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Epstein Becker attorneys cross over to Schiff Hardin

Chicago-based Schiff Hardin hired four attorneys for their employee benefits & executive compensation group and corporate & securities group in the Atlanta office. The four transactional lawyers come from Epstein Becker & Green. Of the four, Preston C. Delashmit and Robert E. Lesser joined as partners, while Randolph R. Smith Jr. and Danielle R. Doerhoff joined as associates.

Lesser focuses his practice on general corporate matters, specializing in the design and implementation of employee stock ownership plans. Delashmit concentrates on corporate, securities, and venture financing, especially in mergers and acquisitions, particularly, leveraged-ESOP transactions, and technology-based transactions. The two associates, Smith and Doerhoff focus on corporate and securities, mergers and acquisitions (with a focus on leveraged ESOP transactions), international business transactions, and financing matters.

Meanwhile, the firm has also made itself proud by making it to the list for Multicultural Law Magazine's "Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity."

03-05-2007

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San Diego lawyers to tickle funny bone

How would the title - funny lawyer - look on a top attorney's profile? Unsure? Anyway, this time the joke's not on the lawyer, but from the lawyer!

Outside of the courtroom, San Diego lawyers now seek to battle their wits on-stage. Nine lawyers in the area have folded their ties for the moment, attempting to win the illustrious title of funniest San Diego lawyer. The competition is to be hosted by the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program (SDVLP). It envisages showcasing a different side of the legal community through their stand-up comedy competition, says sdbj.com. The competition "LAF-Off", also a fund-raiser, will be held March 8 at the San Diego House of Blues.

Heather L. Rosing, lawyer with Klinedinst Attorneys at Law, and president-elect of the San Diego County Bar Association, will act as LAF-Off's event co-chair. Rosing said the primary aim is to bring all attorneys under one roof and make them aware about program's mission and fund raising. The second aim is to help fund the nonprofit SDVLP. This organization provides legal assistance to people in the area who cannot afford to pay for their legal needs. Each year, SDVLP provides approximately 6,500 clients millions of dollars worth of free legal assistance through 20 staff members and more than 3,000 volunteers. Retired Superior Court judges Gil Harrelson, Herbert Hoffman, and Alice Sullivan will judge the contestants.

Each contestant will be required to perform for five minutes. "Programs like these help bring out the light-hearted side of these intense professionals," said California Western School of Law professor Ruth Hargrove and one of the contestants. "Litigators tend to be performers," said past member of the California Bar Board of Governors Jim Pokorny another contestant, adding "I am going to be spontaneous." The organizers hope to see a good sell.

03-02-2007

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Troutman Sanders to open office in China

Atlanta-based law firm Troutman Sanders, LLP, will open an office in Shanghai. This is the first Atlanta-based law firm to open shop in mainland China. The firm already operates a Hong Kong office and the two offices will now employ approximately 40 people.

Troutman Sanders' Shanghai office will be led by Edward J. Epstein, Office Managing Partner. Epstein has more than two decades of experience practicing law in China. He will be assisted by Coburn R. to lead the office whose initial staff strength will be 11 legal professionals.

The firm's decision to open a China office comes from its clients wanting to expand business into the continent's emerging financial hub. It is hopeful that the new location will allow the firm to serve its Asia-Pacific clients with legal assistance in mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, private equity and venture capital, and corporate law. The firm's Hong Kong office will help the new office to assist its North American and European-based clients with investments and operations in Asia. It will also help the Asia-based clients with their U.S. and Asian investments and operations.

03-02-2007

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Intel asks law firms to assist its pro bono initiatives

Computer chip-maker Intel Corporation solicited law firms' support for its pro bono initiatives. With this aim, Intel issued a formal RFP last fall, trying to find law firms that would partner with its attorneys at the Silicon Valley headquarters on community service projects. Their efforts were met with an enthusiastic response which emboldened the firm to expand its initiative to three other offices. The company's formal approach to enlist law firms to help forward its community service initiatives was appreciated by all. Esther Lardent, president of the Washington, DC-based, Pro Bono Institute, a charitable consulting group said, "This really is a model."

