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Crypto Co. Says Meme-Coin Creating Atty Can't Rep Theft Suit
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.
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Nixon Peabody Taps Fintech-Focused Attys From K&L Gates
Two longtime K&L Gates LLP fintech and financial services partners have joined Nixon Peabody LLP in the firm's complex disputes practice.
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Law Firms Look Beyond Miami For Sunshine State Foothold
The Miami metropolitan area has been the center of growth for the Florida legal industry in recent years. But other parts of the Sunshine State have been getting their turn in the spotlight in 2025 as law firms — focused on bringing in particular legal talent and not geography — set up shop in those areas.
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Squire Patton Hires TikTok Product Privacy Pro In Sydney
Squire Patton Boggs has added a data protection and regulatory attorney in Sydney, Australia, who previously served as TikTok's product privacy lead in the Asia Pacific region and in emerging markets, the firm has announced.
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Akin Adds Pair Of M&A, Real Estate Funds Attys In Chicago
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Tuesday it has brought on two more Mayer Brown LLP attorneys who are based in Chicago.
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Alston & Bird Hires Former EDNY Deputy Section Chief
Alston & Bird LLP announced Tuesday that it has welcomed the former deputy chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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Judge OKs Deal To End LeClairRyan Founder Tax Claims
A Virginia bankruptcy judge Tuesday approved a settlement striking LeClairRyan PLLC founder Gary LeClair from the list of owners of the defunct firm, relieving him of responsibility for a share of the firm's nearly $21 million in tax liabilities.
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Hogan Lovells Gets In On DC Region's Trade Lateral Uptick
Hogan Lovells has hired an international trade litigator who spent more than 15 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, as the hiring of attorneys with trade experience in the D.C. region this year continues at a pace that could outpace 2024, with federal trade policies continuing to evolve rapidly.
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Willkie Hires Seward & Kissel Private Funds Atty
A Seward & Kissel LLP private funds partner has moved to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in the asset management department.
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Creating Community For Trans Lawyers In A 'Terrifying Time'
Dru Levasseur, founder of the newly formed Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, discusses the experiences of trans legal professionals today, what they need, and ways the industry can support them.
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King & Spalding Taps Entertainment Atty As New Leader In LA
King & Spalding LLP has named a longtime entertainment litigator and trial attorney to head up its 8-year-old Los Angeles office.
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Clients Aren't As Happy With Lawyers As Lawyers Think
There's a striking disconnect between how lawyers who serve consumers perceive their client relationships and how clients truly feel, which could affect reputation, according to new survey results told exclusively to Law360 Pulse.
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Former DHS Deputy Chief Of Staff Rejoins Crowell & Moring
A former senior official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has rejoined Crowell & Moring LLP as a partner in its government contracts group, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds Insurance Litigator In LA
Cozen O'Connor announced the hiring of an up-and-coming insurance litigator to its expanding global insurance department, the department's second major addition in as many months, according to a news release Monday.
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ABA Sues Over Trump's 'Law Firm Intimidation Policy'
The American Bar Association sued dozens of federal officials and agencies in D.C. federal court Monday, saying President Donald Trump and his administration have used the executive branch's vast powers "to coerce lawyers and law firms to abandon clients, causes and policy positions" he doesn't like.
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Norton Rose Fulbright Says It Was Duped By Legal Tech Co.
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has accused the company behind a cloud-based legal workflow product of duping it into using its services and keeping client files without permission once their contract expired.
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Former Prosecutor Joins Barnes & Thornburg In Philly
A former federal prosecutor has returned to private practice after nearly 20 years in public service, joining Barnes & Thornburg LLP's litigation team in the Philadelphia office.
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Duane Morris Opens Office Designed For Collaboration In NYC
Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in Manhattan that brings together about 80 attorneys from its previous office in Times Square and 60 lawyers who were at the former Satterlee Stephens LLP offices on Park Avenue for the first time since the March 2020 merger of the two firms.
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Another Paul Weiss Atty Joins Spinoff Firm Dunn Isaacson
A former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner has left for the spinoff firm made up of its former top litigators, making her the ninth attorney to jump to the new venture, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP, since its launch late last month.
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Reed Smith Taps Finance Attorney As New Princeton Leader
Reed Smith LLP has selected a real estate finance attorney with over 20 years of experience at the firm to lead its Princeton, New Jersey, office, the firm announced on Monday.
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King & Spalding Adds HHS Inspector General's Chief Counsel
An attorney who has spent his entire career with Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving most recently as its chief counsel, has joined King & Spalding LLP's healthcare team in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Monday.
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Proskauer Continues M&A Growth With Ex-Paul Weiss Atty
Proskauer Rose LLPÂ announced Monday that a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP counsel focused on private company mergers, take-private transactions and cross-border acquisitions has joined the firm as a partner.
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Ex-Deputy AG Joins Baker McKenzie As Nat'l Security Chair
Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein has joined Baker McKenzie as chair of the national security practice in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday.
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The Law Firm Loophole: How Debt Cos. Snare NC Consumers
To get around bans in North Carolina and many other states, debt relief companies set up facade law firms — companies that are law firms in name only, with a tiny number of lawyers nominally serving thousands of clients, consumer advocates and regulators say.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued six decisions this week, with the justices finding unanimity in four, including ones involving the threshold disabled students must meet in disability discrimination cases against public schools and another over whether the government can escape a Federal Tort Claims Act suit sparked by a mistaken FBI raid. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.