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  • Latham & Watkins, Kirkland, Weil Gotshal: Business of Law

    Updated 40 minutes ago

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s Zachary Fardon was nominated by President Obama to be U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. He would replace Patrick Fitzgerald, who left last June and joined Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.

  • Kasowitz Benson, Eversheds, Latham: Business of Law

    Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP hired insurance recovery litigators Jerold Oshinsky and Linda Kornfeld from Jenner & Block LLP as partners to open the firm’s Los Angeles office.

  • Slaughter & May, Jones Day, White & Case: Business of Law

    Slaughter & May and Latham & Watkins LLP advised Thomas Cook Group Plc, the 172-year-old tour operator that required an emergency loan 18 months ago, on plans to raise 1.6 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) to restructure its borrowings as it cuts jobs and closes stores to pare costs.

  • Latham, Bryan, Alston & Bird, O’Melveny: Business of Law

    Latham & Watkins LLP is opening a new office in Dusseldorf and hiring four partners from Shearman & Sterling LLP, which announced the closing of two German offices last month.

  • Kramer Levin Names Litigation Co-Head: Business of Law

    Barry H. Berke was named co-chairman of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP’s 90-lawyer litigation department alongside longtime Chairman Gary P. Naftalis.

  • Hunton & Williams, Latham, Venable, K&L: Business of Law

    FBI senior cybersecurity adviser Paul M. Tiao joined Hunton & Williams LLP as a partner in its privacy and data security practice group in Washington. He was senior counselor to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on cybersecurity, electronic surveillance, intellectual property crimes, digital forensics, and other national security and criminal issues, the firm said.

  • Katten, Sullivan & Cromwell, WilmerHale: Business of Law

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP opened a Houston office led by former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner Mark Farley, who is one of eight lawyers hired to expand its environmental and workplace safety practices.

  • Shearman & Sterling, Latham, Kilpatrick: Business of Law

    Shearman & Sterling LLP is closing its Dusseldorf and Munich offices, leaving the firm with one German office, in Frankfurt. The firm’s German corporate/mergers and acquisitions, finance/tax and disputes/arbitration work will be consolidated in Frankfurt, the firm said in a statement.

  • Securities, Brown Rudnick, Blank Rome: Business of Law

    Federal securities class-action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared with 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.

  • Securities Filings, Brown Rudnick, Blank Rome: Business of Law

    Federal securities class action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared to 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.

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