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Montgomery starts new consulting firm

Former Ohio State Auditor and Attorney General, Betty D. Montgomery started her consulting practice, Montgomery Consulting Group, and joined suburban-based New Albany law firm of Mac Murray, Cook, Peterson & Shuster.

After her 25-year long political career, Montgomery will now offer companies advise on their regulatory responsibilities and help them in observance of law. Montgomery will represent and advise clients in the areas of consumer protection, privacy, and nonprofit issues in the law firm, formed by four former attorneys general staffers who worked primarily in the consumer-protection section. Earlier Montgomery, a Republican, served as the Wood County prosecutor, a state senator, as attorney general for two terms and one term as auditor.

07-31-2007

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Personal Injury law firm Goldberg & Rosen revamps web services

Noted personal injury law firm Goldberg & Rosen, P.A., has restructured its website into a new brochure-style format. For this purpose, the law firm hired full service advertising agency, THAT Agency, who employed HTML cascading style sheets (CSS) and a flash panel for secondary navigation for reconstruction of the law firm's old website. CSS creates a neat web design through flawless graphic and text integration.

The new site contains information about the law firm and its legal activities from verdicts and settlements to recent cases, besides offering visitors navigational ease within the content-driven design-oriented layout. A law firm of three decades, Goldberg & Rosen safeguards rights of injured and oppressed persons of Florida representing clients in cruise ship injury, medical malpractice, auto accidents, and personal injury cases.

Headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL, THAT Agency undertakes web solutions including web design, web development, and graphic design projects for their clients. Apart from these, THAT also caters to other advertising mediums such as print media services, print design, and video integration.

07-31-2007

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Jenner & Block adopts NetSimplicity’s room scheduling software

Full service national law firm, Jenner & Block, LLP, has installed Meeting Room Manager™, a room scheduling software brought out by NetSimplicity Software. NetSimplicity's 200th customer, Jenner & Block chose the software because of its "user-friendly, automated system for firmwide use with configurable features critical for a law firm." Faye G. Kubacha, director of office services at Jenner & Block, said that the firm was finding it unmanageable to have a "coordinated firmwide method for handling conference room reservations, catering and equipment needs."

Law firms using Meeting Room Manager™ benefit from its enhanced client meeting experiences and reduce the wastages of time owing to inefficient scheduling. The software also helps these firms keep an accurate track of the usage of meeting rooms and associated services such as catering and equipment, and charge for them accordingly.

A leader in easy-to-use office administration, software company NetSimplicity's designs help to make everyday office administrative tasks easier.

07-30-2007

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Another merger in the offing for K&L Gates?

In a move to widen its global reach, Dallas-based law firm Hughes & Luce plans to join forces with K&L Gates. If the possible union of the two large law firms-Hughes & Luce with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP,-translates into reality, it would create a law firm with two dozen worldwide offices and more than 1,500 lawyers. Edward Coultas, managing partner at Hughes & Luce said that the idea to merge operations with an international firm like K&L Gates stemmed from the firm's need to represent clients based outside Texas.

07-30-2007

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London law firms climb higher on the economic ladder

Law firms on both sides of the Atlantic are seeing a boom with their profitability growing rapidly. With more and more lawyers turning rainmakers for these firms clinching top-notch business deals, the firms' growth chart has seen a rapid escalation on the economic graph. Not only are the UK law firms doing roaring business, but also the U.S. law firms who have expanded their bases on the British shores have seen booming business. According to Financial News report, the UK's legal industry, particularly London-based firms generate more than £1 billion ($2.04 billion approx.) in fees each year from its international clients.

The top-drawer names in UK include Clifford Chance, followed by Linklaters, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Clifford Chance has a global turnover of £1.2 billion ($2.48 billion approx.) and has a dominant practice in banking and finance and private equity. Linklaters, who makes a turnover of £1.1 billion ($2.3 billion approx.), does good business through its practice in M&A, capital markets, and banking. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with £1 billion ($2.1 billion approx.) annual turnover also reaps profitably from its M&A, private equity, and Anglo-German deals.

Among the U.S. firms to make it big in the European soil is White & Case with a turnover of $186.9 million (approx.) from practices in debt finance and capital markets, followed by Latham & Watkins with $152.6 million (approx.) from its deals in leveraged finance, high-yield, M&A, capital markets, and private equity. Next comes Shearman & Sterling with its London business yielding $124.8 million (approx.) from practicing in capital markets, M&A, and leveraged finance. Other firms like Sidley Austin and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are also not lagging far behind.

07-27-2007

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Three new faces in Thompson & Knight's Trial Practice team

International law firm Thompson & Knight, LLP, has expanded its Trial Practice Group with three lateral hiring in its offices nationwide. Robert F. Brodegaard has joined Thompson & Knight's New York office, while Richard J. Zook will be based in the Houston office, and Jennifer Rudenick in the firm's Dallas office.

These new attorneys add to the firm's already 170-attorney strong trial practice team spread across its 12 offices. Brodegaard, who joins the firm as a partner has more than three decades of experience in international dispute resolution and U.S. commercial litigation. Trial lawyer Zook is a partner in the Houston office and has nearly 20 years of legal experience handling complex business lawsuits in state and federal courts and in arbitration. Rudenick rejoins Thompson & Knight as an associate in the Dallas office and will practice in litigation and dispute resolution. William L. Banowsky, leader of the group stated that the firm hopes to leverage from the vast experience of these attorneys who have joined the firm from varied legal backgrounds

Founded in 1887, Thompson & Knight has around 420 attorneys in its offices spread across the world.

07-27-2007

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Schottenstein Zox & Dunn forms common platform

A new powerhouse consulting enterprise, SZD Whiteboard is created by Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co., LPA, in order to "deliver complete, tailored solutions from one high-level, strategic group."

Schottenstein Zox combined four subsidiaries—SZD China Consulting, SZD Economic Development Advisors, SZD Government Advocates, and Whiteboard Broadband Solutions, LLC—to form an ancillary business of the law firm. The SZD Whiteboard provides clients with advocacy, growth, and development strategies to corporations, organizations, and state and local governments. It also offers solutions to corporate site location/relocation, economic development, government affairs, lobbying and public policy consultation, among many other opportunities.

One of Ohio's largest full-service law firms, Schottenstein Zox & Dunn, founded in 1966, has more than 110 attorneys serving the Midwest and the Research Triangle region.

07-26-2007

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