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New California Bar Leader Aims To Rebuild Public Trust
After less than two weeks on the job, Laura Enderton-Speed, the California State Bar's new executive director, is already busy working to strengthen trust in the organization following the botched administration of the February bar exam.
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Ex-CFPB Atty Joins Duane Morris' DC Trial Practice
Duane Morris LLP has hired a senior litigation counsel from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who for more than three years in the agency's enforcement division litigated matters related to mortgage fraud, small-dollar lending and a range of related matters.
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No Big Boost Expected For Associate Bonuses This Year
As Thanksgiving — and bonus season — approaches, the lateral hiring market for BigLaw associates remains "very mixed," leading industry pundits to predict most law firms won't offer outsize bonuses this year.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more lateral hires and leadership changes, and one BigLaw firm exploring private equity investments.
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Weil, Akin Defend Fee Requests In Steward Health Bankruptcy
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, representing Steward Health Care in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, representing the hospital operator's committee of unsecured creditors, defended their respective professional fee requests that add up to over $304 million in response to Massachusetts' objections.
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Jenner & Block Resolves $8M Fee Fight With Sierra Leone
Jenner & Block LLP and its former client Sierra Leone have resolved their fight over unpaid legal fees and allegedly fraudulent overbilling in the nation's underlying dispute with its iron ore mining concessionaire Gerald International Ltd., according to a minute order issued Thursday in D.C. federal court.
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Quarles Names New Heads Of Three Major Practice Groups
Quarles & Brady LLP has appointed new chairs for three of its practice groups, announcing on Thursday new heads for its business law, labor & employment, and immigration & mobility practices.
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Holland & Knight Adds Education Dept. Senior Adviser In DC
Holland & Knight LLP has hired a former senior adviser for the U.S. Department of Education, who joined the firm in Washington, D.C., and will provide counsel to local governments on federal policy and funding matters.
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Advent GC Returns To Ropes & Gray To Co-Lead PCT Practice
Ropes & Gray LLP announced Thursday that an attorney who left its ranks a few years ago for private equity firm Advent International Corp. is set to return to the firm at the beginning of December as the co-leader of its global private capital transactions practice.
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Withers Eyes Masterpiece US Art Practice With Historian Hire
Withers has a new senior counsel who has handled record-setting private sales and helped to place works in iconic institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Thursday.
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MVP: Kirkland's Adam Kool
Adam Kool, a tax partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, spent the past year advising on high-profile, industry-transforming transactions. Kool's work on AbbVie's $63 billion acquisition of the pharmaceutical giant Allergan, GTCR's pending $24.25 billion sale of global payment processing company Worldpay and other billion-dollar transactions has earned him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Duane Morris' Jennifer A. Riley
Jennifer A. Riley of Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defeat conditional certification in a nationwide collective action, defended an industrial staffing company from California state law claims and helped several companies negotiate favorable settlements of wage and hour claims, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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MVP: Dechert's John Timperio
Dechert LLP's John Timperio set a new record for the biggest collateralized loan obligation transaction ever with Golub Capital Partners' $2.3 billion CLO, and he guided Paris-based Rivage as it established its first U.S. operation, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's James Bromley
James Bromley, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, has handled some of the country's largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in the past year — including FTX Trading Ltd., SVB Financial Group and Diamond Sports, representing Major League Baseball — earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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MVP: Labaton Keller's Alfred L. Fatale III
Alfred L. Fatale III of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP's led the team that secured a $200 million settlement against Uber Technologies Inc. for investors who had accused the ride-sharing giant of a misleading initial public offering, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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MVP: Freshfields' Noiana Marigo
Noiana Marigo of Freshfields US LLP's international arbitration group acted as lead partner when her team secured the complete dismissal of Venezuela's application to annul a $2.8 billion award issued in favor of a Spanish agribusiness, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
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MVP: Foley & Lardner's Jason Mehta
Jason Mehta, co-chair of Foley & Lardner LLP's healthcare litigation team, helped secure a bombshell ruling declaring parts of the False Claims Act unconstitutional and successfully defended COVID-19 test kit providers facing government investigations, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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Winston & Strawn's Paris Arbitration Head Joins K&L Gates
K&L Gates LLP announced Thursday it has hired Winston & Strawn's former Paris head of arbitration as a litigation and dispute resolution partner to strengthen the firm in international arbitration.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Steptoe & Johnson Real Estate Ace
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a partner in Dallas from Steptoe & Johnson PLLC who boasts decades of experience advising clients on retail and mixed-use developments, as well as affordable housing projects.
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Calif. Atty Returns To Lewis Brisbois As Real Estate Co-Leader
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is welcoming back a real estate expert, most recently with Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, as a partner in its office in Indian Wells, California, in the Coachella Valley and as co-head of its real estate practice.
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Where Are Top Firms Bringing On The Most New Partners?
Lateral partner hiring data for the last five years paints a surprisingly static portrait of where top law firms are making the most hires, even as they warm up to secondary and tertiary legal markets.
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Ex-Proskauer Exec Named Frost Brown CFO
A veteran financial executive who has worked at a number of major law firms has joined Frost Brown Todd LLP from Proskauer Rose LLP as the firm's chief financial officer, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Cozen O'Connor E-Discovery Biz Names New Operations Director
Cozen O'Connor has named the practice technology and e-discovery director at Shepherd Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as the new operations director for its electronic discovery business unit.
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Kilpatrick Expands Partnership Class With 14 Attys
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP elected 14 attorneys as partners across Georgia, Illinois, Texas, New York, North Carolina, California and China, representing an increase from the 10 attorneys in the firm's partner class promoted last year for 2025.
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Morgan Lewis Adds Gibson Dunn Tech Transactions Ace In LA
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP is expanding its corporate team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP technology transactions expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
Expert Analysis
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.