Interestingly, none of the 12 LSUC guidelines refers to
naming firms after currently practising partners.
Brian Rogers mentioned this on the Three Geeks blog this morning, and I have to say that for a lot of mid-level firms, the practice of
naming a firm after the last names of partners seems outmoded.
Not exact matches
To that end, Blue Ant —
named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed
firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.
Alfred, the Boston
firm named after Bruce Wayne's butler, provides errand - running services like groceries and laundry for a monthly fee.
Shares of the Portuguese energy
firm EDP also fell more than 2 percent on Monday
after its CEO was
named a suspect in a corruption investigation.
Digital advertising
firm Rocket Fuel saw its shares drop 7 percent
after it
named Randy Wootton, a former executive at Salesforce.com and Microsoft, as its new CEO.
After news stories broke that a
firm named Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million people, the social network has been on the defensive.
Well guess what, it turns out you don't have to be at a Tier 1
firm with a numeronym or
named after an evil Greek God to get access anymore.
At first, opposition rivals attacked him for failing to put his substantial holdings in the
firm, which manages pensions, into a blind trust
after he was
named to a cabinet position responsible for regulating the industry.
After the consulting business separated itself from the accounting
firm Arthur Andersen, the company was forced to change its
name.
After naming long - time fashion industry veteran Paula Schnieder as its new CEO last week, the company is now evaluating a proposed takeover bid, reportedly from the private equity
firm Irving Place Capital.
Thasunda Duckett was
named CEO of consumer banking in September
after heading the
firm's auto finance business.
HTT says it was the first to take on Musk's project in 2013, and claims that the other two
firms named their businesses
after HTT and used its logo.
Goldman Sachs has
named R. Martin Chavez as the new Chief Information Officer less than a month
after Goldman Sachs suffered a high profile trading systems glitch, potentially costing the
firm millions of dollars and prompting an internal review.
Seo
named his
firm Fermat Capital Management,
after one of his intellectual heroes.
Aceto Corp. shares tumbled
after the
firm said it is seeking a waiver from its bank regarding debt service and financial covenants,
naming a new interim CFO and taking hundreds of millions of dollars in write - downs related to its products.
Named after the special counsel Robert Mueller, the index was developed by the political risk consulting
firm GeoQuant to help Wall Street gauge the impact the FBI's Russia investigation has on the Trump administration and the markets.
Additionally, the
firm has had some nice press of late — especially
after being
named one of Time's 50 Best Websites, being featured in BusinessWeek, CNBC and more.
Six years
after launching its bid for the Italian household
name, French dairy
firm Lactalis is no nearer taking Parmalat private.
There were fears of chaos in the government's probation privatisation programme today,
after it emerged staff had been selected to be moved to private
firms by having their
names picked out of a hat.
Taub testified that he knew that the Democratic lawmaker from Manhattan was of counsel at Weitz & Luxenberg, one of the top
firms in the country for mesothelioma cases,
after seeing his
name on
firm's letterhead.
The News asked about Howe's status
after his biography was suddenly scrubbed from the
firm's website and his
name removed from the state ethics commission website as representing clients for Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.
On May 5 — days
after Howe's
name surfaced in the federal probe — the Albany law
firm Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna submitted an online «additional lobbyist termination» that appears to have resulted in the deletion of Howe's
name from the
firm's online filings for several clients, records show.
Instead, a private consortium of investors, including investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equity
firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., purchased the power generation company and last week changed its
name to Energy Future Holdings Corporation
after withdrawing eight of the planned applications.
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After the biggest flub in Oscars history saw La La Land wrongly
named best picture, accounting
firm in charge of balloting faces new backstage protocols
At first, Wells turns down more than $ 300 million offered by Woolf's
firm, as well as a possible partnership with a holding company run by Mark Hancock (Bruce Greenwood, «Wildlike») because his
name was removed from the company and Kay leaves him
after a blow up in a fancy hotel (he's caught cheating, equating wealth and success with infidelity).
It continues the
firm's history of
naming its SUVs
after geographical locations around the world.
An internationally acclaimed best - selling author, speaker and business executive, he also currently heads a security consulting
firm named after his father — Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc..
Named after Marcus Goldman, one of the
firm's founders, Marcus by Goldman Sachs relies on the strength and heritage of a 148 - year - old financial institution to provide consumers with transparent and simple approaches to achieve financial well - being.
Named after one of our
firm's founders, Marcus by Goldman Sachs is an online platform offering no - fee personal loans and high - yield savings accounts to consumers.
Well the answer is no, it can't be because trustees have to be
named after people or accounting
firms.
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Nash is a
firm believer in the «Austrian School» of economics (
named after the origin of its founders), a school of thought stressing the economic benefits of individual liberty, sound money, and limited government.
I'm a big fan of going
after the companies that charged upfront fees that were harmful to consumers but when you start
naming companies like Global, Noteworld, Rocky Mountain Bank and LowerMyBills, you then put yourself in the category of the «et al» bottom feeder who will drag everyone and their mother into a lawsuit just to get a huge settlement that your law
firm will keep.
He created the Buffett Partnership
after meeting Charlie Munger, and his
firm eventually acquired a textile manufacturing
firm called Berkshire Hathaway and assumed its
name to create a diversified holding company.
Abbot Kiney Boulevard, (
named after a local developer and the «father» of Venice) is a street so famous it has its own website and PR
firm.
Naturally while this gave fans plenty to speculate and chat about, nobody took it as
firm evidence,
after all companies register possible domain
names constantly.
In a conversation with the people over at Gamasutra, Nick Williams of OTX, a tracking
firm, said that awareness of the title had dropped 20 percent
after Activision announced the
name change.
The newly - titled Daybreak, which was called Sony Online Entertainment for close to two decades, went independent and changed its
name last week
after Sony sold it to a New York - based management
firm.
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After finding her footing at MoMA PS1 and the American Federation of Arts, Flow founded Flow Advisory, an art consultancy
firm based in New York that is centered around matching in - the - know collectors with work by the younger generation of artists.
Under the McKinsey model (so
named after McKinsey, a management consulting
firm, which may be famous in some circles, but not even well - known to me; I had to look it up), no one at the
firm has an hourly billable rate.
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When we asked about Gibbons most revered practitioners, one of the first
names on juniors» lips was Lifelong Jersey resident Judge John J. Gibbons (who the
firm is
named after today).
His
name's Jim Williamson and so Jim joined our
firm here in Chaska June 1, 2016, both because Jim was looking for an opportunity to be out on his own, we had overflow work that I think for a period of a couple of months, every consult that came in the door went on Jim's calendar instead of mine and I knew this thing with Ann was progressing so it kind of all came to a head at once and a bit of a perfect storm and shockingly it was about 18 months
after I took over Judge Brockton's practice that this all started to happen.
As I've said before: High pay and big
name clients might get law schools» best and brightest through a
firm's door; but in the emerging age of the dual - centric worker, big money alone likely won't keep many of them toiling there year
after year
after year.
They either have too little information (just a single page with the
firm name and contact information) or way too much (page
after page listing specialties, experience, and biographical details).
Quinn Emanuel's
name has become synonymous with rapid growth, and
after yet more double - digit increases in both revenue and partner profits during 2016, news emerged last week that it had held talks about a potential merger with Washington DC litigation
firm Williams & Connolly.
Of course, in my first year — it really wasn't that long ago, you know — the classrooms weren't
named after law
firms, and the career services office was a locked and unstaffed storeroom full of
firm brochures halfway down a basement corridor.
Referral is still king: most personal plight retainers are still formed
after a third party provides the
name of the
firm to the client.