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Greenberg Traurig Lands Antitrust Ace From Holland & Knight
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added an antitrust attorney from Holland & Knight LLP who will serve as global co-chair of its antitrust litigation and competition regulation practice.
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Bradley Arant Adds Veteran White Collar Atty In Dallas
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has grown its offerings in Texas with the addition of an experienced white collar and investigations attorney.
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Cozen O'Connor Hires Maritime Admin's Former Chief Counsel
Cozen O'Connor has hired the former chief counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration, who advised the agency's聽leader on environmental, fiscal and administrative law issues聽and has helped promote the maritime industry more broadly throughout his career.
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Sidley Adds WilmerHale's Ex-Corp. Chair As Partner In Boston
Sidley Austin LLP has hired two partners from WilmerHale for its emerging companies and venture capital group and capital markets practice.
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Law Firms Seek Communication Tools Amid EO Discord
Rachael Bosch, a professional development consultant to law firms, says that as the legal industry faces turmoil over the president's law firm executive orders, more firms have reached out to her seeking guidance on how to help their personnel manage the current moment.
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Susman Godfrey Urges Court To Follow Perkins Coie EO Win
The president doesn't have the power to "exact revenge against a law firm" for representing certain clients and causes, Susman Godfrey LLP told a D.C. federal judge Monday, asking her to "follow the same course" as the judge who granted Perkins Coie LLP permanent relief from a presidential order.
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How Law Firms Have Handled The EEOC's Push For DEI Data
Perkins Coie LLP dug in its heels and scored a court order quashing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's inquiry into its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, while seven other firms the EEOC targeted opted to negotiate. Here鈥檚 what Law360 knows about what law firms have done in response to the commission鈥檚 March request for workplace diversity information.
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Kirkland And Other Law Firms Explain Deals With Trump
The most recent law firms to cut deals with the Trump administration told lawmakers in letters, obtained by Law360 on Monday, that the deals affirmed their commitment to merit-based hiring and to pro bono work as they continue to choose their own clients.
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The Lawyers Battling Over Payout After Atty's Killing Of Wife
Ahead of a hearing Tuesday on competing summary judgment bids, eight attorneys are guiding parties in a dispute over the wrongful-death settlement proceeds related to the killing of a Georgia woman by her husband, an ex-BigLaw partner.
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Clifford Chance Adds Paul Weiss Exec Compensation Atty In NY
Clifford Chance LLP has added a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP transactional attorney in New York as co-chair of its U.S. executive compensation practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Freshfields Hires Kirkland Antitrust Partner In DC Office
Freshfields LLP has hired a career Kirkland & Ellis LLP antitrust partner in Washington, D.C., who is joining the group to work with merger control issues for private capital clients, Freshfields announced Monday.
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Proskauer Adds 2 Finance Partners From A&O Shearman
Proskauer Rose LLP has added two former Allen Overy Shearman Sterling partners for its growing global finance practice in New York, the firm announced Monday.
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Justice Dept. Seeks To Nix ABA Suit Over Terminated Grants
The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to throw out the American Bar Association's lawsuit over the termination of grants to the ABA's Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, arguing the courts lack power to force the government to honor a contractual obligation.
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Former FEC Commissioner Joins BakerHostetler聽In DC
BakerHostetler announced Monday that a former chairman of the Federal Elections Commission has joined as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office to bolster its appellate and political law prowess.
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Real Estate Ace Rejoins V&E In Dallas After In-House Roles
Vinson & Elkins LLP announced Monday that it has strengthened its real estate practice with a partner in Dallas who returns to the firm after nearly a decade of in-house work.
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Former Texas Admin. Law Judge Joins Troutman In Austin
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP announced Monday that it has added a partner to its energy regulatory practice group in Austin who has experience as a Lone Star State administrative law judge and who most recently practiced with Duggins Wren Mann & Romero LLP.
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12-Lawyer Pond North Toxic Tort Team Joins Lewis Brisbois
Lewis Brisbois Brisgaard & Smith LLP has absorbed 12-lawyer product liability and toxic tort boutique Pond North LLP, the law firm announced Monday.
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Former NC Solicitor General Joins McGuireWoods In Raleigh
Former North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in the appeals and issues practice group and co-leader of the North Carolina appellate practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Akin Hires Ex-Trump Trade Official From Hogan Lovells
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP said Monday it has hired the former co-leader of Hogan Lovells' geopolitical risk and national security program, who is bringing perspective from that role and experience navigating international economic issues at the White House to Akin's lobbying and public policy team.
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Judge Axes Trump's Perkins Order With Shakespearean Flourish
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP, permanently blocking enforcement of the directive and likening the president's action to a Shakespeare character's suggestion that the way to amass power is to "kill all the lawyers."
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Abbe Lowell Launches New Firm With Ex-Skadden Associates
Tapping a team of ex-BigLaw associates, some of whom publicly quit their firms in response to deals struck to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration, prominent defense lawyer and former Winston & Strawn LLP partner Abbe David Lowell launched a new boutique Friday aimed at helping clients facing what it called "politicized investigations" by the government.
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Nixon Peabody Appoints Finance, Tax Partner As DC Leader
Nixon Peabody LLP has appointed a more than 20-year veteran of the firm as its Washington, D.C., office managing partner, who focuses his practice on a range of corporate, finance and real estate matters, according to a Thursday announcement.
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Sidley Adds 10 A&O Shearman Attys In DC, NY, Singapore
Sidley Austin LLP has hired 10 attorneys from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling in New York, Washington, D.C., and Singapore, including the U.S. leader of the firm's financial services regulatory group.
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NJ Bankruptcy Judges May Be Tapped As Unpaid Mediators
Bankruptcy judges may be among the jurists called upon to mediate New Jersey federal court cases without compensation, according to a proposed amendment to court rules.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and Pilot Law PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federally employed military reservists called to active duty during wartime or a national emergency are entitled to a top-up differential pay, regardless of their specific role.