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Former Microsoft Counsel Joins Eversheds Real Estate Team
Eversheds Sutherland has grown its U.S. real estate practice group with the addition of a former senior corporate counsel at Microsoft, the firm said Tuesday.
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Rising Star: Davis Polk's Nikolaus Caro
Nikolaus Caro of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is advising Sycamore Partners in its take-private acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Davis Polk's David Kennedy
David Kennedy, a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's finance practice group, advised one of the largest-ever private credit deals in the U.S., with the refinancing of Finastra Group's existing first-lien and second-lien credit facilities, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Seyfarth Adds CRE Loan Pro To NY Office
Seyfarth Shaw LLP added a commercial real estate finance pro to its real estate group from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, two months after expanding its offices with a 22-person transactional team from Morris Manning & Martin LLP.
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One Year Later, White & Case IP Atty Jumps Back To Latham
A year after moving his intellectual property practice to White & Case LLP, a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner is returning to his old firm, where he had spent over 14 years.
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Saul Ewing Adds Ex-Whiteford RE, Public Finance Pros
Saul Ewing LLP hired two former Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP partners who specialize in public finance, corporate and real estate matters as partners for its Baltimore office.
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DOJ Environmental Atty Joins McGuireWoods In DC
A former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who helped the Biden administration fight for the removal of a 1,000-foot buoy barrier in the Rio Grande and defended EPA guidance on forever chemicals has joined McGuireWoods' office in Washington, D.C.
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Baker Donelson Taps Trio Of Attys For Leadership Roles
Three Baker Donelson shareholders have been named to new leadership roles.
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Squire Patton Rehires Orrick's White Collar Co-Head
Squire Patton Boggs announced the return of its former government investigations and white collar practice head on Tuesday after the Department of Justice alum spent the last four years co-leading the white collar and corporate investigations practice at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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Buchalter Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Partner To IP Practice
Buchalter PC said Monday that it was adding H. James Abe as an intellectual property shareholder to its Los Angeles office, bringing on an attorney who previously worked at Alston & Bird LLP and has experience with commercial disputes, transactions and licensing.
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Litigation Funder Burford Eyes Investments In US Law Firms
Burford Capital LLC, the world's largest litigation funder, is eyeing an investment model to put money directly in U.S. law firms after years of investing in U.S. lawsuits, its chief development officer told Law360 Pulse.
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King & Spalding Brings On Goodwin Litigators In SF, DC
King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added two intellectual property attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP to strengthen its business litigation practice group and its capacity to handle patent and trade secrets disputes.
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LabMD Fights Dinsmore's Bid To Toss Malpractice Suit
Now-shuttered LabMD Inc. and its CEO are pushing back against a bid from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP and a legal nonprofit to have a malpractice suit in Georgia federal court tossed, saying they haven't abandoned the case but rather were delayed in pursuing arbitration because they were searching for "competent counsel."
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Employment, Insurance Attys In NYC
Goldberg Segalla LLP announced Monday that it has grown its employment and insurance services in New York with the recent addition of two attorneys who moved their practices from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP and Clyde & Co. LLP.
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AccessLex Reveals New Prep Course For NextGen Exam
Nonprofit legal education organization AccessLex Institute announced Monday an updated version of its Helix Bar Review to prepare test-takers for the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, which is set to debut in July 2026.
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Rising Star: Orrick's Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP helped Nationstar Mortgage LLC defeat a slew of claims tied to the sale of nearly $2 billion in delinquent loans and represented Credit Suisse in a two-week trial in New York state court involving nine-figure litigation, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Freshfields Eva Mak
Eva Mak of Freshfields LLP has several multibillion-dollar deals under her belt, including a $16.5 billion take-private acquisition of cloud computing company Citrix Systems Inc., earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Latham Hires DLA Piper Real Estate Lawyer In Chicago
Latham & Watkins LLP has hired a former DLA Piper real estate partner in Chicago who focuses his practice on helping clients develop data centers and other infrastructure for the digital technology industry, the firm announced Monday.
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MoFo Hires Paul Weiss Exec To Replace Retiring CFO
Morrison Foerster LLP announced Monday that an executive at聽Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, who had served as that firm's finance chief since May, joined Morrison Foerster's executive team in the New York office as its new chief financial officer.
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Littler Opens Montreal Office To Grow Canadian Presence
Employment and labor law practice Littler Mendelson PC announced Monday that it has opened an office in Montreal, with a new of counsel from employer of record Globalization Partners.
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Morgan Lewis ITC Lawyer Joins Weil In DC As Group Leader
An intellectual property litigator with almost 30 years of experience has left Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to lead the U.S. International Trade Commission practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Weil Lands Kirkland Executive Compensation Pro In LA
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP executive benefits expert as a partner in its year-old Los Angeles office.
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For Summer Associate AI, Ropes & Gray Rethinks The Cloud
To prepare the next generation of lawyers for artificial intelligence, Ropes & Gray launched a comprehensive generative AI initiative in 2025 that gave summer associates hands-on experience with the latest technology.
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Trump Admin Calls Judge's Inaction An 'Affront' To High Court
The Trump administration said a Massachusetts federal judge who didn't vacate a decision barring certain staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Education is showing "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling it an "affront" to the high court's authority.
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6th Circ. Backs Baker Donelson In Malpractice Dispute
A Sixth Circuit panel said Friday that Baker Donelson was correctly dismissed from a legal malpractice suit brought by the founder of an urgent care facility because it cannot be established that the underlying shareholder dispute claims that the firm was accused of fumbling would have been successful.