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Holland & Knight Adds 4 West Coast Laterals

The Recorder

Holland & Knight has bolstered its West Coast offices with four attorneys: two in wealth management services, one in structured finance and one litigator, from Reed Smith, Keesal Young, and Greenberg & Glusker. Holland & Knight's West Coast lateral hiring partner says the firm is coming off a good 2011 and is adding lawyers in practices where demand is up.
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Hogan Lovells Hires Clifford Chance's Beijing Finance Head for Singapore Office

The Asian Lawyer

Hogan Lovells has hired Bruce Schulberg, Clifford Chance's Beijing finance practice head, as senior projects partner for its Singapore office. Schulberg, who has advised on such high-profile projects as the $11 billion Central Asia-China pipeline, will head up a 10-partner team advising lenders and sponsors on projects across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Rocking Out With Pandora General Counsel Delida Costin

The Recorder

Delida Costin is senior VP, general counsel and secretary of Pandora, an Internet radio company that creates personalized stations based on a user's choice of artist, song or genre. As Pandora's first in-house lawyer, Costin created a staff that now numbers eight attorneys. Their big assignment last year was taking the company public.
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Weil's London Office Seals Hire of Hogan Lovells Finance Partner

Legal Week

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has strengthened its London finance practice with the hire of international finance partner Mark Donald from Hogan Lovells, who will work alongside Stephen Lucas, a recent finance recruit from Linklaters. Donald's hire is further evidence of Weil's increasingly aggressive approach to lateral recruitment in London.
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Paul Hastings Lures Another Lateral From Bingham

The Recorder

Energy partner Kevin Poloncarz is the third lateral partner to arrive at Paul Hastings' San Francisco office since September, following antitrust litigator Holly House, who also moved from Bingham McCutchen. Antitrust partner Thomas Brown will join Paul Hastings next month from O'Melveny & Myers.
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More U.K. Law Firms Assess Plans to Convert to Alternative Business Structure

Legal Week

Hill Dickinson and Kennedys are the latest top 50 U.K. law firms to confirm plans to convert to an alternative business structure, which permits non-lawyer ownership of law firms. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has received 65 applications from law firms and non-legal companies to convert to an ABS in the two weeks since it began taking applications Jan. 3.
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Simmons Announces Job Cuts in Abu Dhabi and Dubai Offices

Legal Week

Simmons & Simmons, whose Middle East offices saw a number of high-profile exits last year, is set to cut lawyers and support staff in its Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices, due to tough market conditions. Several other law firms have recently cut back their own Middle East operations as a result of difficult trading conditions.
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Personal Injury Firm's Referral Network Gives New Life to Old Business Model

The Recorder

Personal injury and workers' comp attorneys often have a thorny relationship -- but The Veen Firm in San Francisco is easing the prickliness and boosting its profits at the same time. It has been spending millions on a formal referral network with workers' comp and other specialty shops, generating more trust and better referrals for both camps.
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Embrace Editing Techniques to Improve Briefs

Texas Lawyer

Mistakes make it past even the most careful writer's eyes, partly because of what Andrews Kurth partner Kendall Gray calls a "problem of memory." But this pitfall is not inevitable, according to Gray, who provides some tips to help fellow lawyers bring a critical eye to their writing.
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Litigation Boutique MoloLamken Adds DOJ Veteran as Partner

The American Lawyer

Litigation boutique MoloLamken has hired Justin Shur, deputy chief of the Justice Department's public integrity section, as a partner. The firm has also added former Quinn Emanuel IP associate Ben Quarmby as partner. With the new hires, the 2-year-old firm has 17 lawyers, including seven partners.
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