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Norton Rose Adds K&L Gates Product Liability Litigator In LA
Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its product liability team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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5th Paul Weiss Atty Joins New Firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee
A partner with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced on LinkedIn this week that he's joining a new small firm that consists of other former Paul Weiss partners.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Ex-Weil M&A Pro In NYC
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday the hiring of a former counsel at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Reid Collins' Lisa Tsai
Reid Collins & Tsai LLP co-founder and managing partner Lisa Tsai and her team secured a $64.7 million final judgment against Credit Suisse for its role in a fraudulent appraisal that overvalued the Lake Las Vegas development, inducing plaintiff Claymore Holdings and other lenders to invest, earning her recognition as one of Law360鈥檚 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.
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Wilson Sonsini's DC Office Grows With Longtime USPTO Atty
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired a longtime official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,聽who started her career at the agency in 1988 as a patent examiner and who joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a senior patent counsel, the firm said Tuesday.
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Kirkland Capital Markets Pro Joins Gibson Dunn In Houston
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has bulked up its capital markets practice group with the addition of a Houston-based partner from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Linklaters Taps Former Shearman Co-Head As Americas Chair
Linklaters LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed George Casey, its global chairman of corporate, as chairman of the Americas.
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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
A rebound in client work sent the nation鈥檚 largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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BakerHostetler Adds Two Real Estate Partners In Seattle
BakerHostetler said it has added a former K&L Gates LLP real estate partner and a real estate practice group leader from a regional firm in its Seattle office.
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Katten Adds 4 Ex-Kirkland Attys To Healthcare Practice
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced聽Tuesday that it has hired two partners and two associates from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to boost Katten's regulatory and transactional expertise in the firm's healthcare practice.
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MoFo Adds DOJ Official To Help Lead Investigations Team
Morrison Foerster LLP has hired the former assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, who is joining the firm to co-lead its congressional investigations group, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Crowell & Moring Opens In Boston With Faber Daeufer Tie-Up
Crowell & Moring LLP and Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC announced Tuesday they have combined, allowing Crowell聽& Moring to open an office in Boston that builds on Faber Daeufer's strong presence in the city's life sciences community.
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Jenner & Block Ruling 'Meant What It Said,' Judge Tells Feds
The order striking down the Trump administration's executive order targeting Jenner & Block LLP "meant what it said," a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Monday, saying the government must rescind enforcement of all parts of the president's directive.
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Trump Taps Vinson & Elkins Atty To Replace FERC Chair
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney to replace current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie, whose term expires on June 30.
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Clark Hill Adds 3 Oil And Gas Attys In Pa., W.Va.
Clark Hill PLC recently bolstered its resources for oil and gas industry clients in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania and West Virginia by adding a trio of attorneys who moved their practices from Bernstein-Burkley PC.
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Former New York Jets GC Tackles New Role At Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells has expanded its corporate and finance group in New York with the addition of the former legal leader for the National Football League's New York Jets.
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Ropes & Gray Gets 'Innovative' New Office In Silicon Valley
Ropes & Gray LLP has moved its Silicon Valley office to a new location in downtown Palo Alto, California, a move to strengthen its presence in the tech region, the firm announced Monday.
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Tech, Privacy Atty Returns To Weil After Stint At Cooley
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday it has rehired a privacy and cybersecurity attorney from Cooley LLP as a partner, touting her expertise with technologies like artificial intelligence.
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Legal Reforms Leading To Different Results In Utah, Ariz.
The top state courts in Arizona and Utah each implemented reforms聽allowing more companies and organizations to provide legal services聽that are leading to different results five years later, according to a study released Monday by Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.
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Mayer Brown Adds Restructuring Co-Head From Cahill Gordon
An attorney specializing in assisting corporate clients with bankruptcy matters has recently left Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP after more than 17 years and moved his practice to Mayer Brown LLP, where he has been tapped to co-lead the firm's restructuring group.
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Holland & Knight Adds Squire Patton RE Pro In Dallas
Holland & Knight LLP has added a former Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner in its Dallas office, bolstering its real estate section.
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Foley & Lardner Opens In Nashville With 3 Holland & Knight Attys
Foley & Lardner LLP has chosen Nashville as the location for its 27th office worldwide, bringing on three attorneys who had been at Holland & Knight LLP to work on regulatory, tax and transactional matters, the firm announced Monday.
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Dentons Adds Ex-Covington Gov't Contracts Ace To DC Team
Dentons has hired a former Covington & Burling LLP special counsel in the nation's capital who spent almost nine years at his former firm advising federal contractors on investigations, compliance and related matters the firm announced Monday.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Labaton Keller's Ned Weinberger
Ned Weinberger, a partner at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, said he never expected that his clients' suit challenging a $23.9 billion Dell Technologies Inc. stock swap would reach a whopping $1 billion settlement, let alone result in the largest prejudgment recovery ever achieved in a fiduciary duty action in the Delaware Chancery Court.
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Ex-蜜桃视频 Assistant General Counsel Returns To V&E
A former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney, who left to join the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eventually became the agency's assistant general counsel, has returned to the firm that he left for public service, according to a Monday announcement.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at聽Beveridge & Diamond.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at聽Squire Patton.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at聽McGuireWoods.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.