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Be the Person You Are Capable Of
A. Harrison Barnes | Dated: 12-02-2008
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson
Several years ago,
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More lawyers won't take Chance on Clifford
by EmploymentCrossing.com
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Clifford Chance's US litigation practice has been hit with a second round of partner defections in under a month.
Just seven weeks after the firm laid off 20 litigation associates in the States, former US head John Carroll and New York partners Warren Feldman and David Meister are leaving over what may be a pay dispute.
The news comes less than a month after two Washington, DC litigators, Jon Roellke and Boyd Cloern, left for Boston's Bingham McCutchen.
Once a promising practice group with a client base that included top firms like Merrill Lynch, Clifford Chance's litigation group is struggling to survive after a lack of work and dwindling profits spurred layoffs and defections.
With the latest partners ankling because of a dispute over their super-point status, the firm is clearly still plagued by the pay concerns that have dogged its US operation for years.
Clifford Chance LLP is the largest law firm in the world, both by number of lawyers and by revenue, and is a component of the UK's "Magic Circle" of leading law firms. It is a prestigious international practice with its principal office at Canary Wharf in London.
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DLA Piper may cut 40 "redundancies"
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Global law firm DLA Piper launched a redundancy consultation today, that could lead to up to 40 job losses across its UK offices
The review flies in the face of repeated denials from the firm in response to long-circulating rumors of job cuts.
The firm is also to retrain 20 lawyers to join the restructuring practice, following a surge in demand for insolvency advice.
While many firms are looking for redundancies, there are still firms that are trying to buck the trend and anticipate measured growth during the recession.
DLA Piper is one of the largest law firms in the world and it is the only firm with more than 3,500 lawyers in North America and Europe. DLA Piper is a legal services organization whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities.
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Bryan Cave sends 8 to City of Lights
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Bryan Cave has officially launched its Paris branch, following a three-partner raid on Philadelphia's Dechert in July.
The office has been approved by the Paris Bar Council and will open with former Dechert partners Kathie Claret, Jilali Maazouz and Joseph Smallhoover, along with five associates.
Claret is a corporate partner, Maazouz a litigator and Smallhoover specializes in funds work.
Bryan Cave chairman Don Lents said: “Our clients have a long history of legal needs in France, so the addition of a Paris office was a natural choice.”
This will be Bryan Cave’s first office in France.
Bryan Cave LLP is an international law firm with twenty-two offices worldwide, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm is a leader in corporate, transactional and litigation representation with more than 1,000 lawyers and other consulting professionals practicing from 22 offices around the world.
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2008 Bonus Levels Down Among Davis Polk, Other Major Law Firms
By Erin Broadhurst
12/02/2008
When the end of the year rolls around, most associates at big law firms have one word on the brain: bonus. Bonuses, according to law firm consulting group Altman Weil, are usually at least 10% of in individual's base pay and awarded when an individual's performance exceeds that expected for his/her base pay. When employees make an ''exceptional contribution'' to the organization, one way of rewarding them is to hand a very small number of large bonuses. Another common method of awarding bonuses is to compensate those who measurably outperform their pier group. Firms calculate bonuses to ensure that they are at a competitive level with similar firms.
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Holder First African-American Attorney General
President-elect Barack Obama officially announced December 1, 2008, that he will nominate Eric Holder for the position of U.S. Attorney General. If Holder is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he will become the first African American to occupy this position. It would be truly historic if the first African-American president and the first African-American Attorney General ascend to their offices at the same time.
Holder's nomination has already drawn some spirited views from both parties. Many people fully support his nomination and already look forward to Holder's top priorities of reforming the Justice Department to bring back its credibility and boost its reputation after controversies surrounding both its hiring practices and its anti-terror regulations gave it a face the public has not admired much of late. There are others, however, who look upon Holder's past support of a presidential pardon for a financier named Marc Rich, who had spent several years evading tax charges, as a black mark upon Holder's record.
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Dear BCG,
I am a second-year attorney practicing in New York. My boyfriend lives in California, and I am planning to relocate there as soon as I can. I'm currently at an AMLAW 100 firm in the litigation group. I'm planning to take the California bar in February, but I want to quit my job now and move to California. Should I?
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Preparing a Splendid Attorney Resume With a Not-So-Splendid Work History
By Emily Sanderson
A functional resume format can draw attention to those areas of an individual's legal experience that he or she seeks to emphasize in a job search, even if those areas are not the former mainstay of the individual's career to date. This approach is particularly helpful when a career shift is required.
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan recently wrote a book about his occupational misfortunes, and he's now making a lot of money off of it. Most other professionals, however, might not recover so easily from the effects of nasty political struggles at their former places of employment.
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Tessera Appoints New General Counsel
November 18, 2008 was a big day for Bernard J. ''Barney'' Cassidy, as Tessera Technologies, Inc. announced that, effective immediately, he had been appointed their new senior vice president and general counsel. Cassidy succeeds Scot Griffin as GC at Tessera. Griffin was promoted to executive vice president of Micro-electronics and remains responsible for Tessera's current legal efforts to protect its chip scale packaging (CSP) intellectual property.
Tessera, a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the booming electronic industry, has been fighting some major court battles, suing several different companies in both district courts and before the ITC (International Trade Commission), struggling to protect its patents from infringements on all sides.
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Legal Blog Round-Up: 12.2.2008 Edition
By Liz Jernigan
Can you believe it's already December? It's amazing how fast time flies by, especially during the holiday season. Just like you and me, law firms are busy around this time of year, too. Typically it's a lot of holiday party gossip (not so much this year) and bonus speculation (again, less than normal this year), but this year is different. Instead of champagne and bonus checks, it's layoff speculation and the like.
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Shearman & Sterling Fortifies Abu Dhabi Practice
The US-based firm of Shearman & Sterling has commenced a far-reaching expansion of its Middle Eastern practice by transferring three partners and seven associates to its Abu Dhabi office. Seven associates from the firm's Rome, New York, and London offices will make the move to the Abu Dhabi office in mid-2009, effectively doubling the size of the office there. Management restructuring in April and significant growth in the Mideast practice areas prompted the moves.
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Simpson and Thacher Announce Dismal Year-End Bonuses
Simpson Thacher & Barlett cut associate year-end bonuses by half, ranging from $17,500 for first years to $32,500 for experienced lawyers. Chairman Philip Ruegger III said the dramatic cut was a result of today's difficult economy. The law firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is giving year-end bonuses equal to last year's, and no layoffs will occur.
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Who is Making the Big Bucks in Global Litigation
A U.K. publication announced survey results revealing the top money-making firms in the U.S. and U.K. In 2007, Skadden was at the top of the list in litigation revenue, generating around $901 million, which is about 45% of the firm's $2 billion total revenue. Skadden's revenue per lawyer was $1.33 million, but Cravath topped the charts at $1.69 million. Cravath also had the highest revenue per partner at $8.45 million.
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Dated: 11-28-2008
LawCrossing Advises Law Students on Recession-Proof Practice Areas
Pasadena, CA — The current economic spiral has affected the legal job market dramatically. Most law firms are extremely cautious and are making highly strategic decisions in the hiring arena. In this slowdown, LawCrossing advises law students to be careful while selecting their practice areas which make the base of their legal career. ''General trends show that attorneys specializing in regulatory matters in any industry have more chances to stay put in this downturn,'' says A. Harrison Barnes, CEO of LawCrossing.
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