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Morgan Lewis Hires Ex-CFTC General Counsel
Robert A. Schwartz, the former general counsel of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP as a partner in its investment management practice, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Some Associates Bill $2,000 Per Hour As BigLaw Fees Rise
Billing rates for law firms that serve corporate clients continue to increase at a historically fast clip, with the largest firms increasing their fees the fastest in 2024, according to a report out Tuesday that found some associates' billing rates are nearing $2,000 per hour.
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Mayer Brown Taps Commerce Dept. Leader For Co-Chair Role
Mayer Brown LLP has nabbed the former assistant secretary for export administration at the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, who in her new role will work alongside a colleague she's known personally and professionally for almost 25 years.
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Coblentz Patch Construction Vet Rejoins Greenberg Traurig
Greenberg Traurig LLP said Friday announced that an experienced construction attorney has rejoined its San Francisco office as a shareholder from Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP.
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Billionaire Attorney Sues Miami Herald, Claiming Defamation
Billionaire Miami attorney John Ruiz has sued the Miami Herald and two of its reporters in Florida state court, alleging they defamed him by running a report saying he and his company MSP Recovery Inc. were the targets of federal criminal and civil investigations.
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Baker Botts Adds Enviro Ace From In-House Role In Houston
Baker Botts LLP announced Monday that it has added a partner in Houston who brings more than 25 years of environmental law experience, including more than a decade on the legal team at Koch Industries.
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Longtime ITC General Counsel Joins Polsinelli In DC
Polsinelli PC announced Monday that it has hired the former longtime general counsel of the U.S. International Trade Commission to bolster its practice group that advises clients about ITC rules and procedures.
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Buchanan Adds Data Privacy Shareholder In New York City
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has added a cybersecurity and data privacy shareholder with extensive BigLaw and in-house advisory experience to its New York office in a move intended to aid in the firm's continued growth.
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Squire Patton Adds Ex-Polsinelli Ace As Private Credit Head
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has added the former head of Polsinelli PC's private credit and cross-border finance practice as its new global head of private credit and direct lending, the firm announced Monday.
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Troutman Adds Former Acting US Atty In North Carolina
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP announced Monday that it had strengthened its white collar litigation and investigations practice with a partner in Charlotte, North Carolina, who served as acting U.S. attorney in his final months of more than three years of service in the Western District of North Carolina.
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O'Melveny Adds Ex-Commerce Official, AI Regulatory Expert
An expert on artificial intelligence regulations who recently served as a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner in New York, the firm announced Monday.
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Davis Wright Brings On MoFo Employment Ace In Bay Area
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced Monday that the firm has fortified its employment class action group with a partner in San Francisco who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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Former Florida US Atty Returns To Pillsbury In Miami
A recent U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida returned to his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, to continue his work as a partner in its Miami office.
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DOJ's Google Ad Litigation Lead Joins BakerHostetler
A 10-year Justice Department veteran, who helped supervise the government's case alleging Google's advertising practices create an unfair monopoly, has left the agency to join BakerHostetler, the firm announced Monday.
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Baker Donelson Launches In NJ With 26 Epstein Becker Attys
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced a major expansion into New Jersey on Monday with 26 attorneys joining the firm from Epstein Becker Green in new offices in Princeton and Iselin.
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Ex-Katten Partner Hits Firm With $67M Age Bias Suit
A former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner launched a $67 million discrimination lawsuit against his one-time firm in New York federal court, alleging he was pushed out of the aircraft-finance practice group, pressured to resign and then fired because of the firm CEO's "stereotyped views of lawyers in their 60s."
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WilmerHale, Feds Dispute Reach Of Trump Order Against Firm
WilmerHale and the U.S. Department of Justice traded salvos in the BigLaw firm's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting it, with the firm and the government offering "starkly different" versions of what's at stake in the dispute.
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Why This Holland & Knight Partner Joined The Coast Guard
John Saran, a busy healthcare deals partner at Holland & Knight, tells Law360 Pulse why he was part of a group of lawyers who enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve last week.
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Joel Katz, Music Law's Longtime Power Broker, Dies At 80
Joel Katz, the powerful music industry lawyer who co-founded Greenberg Traurig LLP's media and entertainment practice and helped bring the firm to the Atlanta market, has died at the age of 80, Law360 confirmed Friday.
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Reed Smith Grows In Miami With Cozen O'Connor Vegas Head
Reed Smith LLP has expanded its Miami office and strengthened its global commercial disputes practice by bringing on the former Las Vegas office managing partner for Cozen O'Connor.
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Skadden Atty Joins Milbank's Financial Restructuring Group
Milbank LLP has added a longtime Skadden counsel as a partner in its financial restructuring group in the New York office, as part of the firm's ongoing global expansion of its restructuring practice.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Schlichter Bogard LLC and the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court revived a class action from Cornell University workers who said their retirement plans were saddled with excessive fees.
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Saxton & Stump's M&A Chair Moves To Fox Rothschild
Fox Rothschild LLP has grown its corporate offerings in Pennsylvania with the addition of Saxton & Stump LLC's former mergers and acquisitions leader, according to a Friday announcement.
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Law Firm In-Office Policies Steady Real Estate Footprints
Law firms' office real estate footprints are stabilizing as firms bolster their in-office attendance — through return-to-office programs and a focus on culture — and move away from space-sharing for attorneys, according to a report from CBRE.
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Alston & Bird Bolsters NY Office With Ex-Sheppard Mullin Atty
Alston & Bird LLP continued to bolster its corporate practice and New York office, announcing Thursday the hiring of a private equity partner formerly with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.