Cousin Oliver. No known relation to Dale Oliver.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP (nee(-ish) Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP) just announced appellate litigator Kathleen Sullivan has been made a name partner. [HT: ATL]
The former dean of Stanford Law joined the firm in 2005, working out of New York.
Quotes from the press release and a primer on the dropped names (Where’s Oliver?), after the jump.
“Kathleen Sullivan would be on anyone’s list of the top three or four advocates practicing in the United States today. She has not only built a thriving appellate practice at the firm, but has played a key role in the firm’s trial practice, arguing important motions in federal and state courts around the country. Her inclusion in the firm’s name reflects the integration of our trial and appellate practices and our strengths as a national law firm with major presences in both the California and New York markets.”
Curiously, the quote isn’t actually attributed to anyone, but the implication is that Quinn said it. He certainly didn’t write it, because he’s famous for his disdain of capitalization.
Dropping off the masthead are Messrs. Oliver and Hedges.
Hedges was George Hedges, who joined the firm in 1988. He passed away due to cancer last spring. He represented a horde of celebrities, including Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Mel Gibson, and the estate of Elvis Presley. That was just his day job, though.
But it was a passion for classical studies and archeology that makes accounts of his life so fascinating. In the 1990s, he organized expeditions to the Middle East to trace the trail of frankincense and myrrh, commodities that date to 2000 B.C. The expeditions led to the discovery of what was believed to be the lost city of Ubar, below the sands in the Dhofar region of southern Oman. Since then, some doubt has since been raised over what the group found was, in fact, Ubar.
We have no idea what happened to Dale Oliver (Michigan State BA ’69, Harvard JD ’72), who is still actively practicing at the firm as far as we know (and is the spitting image of James Carville in that profile picture).
Two final items presented in the interest of completeness: Sullivan is gay and she famously failed the California bar (she passed second time around). Lord knows, we’re all for finding amusement at the margins, but frankly neither of those facts is particularly unique, relevant, or the source of any witty banter (but feel free to prove us wrong).
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Looks like Dale Oliver's book of business dropped so low he couldn't keep his name on the door.
Looks like Dale Oliver's book of business dropped so low he couldn't keep his name on the door.