We have oodles and oodles of moves — some actual, and some rumored — to share with you today.
Lateral Moves:
* Antitrust lawyer Jeffrey Brennan and mass torts/products liability lawyer Kathleen O’Connor, to Dechert, from the FTC and Merck, respectively.
(Can O’Connor be the “Countess of Toxic Torts”? The title of “Queen of Toxic Torts” is already taken — by Skadden’s Sheila Birnbaum, with whom we are obsessed.)
* Leveraged finance lawyer Christina Ungeheuer, to Latham & Watkins (Frankfurt), from Milbank Tweed (Frankfurt).
* William Nordwind (legislative and government affairs) and Michael Volpe (labor), to Venable, from Capitol Hill (an interminable subcommittee name) and Clifton Budd, respectively.
* Financial restructuring lawyer Stephen Peppiatt, to Bingham McCutchen (London), from Shearman & Sterling.
* Trusts and estates lawyer Kenneth Page, to Hughes Hubbard & Reed, from Coudert Brothers (where he headed their T&E practice).
Also, here’s more detail about a move that we wrote about last week — the move of Dennis Orr and three colleagues from Mayer Brown (NY) to Morrison & Foerster (NY).
Shoes Waiting to Drop?
* Over at scandal-ridden computing giant HP, Ann Baskins “remains employed by the company as general counsel.” But her days may be numbered. (The commenters at the WSJ Law Blog are certainly calling for her head.) [WSJ Law Blog]
Think Tanks:
* William Gale has been named Vice President and Director, Economic Studies, at the Brookings Institution.
NY Lawyers Switching Firms [NYLawyer.com]
MoFo New York hires four-partner litigation team from Mayer Brown [Legal Week Student]
H-P Mess Casts Harsh Spotlight on Ann Baskins [WSJ Law Blog]
Gale Named VP & Director of Economic Studies at Brookings [TaxProf Blog]
Musical Chairs
Here are the highlights from the latest collection of job moves:
New Firms:
* Eve Rachel Markewich and Lawrence Rosenstock are leaving Blank Rome’s New York office to set up their own shop, to be called Markewich and Rosenstock. They will focus on Surrogate’s Court and general commercial litigation. Markewich was an unsuccessful candidate for Manhattan surrogate last year; Rosenstock is a Democratic district leader in the borough.
Lateral Moves:
* Dr. James Hill, to McDermott, Will & Emery (IP department), from Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear.
* The stork is coming — not with a bundle of joy, but a book of business. Anita Stork is leaving Cooley Godward, which is about to merge with Kronish Lieb, to join Covington & Burling’s litigation and antitrust and consumer practice group as a partner.
Two NY Partner-Politicos Quit to Launch Their Own Firm [NYLawyer.com]
Left-Coast Lawyers On the Move [NYLawyer.com]
Lots of job changes to report today. We’ve reviewed them, so you don’t have to. Here are the highlights:
In House Counsel:
* AIG, the troubled insurance giant, has named Anastasia Kelly as its general counsel and senior regulatory and compliance officer. Kelly is no stranger to choppy waters, having previously served as GC of MCI/WorldCom, Sears Roebuck, and Fannie Mae. Before her series of in-house positions, Stasia Kelly was a partner at Wilmer Cutler.
Kelly left MCI/WorldCom after its merger with Verizon. Anyone have dirt on her departures from Sears (some hints here) and Fannie Mae?
Lateral Moves:
* Prominent litigator Dennis Orr, along with Thomas Mueller, Grant Esposito, and Stefan Engelhardt, to Morrison & Foerster (NY), from Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw (NY). MoFo, which started off as a San Francisco firm, is making a major effort to build up its New York office. (Firm chair Keith Wetmore relocated from S.F. to New York earlier this year.)
* Tax lawyer Romina Weiss, to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, from Troutman Sanders (NY).
* Finance lawyer Robert Gruendel, to DLA Piper, from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle.
* Mass torts/products liability lawyer Kathleen O’Connor, to Dechert, from Merck, where she was assistant counsel working on Vioxx litigation (ugh).
* International corporate lawyer Johannes Gabel, to Fulbright & Jaworski, from Orrick.
AIG Names Stasia Kelly Its General Counsel [WSJ Law Blog]
Four NY Litigation Partners Join New Firm [NYLawyer.com]
Firms Add NY Tax Partners [NYLawyer.com]
More NY Partners Switching Firms [NYLawyer.com]
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, Greene & MacRae.
