Posts from ‘October, 2008’

 
Job #5034-MH1054
Job Title: Patent Litigation
Location: Chicago, IL
Click here to applyMid to Senior Level Patent Litigator
Global law firm is experiencing rapid growth in the Patent practice.  They are presently seeking someone who can hit the ground running.  Ideal candidate would have a chemical engineering or electrical engineering background. 
Attorneys are currently assisting clients in dozens of patent [...]

  Heller Ehrman management had hoped that other firms would pick up large groups of lawyers and office leases from the defunct firm.  These deals have fallen through.
Peter Benvenutti, chairman of the dissolution committee now controlling Heller Ehrman, confirmed rumors that Baker & McKenzie and Winston & Strawn had withdrawn proposals to pick up large groups [...]

  Job #5052-MH1054
Job Title: Water Rights/Environmental Attorney
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Click here to apply
Junior to Mid-Level Associate with experience in water rights, natural resources and environmental law is needed in Phoenix office to join team of service-oriented attorneys.  Strong academics and excellent communication skills required.   

  In a survey commissioned by Robert Half, lawyers were asked: “If you could change one aspect of your job as a lawyer, which one of the following would it be?
Decreased job stress came out on top with 31% of the 300 respondents saying they would reduce stress levels at their jobs if they could change [...]

  The yet to be determined Treasury Department rules for sales of distressed assets will create opportunities.  Investors with cash who are willing to move as soon as those rules are announced could make heavy returns.
Carlton Fields has nearly 300 lawyers throughout Florida and Georgia and is putting 15 to Twenty of ‘em into a “recovery [...]

  Whether this is a fragment of ancient wisdom or merely a line from the 1959 video “Operation Petticoat” I have never been able to establish, but it was never truer than now.
Eleven major firms have established practice groups focusing on the economic crisis.  Richmond, Va.-based LeClairRyan, Boston-based Foley Hoag, Tampa, Fla.-based Carlton Fields and Akron, [...]

  Bruce MacEwen reviews a New Yorker article on the Wall Street meltdown and poses an interesting series of questions in Adam Smith, Esq.
Pretend Your Firm Is an Investment Bank
Analogies are imperfect (that’s why they’re called analogies), but here’s an interesting thought experiment tying together the wild rides investment banks have had on Wall Street during [...]

  Law firms with banking and finance practices that were recently making deals with free-flowing credit are scrambling to launch new practice groups to help clients simply survive the credit crisis. “A year ago we were writing deals, figuring out how to grow businesses and expand products; now the markets are trying to figure out when [...]