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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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Military Spouses Are Untapped Pool Of Attorney Talent
Service members' spouses in the legal profession present a massive well of untapped talent, though balancing a law career with their families' service to the country can be challenging, attorneys working in and with this community tell Law360 Pulse.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the beginning of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms made new hires and adjusted their practices.
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Hinshaw Adds McGlinchey Stafford Finance Atty In Texas
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced it has hired a 20-year veteran of McGlinchey Stafford PLLC who focuses his practice on a range of financial services-related and consumer finance work.
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Norton Rose AI Leader Talks Mixed Terrain For 'Evolving' Tech
As head of Norton Rose Fulbright's new artificial intelligence practice team in the U.S., Chuck Hollis said he and other firm attorneys are aiming to guide corporate clients through their use of the "constantly evolving" technology amid differing regulations across the globe.
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Duane Morris Litigator Jumps To Michael Best In Austin
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in a Duane Morris LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Austin, Texas, office.
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5th Circ. Won't Revive Owner Suit Over Litigation Funding Co.
The Fifth Circuit has affirmed a decision saying that, based on Texas law, no valid profit-sharing contract exists between parties who formed a business to provide pre-settlement medical advancement loans to litigants.
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And The Oscars' Legal Questions Go To ... John Quinn
When he was the general counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Quinn Emanuel founding partner John Quinn attended the Oscars dozens of times, and he did so with a copy of the broadcast network contract tucked into his tuxedo pocket.
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Equity Concerns Follow Mass Torts' March Into Bankruptcy
After decades of suffering and waiting, a group of more than 82,000 childhood sexual abuse survivors recently reached a $2.5 billion bankruptcy settlement with the Boy Scouts of America and related groups. Yet the survivors may once again be in suspense.
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Latham Passes Skadden As Busiest Securities Defense Firm
Despite a downward trend in securities case filings over the past three years, Latham & Watkins LLP has remained one of the most active law firms on the defense side, taking over the top spot from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, according to reports released by Lex Machina.
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Litigation Funder Virage Capital's GC Joins Winstead In Dallas
Texas firm Winstead PC announced that the former general counsel of litigation funder Virage Capital Management LP joined the firm as a shareholder and the new co-chair of its investment management and private funds industry group.
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Flotek Taps Veteran Energy Atty As New GC
Houston-based environmental tech company Flotek Industries Inc. announced the appointment of a veteran in-house attorney with nearly a decade spent in the energy industry as its new general counsel.
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The Firms Charging Into Secondary Cities As BigLaw Retreats
While top-tier firms have recently tapered their migration to secondary legal markets, firm leaders and recruiters say these locations continue to hold appeal for midtier firms, citing advantages such as lower expenses and competitive billing rates.
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McGuireWoods Adds 2 Former Federal Prosecutors In Dallas
McGuireWoods LLP announced Wednesday that two former federal prosecutors who specialize in healthcare regulatory and compliance issues have joined the firm as partners in Dallas.
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Nathan Sommers Rebrands, Relocates, Refreshes In Houston
George Gibson, a co-managing partner of boutique Nathan Sommers Gibson Dillon, formerly Nathan Sommers Jacobs, said the firm's recent name change and move to a modernized space in Houston were a reflection of the 53-year-old corporate firm's evolution and "mission into the future."
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Where E-Discovery Generative AI Efforts Currently Stand
More e-discovery companies are announcing new capabilities that harness the power of generative artificial intelligence, but I'm hearing confusion among some law firm leaders about the immediate availability of the tools in a more crowded legal tech market.
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Incumbents On Texas High Court Poised To Lose Seats
Dozens of judicial seats were up for grabs this Super Tuesday, including three spots on the state's highest criminal court held by incumbent justices who by late in the evening appeared poised to lose their seats.
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Judge Still Weighing Houston Judicial Candidate's Eligibility
Hours before the polls closed on Super Tuesday, a state judge was still mulling a temporary injunction in favor of a Harris County judge challenging the eligibility of his Democratic opponent.
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Wells Fargo Accused Of Enabling Ex-Texas Atty's Fraud
Victims of a former San Antonio lawyer's multimillion-dollar fraud scheme claim his theft was enabled by Wells Fargo willfully turning a blind eye to the lawyer's misuse of trust accounts holding client funds, according to a lawsuit in Texas federal court that alleges the bank profited from this scheme.
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Philly, Dallas Feds Name New Top Attys
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced it has promoted its deputy general counsel to senior vice president and general counsel, following a similar announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas about its former interim general counsel.
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Paxton Rips 'Hurt Feelings' Bid To Keep Firing Suit Alive
In a bid to skirt depositions by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several high-ranking staffers, the Office of the Attorney General has argued that whistleblowers who accused Paxton of firing them for reporting alleged misconduct are not entitled to conduct more investigation because he has already agreed not to contest the allegations.
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DLA Piper Adds Merck SVP As New Life Sciences Sector Chair
An experienced in-house attorney with a longtime passion for life sciences and medicine has left her position as a C-suite executive at biopharmaceutical giant Merck to join DLA Piper as the chair of its life sciences sector.
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Haynes Boone Atty's Return Marks Firm's Latest Rehire
Real estate transaction attorney George Hinchey returned to Haynes and Boone LLP in the firm's San Antonio, Texas, office, making him the eighth attorney to return since the start of 2023, the firm announced.
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Tully Rinckey's Atty Contracts Offer Warning To Other Firms
The ongoing disciplinary case against the founders of Tully Rinckey PLLC over restrictions the firm placed on departing attorneys is an unusual one, but experts say it's still an important reminder for lawyers to be mindful of the ethical considerations of their employment agreements.
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Texas Firm Grabbed Cups Of Tea To Land Retired 'Judge V'
Sean Roberts knew what it would take to draw retired U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore back into private practice at the Houston litigation firm he co-founded. A cup of tea.