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Kirkland Hires 3 M&A Partners From Skadden
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Wednesday the addition of a three-partner mergers and acquisition team from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, among dozens of new hires made by the firm this week.
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Legal Tech Co. Harbor Hires Ex-Paul Hastings CIO As CTO
Harbor Global, a legal technology services provider, on Wednesday announced the hiring of the former chief information officer at Paul Hastings LLP as its first chief technology officer, marking the second major executive hire by the company this year.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Cohen Milstein's Benjamin Brown
Benjamin D. Brown of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped cement his reputation as a respected thought leader in his field last year when he wrapped up multiple career-defining cases, including a landmark $375 million settlement in a wage suppression class action brought against Ultimate Fighting Championship, earning him a place among Law360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.
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Skadden Lands Kirkland Trial Ace In Chicago
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP trial lawyer as a partner in its Chicago office.
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Northwestern's Pritzker Law School Names Interim Dean
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law announced Wednesday it has found within its own faculty a new interim dean who will hold the position for a term of two years, selecting a law professor and associate dean to lead the law school beginning in July 2025.
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Fried Frank Adds KPMG International Tax Ace In NY
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has hired a KPMG international tax group principal as a tax partner in New York.
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Rate Hikes May Be Masking BigLaw's Financial Vulnerabilities
Revenue and profits have both been on a strong upward trajectory in recent years for large U.S. law firms, but those strides may not tell the whole story when considering factors like inflation and the role that aggressive rate hikes, which some say are unsustainable, have played in the increases.
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Mintz Taps Ex-McDermott Exec As Chief Marketing Officer
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC has added a former business executive with McDermott Will & Emery as its new chief marketing and business development officer, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Cooley Adds Ex-FDA Attorney To DC Life Sciences Group
Cooley LLP has hired a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration attorney, who for the majority of her public service career worked as an associate chief counsel, trying civil actions and criminal prosecutions against those accused of violating regulations for a range of products.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Burr & Forman Consumer Finance Pro
Husch Blackwell LLP has expanded its consumer financial services team in Florida with the addition of a longtime Burr & Forman LLP consumer finance litigator.
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Law Firms Slow To Adopt $225K Associate 1st-Year Salaries
First-year associate salaries of $225,000 may make headlines, but they aren't yet the reality at most law firms surveyed for a new report by the National Association for Law Placement.
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Gibson Dunn Helps 1st-Year Associates Connect With 'Pods'
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP launched a unique virtual program to connect first-year associates with other young attorneys in different U.S. offices. Five years later, the “New Associate Pods” program is still going strong.
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Trump's WilmerHale Order Struck Down In Forceful Decision
A D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale in an impassioned opinion Tuesday, writing that Trump's entire order is unconstitutional, and "to rule otherwise would be unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers!"
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Meet The 4 Ex-Paul Weiss Attys Who Left To Launch New Firm
The four partners who announced their exit from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP last week to form their own firm have worked together for years representing tech giants in high-stakes litigation, and also undertook court battles against white supremacist groups.
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Withers Taps London Trusts And Estates Atty As Next Chair
Withers announced Tuesday that its next chair will be a London-based trusts and inheritance disputes lawyer with more than 25 years at the firm, who is set to assume the role in July.
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WilmerHale Starts FCA Task Force Amid Trump Order Suit Win
WilmerHale announced a new task force Tuesday to represent clients facing threats from a recently launched federal initiative to use the False Claims Act to crack down on antisemitism and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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ArentFox Schiff Adds BCLP International Trade Pro In DC
ArentFox Schiff LLP has grown its international trade offerings with the addition of a longtime Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP attorney in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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Goodwin Debt Financing Ace Rejoins Gibson Dunn In LA
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Tuesday it is welcoming back a debt financing expert, who left for a few years to join Goodwin Procter LLP, as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Law Firms Face Growing Targeted Cyber Threat, FBI Warns
The FBI issued a warning on May 23 of a cyber threat actor targeting U.S.-based law firms through phishing and social engineering tactics.
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K&L Gates Names New Managing Partner, Committee Chair
K&L Gates LLP has kicked off a leadership transition process that will continue through next summer and will include the appointment of a new managing partner in July and a management committee chair by June 2026.
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Kirkland Lands 12 Litigation Partners From King & Spalding
Twelve former litigation partners from King & Spalding LLP are among close to 30 attorneys who are moving to Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the latter firm told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Slater Slater's Adam Slater
Securing multibillion-dollar settlements against major institutions like the Boy Scouts and Catholic dioceses on behalf of thousands of victims who were sexually assaulted as children has become Adam Slater's life work, but at least some of the skills he's used to secure this monetary justice come from his years as a poker player.
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Winston & Strawn Adds McDermott Supreme Court Co-Head
Winston & Strawn LLP has hired the former co-leader of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice, who has represented a range of clients before appellate courts throughout the country for more than 15 years, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Benefits Attorney From Cravath In NY
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Tuesday it has expanded its New York office with the addition of an attorney specializing in taxation and executive compensation, who moved her practice after more than eight years with Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
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O'Melveny's Latest Texas Energy Pro Joins From Bradley Arant
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced the most recent addition to its energy industry group in Houston on Tuesday, this time a litigator from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP with more than 15 years of experience advising clients across the sector, from oil and gas to renewables and more.
Expert Analysis
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Incorporating ADA Guidance Into Lawyer Wellness Movement
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?
Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
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What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
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NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Opinion
Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark
Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
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A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
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Burnout Prevention Requires Effort From Attys And Firms
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
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Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
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3 Reasons To Embrace Jargon In Legal Marketing Content
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.
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Future Lawyers Expect DEI Commitments Beyond Recruiting
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Law Students Build Real-World Skills?
Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.