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Longtime Carlton Fields Atty Returns As Miami Co-Head
Carlton Fields announced that a longtime attorney has been named co-managing shareholder of the firm's Miami office for the second time following a stint as chair of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
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Atty Gets 8陆 Years For Attempted Embassy Attack
A Florida attorney who pled guilty to damaging a San Antonio sculpture and unsuccessfully trying to detonate explosives outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 8陆 years Friday, after the judge overseeing the case said the defendant's own statements at the hearing likely got him more time.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
White & Case LLP, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Fish & Richardson PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches.
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Recruiter Reflects On Law's Pay, Culture Changes
Drawing from his four decades in the legal industry, including as a BigLaw litigator and more recently as a legal recruiter, Major Lindsey & Africa managing director Ronald Wood says a number of competing factors in the industry today are driving major shifts in the market.
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Shumaker Continues IP Growth With Florida Patent Hire
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP announced that an experienced patent attorney who's spent over a decade with Burr & Forman LLP has joined the firm's office in Tampa, Florida, as an intellectual property and technology partner.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Attorneys had another action-packed week as data revealed law firm hiring practices and the legal industry continued to respond to President Donald Trump's policies. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Fla. Attys Disbarred, Suspended For Forgery Accusations
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday disbarred a West Palm Beach attorney for making threatening social media posts during litigation, repeatedly failing to file a viable complaint in a toxic tort case, and falsely accusing opposing counsel of forgery, an infraction that also earned his co-counsel a suspension.
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Smith Currie Hires Veteran Construction Atty To Fla. Office
Smith Currie Oles LLP has hired a former Siegfried Rivera construction litigation attorney as partner in the firm's Fort Lauderdale, Florida, office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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PierFerd Hires First Innovation And Partnerships Head
International law firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP has picked a former director of legal innovation from banking giant Citi to be its first-ever head of innovation and partnerships, the firm said Thursday.
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Cozen O'Connor Announces Leadership Moves
Cozen O'Connor has new office leadership in California, Minnesota and New York, and has named several practice group leaders.
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Vetting Law Firm Compensation: Tips For Lateral Partners
As law firms adjust their compensation systems to the changing legal job market, a system that works in favor of one lateral candidate could be a bad fit for another, forcing prospective laterals to wade through seemingly endless pros and cons related to partner pay.
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Falcon Rappaport & Berkman Names Co-Managing Partner
New York business law firm Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP has promoted the chair of its intellectual property practice group and co-chair of its digital assets practice group to co-managing partner.
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Taft Leader Talks Merger Strategy Behind Florida Launch
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP's chairman and managing partner, Robert J. Hicks, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss the firm's approach to mergers ahead of its combination with a Florida litigation boutique.
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Ex-Atty Gets 3 Years In Prison For Using Fake IDs To Get Jobs
A former attorney has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to using false identification in order to obtain jobs at multiple law firms in Florida, California and elsewhere following his disbarment in Ohio, according to federal prosecutors.
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Fla. Inmate Pleads Guilty To Threatening To Kill Federal Judge
A Florida state prisoner has pled guilty to sending several letters to the federal courthouse in Miami threatening to have gang members kill a certain U.S. district judge and bomb the courthouse and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Group To Study ABA Accreditation Req. For Fla. Bar Exam
The Florida Supreme Court said Wednesday it would convene a workgroup to reconsider a rule requiring applicants for the state bar exam to have graduated from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, citing concerns about the ABA's accreditation standards on racial and ethnic diversity and the organization's "active political engagement."
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By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing
Lateral hiring among the top 200 law firms rebounded in 2024, with firms adding 900 lateral hires, according to a new Leopard Solutions report that also highlighted ongoing transitions in the legal industry, including generational leadership shifts, evolving career aspirations, and growing pressures on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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First-Time Bar Passage Rate Improved In 2024
Nearly 83% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2024 passed, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2023, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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Nelson Mullins Real Estate Ace Joins Kutak Rock In Fla.
A former Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partner who has helped close more than $1 billion in real estate transactions in just the past two years has moved her practice to Kutak Rock LLP's Tallahassee, Florida, office.
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Fla. Firm Jimerson Birr Taps Business Litigator As New Head
A business litigation attorney who worked his way up from serving as a law clerk at Florida law firm Jimerson Birr PA will now serve as the firm's managing partner.
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Rising Caseloads Call For 71 New Judges: Judicial Conference
The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday asked Congress to create dozens of new judgeships in districts across the country in an effort to address what it calls a "worsening shortage" of judges amid mounting caseloads, months after then-President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to add 63 new permanent judgeships over partisan concerns.
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Carlton Fields Tax Ace Jumps To Trenam Law In Fla.
Florida's Trenam Law has added a past chair of the tax section of the state bar after her 25-year stint at Carlton Fields PA.
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Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says
Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.
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Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent
On-campus interviewing聽鈥斅燼n outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates聽鈥� is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Office Depot Parent Co. CLO's 2024 Comp Dropped To $1.67M
The chief legal officer for the Florida-based parent company of Office Depot LLC saw her total compensation drop by almost $400,000 to less than $1.7 million in 2024.