Heller Partners on the Move
October 16, 2008 Attorney Jobs, Legal Careers, Legal Employment, Legal Jobs, Legal Practice, Legal Recruiting No Comments
Jones Day announced yesterday that 15 Heller Ehrman partners would be joining its offices in San Francisco, New York and Washington. The firm has also hired some Heller associates, but did not disclose the number other than to say that the firm would likely end up with the same number of associates as partners.
Firms have taken on large groups of Heller partners recently, but few associates. Washington’s Hogan & Hartson and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced recently that it had hired several groups of partners form Heller, but said nothing about associates. The biggest number of Heller associates joined Washington’s Covington & Burling, which acquired 14 partners, six counsel and 30 associates from Heller’s patent litigation group.
It may simply be that firms are hiring partners first and then evaluating what they need to do to support those partners’ practices. Partners are normally plucked from competing firms one at a time, but in this situation, partners may be wanting to bring their own associates with them.
