Dechert LLP announced Friday it is bringing aboard 20 partners from McDermott Will & Schulte spanning litigation, intellectual property and other practice areas in six cities across the country, including for upcoming firm offices in Chicago and Dallas.
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Dechert Lands 20-Partner Group From McDermott

By Lynn LaRowe

Dechert LLP announced Friday it is bringing aboard 20 partners from McDermott Will & Schulte spanning litigation, intellectual property and other practice areas in six cities across the country, including for upcoming firm offices in Chicago and Dallas.

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DOJ Alumni Back Maurene Comey In Effort To Keep Suit Alive

By Rose Krebs

U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.

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Supreme Court Spotlight

The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in three cases and issued opinions in three others this week, with oral arguments on President Donald Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook taking center stage. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.

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Perkins Coie Adds DOJ Vet To Antitrust Group In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Perkins Coie LLP has hired the former assistant chief of the Defense, Industrials and Aerospace Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who helped argue that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly over online searches.

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Schnader Harrison Gets Final OK To Settle ERISA Claims

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania federal judge has given final approval to a $675,000 settlement of claims that former Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP allegedly spent money meant for attorneys' retirement accounts to stay afloat, and awarded one-third of that amount to The Barton Firm LLP and The Garner Firm Ltd.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Anna Sanders

This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as law firms launched new practices, hired attorneys and reported record-breaking lobbying figures. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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CASES

Embezzler's Legal Malpractice Claims Too Late, Court Says

By Julie Manganis

A convicted embezzler who accused her attorneys of botching her defenses in criminal and civil cases cannot rely on a longer six-year statute of repose for breach of contract claims to overcome her delay in filing a legal malpractice case, an intermediate Massachusetts appellate court said Friday.

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Ga. Med Mal Win Nixed Since Atty Juror Not Struck For Cause

By Jake Maher

The Georgia state appeals court has reversed a medical malpractice trial win for an OB/GYN, finding the trial court was wrong in not dismissing a potential juror who worked as an attorney for the doctor's medical insurer for cause, a ruling that led the former patient to use a peremptory strike to remove the lawyer from the panel.

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Suit Accusing FTM Wealth Of Tax Scam Faces Jurisdiction Test

By Andrea Keckley

A precious metals partnership notified a Colorado federal judge Tuesday of plans to move its lawsuit against FTM Wealth to state court after learning from FTM member Nathaniel Ott's lawyer that he is a Colorado citizen in a case over an alleged tax scam that the plaintiffs say cost them $12 million.

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Ex-Ross Feller Casey Atty Suspended For Misleading Clients

By James Boyle

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday handed down a three-year suspension to a former partner at Ross Feller Casey LLP who admitted to misleading clients about the status of settlements in mass tort litigation against the makers of Roundup and Risperdal.

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LAW FIRMS

Boston Firm Cohn & Dussi Expands To Florida With Atty Duo

By Emily Johnson

Cohn & Dussi LLC is breaking into South Florida after more than three decades headquartered in Boston, bringing on a pair of partners to help grow the firm's first expansion outside of Massachusetts.

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Shook Hardy Adds 2 E-Discovery-Focused Partners

By Matt Perez

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has hired two e-discovery experts as partners for its complex litigation strategic counseling practice in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

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Offit Kurman Adds 2 Zerbe Miller Tax Litigators In Dallas

By James Mills

Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law is growing its Texas team, bringing in two tax litigators from Houston boutique Zerbe Miller Fingeret Frank & Jadav LLP as principals in its new Dallas office.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Bondurant Mixson

Childers & McCain

Clarick Gueron

Clement & Murphy

Cohn & Dussi

Dechert LLP

Dwyer LLC

Fennemore

Garner Firm Ltd

Groom Law Group

Huff Powell

Karsman McKenzie

King & Spalding

Koskoff Koskoff

Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein

Manly Shipley

Marshall Dennehey

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

Mitrani Rynor

Morgan Lewis

Offit Kurman

Oliver Maner

Peabody & Arnold

Perkins Coie

Ross Feller Casey

Ross Smith & Binford

Schnader Harrison

Shook Hardy

The Barton Firm LLP

Villari Giannone

Winston & Strawn

Womble Bond

Zerbe Miller

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Apple Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Cornell University

Duke University

Exxon Mobil Corp.

GIC Private Ltd.

George Washington University

Google LLC

IAM National Pension Fund

Johns Hopkins University

Lighthouse eDiscovery Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

MagMutual LLC

Monsanto Co.

New York University

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

The District of Columbia Bar

UBS Group AG

University of Virginia

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Reserve System

Georgia Court of Appeals

Internal Revenue Service

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Small Business Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado