Lambda Legal, the civil rights nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV, on Wednesday named a former deputy general counsel for WeWork and compliance leader at Reuters to head its legal department, effective Feb. 9.
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Lambda Legal Taps Ex-Reuters Atty To Head Legal, Advocacy

By Sue Reisinger

Lambda Legal, the civil rights nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV, on Wednesday named a former deputy general counsel for WeWork and compliance leader at Reuters to head its legal department, effective Feb. 9.

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Carter Ledyard Taps Litigator As Next Managing Partner

By Andrea Keckley

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP announced Tuesday that it has chosen an employment litigator who joined the firm in 2023 to lead the firm.

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Brown Sims Names 1st New Leader In 25 Years

By Lynn LaRowe

Insurance defense firm Brown Sims PC has elected a Houston-based shareholder to serve as the firm's president, its first change in the top leadership role in a quarter century.

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Gibson Dunn Mentor Program Sets Up Attys For Success

By Tracey Read

January is National Mentoring Month. Law360 heard from attorneys who are in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s firmwide mentorship program about its top benefits.

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CASES

Robins Kaplan Takes Aim At Benicar MDL Fees Suit In NJ

By Jake Maher

Robins Kaplan LLP told a New Jersey federal court Wednesday that a suit over fees the firm collected in multidistrict litigation over blood pressure medication should be thrown out, saying it "parrot[s]" claims from earlier suits that were already dismissed.

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Wrong Standard Sunk Benesch Ex-Client's Suit, 7th Circ. Told

By Lauraann Wood

A former Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP client urged the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive her malpractice suit claiming the firm botched her potential trade secrets theft case, arguing a lower court held her to too high a pleading standard in tossing her case.

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Atty Who Sued Blank Rome Lawyers Ordered To Pay Fees

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has adopted a special master's recommendation that a lawyer who lost her malicious prosecution case against several Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation parts company should pay fees covering the defendants' bid to sanction her over alleged deposition conduct.

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NJ Atty Calls Fla. Bar's High Fees Unconstitutional

By Carolina Bolado

A New Jersey lawyer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his suit accusing the Florida Board of Bar Examiners of violating the dormant commerce clause by charging out-of-state attorneys disproportionately high fees to sit for the Florida bar exam.

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Expert Fights Dismissal Of Jan. 6 Report Copyright Case

By Cara Salvatore

A jury bias researcher who has accused an attorney of copying and reusing a report to help three Jan. 6 insurrection defendants get their trials moved has urged a D.C. federal court not to dismiss her copyright lawsuit, saying that wholesale reuse of her work is not fair use.

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Reciprocal Discipline Unfair After 'Ambush,' Atty Tells 4th Circ.

By Hayley Fowler

A solo practitioner in North Carolina whose law license was suspended for alleged tax crimes and trust account problems told the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday not to reciprocate the punishment, arguing his due process rights were violated and the underlying facts don't support disciplining him.

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Sanctions Motion Allowed In Barratry Suit, Texas Court Says

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court has kept intact a motion for sanctions against a man who accused a law firm of barratry, saying Wednesday the motion was based on "ancillary conduct" and therefore not subject to the state's anti-SLAPP law.

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LAW FIRMS

False Claims Expert Moves Philly Practice To Holland & Knight

By James Boyle

Increased activity in litigation involving health care law and the False Claims Act has prompted a Philadelphia attorney to move her practice to Holland & Knight LLP after nearly 20 years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

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Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Duane Morris

By Christine DeRosa

A veteran antitrust litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice left the federal government to join Duane Morris LLP as a partner, the firm has announced.

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Ex-DOJ Atty, UGA VP Joins Miller & Martin In Atlanta

By Adrian Cruz

Miller & Martin PLLC announced that an attorney who previously served as vice president of government relations at the University of Georgia and Civil Division chief for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia has joined the firm's Atlanta office.

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PRACTICE GROUPS OF THE YEAR

Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

By Asha Glover

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice guided several major cases and deals this past year, including representing drugmaker Amgen Inc. in one of the largest transfer pricing cases litigated last year, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adler Pollock

Apollo Law LLC

Arnold & Porter

Benesch

Blank Rome

Brown Sims

Campbell Conroy

Carter Ledyard

Cotsirilos Poulos

DeBenedictis & DeBenedictis

Duane Morris

Duncan Firm

Epstein Becker

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Legal

Holland & Knight

Kaiser PLLC

Kassab Law Firm

Keene & Seibert

Leach & Walker

Loeb & Loeb

Mazie Slater

Messer Caparello

Miller & Martin

Morgan Lewis

Moritt Hock

Nagel Rice

Nelson Mullins

Pendley Baudin

Polsinelli PC

Robins Kaplan

Sandoval & James

Skadden Arps

Stone Conroy LLC

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Affinity Group

American Airlines Group Inc.

Amgen Inc.

Avco Corp.

Cooper Industries PLC

Georgia State University

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

New York University

North Carolina Bar Association

North Carolina State Bar

Novolex Holdings Inc.

Sanofi

Spirit Airlines Inc.

The Florida Bar

University of Miami

University of Virginia

Waddington North America Inc.

WeWork Inc.

Whataburger Restaurants LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Internal Revenue Service

New Jersey Supreme Court

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court