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Baker Donelson Begins Next Generation Of HR Leadership
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has created a chief people officer role, tapping Venable LLP's former vice president of human resources for the job, the firm announced on Monday. Here, Sheila Turybury talks to Law360 Pulse about her goals in the new role and her ongoing tour of the firm's offices.
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Judiciary Panel Advances New Rules On Amici, AI, Subpoenas
The federal judiciary's top policy panel Tuesday propelled revamped rules regarding numerous hot legal topics, including artificial intelligence, "dark money" groups bankrolling amicus briefs and the subpoena powers of courts and defense counsel.
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ABA 'Surprised And Disappointed' By DOJ Shunning
The American Bar Association on Tuesday defended its long-standing process for reviewing judicial nominees and said Attorney General Pam Bondi was wrong to call the group an "activist organization."
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State Chief Justices Blast Plans To Cut Legal Services Corp.
A coalition of 37 state Supreme Court chief justices have asked federal lawmakers to reject President Donald Trump's plans to eliminate the Legal Services Corp., arguing that the "justice system is hobbled when citizens are deprived of legal counsel."
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House Conservatives Push Senate To 'Rein In' Judges
House conservatives are imploring their Senate counterparts to do more to "rein in" federal judges with the budget reconciliation package.
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Top 蜜桃视频 Enforcer Quits Over 'Devastating' Agency Pullback
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's top enforcement official resigned Tuesday, saying she can no longer effectively do her job under leadership that "has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way."
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MoFo Adds Troutman Pepper Financial Services Duo In DC
Morrison Foerster LLP said Tuesday it is boosting its financial services and fintech groups with the addition of a former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. executive and a past Federal Reserve Board attorney.
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More Ex-Gov't Attys Weigh Launching Firms Amid Job Crunch
As ex-government attorneys flood the Washington, D.C., job market amid the Trump administration鈥檚 push to thin the federal workforce, more are launching firms of their own, including shops from top lawyers from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Department of Energy. But practice management advisers warn that hanging a shingle isn鈥檛 right for every government lawyer.
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SEC's Investment Management Chief Greiner To Leave Agency
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission veteran Natasha Vij Greiner is stepping down as the director of the agency's investment management division, ending a nearly 24-year career serving the SEC in multiple roles, regulators announced Tuesday.
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Brownstein Hyatt Launches Public Affairs Practice
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has added a public affairs practice by absorbing bipartisan Washington, D.C., public affairs company FORA Partners, with the firm saying the new practice will support its legal and lobbying clients.
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Baker Donelson Creates New Chief People Officer Role
Venable LLP's vice president of human resources has joined Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC in Baltimore as its chief people officer.
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Fenwick Adds General Dynamics Atty To Gov't Contracts Team
The former associate general counsel of General Dynamics Mission Systems, who spent more than two decades as a member of the defense and aerospace company's executive leadership, has joined Fenwick & West LLP's government contracts and public sector procurement group.
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Civil Rights Atty Returning To Lead MacArthur Justice Center
The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center announced Tuesday that it will soon welcome back the founder and former director of its Supreme Court and appellate program to serve as the third executive director in its 40-year history.
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DLA Piper Adds Former FTC Senior Attorney To AI Group
Former Federal Trade Commission senior attorney Michael Atleson has joined DLA Piper as of counsel in its artificial intelligence and data analytics practice.
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AI Helping Legal Professionals Tackle Feelings Of Burnout
The majority of surveyed legal professionals think that using AI has helped reduce feelings of burnout at work, according to contract management platform Ironclad's second annual State of AI in Legal report released Tuesday.
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Senate Confirms Brett Shumate To Head DOJ Civil Division
The Senate voted 51-41 along party lines on Monday evening to confirm Brett Shumate to be assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Justices Urged To Keep Pause On 'Breakneck' Gov't Overhaul
The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a California federal judge's order barring implementation of layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, several unions and nonprofits argued Monday, claiming a decision allowing the changes would irreversibly harm the federal government and render Congress and the judiciary powerless.
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Sheppard Mullin Adds Perkins Coie IP Trio In DC, Chicago
Three Perkins Coie LLP intellectual property partners with deep experience representing clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and related industries have jumped to Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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Centrus Energy's GC Departs, Deputy To Fill In As Acting GC
The former general counsel of Centrus Energy Corp., a nuclear fuel and service company, is leaving his role at the end of June, and the company has tapped its deputy general counsel and director of corporate compliance to step in as the top corporate lawyer in the interim, according to a recent regulatory filing.
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WilmerHale Seeks Full Fed Compliance On Struck-Down Order
WilmerHale is asking a D.C. federal judge to make clear that a ruling invalidating an executive order against the firm applies to all federal agencies subject to President Donald Trump's directives.
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Law Firm Data Breaches Hit New High As Threats Escalate
Despite years of warnings and heavy cybersecurity spending, law firms remain prime targets for cybercriminals, with breaches hitting record highs in 2024, according to a Law360 Pulse analysis that found even top firms struggling to contain the fallout.
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2 More Paul Weiss Partners Leave For Breakaway Boutique
Two more Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partners and several associates have jumped to a boutique firm made up of former top Paul Weiss lawyers that launched just months after Paul Weiss struck a deal with the Trump administration to avoid an executive order targeting its business.
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Fla. Bar Rejects Ethics Probe Of Bondi While She's In Office
The Florida Bar has told a group of lawyers, law professors and former judges that it will not open an ethics investigation into Pam Bondi's actions as attorney general, saying in a letter that it doesn't "investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office."
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Simpson Thacher Mourns Chair, Pioneering Dealmaker Beattie
Richard "Dick" Beattie, the senior chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP whose pioneering deal work helped cement private equity's place in mergers and acquisitions, died on Friday at 86, the firm announced.
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Bondi's Brother Soundly Defeated After Heated DC Bar Race
A solo employment attorney has overwhelmingly defeated the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a race for D.C. Bar president that drew national attention.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
We Need More Professional Diversity In The Federal Judiciary
With the current overrepresentation of former corporate lawyers on the federal bench, the Biden administration must prioritize professional diversity in judicial nominations and consider lawyers who have represented workers, consumers and patients, says Navan Ward,聽president of the American Association for Justice.