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12 Sep 2012 at 10:19 AM
Biglaw, Cleary Gottlieb, Fried Frank, Lateral Moves, Latham & Watkins, Media and Journalism, Mergers and Acquisitions, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Wall Street

Musical Chairs: A Prominent Deal Lawyer’s Unusual Move

By David Lat

Disney World Disney Land Im going to Disney World Disney Land

He’s going to Disney World? No, not this veteran M&A lawyer….

Let’s say you graduated from a leading college, summa cum laude, and from an elite law school, also summa. You began your legal career as a transactional lawyer at one white-shoe law firm, where you made partner. You left that firm for investment banking, where you encountered significant success. Then you returned to the legal world, first as an M&A partner at one top firm, then at another. At your final firm, you served as global co-chair of the firm’s renowned mergers and acquisitions group, working on some of the biggest deals around the world.

Then, in your 70s, you decide to leave your firm and also the legal world. Where would you go next?

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23 Sep 2010 at 8:13 PM
Affirmative Action, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Federal Judges, Minority Issues, Plaintiffs Firms, Racism, Securities Law

Racial Quotas? So Ordered! (Or, Judge of the Day: Harold Baer)

By David Lat

We’ve come a long way from the days when federal courts issued orders banning racial discrimination. Now federal judges hand down orders mandating, or at least encouraging, race-based discrimination.

As reported in the American Lawyer, earlier this week Judge Harold Baer (S.D.N.Y.) issued an unusual order. On Monday, Judge Baer directed two firms serving as lead counsel in a securities class action to “make every effort” to staff the case with at least one minority and one woman:

ORDERED that Co-Lead Counsel, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP and Labaton Sucharow LLP, shall make every effort to assign to this matter at least one minority lawyer and one woman lawyer with requisite experience….

If federal judges can run school districts and prison systems, law firms should be a piece of cake, right?

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Tags: Affirmative Action, Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Class Actions, Federal Judges, Gildan Activewear, Harold Baer, Judge Harold Baer, Labaton Sucharow, Minority Issues, Plaintiffs Firms, Racism, Robbins Geller, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, S.D.N.Y.

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