Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr.

Allen & Overy

O’Melveny Prepared For A Leadership Fight?

It is getting hard to sugarcoat the situation at O’Melveny & Myers. We have been covering their extensive partner departures over the last few weeks. The news from earlier this week continues that trend. Allen & Overy is opening a second U.S. office with, you guessed it, O’Melveny partners (specifically, financial regulatory partners Barbara Stettner […]

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Good News at O’Melveny & Myers

We have recently covered a number of notable partner departures from O’Melveny & Myers. While some of the losses were “not undesired,” as one source put it, others were bad news for OMM. But, in fairness to the firm, there is good news coming out of O’Melveny these days as well. Let’s discuss some of […]

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More O’Melveny Partner Departures
Dewey get more talent? Yes.

We recently reported that at least 22 partners have left O’Melveny & Myers in 2011 thus far. That number continues to grow. Earlier this week, two more partners announced their imminent departures from OMM: Ilan Nissan, former firmwide co-chair of the firm’s M&A and private equity practice, and Christian Nugent, also an M&A partner. Like […]

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What’s Going On At O’Melveny & Myers?

Last month, we broke the news of seven key corporate partners leaving O’Melveny & Myers to join Paul Weiss. Shortly thereafter, we learned that two other prominent partners were leaving O’Melveny to join Weil Gotshal. Of course, partners come and partners go at large law firms — but some of these nine were major rainmakers […]

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McCain Veep Vetter Culvahouse Tries to Hang On

Arthur Culvahouse, chairman of O’Melveny & Myers, was in charge of vetting Sarah Palin and has been taking some heat. But Culvahouse has more to worry about than the National Enquirer. Culvahouse is locked in a high-stakes political battle to keep his chairmanship at O’Melveny. O’Melveny’s policy committee, which recommends the chairperson subject to ratification […]