Nixon Peabody’s head count will shoot up to about 825 after it scoops up as many as 100 former Thelen attorneys this month, the firm said. Late last month, Nixon announced the hiring of 25 attorneys from the Paris office of Taylor Wessing and said the hirings followed a strategic plan to have 25 percent […]
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not face criminal charges for patronizing a high-priced prostitution ring, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. The announcement, a five-paragraph statement from Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan, ended almost eight months of uncertainty for the disgraced governor, whose lawyers had been quietly making their case to the
Lawyers who volunteered to take calls and monitor polling locations nationwide on Tuesday reported voting machine malfunctions, polling places opening late and numerous incidences of names missing from voter registration rolls. In Ohio, New Hampshire and Virginia, lawyers scrambled to file court documents in election-related lawsuits. But in most states, lawyers were working to prevent
As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s “voter protection” effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day. Many activists
http://www.lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=19858 Posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 According to reports by pedestrian accident attorneys in Los Angeles, a man walking on the right hand side of the southbound lanes on the 405 Freeway in the area of West Los Angeles was struck and killed. The California Highway Patrol reported that the man was walking in
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Atlanta-based Powell Goldstein has found a merger partner. On Jan. 1, the firm will become part of Bryan Cave, a 945-lawyer international firm with deep roots in St. Louis. “This is a transformational event for us,” said Powell Goldstein’s chairman, James J. McAlpin Jr. “It propels us into a different league.” PoGo gives up its
The battles could be over the rules for a recount, or how to deal with voters who were not added to the rolls even though they registered properly and on time. Lawyers could fight over how to count the paper ballots used when the electronic machines break down, or whether a judge was correct in
Four lawyers are set to guide Thelen’s wind-down. The three members of Thelen’s dissolution committee are David Graybeal, Douglas Davidson and Thomas Hill. The firm has also hired as outside counsel Peter Gilhuly, the Latham & Watkins bankruptcy partner who advised Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison on its dissolution half a decade ago. While the dissolution
Thelen LLP’s partnership council recommended to the full partnership Tuesday that the San Francisco firm shut its doors by Dec. 1. The partnership has seven days to vote on the recommendation. A statement released Tuesday blames economic factors for the decision, “including recessionary pressures and numerous partner departures over the past year, both of which
A west African court has found Niger’s government guilty of failing to protect a 12-year-old who was sold into slavery in a landmark decision that may offer hope to thousands of others who are enslaved in the region. Hadijatou Mani, who is now 24, had testified that she had been sold as a slave for
