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Why Some GCs Joined Perkins Coie's Trump Order Fight
Former and current general counsel who joined an amicus brief this week supporting Perkins Coie LLP's fight against the Trump administration say their decision to back the firm wasn't a hard one, but added they understand why many corporate legal leaders may feel their fiduciary duties keep them from signing.
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Buchalter Adds Gordon Rees Environmental Litigator In SoCal
Buchalter PC is expanding its litigation team, bringing in a longtime Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP environmental expert as a shareholder in its San Diego office.
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How Mid-Law Firms Are Keeping Up With Executive Orders
Amid the rapid pace of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump and subsequent legal challenges, Mid-Law firms have been experimenting with new communication methods and internal structures to keep clients up-to-date on the impacts to their businesses.
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Mitchell Silberberg Hires Include Baker Donelson Labor Head
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP announced three additions to its labor and employment group from Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC in Washington, D.C., and from Holland & Knight LLP in New York on Wednesday, including the former head of Baker Donelson's labor relations group.
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US Law Firm Lateral Hiring Continues Downward Trend
Lateral attorney hiring at the 200 largest law firms in the U.S. by revenue has slowed for the second quarter in a row, falling 27% compared to the third quarter of 2024, according to a new report by legal intelligence provider Firm Prospects.
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Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Seek Shutdown Of Trump Orders
Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale on Tuesday asked Washington, D.C., federal judges for permanent court orders blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, saying the directives threaten the firms, their clients and the entire legal system.
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Jay-Z 'Trying To Punish' Buzbee For Advocacy, Judge Told
Counsel for personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee urged a California state judge on Tuesday to shut down Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's extortion and defamation suit over now-dismissed rape claims, saying the rapper is "a well-funded, powerful figure who's trying to punish lawyers who do what lawyers do."
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Calif. Panel Wipes Professor's $10M Sex Harassment Verdict
A California state appeals court on Monday reversed a former professor's $10 million sexual harassment jury verdict due to improper evidence let in by a judge who later made "extreme and bizarre" comments relating to race and was disqualified from the case.
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Patent Attys Challenge Sanctions In Renesas Litigation
Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III and two other attorneys have pushed back against a California magistrate judge's sanctions against them in patent litigation, saying that the parties never gave the judge the ability to issue sanctions and that a written rebuke would be better.
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In Trump Order Against Perkins Coie, GCs See Harm For Cos.
Nearly 70 current and former general counsel for companies including Apple Inc. and Starbucks filed an amicus brief Tuesday supporting Perkins Coie LLP in its suit against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the firm, saying the order "tramples on corporate independence, the right to counsel, and First Amendment rights."
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Alston & Bird Adds Littler IP Litigator In San Francisco
Alston & Bird LLP is growing its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Littler Mendelson PC litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Seyfarth Elevates 6 Leaders In Its Labor, Employment Practice
Seyfarth Shaw LLP this week unveiled a slate of six newly appointed labor and employment leaders on both coasts, praising the impact they've had on the firm and its clients throughout their tenures so far.
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DLA Piper Adds Wilson Sonsini Corporate Ace In LA
A veteran corporate attorney experienced in the life sciences and technology industries has jumped from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC to DLA Piper.
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Longtime Cooley Life Sciences Ace Jumps To Wilson Sonsini
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired a former Cooley LLP partner for its corporate department to strengthen the services offered by its life sciences practice, it announced on Tuesday.
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Greenberg Glusker Adds Bankruptcy Ace From Shuttered Firm
Greenberg Glusker LLP announced that an experienced attorney who most recently spent over two decades at recently closed Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff LLP has joined the firm's bankruptcy practice as a Los Angeles-based partner.
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BigLaw Partners Form Group To Challenge Executive Orders
As of Tuesday afternoon, 170 BigLaw partners had joined a new group aimed at rallying their collective power to push back against what they called the president's unconstitutional actions, even as large law firms largely refrain from taking a stance.
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Judge Who Shot Wife Warned Against Retrial 'Press Tour'
The California judge presiding over the murder trial of an Orange County jurist who fatally shot his wife admonished him Monday for embarking on a recent "press tour," warning that he could be violating the state judicial ethics code by commenting on a pending case.
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Girardi Hearing On Prison Option Pushed To May
A hearing to discuss whether disbarred attorney Tom Girardi should serve any sentence in prison or be committed to a care facility due to his dementia diagnosis was pushed back to May to accommodate scheduling for witnesses.
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Brown Rudnick Launches LA Office With 4-Partner Hire
Brown Rudnick LLP announced Monday that it opened a new office in Los Angeles following the hire of a four-partner team from Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP that includes the firm's former commercial litigation co-chair.
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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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Ex-AG Lynch Exits $10B McDonald's Bias Case Ahead Of Trial
Paul Weiss partner and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is stepping away from McDonald's defense in Byron Allen's $10 billion bias lawsuit against the fast food giant, just months before the case is slated to go to trial.
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Loeb & Loeb Adds Ex-Hong Kong Atty To LA Corp. Group
Loeb & Loeb LLP has added a former Hong Kong-based Goodwin Procter LLP private equity partner to its capital markets and corporate department in Los Angeles, the firm said Monday.
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Ex-Goodwin RE Atty Leaves Retirement For Reed Smith
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that a longtime private equity real estate lawyer has come out of retirement to join the firm in California after working most recently for Goodwin Procter LLP.
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Recruiter Macrae Expands Staff And Product Offerings
Macrae, a legal search firm that places partners and groups at top law firms, has hired two recruiters in New York and Los Angeles and two research and technology directors, made a slew of leadership appointments and launched Macrae+, an analytics product offered by the firm.
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Musk Atty Objects To 'Outrageous' Deposition Request
Elon Musk's attorney has said it's "outrageous" that a class of former Twitter investors is trying to depose the attorney in a case accusing Musk of intentionally tanking the social media platform's stock price, telling a California federal judge the move threatens to undermine his attorney-client relationship.