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Dewey Ballantine, LeBoeuf Lamb
Dewey & LeBoeuf: More on the Merger
Please accept our apologies. After breaking the story on Friday afternoon, we kinda dropped the ball on the merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb. We’ll write more about this transaction later. Sadly, we have to head offline for a bit. But in the meantime, here’s an open thread for people to discuss the merger. […] -
Biglaw, Dewey Ballantine, Dewy Orifice, Law Firm Mergers, Law Firm Names, LeBoeuf Lamb, Mergers and Acquisitions
Law Firm Merger Mania: Dewey LeBoeuf? (You Heard It Here First)
People in the offices of both Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb have been gossiping about a possible merger between their firms. Here’s some circumstantial evidence in support of the rumors. If you go to Whois.Net and enter the domain name DeweyLeBoeuf.com, you get this info: We have a call and an email in to Michael […] - Sponsored
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Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Job Searches, LeBoeuf Lamb
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 51-55
Sadly, the music–loving law firm of Nixon Peabody is not on this afternoon’s list of five Vault 100 firms to talk about. And don’t hold your breath — we won’t reach NP until we hit the 70’s. Here are the firms that are on the table: 51. Jenner & Block LLP (5.940)52. LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene […]
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Arent Fox, Biglaw, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Skaddenfreude
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Arent Fox, Seyfarth Shaw, LeBoeuf Lamb
We have a few associate pay raise developments to report this morning. Some of these items were announced some time ago, but they haven’t written about in these pages until now. Here they are: 1. Arent Fox: The firm now pays a starting salary of $160,000 in New York, D.C., and California, according to the […] -
Biglaw, Cheapness, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Skaddenfreude
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: A Few More Memos
A quick reminder: We want your memos. We hear rumors of associate pay raises at particular firms all the time, but we generally don’t treat the news as official until we see a memorandum (assuming there is one). Please send them to us by email. We reprint below two memos that arrived in our inbox […] -
Biglaw, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Skaddenfreude, Sonnenschein
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: More Chicago News
Two items pertaining to associate pay raises in Chicago: 1. LeBoeuf Lamb just announced that its Chicago office will be on the $160K pay scale. The firm’s presence in the Windy City isn’t huge, but the move does confirm that the market rate for Chi-town really is $160K. Memo after the jump. 2. Sonnenschein, Nath […] -
Biglaw, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Skaddenfreude
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: LeBoeuf Lamb Raises in California
The crew over at La Bouche LeBoeuf Lamb, who recently showed some love to law clerks, just raised salaries in their California offices. They’re now on the $160K scale. The raise is retroactive to May 1, 2007. Memo appears after the jump. (If your firm recently raised associate base salaries and/or clerkship bonuses, and hasn’t […] -
LeBoeuf Lamb
La Bouche LeBoeuf Lamb to Law Clerks: 'Be My Lover'
Here are the members of the “$50K/$70K Club” — the elite law firms that pay clerkship bonuses of $50,000, for one year of clerking, or $70,000, for two years: 1. Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2. LeBoeuf Lamb 3. Skadden Arps 4. Sullivan & Cromwell 5. Weil Gotshal & Manges One of these things is not […] - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Antitrust, Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Eliot Spitzer, LeBoeuf Lamb, Musical Chairs, Politics, Thelen Reid & Priest, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Musical Chairs: 04.17.07
Some notable moves within the legal profession: Government to Private Sector: * Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, to LeBoeuf Lamb in DC. Last November, Steele lost his bid to represent Maryland in the U.S. Senate. * Michele Hirshman, who served as Eliot Spitzer’s top deputy at the Attorney General’s office before he became Governor, […] -
LeBoeuf Lamb, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: The LeBoeuf Lamb Memo
We have a number of associate base salary memos in the queue for publication (including some from last week, when tech problems frustrated publication). Rest assured, we will get around to posting them. (Considering that nobody is doing anything particularly exciting — e.g., besting Simpson Thacher — the time pressures for publication aren’t great.) But […] -
Akin Gump, Biglaw, Dewey Ballantine, Dorsey & Whitney, Eliot Spitzer, LeBoeuf Lamb, Musical Chairs, State Judges
Musical Chairs: 01.17.07
On the Way Out: * The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (San Francisco), Kevin Ryan, is stepping down. He cited “personal and professional reasons” for his departure. (Does this mean that ATL favorite Eumi Choi might be placed in charge of the office for a while, even if only in an acting […] -
Biglaw, Department of Justice, Dewey Ballantine, Federal Government, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LeBoeuf Lamb, Musical Chairs, S.D.N.Y., U.S. Attorneys Offices
Musical Chairs: 01.02.07
A few of the more prominent moves within this noble profession: From government to private sector: * Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is joining Royal Dutch Shell, as general counsel for its “unconventional resources division” (e.g., extracting oil from “oil shale” and “extra heavy oil” — don’t ask us, we don’t know). (A WSJ Law […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Debevoise and LeBoeuf Match
We received the Debevoise memo by email. The LeBoeuf memo was posted on Infirmation. (Yawn. Are you as bored as we are? Then take our reader poll about your sex life. Or check out this awesome pro se lawsuit.) In case they interest you, we reprint the Debevoise and LeBoeuf bonus memos, after the jump.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Arnold & Porter, Benjamin Brafman, Biglaw, LeBoeuf Lamb, Musical Chairs, New Jersey, Sean Combs, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Musical Chairs: 11.08.06
Personnel changes are everywhere today — and not just on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon. Some notable moves within the legal profession: Lateral Moves: * Private equity and M&A lawyer Dennis Barsky, to Jones Day, from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. * Corporate lawyer Jonathan Stapleton and investment-funds lawyer Margaret Paradis, to Baker & McKenzie […] -
FTC, Kronish Lieb, LeBoeuf Lamb, Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: 09.07.06
A few moves to report today: Lateral Moves: * Antitrust attorney Jeffrey Brennan, to Dechert (DC), from the FTC (where he was Associate Director of the Bureau of Competition and Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Health Care Services and Products Division). * Capital markets lawyer Rachel Coan, to Morrison & Foerster (NY), from LeBoeuf, Lamb, […]