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Eversheds Sutherland Brings Back Former CLO In Atlanta
Eversheds Sutherland has brought back the former chief legal officer and corporate secretary for heavy construction materials manufacturer Argos North America Corp., strengthening its corporate practice with an attorney having experience in mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Seyfarth Elevates 6 Leaders In Its Labor, Employment Practice
Seyfarth Shaw LLP this week unveiled a slate of six newly appointed labor and employment leaders on both coasts, praising the impact they've had on the firm and its clients throughout their tenures so far.
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BigLaw Partners Form Group To Challenge Executive Orders
As of Tuesday afternoon, 170 BigLaw partners had joined a new group aimed at rallying their collective power to push back against what they called the president's unconstitutional actions, even as large law firms largely refrain from taking a stance.
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Nelson Mullins Team Joins Duane Morris In DC, Atlanta, Miami
Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it is expanding its corporate practice by bringing in a team of five Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP transactional attorneys — including two partners — in its Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami locations.
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Ga. Appeals Court Rips Judge For Denying Recusal Bid
A Georgia Court of Appeals panel on Monday stripped a child custody case from a Fulton County judge after finding he improperly denied a mother's recusal motion instead of referring it to another jurist.
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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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Home Depot's GC Saw '24 Comp Increase To $3.6M
The Home Depot Inc. paid its general counsel more than $3.6 million in total compensation in 2024, a 7% increase from her total compensation in 2023, the Atlanta-based company said in a securities filing.
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Bradley Arant Taps Former Butler Snow COO For Same Role
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced Monday that it has hired a new chief operating officer, who previously served in the same post at Butler Snow LLP, to oversee its administration, human resources, finance, technology and other operational functions.
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Farmer Purcell Name Partner Joins JAMS In Atlanta
Alternative dispute resolution services provider JAMS said Monday it has added a former Farmer Purcell White & Lassiter partner in Atlanta, bringing on an attorney who has handled more than 70 jury trials over his decadeslong career as a litigator.
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11th Circ. Tosses Former Atty's Extortion Conviction
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday overturned the conviction of a former criminal defense attorney for extorting a client for cash, finding in a published opinion that there was insufficient evidence.
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Ogletree To Move To Smaller Atlanta Office Next Year
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is planning to move to a smaller and more modern office in Atlanta early next year, occupying a floor in the Bank of America Plaza building and leaving its longtime location in two floors at 191 Peachtree Tower, the firm's chief administrative officer told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Georgia's New Chief Justice Talks Defending Rule Of Law
Since taking the post Tuesday, Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Nels Peterson said that as the leader of the state's judiciary, he's focused on promoting the rule of law, which for him means "nobody is above the law's requirements or below the law's protections."
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
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
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
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.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
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.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
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.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
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.
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ATM Company Sanctioned For 'Objectively Frivolous' Claim
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday tossed an attempt to relitigate a patent infringement suit brought by an ATM technology company against a competitor, and sanctioned its attorneys for bringing the "objectively frivolous" claim that the competitor defrauded the court in a previous suit.
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11th Circ. Urged To End For-Cause Firing Of Tax Court Judges
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.
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Chamberlain Hrdlicka To Leave Longtime Atlanta Digs In 2026
Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry plans to move its Atlanta office down the street in September 2026, bringing more than 60 of the midsize law firm's employees to the 19th and 20th floors of 999 Peachtree St., CBRE said Thursday.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Broadcom, Meta And More
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.
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'Values-Led' Health Law Boutique Kicks Off In Atlanta
A pair of founders of Health Law Strategists LLC announced Wednesday they have launched a national boutique in Atlanta called Aligned Health Law LLC.
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When Can Attys Decide To Drop Clients? ABA Says It Depends
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."
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Eversheds Sutherland's New US-Based Leaders Start Roles
Eversheds Sutherland started April with new leadership in the U.S. as former global energy sector co-head Lino Mendiola III began his term as the firm's global co-CEO and U.S. chief executive, and former global board co-chair Adam Cohen stepped into the role of U.S. executive partner.
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Trump Can't Dodge Suit Over Use Of Isaac Hayes Song
President Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign on Wednesday were denied an early exit from a suit over their use of the 1966 song "Hold On, I'm Coming," as a Georgia federal judge ruled that the estate of soul artist Isaac Hayes plausibly alleged it held the rights to the song he co-authored.