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MVP: Wigdor's David E. Gottlieb
David E. Gottlieb of Wigdor LLP tested the reach of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, securing a significant win in a discrimination case that reached the Second Circuit and earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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MVP: Nichols Law's Carla Weiss
Carla Weiss, who leads Nichols Law LLP's bid protest practice, delivered back-to-back protest wins including the U.S. Government Accountability Office's sustain of Anika Systems' challenge to a $68.8 million data strategy task order, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds CSX Tax Legal Leader In Atlanta
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced it has brought on the former assistant general tax counsel of CSX Transportation Inc. as a shareholder in its Atlanta office, strengthening its state and local tax practice.
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Latitude Expands Into Houston And Detroit With Two Hires
Staffing company Latitude Legal continued to grow its U.S. footprint with the recent launches of locations in Houston and Detroit following the additions of two attorneys to lead the offices.
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Sanctioned Atty Convinces Mo. Court Errors Not Caused By AI
A Missouri federal judge sanctioned former counsel for Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Co. Monday for including citation errors in a motion this fall, finding that, although the attorney likely inserted the errors herself without the use of AI software, "such carelessness, exacerbated by a lack of internal guardrails, is entirely unacceptable."
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Ogletree Lands Ex-Delta Exec To Bolster Aviation Group
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that it had brought on a former Delta Air Lines Inc. executive as a shareholder in its Atlanta office, adding a new co-chair to its aviation industry practice group.
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Billable Hours Still Drive Atty Bonuses. Is Change Coming?
The primary factor determining whether a law firm associate receives a year-end bonus is not individual performance, firm performance, or firm citizenship. Instead, it is the number of billable hours they've logged, according to the results of a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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Client Book Remains Key To Nonequity Partner Pay
The nonequity partner tier is expanding across law firms, but compensation within this group varies widely, ranging from associate-level pay to earnings on par with equity partners. A deciding factor in where they fall on the scale, experts say, is often who brings in the clients.
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A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's Survey Of Law Firm Pay
Most lawyers say they’re satisfied with their compensation— but at firms that are open about pay, satisfaction nearly doubles. Explore our latest analysis of law firm compensation practices and what drives top talent.
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Sheppard Mullin Antitrust Leader Returns To King & Spalding
The former leader of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's healthcare antitrust team is returning to King & Spalding LLP, a firm where he worked for more than a decade, helping clients through deal reviews by the Federal Trade Commission, an agency where he once worked as an attorney.
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Perkins Coie's Trump Fight Doesn't Scare Off UK Suitor
Perkins Coie LLP's ongoing fight with the Trump administration did not deter a proposed combination with British law firm Ashurst, signaling that the legal community is not worried about fallout from the president's suspension of the firm's security clearances.
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Davis Polk Hires Sports Leader In New York From Proskauer
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced that its mergers and acquisitions group has added a former Proskauer Rose LLP attorney who will also lead the firm's sports practice.
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CoCounsel Loses Some Early Adopters As Competition Grows
CoCounsel has lost some of its earliest adopters while still welcoming new customers, spotlighting the ups and downs that legal artificial intelligence giants face as the market favors experimentation.
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Ex-Finnegan Associate Gets Wage Theft Suit Revived In DC
The D.C. Court of Appeals revived a former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP associate's lawsuit alleging the firm reneged on its promises to pay tuition reimbursement and productivity bonuses, saying the trial court should have conducted "a fuller analysis" before shutting the book on the case.
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Law Firm Growth Driven Mostly By Rate Increases In 2025
Increasing demand and especially rising billing rates have made for a strong first nine months of 2025 for the legal industry, according to a report released Monday by Wells Fargo's Legal Specialty Group, with the top 50 firms by revenue seeing the best performance.
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UK Firms Drive Transatlantic Appetite For M&A Dealmaking
The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.
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WilmerHale Taps SEC's Former Investment Management Exec
WilmerHale has hired a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who most recently was director of the agency's Division of Investment Management, to lead the firm's investment management practice.
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MVP: Paul Hastings' Cameron W. Fox
Cameron W. Fox, chair of Paul Hastings LLP's traditional labor practice group and partner in its employment law department, persevered through a trial during the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles and secured a win for Levi Strauss & Co. in a discrimination case where the jury reached a unanimous verdict in less than 20 minutes, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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MVP: Goodwin's Jamie Fleckner
This past year, Goodwin Procter LLP partner Jamie Fleckner led the way to several hard-fought wins for big-name clients in class actions brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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MVP: Mayer Brown's John R. Prairie
John R. Prairie, a government contracts partner with Mayer Brown LLP, successfully challenged a $254 million other transaction agreement award issued by the Space Development Agency and represented an incumbent contractor in getting the U.S. Army to let it compete for a more than $10 billion contract, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Isaac Wheeler
Isaac Wheeler of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax practice advised RedBird Capital Partners on the Skydance and Paramount deal, helped xAI and X on a $113 billion transaction related to their merger and guided Tishman Speyer on its $3.5 billion refinancing of Rockefeller Center, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Mayer Brown's Amanda Baker
Mayer Brown LLP's Amanda Baker advised DailyPay as it completed a $200 million asset-backed securitization of a system that allows employers to provide access to pay outside the traditional two-week cycle, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
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MVP: Willkie's Brett H. Miller
Brett Miller of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP represented the unsecured creditors' committees of leading Scandinavian airline SAS AB, Chilean telecom WOM SA, Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes SA and oil refiner Vertex Energy Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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MVP: Cahill Gordon's Joel Kurtzberg
Joel Kurtzberg of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP secured significant victories on behalf of companies like X Corp. and Grubhub in cases challenging state measures that address online speech, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Philippe Pinsolle
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Philippe Pinsolle helped to secure a €14 billion ($16.2 billion) arbitral award for German energy company Uniper after Russian government-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom cut off gas deliveries in mid-2022, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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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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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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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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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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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.