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New York Pulse
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Justices Won't Review Ex-BigLaw Atty's OneCoin Conviction
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a former Locke Lord LLP partner's appeal of his conviction and prison sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme.
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Moritt Hock Launches Business Divorce Practice
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP has formed a business divorce practice group to resolve complex disputes between owners of closely held businesses, the New York-based commercial law firm announced Monday.
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2nd Circ. Says Exxon Must Pay Atty Fees For 'Absurd' Args
The Second Circuit on Friday said energy giants including Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them for deceptive practices around climate change, for advancing "absurd" arguments in remand proceedings.
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Combs Gets 50 Mos. For Prostitution As Court Cites Violence
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to 50 months in prison Friday, after a jury found him guilty of transporting two former girlfriends for prostitution, citing "massive" evidence of violent attacks the hip-hop icon inflicted over a decade.
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Some Longtime Legal Blogs Go Quiet As Platform Shuts Down
When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure this week marked the end of an era that has found some bloggers looking for new homes or opting to call it quits.
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NY Atty's Big Mouth Wins Client New Trial
A New York appeals court has reversed a man's 6½-year sentence for weapons possession and granted him a new trial after finding his defense attorney "created an actual conflict of interest by prematurely disclosing confidential information to the court."
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Hausfeld LLP's handling of a suit on behalf of the city of Philadelphia and Foley Hoag LLP's work on an $8 billion biotech acquisition lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Sept. 19 to Oct. 3.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Williams & Connolly LLP and Skaggs Faucette LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge issued a rare post-mistrial verdict arrangement that ordered Biogen to pay Genentech Inc. more than $88 million in royalties.
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Nixon Peabody Bolsters Real Estate, Tax Teams With 4 Hires
Nixon Peabody LLP has hired four lateral counsel with in-house, government and BigLaw experience for its project finance, infrastructure and real estate departments.
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Constellation Brands Names New Top Atty As CLO Retires
Constellation Brands Inc., the makers of Corona and Modelo beer and other alcoholic beverages, has recently announced a successor for its outgoing chief legal officer who will retire from his position and transition to a new role in March.
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Sports Industry Dealmaker Joins Kirkland From Proskauer
A Proskauer Rose LLP attorney known for his work on major corporate deals in the sports industry has moved his practice to Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the matter told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Lippes Mathias Names First Chief Growth Officer
Lippes Mathias LLP has named a longtime partner to serve as its first chief growth officer as part of what the firm has called the "professionalization" of its C-level leadership structure, which also included naming a chief legal officer and chief advisory officer earlier this year.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week, with more government attorneys moving to private practice, leadership changes and artificial intelligence-related court filing mishaps. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Dentons, Boies Schiller Escape $300M Fraud Suit
A New York federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a $300 million fraud and racketeering lawsuit brought against Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client with respect to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.
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Shaky Global Landscape? All Part Of The Job For This CLO
With an uncertain geopolitical environment, and the U.S. government reshaping its visa program, Rupa Patel sees her new job as chief legal officer at Vialto Partners as guiding a legal team that must deal daily with this rapidly changing global landscape.
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Legal Aid Attys End Suit Over Palestine Resolution Discipline
Three legal aid attorneys have settled a labor lawsuit against their union, wrapping litigation in New York federal court that accused the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys of violating the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by moving to discipline the members for suing to block a pro-Palestine resolution.
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Morgan Lewis Elevates 29 Lawyers To Partner
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has promoted 29 attorneys from 12 offices and 10 practice groups to partner, the firm announced this week.
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Goodwin Promotes 37 Attorneys To Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP kicked off October with the promotion of more than 35 attorneys at 11 of its offices to partner.
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NY Courts Back Use Of New Evidence Management Tech
The chief administrative judge of the New York Courts encouraged its commercial division in an administrative order to take advantage of web-based digital platforms known as virtual evidence courtrooms to help manage and present evidence during trials.
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Epstein Becker C-Suite Hires Talk 'Super Boutique' Ambitions
Epstein Becker Green recently built out its C-suite with two New York business and finance leaders amid its larger plans to position the midsize employment and healthcare firm as a high-value, streamlined alternative to its larger competitors.
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Legal AI Platform Harvey Expands To 11 More Law Schools
Harvey, a domain-specific generative artificial intelligence platform for legal professionals, announced Tuesday that it is expanding the law school alliance program it launched last month to even more institutions.
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2 Shareholder Groups Call Exxon Voting Program Illegal
Two activist shareholder groups are asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to rescind its effective approval of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s new voting program, which allows retail investors to choose a standing, multiyear instruction to vote in favor of management, claiming it is illegal.
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Napoli Shkolnik Beats Atty's Abandoned Bias Suit
The former head of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC's personal injury group has lost the bias lawsuit she filed against the firm on procedural grounds, with a federal judge in Manhattan finding the lawyer presented "literally no admissible evidence" backing up her racial discrimination claims.
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Simpson Thacher Taps Barclays Atty For Shareholder Group
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced on Wednesday it has hired a former Barclays Capital attorney to lead its shareholder engagement and activism defense group.
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Sheppard Mullin Eyes Rebrand Ahead Of 100th Anniversary
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has filed a trademark application to potentially shorten its branding and logo to one word in anticipation of the firm's 100 years in business.
Expert Analysis
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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.