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Job #5076-MH1054

Job Title: Corporate Associate

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

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Mid-Level Corporate Associate

Pittsburgh office of national firm has an immediate opening for a corporate associate with a minimum of three years experience in mergers and acquisitions, federal and state securities law compliance and general corporate governance. 

This opportunity offers immediate client contact and substantial client contact and responsibility.  

Job #5069-MH1054

Job Title: Health Care Associate

Location: San Francisco, CA

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Junior – Mid Level Health Care Associate

Top drawer firm seeks Junior – Mid Level health care associates for it’s national practice Ideal experience includes participation in health care business/finance transactions, reimbursement and/or compliance. This opening offers the opportunity to work with leading West Coast health systems on significant matters.

Strong academic background and excellent writing and communication skills required.

Singapore has issued licenses for six western law firms to practice.

Previously, foreign firms could only advise clients via a joint venture with a local firm.

The firms receiving the new Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licenses are Clifford Chance, White & Case, Latham & Watkins, Allen & Overy, Norton Rose and Herbert Smith.

Law Minister K. Shanmugam estimated the six firms licensed will double their revenue, staffing and profits in Singapore over the next five years and said the licensing will “realize the potential of our legal services sector to develop into an engine of growth in its own right.”

Foreign firms still cannot appear before courts and face other restrictions.

Job #5102-MH1054

Job Title: IP Associate

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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IP Associate

Mid-level associate needed with an undergraduate electrical engineering degree and 3-5 years of experience representing mechanical/electrical technologies for prominent intellectual property practice.

Job #5077-MH1054

Job Title: Health Care Associate

Location: Chicago, IL

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Junior to Mid-level Health Care Associate

Premiere firm seeks Health Care associate for Corporate and Finance group. The preferred candidate will have a minimum of 2 years experience in healthcare regulatory compliance matters.  A minimum of two years’ experience in general corporate law and mergers and acquisitions is also preferred. Strong drafting and negotiation skills related to corporate documents are a must. Top academics, large law firm experience and admittance to practice in Illinois are preferred.

Job #5078-MH1054

Job Title: Banking Associate

Location: New York, NY

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Mid to Senior Level Banking Associate

Seeking an associate with a minimum of 4 years experience in general banking, acquisition finance and leveraged finance law.  Top drawer law school/law firm experience required.

Conventional wisdom has it that in an economic downturn large law firms fare better than small boutique firms because of their diversified practice areas – when one area Is not doing so well, structured finance or real estate for example, complimentary areas of practice, bankruptcy for example, will help balance things out.

Some boutique firms are not faring well in this economy, but others are prospering.  Boutique firms generally have lower overhead costs than large firms, little to no major debt, more flexibility to accommodate clients looking to cut their legal costs and lower billing rates overall.

Job #5085-MH1054

Job Title: Health Care Associate

Location: Washington, DC

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Health Care Associate

Prestigious law firm seeks an associate with a minimum of 2 years health care experience.  The ideal candidate has experience with health care regulatory and CMS reimbursement laws as well as with fraud and abuse laws. Regulatory health care transaction experience is also strongly desired.

In what may be a first, the late actor Paul Newman noted in his will that his executors should prevent any “virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe.”

Dead celebrities have popped up in several commercials over the past few years including a Diet Coke in which Elton John performed for Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Louis Armstrong, John Wayne shilling for Coors Light and, in perhaps the worst misuse of a dead celebrity, the Super Bowl ad featuring Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil Broom Vac and Ultra Hand Vac.