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With a few exceptions, the partner defections buffeting Dewey & LeBoeuf this year have been confined to the firm’s nine domestic offices. Now, however, Dewey’s problems may be going global. As the Dubai office packs up for Dechert and another New York partner leaves, attorneys in Dewey’s Italy, Poland and Russia offices are attempting to [...]

In the court battle over whether Google’s Android software infringes Oracle’s Java technology, U.S. District Judge William Alsup has taken the apparently unprecedented step of bringing in Farella Braun & Martel’s John Cooper to represent the court-appointed expert picked to tell jurors how much the whole thing is worth. View full post on Law.com – [...]

David Smith, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Dewey & LeBoeuf, became the latest lawyer to jump ship from the struggling firm. With Smith’s defection to Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, a total of 52 partners have left Dewey to join competitors this year. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

After losing 10 health care lawyers to a competitor earlier this year, Birmingham-based Balch & Bingham has announced it has acquired Presley Burton & Collier, a seven-lawyer firm that specializes in public finance. Balch & Bingham has 232 lawyers and outposts in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and three other locations. View full post on Law.com – [...]

Kelley Drye & Warren’s battle with the EEOC over its allegedly discriminatory retirement policy has concluded with a consent decree that mandates a $574,000 payment to partner Eugene D’Ablemont. The firm also pledged not to reduce partner pay based on age and to train partners to guard against age discrimination. View full post on Law.com [...]

A former partner of convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein was charged Monday with funneling money from his bosses into the campaign coffers of 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Steven Lippman is the first and highest-ranking partner at Rothstein’s former firm to be charged with crimes associated with Rothstein. View full post on Law.com – [...]

In a candid interview with The Am Law Daily, corporate lawyer John Altorelli, now with DLA Piper, talks at length about why he left Dewey & LeBoeuf and how he thinks the firm may fare in the coming months. Almost 50 partners have left Dewey since January. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Is Allen & Overy trying to give Slaughter and May a run for its money on the female partnership front? Visit The Careerist View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost another partner to a competitor, as antitrust litigator Eamon O’Kelly joined Arent Fox as a partner Wednesday, bringing the number of partners to lateral out of Dewey so far this year to 38. Michael Blass, head of Arent Fox’s New York office, confirmed the move to The Am Law Daily. [...]

Remember Marc Becker, the lawyer who was forced to give up his partnership at Quinn Emanuel last year as the firm scrambled to retain its control of AIG’s $10.5 billion mortgage-backed securities suit against Bank of America? Less than six months after his exile began, Becker is back at the firm. View full post on [...]