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Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.Â
Holtzman Vogel had a busy week of growth, announcing three lateral hires in Florida and Washington, D.C., to enhance the firm's land use, environmental, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, and political law practice groups.
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
Maynard Nexsen PC has added an eight-attorney insurance team from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, including three shareholders, who will enhance its capabilities to handle Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims.
Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A law firm accused by a Florida state judge of causing her emotional distress via blackmail is suing its insurer, alleging the insurer underpaid the firm's defense counsel by nearly $600,000 in connection with the settled underlying lawsuit she filed.
A widow and former licensed practical nurse urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to eliminate a code provision that only allows for-cause removal of U.S. Tax Court judges — saying it restricts presidential power — or else declare the provision unconstitutional because the Tax Court isn't a part of the executive branch.
With 37 years in bankruptcy law under his belt, Florida State University College of Law adjunct professor Michael Markham has launched a bankruptcy pro bono clinic to connect future attorneys with the much-needed practice that he's enjoyed for so many years.
The top legal officers at Broadcom, Merit Medical Systems and Meta gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay days in March by selling stock in their companies.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC strengthened its Miami ranks with the addition of a new patent litigator from his own firm, Goma Law PLLC.
Berger Singerman LLP announced that a pair of bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys from Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns LLP have joined the firm's Tampa, Florida, office as part of its business reorganization team.
Phelps Dunbar LLP announced Wednesday that it will combine with Pensacola's Beggs & Lane on May 1, venturing into the Florida Panhandle for the first time.
Lawyers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi has tapped a onetime Greenberg Traurig PA shareholder and former leader of a team that advised an ad hoc court formed to prosecute Saddam Hussein as the next interim U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida.
Even as corporate legal departments become more selective in recommending outside counsel to their peers, 23 law firms have managed to earn top marks for building trust and relationship management, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Wednesday that it has boosted its intellectual property offerings with a partner in Miami who joined from Weiss & Arons LLP.
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 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.
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.
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.
Florida business law firm Gunster added 14 attorneys to its growing roster through a merger with boutique Katz Barron, the firm announced Tuesday.
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.
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.
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.
Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?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.Â
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.
Brian Burlant at Major Lindsey looks at how pandemic-era remote work has changed the way law firms operate — from shifts in secretarial functions to associate professional development — and explains why some alterations may be here to stay.
Opinion
Fla. Jury Selection Success Shows Viability Of Remote TrialsThe success of a Broward County, Florida, court earlier this month in conducting jury selection online is a true testament of faith in the jury system, and there is no doubt trials can be conducted via a video platform during the pandemic, says Chief Judge Jack Tuter of Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit.