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    Healthcare Duo Joins Carlton Fields From Mass. Boutique

    Carlton Fields announced Monday that a pair of experienced healthcare attorneys joined the firm's Los Angeles and Tampa, Florida, offices after a stint with Massachusetts boutique Kajko Weisman & Colasanti LLP.

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    Former Dayglo Presents Atty Joins Entertainment Boutique

    Smith Entertainment Law Group announced Monday that the former associate general counsel at Dayglo Presents, a live music and media company led by New York promoter Peter Shapiro, has joined the boutique as senior counsel.

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    TSG Taps Wine Co. Duckhorn Executive For CLO Role

    Specialist private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners announced that it has appointed a member of its former partner company's C-suite to fill its newly created managing director and chief legal officer role next month.

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    Filing AI's Fake Cases Can Land Attys Big Fines Or Nothing

    Legal ethics experts say they're trying to make sense of a wide variety of sanctions in recent high-profile cases in which lawyers have submitted legal briefs with fake case citations written by artificial intelligence.

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    Susman Godfrey Calls Trump Order 'Threat' To Rule Of Law

    Susman Godfrey LLP on Friday became the latest BigLaw firm targeted by President Donald Trump to hit back in D.C. federal court, saying his executive order revoking the firm's access to government resources needs to be shut down now before a "dangerous and perhaps irreversible precedent" is set.

  • 21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order

    A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.

  • Greenspoon Marder Promotes 4 Attys To Partner

    Full-service law firm Greenspoon Marder LLP promoted four attorneys in different offices to partner roles, the firm announced.

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    Lyft Legal Chief Earned Nearly $8M In 2024

    Lyft's chief legal officer earned almost $8 million in 2024, according to a preliminary filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Murray Osorio PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there.

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    Top Lionsgate Atty Signs New Multiyear Deal

    Lionsgate Studios Corp. will retain its general counsel, who signed a new multiyear deal, setting the head lawyer up with an annual base salary of $1.2 million, according to a regulatory filing.

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    How Excello Law Opened Its 1st US Office In Santa Barbara

    Law360 Pulse caught up with longtime California litigator J. Paul Gignac to discuss how he launched the first U.S. office for England-based firm Excello Law in Santa Barbara.

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    Ex-Girardi CFO Gets 10 Years For 'Devastating' Fraud

    A California federal judge sentenced Girardi Keese's former chief financial officer to just over 10 years in prison Friday for aiding firm leader Tom Girardi's $15 million client theft scheme while also embezzling $6 million for himself, saying the two interrelated schemes "had devastating and far-reaching effects."

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    5 BigLaw Firms Strike Deals With Trump Administration

    The world's highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is among a group of five BigLaw firms that have reached deals with President Donald Trump's administration to stave off executive orders that could have pulled their federal security clearances and hampered their ability to serve as legal counsel to the federal government and its contractors, according to social media posts by the president Friday.

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    Littler Promotes Leaders In Marketing, Business Development

    Littler Mendelson PC has elevated two longtime employees to new roles, the management-side employment and labor law firm said.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry has had another busy week with another executive order targeting a law firm, several lateral moves and notable office changes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    FisherBroyles Lands Blank Rome, Gerard Fox Attys In NY, LA

    FisherBroyles LLP is expanding its West Coast and East Coast presence, bringing in a Blank Rome LLP bankruptcy expert as a partner in its New York office and a Gerard Fox Law litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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    BigLaw Shying Away From Some Pro Bono Work 'Out Of Fear'

    Amid President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting BigLaw firms, nonprofit leaders whose organizations have long worked with the industry tell Law360 Pulse they have seen attorneys shy away from certain legal work that may be looked on unfavorably by the administration.

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    'Showboating' Or Accessible? Circ. Dissents Up For Debate

    Circuit court judges are increasingly authoring separate opinions for the general public rather than for their colleagues. This "showboating" could damage the federal judiciary's legitimacy, a new paper says, while others applaud these rulings' accessibility.

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    Davis Wright Launches Recruitment, Retention Departments

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has created two new departments to focus on recruiting and professional development for its lawyers and business professionals, tapping two firm executives to lead those efforts and help drive the firm's growth.

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    Eventbrite Elevates Deputy To Replace Outgoing GC

    Eventbrite Inc. has promoted one of its in-house lawyers to take over for its outgoing general counsel early next month, the online ticketing platform said in a securities filing Thursday.

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    Ballard Spahr Consumer Finance Pro Joins Hinshaw In LA

    Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced that an experienced consumer financial services attorney from Ballard Spahr LLP joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner.

  • Consumer Wants Steam Award Axed, Says Arbitrator Used AI

    A consumer has asked a California federal court to vacate an arbitral award issued in favor of Valve Corp., the company behind the PC game marketplace Steam, accusing the case's arbitrator of improperly relying on artificial intelligence.

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    Veteran Litigator Joins Tyson & Mendes As Partner In LA

    Tyson & Mendes LLP announced that a veteran litigator with over 20 years of experience has joined the civil defense firm's Los Angeles office as a partner from the now-defunct Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits LLP.

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    Pinterest's Legal Chief Saw Comp Drop By Nearly $4M In '24

    Pinterest's chief legal officer saw her total compensation drop to $6.2 million in 2024, down over $4 million from the $10.3 million she earned in 2023, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    Tech GC Moves To Private Practice At Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin has added a special counsel to its Silicon Valley corporate practice group who brings a range of diverse experience, most recently serving as general counsel at a venture-backed digital privacy company.

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