial institutions, real estate funds and private equity groups.
Sources report that the additional two partners had tried to keep their pending defection secret from the general Paul Hastings public. Maybe they didn’t want to become the subject of a bidding war between the firms?
The other two names and more details after the jump.
Continue reading “Paul Hastings Partner Defections: And Then There Were Six”
Last week, we spoke with Conan O’Brien’s high-profile attorneys: Patricia Glaser of Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro and Leigh Brecheen of Beverly Hills entertainment boutique Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman and Goodman.
Brecheen is O’Brien’s contracts lawyer and Glaser is the attorney O’Brien brought in when NBC informed him that it wanted to change his Tonight Show to The Next Day Show.
When the Conan-NBC showdown was happening, the media were critical of the contract that Conan had, in large part because there was reportedly no timeslot language. Though subsequently, it’s been suggested by people who have seen the contract that this is untrue, and that timeslot language was in the contract.
The New York Post wrote:
The decision to let O’Brien walk apparently came down to who was cheaper to let go.
Leno has an ironclad, “brilliantly written” agreement that guarantees his production company a staggering $150 million if NBC Universal axes his flailing primetime show, an insider said.
That led us to praise Leno’s contract and its creator Ken Ziffren of Ziffren Brittenham, and to question the strength of O’Brien’s contract.
On Friday, Glaser and Brecheen called to set the record straight…
Continue reading “Another Perspective on Conan’s Contract”
A quick glance at the calendar reveals that today is February 1st. 2010 is fully under way. Is there a reason why Mayer Brown associates still don’t know how much money they’ll be making in the current year? Mayer Brown had a two hour all associates meeting on Friday. Amazingly, management was able to babble for 120 minutes without saying a word about 2010 salaries:
We just had the quarterly meeting and no announcement of compensation news, lots of discussion of uptick in lateral hiring. WTF!?! Are Sidley and Mayer price fixing or what?
The Sidley quip refers to the fact that Sidley Austin is also waiting around — for no discernible reason — to make a hard decision about associate salaries.
Is this evidence of collusion among big Chicago firms? I’m going the other way on this.
Continue reading “Mayer Brown and the Infinite Silence”
* Part of Yolanda Young’s discrimination suit against Covington & Burling will move forward. [BLT]
* Controversial New Orleans lawyer Ashton O’Dwyer is back in the news. He’s gone from cursing out judges to threatening their lives. [New Orleans Times-Picayune]
* The Third Circuit has taken an interest in at least one claim in the Boring lawsuit against Google Street View. [Business Week]
* The National Conference of Bar Examiners must accommodate the testing needs of a blind UCLA law grad, even if it does potentially expose the bar questions to “hackers and thieves.” [San Francisco Chronicle]
* Massachusetts decides this week whether Southern New England School of Law can merge with the University of Massachusetts to create the state’s first public law school. Many are opposed including three private competitors. Rep. John Quinn says those three law schools should be investigated for potential antitrust issues. [ABA Journal]
* A mini-controversy in Virginia. Should the attorney general , Ken Cuccinelli II, have tried a private case? [Washington Post]
* Blackwater to get more attention from the Justice Department. [New York Times]
