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Milbank Adds Former CFTC Official As Special Counsel In DC
Milbank LLP has hired the one-time director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division, who joins the team as a special counsel in Washington, D.C.
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Ex-DOJ Attorney Joins Appellate Firm In New DC Office
A former U.S. Supreme Court clerk with years of government appellate experience has left the U.S. Department of Justice to work for San Francisco-based appellate boutique Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP in its new Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced this week.
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Ropes & Gray Adds Former Homeland Security Policy Leader
A veteran U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy leader has returned to private practice at Ropes & Gray LLP, where he'll co-chair the firm's national security practice, splitting time between Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley, the firm announced on Friday.
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Mitchell Sandler Adds 4 Attys, Launches White Collar Practice
Washington, D.C.-based Mitchell Sandler PLLC has launched a government investigations and white collar criminal practice group with the addition of four attorneys, including two brought on from Dickinson Wright PLLC and Ballard Spahr LLP.
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Ex-Waste Management Exec Named Next Postmaster General
An attorney who has served as president and CEO of Waste Management as well as its general counsel has been selected as the 76th Postmaster General, the Postal Service Board of Governors announced Friday.
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A Look At David Souter's Most Significant Opinions
The retired Justice David Souter defied simple definition, viewed as a staunch conservative until he co-wrote an opinion upholding abortion rights in 1992. He did not hew to partisan lines, but reshaped the civil litigation landscape and took an unexpected stand in an extraordinarily close presidential election.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked another busy week with a flurry of attorneys taking on new legal roles and law firm practice expansions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston & Strawn LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jones Day lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal judge held in a bellwether case in multidistrict litigation that Abbott Laboratories isn't liable for the death of a baby who consumed Similac baby formula.
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DC Boutique Leaders On Scaling Up While Taking On Trump
After joining forces in 2019, Washington, D.C., attorneys Sara Kropf and Andrea Moseley have brought on a new partner, Addy Schmitt, to join the masthead at their white collar defense and complex litigation boutique as the firm takes on an increasingly prominent role in cases challenging Trump administration policies.
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Akin Adds More Trade Help, This Time From Commerce Dept.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has hired two leaders from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, bringing the total announced new hires with trade backgrounds at the firm's D.C. office this week to three, as Washington firms continue responding to changing federal economic policies.
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Justice Souter Was An Unexpected Force Of Moderation
Justice David Souter, who saw the high court as a moderating force apart from the messiness of politics, subverted the expectations of liberals and conservatives alike during his 19 years on the bench.
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Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter Dies At 85
Retired Justice David H. Souter, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 to 2009, has died at 85, the court announced Friday.聽
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McDermott, Schulte Roth Unveil Plans To Join For $2.8B Firm
McDermott Will & Emery LLP said Friday that it was wrapping up a deal to join forces with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP to create a law firm with more than $2.8 billion in global revenue, the latest merger in an increasingly competitive legal landscape.
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Judge Seems To Favor Susman Godfrey In Trump Challenge
A D.C. federal judge appeared poised Thursday to allow Susman Godfrey LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm to proceed or to grant the firm a summary judgment win altogether, after she pressed a government attorney on the president's basis for alleging discrimination at the firm.
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Miller Friel Welcomes Ex-Morgan Lewis Insurance Leader
Miller Friel PLLC announced Thursday that an attorney with more than 40 years of experience in insurance recovery has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as senior counsel.
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Ex-Fed. Circ. Judge Leaves Sullivan & Cromwell For Own Firm
Former Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley has left Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and started her own consulting firm, she announced Thursday.
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Law Students' Pro Bono Hours Valued At Over $157M
Law school students in the class of 2024 contributed at least 4.7 million hours of pro bono services valued at roughly $157 million as part of their education, a survey released this week by the Association of American Law Schools says.
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ABA Defends Free Speech In Response To DOJ's Grant Cutoff
The American Bar Association has told the D.C. federal court the U.S. Department of Justice's decision to cut domestic violence-related grants to the ABA violates its First Amendments rights and sets a precedent that would allow the government to "silence all manner of opposition."
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Convicted Atty In Embassy Attack Seeks To Avoid Restitution
A Florida attorney sentenced to 8 陆 years in prison for damaging a San Antonio sculpture and unsuccessfully trying to detonate explosives outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., has asked the court to eliminate his $325,000 restitution obligation because of his inability to pay.
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Milbank Hires King & Spalding Tax Planning Atty In DC
Milbank LLP has added a former King & Spalding LLP tax attorney as a partner in its global project, energy and infrastructure finance group in Washington, D.C.
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DOJ Civil Rights Appellate Leader Joins Crowell & Moring
Crowell & Moring LLP hired the acting deputy chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division's Appellate Section as a senior counsel who will be based in Washington focusing on a range of higher education matters, the firm announced Thursday.
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Holtzman Vogel Launches State AGs Practice Group
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has announced the launch of a new state attorneys general practice group in response to an increased demand for services related to the government officials' work.
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Trump Replaces Martin With Pirro As US Atty Pick
President Donald Trump said Thursday he would withdraw the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, replacing him with聽former judge and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
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Rising Tide Of Trump Pardons Not Lifting All Boats, Attys Say
President Donald Trump signed off on more pardons and commutations during his first 100 days in office than any president in modern history while bypassing the traditional clemency process that goes through the U.S. Department of Justice, potentially giving false hope to those who believe they have a chance to benefit from the executive actions but lack White House connections.
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3 Ways Troutman Used AI Tools To Streamline Its Firm Merger
In January, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP merged with Locke Lord LLP to form Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. Leaders of the new firm spoke with Law360 Pulse about how they used artificial intelligence tools to save time and money while combining the two firms.