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Ex-K&L Gates Atty Wants Out Of Prison In Cyberstalking Case
A former K&L Gates LLP partner sentenced to two years in prison for cyberstalking and harassing his colleagues has moved for compassionate release seven months before his release date, citing his deteriorating health and poor living conditions behind bars.
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Accounting Oversight Board Trial Atty Joins King & Spalding
The top trial attorney for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has joined King & Spalding LLP's special matters and government investigations group in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Monday.
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Willkie Adds DOJ Antitrust Lead In LA, DC
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Monday the hiring of a former antitrust section chief at the U.S. Department of Justice as a partner in its Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices.
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Steptoe Adds Dentons' Ex-Global Security Chief As Partner
Steptoe LLP has added a security and threat analysis expert who previously served as Dentons' global chief security officer as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Weil Adds Ex-SEC Private Funds Atty As Partner In DC
A longtime U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney has returned to private practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP after more than a decade in government service, the firm said Monday.
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O'Melveny Lands Private Equity Ace From Kirkland In Calif.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday that it has strengthened its private equity group with the addition of a Century City-based partner who came aboard from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Transportation Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped Stellantis shut down a racketeering lawsuit from rival automaker General Motors and defended Volkswagen against lingering claims tied to its 2015 "clean diesel" emissions scandal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Transportation Groups of the Year.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn
Winston & Strawn LLP is serving as lead counsel to Hunter Biden in several different legal matters, including a federal gun charge and a congressional inquiry, and won full acquittal for Matthew Grimes, a former assistant to Trump ally Thomas Barrack, on charges that he'd assisted in a foreign influence campaign in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Hughes Hubbard Splits Leadership Role As Firm Head Retires
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP elected Neil Oxford and Robb Patryk to succeed current chair and managing partner Ted Mayer, splitting the leadership role as the head of the firm retires this year.
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With Rising State AG Action, BigLaw Responds By Beefing Up
This year Covington & Burling LLP formalized its government litigation practice group, following others in what appears to be a race by large law firms to formalize, market and grow their state attorney general practices as the nature of the office has shifted in recent years.
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Thompson Coburn Duo Lead 'Army Of Women' In Documentary
In waging an uphill battle against the city of Austin, Thompson Coburn LLP partners Jennifer Ecklund and Elizabeth Myers secured a groundbreaking settlement for sexual assault survivors whose cases were never prosecuted, but what they discovered was that standing up for the survivors meant more to them than that legal victory.
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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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Nelson Mullins Grows In Atlanta With New Corporate Partners
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has expanded its Atlanta office, adding two seasoned corporate attorneys, one from Thompson Hine LLP and the other from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.
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Calif. Bar's Bid To Hike License Fees Raises Atty Eyebrows
California attorneys seem largely skeptical of the state bar's insistence that a "substantial" hike in its attorney licensing fees is necessary to stave off financial disaster, questioning the reasons for a potential fee increase and its impact on solo lawyers.
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Loeb & Loeb Co-Chairs Eye Strategic Growth
The new co-chairs of Loeb & Loeb LLP are acutely aware of the challenges and opportunities in store for the firm just a month into the job.
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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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Clifford Chance Adds Arnold & Porter Restructuring Duo
Clifford Chance LLP is no exception to the wave of firms seeking restructuring talent in recent months, announcing Thursday that it's brought on two former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP attorneys with a history of working on high-stakes reorganizations.
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Greenberg Traurig Settles ADA Claims From Ex-Legal Aide
Greenberg Traurig LLP has reached a settlement to end disability discrimination claims from a former legal assistant who alleged she was fired after she needed to work remotely to manage chronic pancreatitis, according to an order filed in the Georgia federal lawsuit.
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Harvard Law Releases 40M Pages Of Digitized Case Law
Harvard Law School's Library Innovation Lab is releasing nearly 40 million pages of scanned case law for free as part of the Caselaw Access Project, a public-private partnership between the innovation lab and legal tech startup Ravel Law.
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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.
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Ex-Private Funds Leader With Perkins Coie Jumps To MoFo
The former chair of Perkins Coie LLP's private investment funds group has jumped to Morrison Foerster LLP in Denver.
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By The Numbers: Why Associates Stay At Their Firms
After a flood of associates left their firms in search of greener pastures as part of the "talent wars" of the early 2020s, the National Association for Law Placement wanted to know what made other early-career attorneys decide instead to stay put. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at how compensation, work-life balance, and a dozen other factors helped play a role.
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Legal Recruitment Cos. Lippman Jungers, Johnson Downie Merge
Legal recruiting outfits Johnson Downie and Lippman Jungers jointly announced Thursday their plan to combine under a single brand.
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Trials Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
Last year, WilmerHale's trial team worked on some of the most nationally significant cases in the country, successfully arguing for an injunction against an effective abortion ban in Ohio and litigating several cases with billions of dollars at stake, making it one of Law360's 2023 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.