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MVP: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Joseph Saveri
Joseph Saveri and his firm have notched victories in long-running antitrust battles, securing a $375 million settlement for Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters and an $82.5 million deal for cheerleading families, while also pioneering a new frontier of litigation over generative artificial intelligence, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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MVP: Proskauer's Chip Parsons
Chip Parsons of Proskauer Rose LLP worked with alternative investment management giant Ares Management Corp. in closing a $34 billion direct lending fund, helped software investment firm Thoma Bravo expand its credit business and advised private credit solutions manager Antares Capital on its first continuation vehicle, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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MVP: Weil's David Yohai
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's David Yohai won a closely watched privacy appeal for Paramount, persuading the Sixth Circuit to break from the Second and Seventh circuits' broader approach to the Video Privacy Protection Act, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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Stevens & Lee Adds Meyner And Landis Litigator In NJ, NY
Stevens & Lee has added a litigator with experience in high-stakes, complex commercial disputes in New Jersey and New York from Meyner and Landis LLP this week.
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Vorys Grows Pittsburgh Office With Employment Litigator
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP's resources and established footprint in Pennsylvania and the Midwest led an employment and civil litigation attorney to move his practice to its Pittsburgh office.
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Sheppard Mullin Lands MoFo IP Atty In Los Angeles
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday it has bulked up its intellectual property practice with a Los Angeles-based partner who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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Dye & Durham Fights Back Against Suit From Former CEO
Dye & Durham confirmed on Wednesday that its former chief executive officer and his investment vehicle are suing the legal technology company two weeks after offering to buy it.
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ABA Urges Attys To Guard Confidentiality In Withdraw Motions
The American Bar Association on Wednesday advised attorneys that they must leave information about their representation of a client out of any motions they file to withdraw as their counsel unless they have an explicit exception to existing confidentiality rules or the client's consent.
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NJ Seeks $195M Fee Award In $2.5B DuPont PFAS Case
New Jersey asked a Garden State federal judge this week to approve $195 million in attorney fees to its special counsel team of four firms whose six years of litigation work resulted in two landmark settlements that serve to clean up some of the state's most contaminated sites.
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Wilson Sonsini To Switch Leaders For 1st Time Since 2012
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.
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Former Gov't Workers Challenge Trump's DEI Firing Spree
The Trump administration unlawfully targeted perceived political enemies, women and people of color when it fired all federal employees who served in roles related to diversity, equity and inclusion, former government workers said Wednesday in a proposed class action.
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Texas Server, Restaurant End Tip Credit Suit
A server and the Houston-area restaurant she accused of violating tip credit requirements have ended the Fair Labor Standards Act suit in Texas federal court, after a judge agreed to dismiss the case.
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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision
The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.
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Cooley Names Largest Partner Class In 4 Years With 23 Attys
Cooley LLP will add 23 lawyers to the firm's partnership when the new year starts, up slightly from the number of new partners added last year.
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Ex-Bernstein Litowitz Atty Starts Firm After Contentious Exit
A former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner known for handling high-profile stockholder cases has led the launch of a boutique focused on corporate disputes and securities litigation after the firm says he was fired for misconduct.
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Dentons Sees Ex-Partner's Appeal Nixed In California
California's highest court has quietly tossed litigation filed by a former Dentons partner who was fired over a $34 million contingency fee due from a Chinese client following an arbitration matter, several months after advising the parties to prepare for oral arguments.
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King & Spalding Atty Dies In Mountain Climbing Accident
People at King & Spalding LLP are mourning after an appellate attorney from the firm and a mountain guide fell to their deaths climbing New Zealand's tallest mountain.
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2nd Circ. Reinstates Ex-Exec's $4M Bridgegate Fees Suit
The Second Circuit on Tuesday revived claims from former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive William E. Baroni Jr. seeking $4 million in legal fees over his Bridgegate criminal case, saying the trial court was wrong to find that the Port Authority had sovereign immunity.
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Fed. Judges' Public Spat With Justices May Undermine Courts
Public criticism being traded back and forth in recent months between U.S. Supreme Court justices and lower-court federal judges over the justices' emergency orders is highly unusual in itself, but it also raises the risk of eroding public trust in the judiciary.
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Hagens Berman Referred To DOJ For Alleged Misconduct
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday recommended to the U.S. Department of Justice that it investigate powerhouse plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's conduct in connection with several since-dropped product liability cases that a special master found to be filed in bad faith.
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Willkie Adds DC Atty To Co-Chair Bankruptcy Litigation Team
A longtime Jones Day attorney who helped represent the firm in a suit lodged by two former associates over its parental leave policy has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where he'll co-chair the bankruptcy litigation practice, Willkie announced Tuesday.
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Miss America Sanctions Bid Must Be Axed, Fla. Court Told
The plaintiffs in a Florida federal court battle over the ownership of the Miss America pageant have pushed back against a sanctions bid against their attorneys, saying the court should reject it because it's "wholly meritless."
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Twitter Investors Lose Bid To DQ Musk Counsel Spiro
A California federal judge has denied an attempt by Twitter investors to have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro disqualified from serving as both lead counsel for Elon Musk and a witness in a trial over claims that Musk tried to tank Twitter's stock.
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Accusers Seek To Revive Katt Williams Suit Over Judicial Bias
Four women whose suit against comedian Katt Williams was tossed by a Georgia federal judge on a finding that the claims related to a 2016 altercation outside a nightclub were time-barred, asked the court Tuesday to reconsider on the basis that the judge is hostile to their lawyer and did not render an impartial decision.
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MVP: Wiley's Thomas M. Johnson Jr.
Wiley Rein LLP partner Thomas M. Johnson Jr. was part of the legal team that helped stamp out federal net neutrality rules and was pivotal in a recent decision reversing a Biden-era cybersecurity ruling, landing him among the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.