Wake Up Call: Pillsbury and Chadbourne Talking About Merger

• San Francisco-founded Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is in preliminary talks to merge with Chadbourne & Parke, of Manhattan, according to sources familiar with the matter. If consummated, the deal could create an $810 million firm by revenue, among the 50 largest law firms in the country and a significant player in the energy space. (Big Law Business)

• As discussion of a possible merger between Chadbourne and Pillsbury mounted this week, the Am Law Daily and its sibling publications looked at Internet domain name registrations and found that the website www.pillsburychadbourne.com was registered July 1, a registration that was updated Wednesday. (American Lawyer ...