White & Case to Restructure

Image by miss_blackbutterfly via FlickrUnder a new structure put in place this week, power will shift from 35 individual offices to 14 regional groups, with a renewed focus on 16 different global practices. The moves come in the wake of a four-month review by McKinsey.

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White & Case Partner moves to firm where he can charge less

Image by Getty Images Former White & Case partner Raymond Sullivan Jr. has joined the Washington office of Baker Donelson to lead a global customs practice. Why the move? "The reason was really to move my practice, in these tougher economic times, to a firm that has a friendlier rate structure for my clients," Sullivan says.

See full article on AmLaw at: From Legal Times: Baker Donelson's Lower Rates Attract White & Case Partner

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Morning Docket 12.04.08

AM Law 100 - Ten Year Trends

For 2008 AM Law 100, The American Lawyer looked back at 1998 to evaluate the trends. Over the past ten years:

• 12 firms died or disappeared into mergers.
• 20 improved their RPL rank by double digits
• 15 dropped by double digits
• 7 moved from the bottom half of the list to the top;
• 5 dropped from the top half to the bottom.
• 3 firms not on the 1998 list placed in the top 30 (Quinn Emanuel; Finnegan Henderson; and Fish & Richardson)
• Bigest winners: Dechert (up 35 places), Akin Gump (up 34), and DLA Piper (up 31).
• Biggest losers: Chadbourne (down 44), and Dewey Ballantine, (down 20) King & Spalding (down 20) and White & Case (down 20).