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Ex-OneTaste Execs Ask Justices To Nix 'Stolen' Docs
Former OneTaste executives facing forced-labor conspiracy charges asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to bar allegedly stolen and attorney-client privileged documents from being used at a May trial, saying corporate legal communications are broadly at risk.
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Lawmakers Seek Answers From Law Firms Over Trump Deals
Democratic congressional members on Thursday demanded that Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins and seven other BigLaw firms provide more details on multimillion-dollar deals they've recently cut with the Trump administration, urging the firms to void their agreements while arguing they may violate numerous anti-bribery and legal ethics statutes.
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Pardon Me? Why Offers To Secure Clemency Might Be A Scam
Some white collar lawyers and consultants say their clients are increasingly being solicited by potential scammers with promises to leverage supposed White House connections to secure pardons and other forms of clemency in exchange for big fees.
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NY AG Says Housing Fraud Claim Is 'Retribution' By Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday pushed back on claims by a federal housing official that she committed mortgage fraud, with her counsel branding it "the latest act of improper political retribution" directed by President Donald Trump after James' office secured a nearly half-billion dollar civil fraud judgment against him.
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Lucosky Brookman Grows In NY With Marshall Dennehey Team
Lucosky Brookman LLP announced Thursday that the firm has expanded its New York operations with a new office in Westchester County following the addition of four insurance defense attorneys from Marshall Dennehey, including its former transportation practice co-chair.
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NY IP Lawyer Failed To Pay PPP Loans, Philly Bank Says
A Syracuse, New York, patent lawyer who maintains a whimsical, rainbow-filled website has been sued by a Philadelphia-based bank for allegedly not paying back a nearly $15,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan he received through the bank.
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Sidley Brings On 14-Atty Cadwalader Real Estate Team
Sidley Austin LLP announced Thursday that it has hired 14 lawyers from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP for its real estate practice.
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Law Firms Saw Both Associate Hiring, Attrition Rise In 2024
Both associate hiring and departures rose in 2024 from the year before, with the attrition rate lower at large firms, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Law Placement.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Georgia was the destination for several law firms in April as they opened or relocated offices in the Peach State.
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Appeal Fast-Tracked In Feud Over Use Of Ex-Atty's Name
The Second Circuit has fast-tracked an appeal by a Connecticut attorney who lost a lawsuit over his former law firm's alleged unauthorized use of his name and likeness after his firing.
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Fox Rothschild Welcomes 29 New Partners
Fox Rothschild LLP has elevated 29 attorneys in 19 cities and 11 practice groups to partner, and promoted four associates to counsel, the firm announced.
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DLA Piper Elevates 65 Lawyers In US-Heavy Partner Round
DLA Piper said Thursday that it has promoted 65 lawyers from across the globe to its partnership, a slight increase on the previous year's figure as the U.S. accounted for the firm's largest intake of new partners.
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Ex-SEC Counsel Joins Blockchain Co. Plume Network As GC
Plume Network, a blockchain project focused on real-world assets like gold, mineral interests and private credit funds, has hired a former senior special counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as its general counsel, the project announced Wednesday.
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Crypto Co. Drops Suit Against K&L Gates, For Now
A bitcoin mining company has dropped its lawsuit against its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, ending for now its claims that the firm overbilled it and missed a key deadline in a separate bankruptcy action.
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Morgan Stanley's Capital Markets Lead Joins A&O Shearman
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has hired the former head of capital markets legal at Morgan Stanley as a partner in its capital markets practice in New York City, the firm recently announced.
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Weinstein Challenges Accusers' Credibility As Retrial Begins
Harvey Weinstein's attorney told a majority-women jury in his sexual assault retrial Wednesday that the "casting couch is not a crime scene" and that he merely had "mutually beneficial" relationships with aspiring actresses who later accused him of rape and sexual violence.
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The Office Is Back, But Are Lawyers On Board?
The tug-of-war over remote work is far from over, but the latest data from Law360 Pulse's March survey indicates law firms are more comfortable laying down rules requiring at least some office attendance — and lawyers, for the most part, are learning to live with them.
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Constangy Names Atty Trio To Co-Lead AI Practice Group
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP announced it has named three experienced attorneys as the new co-chairs of its artificial intelligence practice group.
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Commercial Foreclosure Atty Joins Offit Kurman's NYC Office
Offit Kurman said Wednesday that it had added David Yohay, a veteran real estate attorney with expertise advising lenders on commercial foreclosures, to its commercial litigation practice group in New York City.
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More New Law School Grads Found Jobs Last Year
The portion of 2024 graduates from U.S. law schools who had secured jobs making use of their degrees 10 months after graduation rose 1.7% compared to a similar analysis performed for 2023 graduates, according to data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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Gibson Dunn Real Estate Atty Joins Milbank's NY Office
Milbank LLP announced Tuesday the addition of a former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP lawyer to its New York office, highlighting his experience handling commercial real estate transactional matters for clients such as private equity and sovereign wealth funds, top financial institutions and family offices.
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Associates Feel Partners' Absence In Return To Office
While law firms continue to push return-to-office policies, recruiters say they have yet to see mass departures in response. The real friction point for associates, they noted, is with senior partners.
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Skadden Adds Partner To NY Financial Institutions Group
Skadden has bolstered its New York-based team of finance attorneys with the addition of a longtime Covington partner into the firm's financial institutions group who brings with him more than two decades of experience including in-house and BigLaw work.
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Ex-Chief Of SDNY Fraud Unit Joins Fenwick White Collar Team
The former co-chief of the Southern District of New York's illicit finance and money laundering unit has returned to private practice at Fenwick & West LLP, where the firm said Wednesday he'll focus on white collar crime and fraud matters.
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New Videos Undercut Ex-Knick's Assault Claim, Judge Hints
A federal judge said Wednesday that new videos appear to show former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley slipping — not being pushed — during a 2017 altercation with Madison Square Garden security, evidence MSG's lawyers say disposes of his assault claims.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Perspectives
Judges On Race: The Path To A More Diverse Bench
To close the diversity gap between the judiciary and the litigants that regularly appear in criminal courts, institutions including police departments, prosecutor offices and defense law firms must be committed to advancing Black and Latino men, says New York Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards.
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The Unique Challenges Of Protecting A Law Firm Brand
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.