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Wolf Greenfield Names New Managing Partner, President
When Wolf Greenfield & Sacks PC's new president and firmwide managing partner, Robert Walat, first joined the firm, he started as a technology specialist. More than two decades later and after holding several leadership roles, Walat told Law360 Pulse, he's excited to apply that experience to his new positions.
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GrayRobinson Grows With Fla. Atty From Construction Boutique
GrayRobinson PA has brought on a former Malka & Kravitz PA partner versed in construction disputes and commercial litigation to its office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, marking another firm in that city who's strengthened their construction law skills recently.
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Armstrong Teasdale Trial Atty Joins Fox Rothschild In NY
Fox Rothschild LLP became another firm investing in its white collar services when it welcomed a former Armstrong Teasdale LLP attorney to its New York office.
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Jackson Walker Adds Kirkland Energy Partner In Dallas
Jackson Walker LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP energy partner, who joins the firm's Dallas office to continue his work with clients who develop and acquire a range of commercial energy projects and assets, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Longtime Stradley Ronon Tax Partner Joins Grant Thornton
Following more than a quarter-century practicing law with Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, longtime tax attorney Chris Scarpa decided to change career paths, joining accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP.
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Montgomery McCracken Elects Five New Partners In Pa., NY
Mid-size firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP has expanded its partnership ranks with the recent promotions of five attorneys in Philadelphia and New York.
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Anderson Kill Names Litigation Vet As Antitrust Co-Leader
Anderson Kill PC has tapped a Philadelphia-based partner and commercial litigation specialist to co-lead the firm's antitrust and unfair competition practice group, the firm announced on Wednesday.
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Coblentz Patch Adds Tax Pro From Saul Ewing In SF
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP has strengthened its tax practice in San Francisco with partner Jacob Lager, who previously practiced with Saul Ewing LLP.
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Firms Trimmed Entry-Level Hiring Amid Demand Shifts In 2023
As the legal market adjusted from the post-pandemic hiring surge, law firms across the U.S. scaled back their recruitment efforts for entry-level associates last year, a result of firms realigning talent strategies to better serve clients' demands over the long term, a report Tuesday from the National Association for Law Placement found.
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Civil Cases On The Rise In Federal Courts
The number of civil cases filed in the federal courts jumped significantly in fiscal 2023, led by disputes between multiple states' citizens and personal injury suits, after a decrease in civil filings the year before, the federal judiciary said Tuesday.
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Ex-Bankruptcy Judge Cites Judicial Immunity To Escape Suit
Former Texas bankruptcy judge David R. Jones — whose failure to disclose a romantic relationship with an ex-Jackson Walker LLP attorney ignited a major judicial ethics scandal — has moved to dismiss a disgruntled investor's suit that claims Jones gave a Jackson Walker client preferential treatment during its Chapter 11 case, citing judicial immunity.
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Robins Kaplan Elevates Trial Pro To Managing Partner, Chair
In a first for the firm, Robins Kaplan LLP has tapped a longtime litigator to serve as both managing partner and chair, with the attorney telling Law360 Pulse on Tuesday that he looks forward to focusing his energy on continuing to grow the trial-focused firm and steer it into a new leadership era.
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NC Criminal Defense Boutique Joins Maynard Nexsen
Maynard Nexsen PC has merged with a four-attorney white collar boutique in Raleigh, North Carolina, in a move that comes a year after the firm was created from the merger of Maynard Cooper & Gale and Carolinas firm Nexsen Pruet.
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Kirkland & Ellis Trial Pro Jumps To Gunster In Florida
Florida law firm Gunster added a new shareholder and litigator to its Naples office who specializes in pharmaceutical and life sciences cases and who joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Adams And Reese Gains Hartline Barger Litigator In Houston
Adams and Reese LLP announced Tuesday that it has fortified its litigation practice group with veteran trial lawyer Jane Haas in Houston, who joined the firm from Hartline Barger LLP.
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Rawle & Henderson Welcomes Back Litigator In Pittsburgh
A litigator specializing in corporate insurance and liability matters has returned to Rawle & Henderson LLP's Pittsburgh office after an 11-month stint with neighboring firm Hardin Thompson PC.
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12 Attys Depart Plunkett Cooney For Own Firm
A dozen Plunkett Cooney PC attorneys based in Michigan have broken away to create their own firm focused on auto insurance liability defense.
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Selendy Gay's Generative AI Experiments Pay Off
Selendy Gay bet on a virtually unknown generative AI tool in 2023 on two matters and got a customized platform that allowed the litigation law firm to review documents quickly.
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Jackson Walker Adds Water Expert In Austin To Enviro Team
Jackson Walker LLP is expanding its environmental regulatory team, bringing in a water policy expert, who most recently has been working at his own solo firm, as a partner in its Austin office.
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Cahill Has 'Great Ambitions' To Take IP Litigation By Storm
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has spent the last year building up a new intellectual property practice, with a veteran of top law firms leading the way and attorneys from White & Case LLP joining the firm earlier this year.
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NJ Firm Resolves Former Atty's Gender, Race Bias Suit
Brach Eichler LLC told a New Jersey federal court Friday it had agreed to end a Hispanic former attorney's lawsuit alleging she was treated worse than white male colleagues and targeted for a layoff under the guise of financial difficulties.
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After COVID Office Cuts, Firms Will Do 'More With Less'
Things are settling back into place in the legal office space market after the great upheavals caused by COVID-19, with most law firms now focused on making the best use of their existing space after a round of pandemic-era downsizing, according to a new survey.
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Law360 Legal Lions Of The Week
Mitchell Law PLLC, Gessler Blue LLC and Dhillon Law Group Inc. lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that states can't bar former president Donald Trump from running for reelection this year based on a 14th Amendment provision.
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Legal Industry Adds 2,700 Jobs In February
Employment in the U.S. legal sector rebounded in February, showing a slight increase following a decline at the beginning of the year, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Class Suits Among Companies' Fastest-Growing Legal Costs
An annual survey of more than 300 large companies shows that class action spending was up to a record high in 2023, with the percentage of companies facing class action lawsuits at the highest level since the survey began 13 years ago, and total expenditures reaching nearly $4 billion.