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Anyone know why Dewey Ballantine Palo Alto impoded?
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:19 PM Author: glassy tanning salon Anyone know what is going on for summers there? I cannot imagine there will be much work with 1 partner and 13 associates. Anyone know why almost all their partners left? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053418) |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:29 PM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder Dewey LA also blew up. hopefully the new firm would also need summers. Call up a partner you interviewed with. |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:51 PM Author: glassy tanning salon Who took the Dewey LA people? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053801) |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:40 PM Author: Brass concupiscible ratface i'm wondering the same thing about Milbank Palo Alto (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053677) |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:42 PM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder Milbank PA was tiny, right? Basically, a bunch of out-of-town firms set up outposts in SV when it was raining dotcom money. 90% have failed to take root. Gradually they will dry up and blow away. |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:48 PM Author: Brass concupiscible ratface dunno. i'm just glad i didn't go to Milbank, generally, and feel bad for my classmates that have taken offers there this summer. closing offices can't be a good thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053756) |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:50 PM Author: Vivacious Faggot Firefighter Range How many native CA firms are there in PA anyways.
They left for dechert, not wsgr or cooley. |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:55 PM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder they went to whoever wanted them. wilson gets a lot of resumes from branch office lawyers -- they can afford to be picky. |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:59 PM Author: glassy tanning salon That's not true. The main partner who left is one of the top attorneys in the area, according to Chambers. Just him and his team makes for a top-25 IP litigation practice in the bay area. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053885) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:01 AM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder Subject: of top IP litigators at the branch offices: Weil has one, and McDermott. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053909) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:03 AM Author: glassy tanning salon I don't understand what this means. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053922) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:18 AM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder left off "top" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054034) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:22 AM Author: glassy tanning salon If you are deep in Intel, you have a great book, in my opinion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054068) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:03 AM Author: Vivacious Faggot Firefighter Range Subject: going off findlaw native bay area firms are mofo, townsend, wsgr, cooley and fenwick, orrick
meanwhile you have dechert, simpson, wiel, skadden, both fishes, finnegan, gibson dunn, latham, howrey, mcdermott, perkins, white and case, wilmer cutler, DLA, jones day, squire sanders..
I left off the firms I'm not sure off... it seems like that's the vast majority of firms are satellites and not everybody is going to wsgr. |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:06 AM Author: glassy tanning salon WSGR is primarily known for transactional work, isn't it? Wouldn't partners just look for the best PPP situation, as long as the firm had adequate resources? I mean, they have their own book. The team from Dewey represented Intel quite a bit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053944) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:11 AM Author: Vivacious Faggot Firefighter Range Subject: from what i hear wsgr is known for transactional work i dont think the PPP thing would be much of a factor. It's just an average, I wouldn't be surprised if every firm has some sort of eat what you kill system.
I'm guessing if they left, it was because of politics and power. Especially if they had their own book of business.
heck, if i had intel as a client, i'd just set up my own shop and take all the profits. Something like day casebeer. |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:17 AM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder Subject: some out of town firms merged with established local firms dla - merged with gray cary perkins - merged with a local IP boutique ropes and gray - merged with the local fish branch |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:23 AM Author: Vivacious Faggot Firefighter Range from what i heard, gray carey wasn't doing well. So they're probably not a good example of a local firm weeding out the foreigners.
wow, i didn't know fish and neave merged with ropes. At any rate, fish and neave was a NY firm as well. |
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Date: February 10th, 2006 11:55 PM Author: Harsh new version The LA firms and S&C, DPW, Skadden and STB are all doing fine in Silicon Valley from what I understand. Wilmer Culter just opened an office there with former Brobeck/Weil people. Maybe premature, but they must have had a plan of some sort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053852) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:25 AM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder It looks like the Milbank PA partners started a new firm called Pooley and Oliver. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054088) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:09 AM Author: Crystalline Field Excuse me? Can you elaborate please? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053962) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:11 AM Author: glassy tanning salon Are you working there? Oh shit. Umm, like, look at the website for Palo Alto. You'll notice all the partners are gone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053970) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:11 AM Author: Crystalline Field Do you have AIM? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053973) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:13 AM Author: glassy tanning salon No, sorry. If you did accept an offer there, it looks like almost the whole team went to another firm in the area. Just google the name and see what is up. They may want you at the new firm, and Dewey still may have every intention of honoring your offer. Though they would probably need some more partners.
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:15 AM Author: Crystalline Field What do you think this means for this summer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054007) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:19 AM Author: glassy tanning salon In this sort of situation, I think it is best that you contact Jeannine (the managing partner at the office) and see what it means for you. i wish I could give you a better answer, and I'm very sorry you had to learn this way. :(
Did you interview with James Elacqua? |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:23 AM Author: Crystalline Field No. The only partner that's still there is one of two partners I never met. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054071) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:25 AM Author: glassy tanning salon Well, call Jeannine. And if that doesn't work, call Dechert. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054093) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:28 AM Author: Crystalline Field You intereviewed there? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054134) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:25 AM Author: Aromatic Crimson Messiness Mental Disorder talk to the guy that hired you, no matter where he is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054103) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:13 AM Author: Harsh new version Bet you've been wondering why you haven't gotten any emails lately.
Okay, maybe I'm not feeling *that* bad that I turned down a $145k firm. Although to be fair, I don't think mine was in danger of imploding anytime soon. |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:14 AM Author: glassy tanning salon STFU that is NOT cool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5053998) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:15 AM Author: Harsh new version It's interesting to see when this board shows its sensitive side. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054003) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 1:05 AM Author: wonderful hideous garrison selfie :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054433) |
Date: February 11th, 2006 12:22 AM Author: Crystalline Field They all left for Dechert: http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=118749&d=122&h=24&f=46 |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 12:42 AM Author: Crystalline Field Bump... Someone tell me something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5054262) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 11:00 AM Author: glassy tanning salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=357606&forum_id=2#5055799) |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 11:05 AM Author: High-end Buck-toothed Hominid This was already hashed out in this thread: http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=64039&mc=412&forum_id=2 |
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Date: February 11th, 2006 11:18 AM Author: glassy tanning salon How original. Because that hasn't been done 100 times already. No really, that was really original, the way you linked to that old thread. Original!
LOL loser. |