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Gordon Rees Leader Talks Handing Reins To New Blood

By James Mills

As he approached two decades at the helm of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, managing partner Dion Cominos says he knew it was time to turn over leadership of the firm to a "new generation."

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Pa. Panel Won't Give Town Official Immunity For Atty Insult

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania township commissioner isn't entitled to immunity for remarks he made at a meeting about an attorney and her opposition to a neighbor's use of his property, since he was not speaking at his own meeting or addressing a matter of public importance, a state appellate panel has ruled

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Bove Faults 'Heavy-Handed' Jan. 6 Cases

By Courtney Bublé

Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove, who is currently serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, in his post-hearing questionnaire obtained by Law360 on Friday, drew what he says is a distinction between condemning violence against law enforcement officers and over-prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters.

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Reed Smith Names New Legal Personnel, Litigation Leaders

By Madison Arnold

Reed Smith LLP tapped a new global head of legal personnel as well as a new chair of litigation and dispute resolution.

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Barley Snyder Adds Food, Agribusiness Specialist In Pa.

By James Boyle

Barley Snyder has expanded its Philadelphia-area office with the recent addition of an attorney specializing in the food and agriculture industry who moved her practice after nearly seven years with Stewart Smith.

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Roundup

Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

By Emma Cueto

Susman Godfrey's handling of patent suits against Amazon and Vedder Price's work on the sale of a portfolio company to GE Aerospace lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from June 27 to July 11.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin PC and Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission's planned "click-to-cancel" rule, which would have required companies to allow customers to ditch their subscriptions with a single click.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Anna Sanders

The legal industry continued July with another busy week as attorneys took on new roles and firms expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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3rd Circ. Revives Benicar MDL Fees Suit Against NJ Law Firm

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Friday revived a proposed class action against Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman LLC attorneys that claims they took excessive fees from plaintiffs' settlements in multidistrict litigation over the blood pressure drug Benicar, remanding the dispute for the district court to determine whether it has jurisdiction over the case.

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Making Legal Cents: For Billing, Think Value, Not Time

Pricing strategy is one of the most consistently discussed but underleveraged tools in a firm's arsenal, and rather than keeping hourly billing because it's easy, firms should consider their differentiators when structuring more effective fee models, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.

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