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Some Firms Break Lobbying Revenue Records Again
After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.
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Eckert Seamans Re-Ups Executives, Announces 3 Directors
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has decided to keep its executive team intact for another year and has named three new members to its board of directors in moves firm leadership described as signs it is moving in the right direction.
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Fox Rothschild Hires Holland & Knight Sports Partner In DC
Fox Rothschild LLP has hired Holland & Knight LLP's co-chair of the sports industry team in Washington, D.C., to work with entertainment and related sports law issues, the firm has announced.
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10-Year Covington Vet Joins Holland & Knight In DC
Holland & Knight LLP has hired a litigation and dispute resolution partner, who is joining the firm after more than 10 years with Covington & Burling LLP, where she focused on white collar defense and investigations.
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Ex-Newman Clerks, Judges Back High Court Suspension Fight
A group of former clerks for Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, as well as former federal judges, have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the challenge to her suspension imposed by her colleagues.
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Kash Patel Sues Atlantic For $250M Over 'Fabricated' Report
FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million in damages Monday, claiming a recent report about his alleged drinking and absences from work was "fabricated" and designed to "drive him from office."
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Justices To Hear Catholic Preschools' Challenge To Colo. Law
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review two Catholic parishes' challenge to Colorado's universal preschool program, which requires that they accept students from LGBTQ+ families to receive state funding.
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Spencer West's US, UK Heads On American Expansion
United Kingdom-based distributed law firm Spencer West announced earlier this spring that it has officially launched a practice based in the United States with nearly 20 partners working in a wide range of major markets including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
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Is $20M Partner Pay Becoming Ubiquitous In BigLaw?
More BigLaw firms are offering top lateral partner candidates guaranteed compensation of $20 million or more per year, a pay scale that applied to a select few lawyers just five years ago.
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Holtzman Vogel Hires Gibson Dunn Atty To Lead NY Office
Washington, D.C.-headquartered Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has opened a new office in Manhattan led by the former chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's New York administrative law and regulatory practice group, the firm said Monday.
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DC Ethics Office Says Ex-Interim US Atty Can't Remove Case
Washington, D.C., ethics officials have asked a federal court to send U.S. Department of Justice official Ed Martin's ethics case back to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, arguing the D.C. federal court lacks jurisdiction over a disciplinary matter, which is neither a civil action nor a criminal prosecution.
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White & Case Partner Moves To A&O Shearman In DC
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has hired a career White & Case LLP partner in Washington, D.C., who had spent the past 13 years there working with antitrust and other matters, the firm announced Monday.
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Simpson Thacher Adds 2 Partners To Data Center Team
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has hired two transactional real estate attorneys who specialize in digital infrastructure deals as partners in its Washington, D.C., and New York City offices, the firm announced Monday.
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Justices Cast Doubt On Effort To Limit SEC Disgorgement
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday questioned an attempt to limit the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's disgorgement powers, with conservative and liberal justices alike seemingly skeptical of the argument that the agency has to identify victims before it can demand the return of ill-gotten gains.
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Justice Jackson Faults Quick Reversal In DC Stop Case
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday chided her U.S. Supreme Court colleagues for reversing a D.C. Court of Appeals ruling involving the Fourth Amendment, saying in a dissent that the lower court was correct and that the case "does not merit the use of our summary discretion."
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Clyde & Co. Launches Practice With Partner From Eversheds
Clyde & Co. LLP said Monday it has hired a former Eversheds Sutherland practice group leader, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., to help it launch a regulatory and investigations group.
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Justices Won't Consider IP Theft Allegations Against Akin
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Cornell University graduate student's petition trying to revive his malpractice suit against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP stemming from patent litigation against Illumina Inc. over DNA sequencing intellectual property.
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Dunn Isaacson Adds Ex-Biden WH Counsel From Latham
Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP has hired two attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP, who have backgrounds working for former President Joe Biden on a range of policy matters, the firm announced Monday.
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Up Next At High Court: SEC And FCC Enforcement Authority
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.
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Office Snapshot: Grossman Young Moves Into The District
For Sandra Grossman, a founding partner of immigration firm Grossman Young & Hammond LLP, her firm's move from Bethesda, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., is part of an evolution that began almost two decades ago.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston & Strawn LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal jury found that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services.
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Oil Giants Among Client List Of EEOC General Counsel Pick
President Donald Trump's nominee for general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has represented some of the largest oil producers and service providers in North America, including Chevron, according to a new financial disclosure report obtained by Law360 Friday.
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How Firms Can Remain Vigilant Amid 'Silent Ransom' Attacks
Even though cybercriminal organization Silent Ransom Group has been around since 2022, law firms are still falling victim to the group’s social engineering and phishing schemes. Here’s what cybersecurity leaders say law firms need to know about the group and how to protect themselves.
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Nixon Peabody Hires McCarter & English Gov't Contracts Atty
Nixon Peabody LLP has added a government contracts and regulatory compliance attorney to its construction and real estate litigation practice who has joined the firm in Washington, D.C., as a partner from McCarter & English LLP.
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Beltway Moves: Wilson Sonsini, Covington, Ropes & Gray
More former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys headed to BigLaw firms in Washington, D.C., over the past few weeks, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, Covington & Burling LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP all adding lawyers who recently worked at the agency.