* White-collar and securities litigator Stephen Ascher, to Jenner & Block (NY), from Kronish Lieb.
On The Move [Antitrust Review]
Federal Trade Commission Associate Director Jeffrey W. Brennan Joins Dechert LLP [Dechert]
NY Capital Markets Partner Switches Firms [NYLawyer.com]
NY Partner Leaves Merging Firm [NYLawyer.com]
Not too much job-hopping going on. But we’re still getting back up to speed after that three-day weekend; perhaps things will pick up later this week, or next week.
Lateral Moves:
* Mary Fragola and Nanette Heide, to Seyfarth Shaw (ERISA group — might they be hotties?). Fragola was at International Paper Company; Heide was at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham.
* Banking lawyer John Ferrell, to Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton.
NY Partners Switching Firms, On the Move [NYLawyer.com]
Not a heck of a lot going on today. A few announcements, but this was the only one that was even mildly interesting:
* Monty Wilkinson to Troutman Sanders (of counsel), from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. He was executive assistant U.S. attorney for management since 2001.
It’s the Friday afternoon before Labor Day weekend. What the heck are you still doing here?
[Legal Times (subscription)]
A few job changes that didn’t make it into our earlier round-up:
Lateral Moves:
* Litigator Walter Loughlin, to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, from Latham & Watkins.
* Tax lawyer Robert Miller, to Greenberg Traurig, from Intel.
New Partners:
* Fried Frank: Tax lawyer Brian Kniesly and corporate lawyer David Shaw.
Anyone have any good tidbits about these folks? Something cute, amusing, and preferably non-libelous? If so, please email us (subject line: “Musical Chairs”).
NY Attorneys on the Move [NYLawyer.com]
- Baker Botts, Biglaw, Greenberg Traurig, Kelley Drye & Warren, McCarter & English, Musical Chairs, Time Warner
Musical Chairs: 8.31.06
By David LatMusical Chairs is our summary of the most important or interesting moves within the legal profession. We read through the announcements (and pick out the high points), so you don’t have to.
If you have good gossip about any of these job changes and the players involved, or forthcoming announcements, please drop us a line (subject line: “Musical Chairs”).
Lateral Moves:
* Patrick Collins and Peter Stergios, to McCarter & English (in New York), from Greenberg Traurig.
* Dennis Duffy, to Baker Botts (in Houston), from Time Warner Inc.
Returning Attorneys:
Kelley Drye & Warren: Former partner John Kiley, back from online retailer TechSmart, and former associate Jean Park, also from TechSmart. Kiley will co-chair the firm’s labor and employment practice, and Park comes in as a partner.
Firms Bolster Labor and Employment Practices [NYLawyer.com]
Time Warner VP Settles in at Firm [NYLawyer.com]
Lateral moves:
* Corporate lawyer T. Robert Zochowski Jr., to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, from Shearman & Sterling (where he had headed the structured finance group).
* Jonathan Marshall, to Fish & Richardson (as senior counsel), from Weil Gotshal & Manges.
* Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, to Weil, Gotshal & Manges (litigation/regulatory department), from SAI Abogados.
New partners:
* McCarter & English: Litigator John Hewitt.
NY Partners Switching Firms [NYLawyer.com]
NY Lawyers On the Move [NYLawyer.com]
It’s been a few weeks since our last report on the much-maligned Milberg Weiss. So here’s the latest news about the plaintiff’s class-action firm that everyone loves to hate:
The bleeding continues at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Shulman. [Last] week, four partners — Bruce Bernstein, Brian Kerr, Dan Scotti and Lee Weiss — announced they were leaving. The lawyers are heading to New York’s Dreier LLP, which represents defendants and plaintiffs in securities litigation. The news was confirmed by Mark Dreier, the firm’s managing partner, who says the Milberg transplants will create a class-action group for their new firm. “Primarily, they will look for opportunities to do plaintiffs work,” he says. The four attorneys did not return calls for comment.
We’re not that familiar with the Dreier firm — don’t they make ice cream or something? But it does strike us as odd that the firm represents plaintiffs and defendants in securities cases. Sounds like a recipe for client conflicts.
Milberg Weiss Watch: The Bleeding Continues [WSJ Law Blog]
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