King & Spalding LLP is expanding its West Coast litigation team, bringing in a former federal prosecutor and recent candidate for Congress as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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King & Spalding Lands Former Federal Prosecutor In LA

By James Mills

King & Spalding LLP is expanding its West Coast litigation team, bringing in a former federal prosecutor and recent candidate for Congress as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Massumi & Consoli Brings On Gibson Dunn M&A Pro In LA

By James Mills

Massumi & Consoli LLP is expanding its transactions team, bringing in a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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McDermott, Schulte Roth Unveil Plans To Join For $2.8B Firm

By Marialuisa Taddia

McDermott Will & Emery LLP said Friday that it was wrapping up a deal to join forces with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP to create a law firm with more than $2.8 billion in global revenue, the latest merger in an increasingly competitive legal landscape.

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Pillsbury Hires Ex-MoFo Outsourcing Partner In London, Calif.

By Matt Perez

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced the hiring of a former partner at Morrison Foerster LLP to serve as its Bay Area and London chair of technology transactions and artificial intelligence.

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California IP Attorney Joins Kutak Rock From Troutman

By Adrian Cruz

Kutak Rock LLP has announced that an experienced intellectual property who's spent more than 30 years working on a wide range of copyright and trademark matters has joined the firm's Irvine, California, office as a transition partner from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP.

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Munger Tolles, Hogan Lovells Alums Tapped For Calif. Bench

By Dorothy Atkins

Alumni of Hogan Lovells, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as well as multiple public defenders are among the latest judicial picks by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill three state appellate court vacancies and a dozen trial court seats in the Golden State.

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Ropes & Gray Adds Former Homeland Security Policy Leader

By Christine DeRosa

A veteran U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy leader has returned to private practice at Ropes & Gray LLP, where he'll co-chair the firm's national security practice, splitting time between Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley, the firm announced on Friday.

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Ex-DOJ Attorney Joins Appellate Firm In New DC Office

By Daniel Connolly

A former U.S. Supreme Court clerk with years of government appellate experience has left the U.S. Department of Justice to work for San Francisco-based appellate boutique Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP in its new Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced this week.

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Calif. Bar Seeks Provisional Licenses And More For Exam Snafu

By Emily Sawicki

California Bar trustees voted on Friday to ask the state Supreme Court to grant provisional licenses to the hundreds of applicants who did not pass the tumultuous February bar exam, which was rife with technical, proctoring and procedural issues.

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Analysis

Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring

By Jack Karp

Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death Thursday of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Winston & Strawn LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jones Day lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal judge held in a bellwether case in multidistrict litigation that Abbott Laboratories isn't liable for the death of a baby who consumed Similac baby formula.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Anna Sanders

The legal industry marked another busy week with a flurry of attorneys taking on new legal roles and law firm practice expansions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

'Golden Handcuffs' May Be A Double-Edge Sword For Firms

As law firms increasingly use certain financial incentives to retain partners in a fierce lateral market, managing partners should consider the pros and cons of various deferred compensation schemes, says Tom Hanlon at Buchanan Law.

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