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Legal Groups Seek Update On What It Takes To Be A Lawyer
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System has announced a "major update" to its 2014 survey, this time teaming up with the Law School Admission Council to tap thousands of attorneys to get an updated view of what it takes to be a successful lawyer.
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Fish & Richardson Taps Patent Atty To Lead In Silicon Valley
Intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC announced the new managing principal of its Silicon Valley office on Thursday, elevating a longtime patent attorney to lead the team of more than 30 intellectual property attorneys and technology specialists.
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Steptoe Hires Amazon Web Services Corporate Counsel
Steptoe LLP has added an attorney to its government affairs and public policy practice who worked at the firm twice before and most recently spent more than two years as an in-house attorney for Amazon Web Services.
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Akin Adds Former Paul Hastings Group Leader In NY
The former head of Paul Hastings LLP's alternative lender and private credit group has jumped to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York, Akin said Monday.
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BCLP Axes 50 Jobs In US, UK Amid Headcount Declines
Following years of declining lawyer headcount, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has confirmed that it is conducting a restructuring that will impact approximately 50 jobs in the U.S. and U.K., marking the second round of layoffs the firm has conducted in the past year.
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Ex-Goodwin Partner Now PE Vice Chair At Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that they are adding another private equity attorney from Goodwin Procter LLP, choosing the New York partner to serve as its global vice chair of private equity.
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Axiom Introduces New Permanent Recruitment Offerings
Legal staffing and legal services provider Axiom announced Monday two new staffing products that help clients either fill open legal roles permanently or engage an attorney on an interim-to-permanent basis.
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Wash. Supreme Court Clears Way For Bar Exam Alternatives
The state of Washington's Supreme Court has approved plans for law school students and graduates to become lawyers without taking the bar exam, forging alternative pathways a state task force has recommended to help make legal licenses more accessible to people of color and other historically marginalized groups.
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Ginsburg Family Rips Award In Her Name To Musk, Murdoch
Calling the decision an "affront" to her memory, family members and associates of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have taken aim at how the foundation presenting her eponymous leadership award has named Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sylvester Stallone, Martha Stewart and Michael Milken as the 2024 honorees.
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Lambda Legal Elects New Board Of Directors Chair
LGBTQ+-focused legal charity Lambda Legal has announced that the former vice chair of its board of directors has been elevated to the role of chair following an election by the board's members.
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Bradley Arant Adds IP Team From Moore & Van Allen In NC
A three-attorney intellectual property team has jumped from Moore & Van Allen PLLC to Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Armstrong Teasdale Litigator In NY
Fox Rothschild LLP is boosting its white collar team, announcing Friday it is bringing in an Armstrong Teasdale LLP trial attorney as a partner in its New York office.
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Morgan Lewis Adds 3 Perkins Coie Attys To Investment Team
Global firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Friday that it has hired three ex-Perkins Coie LLP attorneys, including one of its practice group co-chairs, to strengthen its investment management team.
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Influencer Says Ex-BigLaw Atty Can't Get Stalking Injunction
A social media influencer urged a Florida federal court on Thursday to throw out a request from former Greenberg Traurig LLP patent attorney Allan Kassenoff for an injunction against cyberstalking as the lawyer pursues a $150 million defamation suit against him.
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As BCLP Bleeds Attys, Leaders Say Firm Is 'Turning A Corner'
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has seen several high-profile partner departures in recent months, including multiple department and firm leaders. Despite hiring 206 lawyers globally since the start of 2023, the law firm's headcount contracted 6%, with former partners pointing to "balance sheet issues" and sluggish profitability as drivers.
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Alston & Bird, Ex-Employee File Deal After Contempt Threat
Alston & Bird LLP and its former diversity and inclusion administrator have presented their proposed $55,000 settlement in Georgia federal court concerning unpaid overtime claims, after a judge ordered them to appear in court to explain why they hadn't already filed one.
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Atty Joins Kirkland's Investment Practice From Fried Frank
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP partner who until now has spent his entire legal career with the firm, Kirkland announced Thursday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the Ides of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and headcounts. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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'Perfect Storm' Caused 2023 Surge In Law Firm Leasing
U.S. law firms in 2023 took on nearly 17 million square feet of office space, an unprecedented level of leasing activity driven by major law firm moves into trophy buildings in New York City, according to a report from commercial brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield.
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Law360 Legal Lions Of The Week
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Littler Mendelson PC kick off this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, with a win for business groups striking down the National Labor Relations Board's joint employer rule.
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What GCs Want To See From Firms' New AI Practices
As artificial intelligence practice groups pop up in law firms around the country, what do general counsel want from their external lawyers when it comes to this burgeoning technology?
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72-Year Weil Alum, 'True Visionary' Corporate Atty Dies At 97
Ira M. Millstein, the legendary Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP senior partner who helped save New York City from bankruptcy in the 1970s and used his bipartisan connections to help smooth Ruth Bader Ginsburg's path to the federal judiciary, has died, the firm said Thursday.
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Atty Rips Fox Rothschild's Gag Order Bid As 'Temper Tantrum'
The attorney for two men suing Fox Rothschild LLP for malpractice has hit back against the firm's request for a gag order — which came after he called the firm a "corrupt organization" and threatened criminal prosecution — calling it a "temper tantrum" and claiming Fox Rothschild is merely trying to distract from the events that led him to make those comments.
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O'Melveny Elects Chair To 4th Term, Extending Role To 2029
The longtime chair of O'Melveny & Myers will hold the position for five more years following his recent election to serve another term as the firm's leader.
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McDermott Eyes White Collar Growth With Orrick FCPA Pros
McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced Thursday the addition of a seven-partner team from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP that will focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the False Claims Act, saying it hired the team with an eye toward its white collar and government investigation capabilities.