Lucas Newsroom

Year of change continues for MOFO IP practice in Bay Area

August 1, 2017 - 3:39pm

Three San Francisco Bay area partners left Morrison & Foerster for Dentons, former MOFO group leader Peter Yim and Brian Ho in San Francisco, and former MOFO Palo Alto office managing partner Christopher Eide in Palo Alto. Eleven associates and five patent agents and analysts also followed them in the move.

Reed Smith bolsters its International Fund Formation Practice with New York Partner Parik Dasgupta

March 22, 2017 - 10:12am

Dasgupta joins Reed Smith almost two months after the firm welcomed a 50-strong team—including 17 partners—from King & Wood Mallesons’ faltering European arm.

Jackson Lewis joins the 20th century

March 15, 2017 - 3:25pm

For some reason Jackson Lewis announced this week that it was finally rolling out a remote-working program geared towards associates and of counsel attorneys.  As if they wanted to make it point to let everyone know their associates and of counsel (not partners?) can NOW do what literally every other attorney from associate to partner has already been doing at every other law firm for pretty much as long as anyone can remember.  

Report on 10 years of law firm mergers focuses on the hits but not the misses

March 15, 2017 - 12:34pm

According to a recent report by consulting firm Altman Weil titled 10 Years of Law Firm Mergers: 2007-2016, Denton's (shocker) leads the pack of firms that acquired or merged with other firms with 13 acquisitions between 2007 and 2016, followed by Fox Rothschild with 12 and Littler Mendelson with 9