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White & Case Rehires NY Energy Partner From Orrick
A former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP energy and infrastructure finance partner has rejoined White & Case LLP in New York, the firm said Tuesday.
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From Hello To Hired In 8 Weeks: Lateral Moves Pick Up Speed
The process of bringing on a lateral partner, once long and arduous, has been shortened and streamlined at many law firms in an effort to gain a leg up on the competition, according to two recruiters at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Meet The Munger Tolles Team Fighting Susman Godfrey Order
The team at Munger Tolles & Olson LLP representing Susman Godfrey in its challenge to an executive order targeting the firm includes a number of litigation partners with experience handling high-profile cases and experience in the U.S. Department of Justice or the White House counsel's office, including the firm's chair and a former U.S. solicitor general.
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NY Judge Chided For Tossing Kid's Friend's Traffic Ticket
A Westchester County, New York, judge who threw her title around while handling her daughter's traffic ticket in a neighboring town, and later tossed a different traffic ticket for her daughter's friend, has been hit with a public admonishment, the state's judicial watchdog announced Monday.
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Clifford Chance Hires Corporate M&A Atty From White & Case
Clifford Chance LLP has grown its U.S. corporate mergers and acquisitions practice with the addition of a former White & Case LLP partner in New York, the firm said Monday.
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Former Dayglo Presents Atty Joins Entertainment Boutique
Smith Entertainment Law Group announced Monday that the former associate general counsel at Dayglo Presents, a live music and media company led by New York promoter Peter Shapiro, has joined the boutique as senior counsel.
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TSG Taps Wine Co. Duckhorn Executive For CLO Role
Specialist private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners announced that it has appointed a member of its former partner company's C-suite to fill its newly created managing director and chief legal officer role next month.
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Sidley Lands M&A, Private Equity Pro From Skadden In NY
Sidley Austin LLP announced on Monday it has hired a partner from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to strengthen its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices.
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Ex-NY Rail Official Named EVP Of Hudson Tunnel Project Body
The Gateway Development Commission, the body overseeing a project to create four modern rail tracks between New York and New Jersey, announced last week that it has hired the former president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro-North Railroad as its executive vice president.
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Susman Godfrey Calls Trump Order 'Threat' To Rule Of Law
Susman Godfrey LLP on Friday became the latest BigLaw firm targeted by President Donald Trump to hit back in D.C. federal court, saying his executive order revoking the firm's access to government resources needs to be shut down now before a "dangerous and perhaps irreversible precedent" is set.
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21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order
A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.
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Greenspoon Marder Promotes 4 Attys To Partner
Full-service law firm Greenspoon Marder LLP promoted four attorneys in different offices to partner roles, the firm announced.
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Wilkinson Stekloff Announces Surprise Midyear Bonuses
Trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff LLP on Friday announced surprise midyear bonuses of as much as $60,000 for associates,聽plus other bonuses for聽midlevel lawyers and nonattorney staff, according to an internal email obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Murray Osorio PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there.
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Did DOJ Bless A Crypto Free-For-All? Think Again, Attys Say
The Justice Department's move to scale back cryptocurrency enforcement and dissolve its crypto fraud investigations unit isn't exactly a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for industry players who commit crimes using digital assets, experts say.
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Weber Gallagher Opens In Long Island With 7 Pillinger Attys
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP has opened an office in Long Island, New York, with seven attorneys and three other legal professionals from Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.
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5 BigLaw Firms Strike Deals With Trump Administration
The world's highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is among a group of five BigLaw firms that have reached deals with President Donald Trump's administration to stave off executive orders that could have pulled their federal security clearances and hampered their ability to serve as legal counsel to the federal government and its contractors, according to social media posts by the president Friday.
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Littler Promotes Leaders In Marketing, Business Development
Littler Mendelson PC has elevated two longtime employees to new roles, the management-side employment and labor law firm said.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry has had another busy week with another executive order targeting a law firm, several lateral moves and notable office changes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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HSF London Partner Joins Jones Day's NY Office
Jones Day has recruited a long-serving partner from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for its New York office, the second departure from HSF in London in a week.
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NY M&A Partner Moves Surge As Firms Target Lateral Hires
As New York continues to lead as the聽global聽epicenter of merger and acquisition activity, a new report from the legal search firm Macrae shows that top firms are increasingly betting on lateral hires to drive growth, with partner moves reaching a five-year high in 2024.
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FisherBroyles Lands Blank Rome, Gerard Fox Attys In NY, LA
FisherBroyles LLP is expanding its West Coast and East Coast presence, bringing in a Blank Rome LLP bankruptcy expert as a partner in its New York office and a Gerard Fox Law litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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BigLaw Shying Away From Some Pro Bono Work 'Out Of Fear'
Amid President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting BigLaw firms, nonprofit leaders whose organizations have long worked with the industry tell Law360 Pulse they have seen attorneys shy away from certain legal work that may be looked on unfavorably by the administration.
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'Showboating' Or Accessible? Circ. Dissents Up For Debate
Circuit court judges are increasingly authoring separate opinions for the general public rather than for their colleagues. This "showboating" could damage the federal judiciary's legitimacy, a new paper says, while others applaud these rulings' accessibility.
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Davis Wright Launches Recruitment, Retention Departments
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has created two new departments to focus on recruiting and professional development for its lawyers and business professionals, tapping two firm executives to lead those efforts and help drive the firm's growth.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes 鈥� which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful聽work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.聽
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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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.