51�Թ�

In the United States, five major firms added to their ranks by acquiring law firms in Chicago, including Nixon Peabody, which acquired Ungaretti & Harris, with 102 lawyers.

Brian Krob, a corporate lawyer for the Chicago firm of Ungaretti & Harris, said equity firms began charging management fees years ago to cover administrative costs of overseeing huge pools of money.

Mr. Mandelbaum was well known for his translations of the modern Italian poets Giuseppe Ungaretti and Salvatore Quasimodo, and for his “Aeneid,” which won the National Book Award in 1973.

The suit against Tetzlaff did not disclose that the utility company had fired Ungaretti.

Tetzlaff left for Ungaretti and took Peoples Energy as a client.