The managing partner of the New York City office of midsized law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is leaving with three other securities partners to join a new securities boutique that was launched by a lawyer who recently left Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP in a contentious exit.
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4 Robbins Geller Attys To Join New Securities Boutique

By Daniel Connolly

The managing partner of the New York City office of midsized law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is leaving with three other securities partners to join a new securities boutique that was launched by a lawyer who recently left Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP in a contentious exit.

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Bonus Spotlight

Haynes Boone, Seward & Kissel Announce Year-End Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

Haynes Boone is handing its associates year-end and special bonuses in line with those offered by a significant portion of BigLaw this year, largely adhering to a bonus scale first put forward by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in November, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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Ex-Prosecutor Sues After Arrest During Protest Of Skadden

By Alison Knezevich

A retired prosecutor who protested Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's deal with the Trump administration has sued New York City and others in federal court, alleging that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested outside the BigLaw firm's headquarters in Manhattan.

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Abrams Fensterman Leader Takes Practice To Tarter Krinsky

By Jack Rodgers

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin has hired a former Abrams Fensterman LLP partner who helped lead that firm's practice focused on cooperative and condominium work, as chair of its own cooperatives and condominiums practice, the firm recently announced.

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Weil Adds Kirkland PE Ace In New York

By Andrea Keckley

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Monday that it has added its ninth lateral partner to its private equity group this year, welcoming a former corporate attorney with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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Legal Factors

Lawyers Hit Billable Hour Goals, But At What Cost?

By Xiumei Dong

As lawyers across the U.S. tally their hours and take stock of how the past year unfolded, a recent Law360 Pulse survey suggests many will meet their billable goals, but often at the expense of their mental health and work-life balance.

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Lawyers Don't Expect AI To Lower Billing Targets

By Xiumei Dong

Generative AI is raising questions about how time-based billing adapts when tasks become faster to complete, but most attorneys recently surveyed by Law360 Pulse are skeptical that AI will shift expectations anytime soon.

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Interview

Winston Taylor Will Eye Growth Beyond $1.75B Merger

By Marialuisa Taddia

The architects of the deal to create a major new transatlantic player called Winston Taylor say that "there's no finishing point" to their plans for expansion as they signal an openness to more deals and even external investment.

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Analysis

4 Legal Ethics Matters That Rocked 2025

By Emily Sawicki

This year, judges across the country grappled with attorneys' use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and prominent federal prosecutor battles dominated headlines in some of the top legal ethics matters of 2025.

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Legal Departments Pushing Back Against Partner Rate Hikes

By Tracey Read

Billing rates from law firms varied widely in the first half of 2025, and corporate legal departments will need to anticipate tiered and regional shifts in fee dynamics to keep costs under control next year, according to a report released Monday by Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

The Augmented Lawyer: Drafting As AI Alters Admin Of Law

As generative artificial intelligence tools become embedded in mainstream legal practice, they are reshaping the administration of law itself, from how experts document and validate their work to how joint defense teams operate, demanding a new level of contractual clarity and operational discipline, says Karineh Khachatourian at KXT Law.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Abrams Fensterman

Ashurst LLP

Axinn Veltrop

Bernstein Litowitz

Brill & Meisel

Bursor & Fisher

Cohen & Gresser

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Glenn Agre

Goldberg Weprin

HSF Kramer

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

JVK Law

Jenner & Block

KXT Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

McKool Smith

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

Robbins Geller

Ropes & Gray

Schwartz White

Seward & Kissel

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Susman Godfrey

Tarter Krinsky

Taylor Wessing

Weil Gotshal

Wilkinson Stekloff

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Above the Law

Allied Universal Corp.

Brookfield Property Partners LP

Clearlake Capital Group LLC

Dell Technologies Inc.

Federation Internationale de Football Association

Financial Times Group Ltd.

Fort Point Capital

Hatch Henderson Fivel LLC

New York Law School

State Bar of California

The Florida Bar

Wells Fargo & Co.

Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Inc.

Zeughauser Group LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

City of New York

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Florida Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

New York City Police Department

New York County District Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

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

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