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CLO Calls Company Crises 'The Best' Learning Experiences
After Karen Mulroe joined Greenway Health in 2018, people often asked why she didn't run away from her role, given that the company was involved in a federal聽investigation. In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, the chief legal officer explained what she calls the "clear answer" to that question, and to other corporate legal challenges.
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Litigation Support Co. Opens First Southeastern Office
First Legal, a provider of litigation support services throughout the country, announced Tuesday the opening of an office in Hollywood, Florida, broadening its market to the Southeast.
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Legal Carveout For Staff Sinks DA Aide's Pregnancy Bias Suit
A top aide to Atlanta's former district attorney who alleged she was fired for getting pregnant falls under an exception to federal anti-discrimination law as an elected official's staffer, the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday, backing the dismissal of her bias suit.
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Gunster Expands Fla. Footprint With 14-Atty Boutique Merger
Florida business law firm Gunster added 14 attorneys to its growing roster through a merger with boutique Katz Barron, the firm announced Tuesday.
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BCLP Names New COO And Chief People Officer
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired Newmark Group's former chief human resources officer as its chief people officer and shifted its chief financial officer to also serve as its chief operating officer, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Hunton Andrews Names New Office, Practice Group Leaders
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed several attorneys to key leadership posts, including new leaders of its Miami and Richmond offices.
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Freeman Mathis Fuels Fla. Growth With Tampa Boutique Attys
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP announced Tuesday it has continued growing in Florida with the addition of three attorneys from Batteese Agliano & Gale PLLC in Tampa.
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Fox Rothschild Names Office, Practice Group, Dept. Leaders
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has installed new office managing partners in four cities, added co-chairs to its taxation and wealth planning department, and brought on an aviation practice group co-chair as part of the firm's standard leadership rotation.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
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How Lewis Brisbois Is Addressing Associate Pay Delay
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired two new staff members and is working to refine its process for determining discretionary bonuses and merit pay after the firm notified a portion of its associates this week that those payments would be delayed.
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Morgan & Morgan Taps Fla. Atty To Lead Malpractice Dept.
Injury law giant Morgan & Morgan PA has found a new leader for its national medical malpractice department in the founding partner of a small Florida firm, Paul Knopf Bigger.
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Carlton Fields Faces DQ Bid In $500M Miss America Suit
Carlton Fields faces a disqualification bid for allegedly having a conflict of interest in a $500 million lawsuit regarding the ownership of the company that runs the Miss America pageant.
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Former Paramount Global VP Joins Day Pitney In Miami
Day Pitney LLP has brought a former executive for Latin America at Paramount Global to its Miami office to help lead the firm's sports, media and entertainment practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Firms Look To Build Ties With Clients Amid Lateral Churn
The departure of a key partner from a law firm in many cases can mean the departure of a major client in tandem, a vulnerability law firms are increasingly looking to address through strategies to build stronger institutional relationships with their clients.
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Meet Jenner & Block, WilmerHale's Attys In Trump Order Suits
A slew of experienced litigators and appellate advocates from Cooley LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC signed on Friday to represent Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale in the BigLaw firms' respective lawsuits over President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting them.
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Shutts & Bowen Accused Of Sinking Florida Country Club Sale
A real estate corporation is suing Florida firm Shutts & Bowen LLP and one of its partners for malpractice, alleging that as part of a fee dispute, they scuttled a deal for the sale of a country club that the business had been negotiating.
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Ex-Hofstra GC Joins Wounded Warrior Project As Legal Chief
The former general counsel of Hofstra University has joined the Wounded Warrior Project as its vice president and general counsel to steer its legal functions, a representative for the nonprofit organization confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
UCLA School of Law's Supreme Court Clinic and Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP head this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended March with another action-packed week as firms elevated attorneys and President Donald Trump aimed another executive order at a prominent BigLaw shop. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
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Judges Block Trump's Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Orders
Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale both won temporary restraining orders late Friday blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, with two Washington, D.C., federal judges determining the firms have shown the orders are likely retaliation for their representation of certain clients.
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Former Capitol Hill Staffer Joins Taylor English In Southeast
A veteran attorney with a wide variety of experience including stints on Capitol Hill, with the District of Columbia government and as a Bloomberg product director, has joined Taylor English Duma LLP as a partner in Florida and Georgia, the firm has announced.
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Fla. High Court Widens Anti-SLAPP Rights In Blogger Suit
A split Florida Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the right of a Miami-area blogger to challenge a defamation lawsuit, allowing state appellate courts to review rulings denying bids to toss such complaints based on strategic lawsuits against public participation provisions, or anti-SLAPP, before those cases have concluded.
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Marriott Vacations GC Saw Comp Climb In '24 After Dip
The top attorney at Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. saw his total compensation rise in 2024 to more than $1.9 million after a decrease in 2023, according to a new securities filing Thursday.
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What Tomorrow's Attys Expect To See At Law Firms
Future lawyers demand that their law firms value diversity, offer a work-life balance and embrace cutting-edge technology, a group of experts said during a panel discussion on Wednesday.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
It was a month of expansion for several law firms throughout the country, with some moving to larger offices and others adding new locations.