Wake Up Call: Dropping Merger Talks, Greenberg Traurig Acquires Four Laterals

• Days after halting merger talks with a London-based firm, Greenberg Traurig acquired four litigation partners from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft for its New York office, including Louis Solomon, co-chair of Cadwalader’s litigation department and chair of its commercial and international litigation groups. (American Lawyer)

• Female lawyers and other female legal professionals continue to face hurdles on equal pay,with median pay for full-time female lawyers at 77.4 percent of that earned by male counterparts, according to recently released 2014 data from the U.S. Census Bureau. (ABA Journal)

• Powered by some major lateral hires last year, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, ...