Intel sent requests out to more than 10 law firms in the San Francisco area with pro bono coordinators to help with projects at its Santa Clara, CA, campus. Intel finally chose one long time associate, Baker & McKenzie and also another firm Nixon Peabody. Jeffrey Hyman, Group Counsel and Intel's pro bono committee chairman, said that the initiative which started with an extensive survey of its U.S. legal staff last March, brought mixed results. The survey was conducted among 300 department employees, including 180 attorneys. Questions included personal volunteer efforts, interest in pro bono, and obstacles to doing community service work at the company.

The company also offered pro bono training to about 20% of the 110 legal employees in its Santa Clara office, in December, says nylawyer.com. The firm's staff attorneys already started work with Nixon Peabody on two projects with two San Francisco-based public interest groups. One effort, the Legal Services for Entrepreneurs, assists low-income business owners on various matters like real estate and trademarks. The other, Legal Services for Children resolves guardianship disputes for children. A third project, with
Baker & McKenzie and the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, is on the anvil. This project will negotiate disputes for special education students in local schools.

03-01-2007

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Reed Smith strengthens State Tax Controversy practice

Reed Smith LLP hired four partners in its Philadelphia office to handle the firm's state tax controversies for Fortune 500 companies and others across the U.S. The four partners are Lee Zoeller, Kyle Sollie, David Kraus, and Frank Gallo. The four comes from Dechert where Zoeller was formerly the chair of that firm's state tax practice group. The four have together represented a diverse group of large companies in state tax controversy matters mainly concentrating on the East Coast.

Reed Smith started its Tax Controversy Group in 2005 with Jim Kleier, Brian Toman, and John Messenger from Preston Gates & Ellis. Later it hired Philadelphia-based member Phillip A. Pillar from Ernst & Young LLP. The Group counsels and litigates on diverse tax related issues from state tax issues associated with e commerce to franchise, income, sales, use, property, business and occupation, and other excise taxes.

03-01-2007

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Perry returns to Latham

Philip J. Perry rejoined Latham & Watkins' Washington, DC, office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Perry will handle a range of regulatory and national security matters in the firm apart from litigation, arbitration, and Congressional investigations. He will also chair Latham's Public Policy Practice Group.

Perry, who earlier served as a partner at Latham, moved on to hold several positions of prominence in the U.S. government. He served as the General Counsel for several U.S. Departments such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and the White House Office of Management and Budget. He was also the acting Associate Attorney General supervising the Justice Department's civil, tax, environment and natural resources, and antitrust and civil rights divisions. In addition, Perry also served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate's Special Investigation of Campaign Finance Abuses, investigating various matters and structuring Senate hearings.

Renowned as a fierce litigation specialist, Perry's rejoining Latham is marked with great expectation at the firm. The global law firm has more than 1,900 attorneys in its 24 offices. It hopes to leverage on Perry's expertise to bolster its litigation, public policy, and homeland security practices firmwide, more particularly in Washington, DC.

02-28-2007

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Crowell & Moring adds nine lawyer financial institutions team in New York

Crowell & Moring LLP fortified its corporate and litigation practice in New York office with the addition of nine financial services and distressed debt lawyers. The team includes partners William M. O'Connor, Robert G. Frucht, and Evelyn H. Seeler. The new representative institutional and hedge fund team earlier served Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. They have represented clients that include Wachovia Bank, Lehman Brothers, UBS, and Silver Point Capital. The new addition will make Crowell & Moring's New York office comprise 29 lawyers in just five months of operation.

O'Connor, who leads the team, formerly served as member of Buchanan's Board of Directors and managing shareholder of its New York office. In the new firm, he will lead the New York-based creditors' rights team. The team also includes partners Seeler and Frucht, experienced transactional and trial lawyers. The other six consists of four counsels: Douglas R. Arntsen, Timothy J. Fierst, Prassana Mahadeva, and James Maisano; and two associates: Genelle R. Francis and Jamie Krapf.

The firm is eager to work with the team that is richly experienced with Wall Street connections and the financial services sector. The firm's corporate group serves clients on the transactional side from its U.S. and European offices. The addition will expand the scope of its services, particularly to financial institutions who seek interdisciplinary counsel of an international law firm. Notably, the firm's Corporate Group was ranked by The Legal 500 US-Volume I (Corporate and Finance) for its mergers and acquisitions work in 2006.

02-28-2007

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