That didn't take long. 

Orrick has snagged a total of 40 Coudert lawyers in China, including one partner in Shanghai, two in Beijing, and six in Hong Kong.  Despite the earlier unpleasantness over Orrick's he-said/she-said poaching of Coudert's London and Moscow offices, this is evidently amicable, or at least, as they say in matrimonial-land, uncontested.  Coudert's chairman, Clyde ("Skip") Rankin, would only say "As previously announced, the partners of Coudert authorized" acquisitions like this.

In a more sober analysis of the firm's grim last decade than Caitlin Griffith's still-inexplicable rant, Legal Week describes the combination of pride, outdated views of reality, and inability to establish a world-class presence in either New York or London, that made the events of the past week surely inevitable.

Update:  Bloomberg News covers the story, with a quote from yours truly.