Fresh off poaching a baker’s dozen from White & Case, Latham & Watkins has hit Vinson & Elkins, snagging four partners.
According to the American Lawyer, William Finnegan IV, Brett Braden, Charles Carpenter and Charles Timothy Fenn have resigned from V&E and will start at Latham early this spring.
This is part of an effort to beef up the firm’s Houston office. Already this year, the firm lured partners away from Baker Botts and Akin Gump:
Michael Darden, previously firmwide chair of the global oil and gas practice at Baker Botts, joined Latham earlier this month, shortly after another Baker partner, Sean Wheeler, also joined the Los Angeles-based firm. The Akin Gump lawyers recruited for the office include Michael Dillard, the former head of Akin Gump’s energy and global transactions practice, and J. Michael Chambers.
According to the Law Shucks Lateral Tracker, Latham has already picked up 21 partners from other firms this year.
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Any thoughts on how much of a hit this is to V&E? Are these guys big swinging dicks or just pretty good lawyer?
And does this provide any sort of critical mass (between Weil, Skadden, and now Latham) to force major Houston players to ditch the compression and pay NYC full NYC salaries all the way up the scale?
Any thoughts on how much of a hit this is to V&E? Are these guys big swinging dicks or just pretty good lawyer?
And does this provide any sort of critical mass (between Weil, Skadden, and now Latham) to force major Houston players to ditch the compression and pay NYC full NYC salaries all the way up the scale?