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Former Thelen antitrust and bankruptcy heavy hitters join Winston

By Richard Binder

Antitrust litigator Robert Pringle and bankruptcy partner Richard Lapping are some of the headliners in a group of 19 lawyers that is joining the Chicago-based Winston & Strawn.

Large groups of lawyers have found new homes at firms like Nixon Peabody, Howrey and Robinson & Cole since Thelen announced that it would dissolve in late October.

Winston has a big-time Thelen connection. San Francisco managing partner Charles Birenbaum was a Thelen partner but left in 2003 after losing a bid to be chairman by one vote.

Pringle, the head of Thelen's antitrust practice, has a book of business between $5 million and $10 million and does antitrust work for Samsung and NEC Corp. Two other antitrust partners, Paul Griffin, second-in-command in Thelen's antitrust group, and Jonathan Howden, will also be joining Winston along with some associates.

Lapping was the San Francisco managing partner for Thelen and will be bringing over an associate who works in his bankruptcy practice.

Read the full Recorder article.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).