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The White House told a D.C. federal judge that granting and revoking security clearances is up to the executive branch alone, urging the court to toss national security lawyer Mark S. Zaid's challenge to the stripping of his clearance.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday the hire of a pair of former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys who have worked together across multiple firms for nearly 15 years to its corporate finance practice, which the firm says has grown from three to 16 partners over the last five years.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it has added a former DLA Piper attorney in Dallas who is relocating her investment management practice to Abu Dhabi in the coming months, reinforcing the firm's commitment to growth in the Middle East.
One of the former government lawyers who defied a top U.S. Department of Justice official's orders to drop the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams for political reasons has joined Hueston Hennigan LLP as a New York partner, the firm announced Monday.
Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Adobe, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Duke Energy. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.
Crowell & Moring LLP hired a former in-house Yale University associate general counsel with real estate transactions experience as senior counsel for the firm's corporate group in New York, the firm announced.
While many in the legal industry may be apprehensive about generative artificial intelligence, leaders at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP are working to get the firm's attorneys excited about the technology and willing to experiment with it in their work.
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP said Monday that it has successfully completed its merger with Kramer Levin of New York, creating a transatlantic law firm with more than $2 billion in revenue.
As more than half of young lawyers cite workplace toxicity as the reason they left their jobs, a panel of attorneys said Friday that many of the professionals they've listened to aren't willing to dismiss bullying as a rite of passage.
Clement & Murphy PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale.
Ballard Spahr LLP announced it has added an experienced litigator as of counsel in the firm's Baltimore office, bringing both private practice and in-house experience, most recently as senior legal counsel for Sinclair Broadcast Group LLC, to the firm's commercial litigation and dispute resolution group and litigation department.
DLA Piper strengthened its healthcare regulatory resources in Washington, D.C., with the recent addition of an attorney who previously served as acting general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
While American Bar Association President Bill Bay says he's seen no shortage of criticism and even threats for publicly opposing the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, he told attendees at an ABA ethics conference that being silent was not a viable alternative.
Following its rapid evolution in the past half-year alone, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chief Information Officer Michael Shea predicted during a panel conversation Friday that artificial intelligence tools would see "pretty significant changes" over the next 12 months despite the challenges of putting guardrails around them.
Philippe and Jennifer Selendy, who met as associates at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and married in 1997, each spent nearly three decades building distinguished legal careers. They now continue their partnership at Selendy Gay PLLC, founded in 2018, which has quickly grown into one of the nation's leading litigation firms, recovering more than $47 billion for their clients.
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on Sunday will go live with their planned merger, which will combine 2,700 lawyers and more than $2 billion in revenue from both firms.
Fenwick & West LLP will move to a new San Francisco office after signing a 50,000-square foot lease for office space in a 38-story Class A office tower owned by real estate investment trust Paramount Group Inc., according to an announcement from JLL.
The way law is practiced today is completely different from how it will be practiced in 10 years, and that change will come as a result of generative AI, according to former longtime Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP chair Ralph Baxter.
Jenner & Block LLP on Friday fought a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to carve out part of a March executive order targeting the firm after the bulk of the order was tossed last week, in a dispute that could relate to future actions against the firm.
As of the end of May, Sidley Austin LLP has made 45 lateral partner additions so far this year, outpacing the vast majority of large law firms in lateral hiring as its new executive committee chair Brian Fahrney took the reins this spring.
The legal industry ended May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices and attorneys took on new roles. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP added a government contracts pro from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, tapping him to lead the firm's government contracts practice group.
Kannon Shanmugam, a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner and veteran U.S. Supreme Court litigator, has been selected to join the Harvard Corp. governing board, according to an announcement made Thursday.
On Thursday, Beverly Hills trial lawyer Paul Kiesel brought together a panel including a former U.S. Department of Justice senior trial counsel, a state attorney general, and former BigLaw associate Rachel Cohen, to discuss what Senior U.S. Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown called a "rule of law recession."
The former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., has moved into private practice at Winston & Strawn LLP after stepping down from his post in January as former President Joe Biden left office.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court HeadwindsThough the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.
A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.
There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.