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Former Prada GC Fashions Move To Fisher Phillips In NY
Fisher Phillips has hired the legal function leader of Prada Group as a New York office partner to expand the firm's retail industry offerings.
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Sidley Austin Expands M&A Group, Hires Ex-Milbank Partner
Sidley Austin LLP announced Monday another addition to its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, hiring a former Milbank LLP attorney as a partner.
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BigLaw Partners Form Group To Challenge Executive Orders
As of Tuesday afternoon, 170 BigLaw partners had joined a new group aimed at rallying their collective power to push back against what they called the president's unconstitutional actions, even as large law firms largely refrain from taking a stance.
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Clifford Chance Lands Gibson Dunn Restructuring Co-Chair
Clifford Chance LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's corporate restructuring practice to co-lead its global restructuring and insolvency practice.
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Atty Says Debevoise Fired Him Over Medical Leave
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP fired an attorney in its international dispute resolution practice group because he had taken medical leave, abruptly dismissing him two days after he returned, and refused to give him a chance to increase his billable hours, he told a New York federal court.
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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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In New York, Law Firms Are Staying Put
Many law firms are opting to stay in their current offices in New York City. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at what is driving their decisions.
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SEC Drops Suit Against Silver Point Over Atty Info Access
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped a Connecticut federal lawsuit alleging Silver Point Capital LP failed to establish policies to safeguard material nonpublic information, particularly from a former BigLaw attorney who acted as outside counsel, according to federal court records.
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Holland & Knight Lands 8-Atty Seward & Kissel Maritime Team
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has added an eight-person team from Seward & Kissel LLP to bolster its asset finance group and enhance its efforts to steer clients through key shipping financing and maritime issues.
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Mortgage Lenders, Attys Stole From NY Debtors, Suit Says
A New York homeowner filed a proposed class action in Brooklyn federal court alleging that the state's mortgage lenders, loan servicing agents and foreclosure attorneys have conspired to inflate the amounts owed on post-foreclosure sales.
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A&O Shearman Adds Mayer Brown Energy Infrastructure Duo
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has hired the former co-head of Mayer Brown LLP's global projects and infrastructure practice, who is joining alongside another former Mayer Brown partner, both of whom work with energy infrastructure deals, the firm announced Monday.
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Littler Wants Out Of Fired Tech Exec's Bias Suit
Littler Mendelson has asked to be cut loose from a former tech company executive's suit claiming the firm and the business worked together to retaliate against her for complaining that her boss made bigoted comments, arguing to a New York federal court that it can't be held liable for the legal advice it provided.
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Ex-Sen. Menendez May Be Called As Witness At Wife's Trial
Nadine Menendez is considering calling her husband, convicted former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, to testify at her trial on charges that she facilitated bribe payments for him, filings showed as her trial resumed Monday with key prosecution witnesses.
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Wigdor Seeks Exit In Leon Black Case Amid Sanctions Threat
Wigdor LLP sought to withdraw from a sexual assault case against ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black in New York federal court as the billionaire investor seeks sanctions against the firm and its Jane Doe client.
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Recruiter Macrae Expands Staff And Product Offerings
Macrae, a legal search firm that places partners and groups at top law firms, has hired two recruiters in New York and Los Angeles and two research and technology directors, made a slew of leadership appointments and launched Macrae+, an analytics product offered by the firm.
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Feds Say George Santos Should Spend 7 Years Behind Bars
Federal prosecutors said Friday that former U.S. Rep. George Santos should spend 87 months — more than seven years — behind bars for his fraud and aggravated identity theft, a sentence that Santos' lawyers called "absurd," arguing instead that he shouldn't spend more than two years in prison.
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Musk Atty Objects To 'Outrageous' Deposition Request
Elon Musk's attorney has said it's "outrageous" that a class of former Twitter investors is trying to depose the attorney in a case accusing Musk of intentionally tanking the social media platform's stock price, telling a California federal judge the move threatens to undermine his attorney-client relationship.
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Paladin's CEO Kristen Sonday On Streamlining Pro Bono
While the legal industry has long touted the impact of volunteer work, Kristen Sonday, the co-founder and CEO of Paladin, an online platform matching pro bono opportunities with lawyers, said the industry has failed to properly value its impact on recruiting, retention and morale.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.Â
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Fox Rothschild Employment Atty Joins Pierson Ferdinand
Fast-growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm from Fox Rothschild LLP as a partner based in New York and Princeton, New Jersey.
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Friedman Kaplan Hires Former Congressman Mondaire Jones
Former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones has chosen to start the next chapter of his career at Friedman Kaplan after serving New York's 17th District in the U.S. House of Representatives and, more recently, working as an of counsel for the boutique Emery Celli Brinkerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP.
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Windels Marx Leader Talks New Role After Decades With Firm
Northeast firm Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP announced in the past week that after over 20 years leading the firm, its managing partner has stepped down, with business litigator Scott R. Matthews tapped as his successor.
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
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Sheppard Mullin Names 13 New Practice Group Leaders
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Friday it has appointed more than a dozen new leaders within the firm.
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Ex-Prosecutor Opens Defense Shop From Former Firm Office
Paul Murphy, a former federal prosecutor with more than three decades of experience, launched his own litigation shop out of his old law firm's New York office in an arrangement he said will afford him greater freedom over cases and clients.
Expert Analysis
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Perspectives
Judges On Race: The Path To A More Diverse Bench
To close the diversity gap between the judiciary and the litigants that regularly appear in criminal courts, institutions including police departments, prosecutor offices and defense law firms must be committed to advancing Black and Latino men, says New York Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards.
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The Unique Challenges Of Protecting A Law Firm Brand
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.