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K&L Gates Adds Hanson Bridgett, Reed Smith Corporate Attys
K&L Gates LLP is expanding its California corporate team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Reed Smith LLP life sciences transactional ace as a partner in its Orange County office and a Hanson Bridgett LLP emerging companies specialist as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
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RBG Award Gala Axed After Objections To Musk, Murdoch Nods
Following objections by family members of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the foundation presenting her namesake leadership award has canceled the ceremony, saying it meant no offense in naming Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sylvester Stallone, Martha Stewart and Michael Milken as the 2024 honorees.
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5 Moments That Swayed Ga. Judge In the Trump Case DQ Bid
After days of testimony about the romantic and financial relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and the lawyer she appointed to lead the election interference case against Donald Trump, a Georgia judge last week ordered Willis to shuffle the prosecution team. How did he reach that ruling? Here are five moments that swayed the judge.
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Kirkland Wants To Escape Suit Over Ex-Judge's Relationship
Kirkland & Ellis LLP wants to bring down the hammer on a racketeering lawsuit claiming the firm "conspired" to profit from a Texas bankruptcy judge's secret romance scandal, saying the "flimsy" suit should be dismissed, and both the plaintiff and his attorneys at Bandas Law Firm PC should be sanctioned for filing it.
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Seton Hall Aims To Erase Ex-President's 'Sensational' Suit
Seton Hall University has called on a New Jersey state court to throw out its former president's claims he was forced out for blowing the whistle on alleged misconduct by former board chair and prominent criminal defense attorney Kevin Marino, saying the suit is "what can best be described as gamesmanship, and at worst sheer dishonesty."
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BakerHostetler's LA Office Moves To Century City 'Destination'
BakerHostetler has relocated its Los Angeles office, announcing Monday it was moving it to Century City from its previous location in Brentwood.
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5 Women Attys Named Influential Legal Tech Leaders
Leaders from Crowell & Moring LLP, Gilbert & Tobin and Gowling WLG were among the five honored Monday by the International Legal Technology Association as part of its 2024 list of Influential Women in Legal Technology.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds 6 Troutman Construction Attys In LA
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday that it had ventured into the California construction law market with the addition of a team of six attorneys from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in Los Angeles.
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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.