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New York Pulse
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Wife Of Ex-Sen. Menendez Convicted On Corruption Charges
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday found Nadine Menendez guilty of aiding in her husband Bob Menendez's corruption by facilitating bribe payments, including a Mercedes-Benz and gold bars, from New Jersey businessmen to the convicted former U.S. senator.
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Squire Patton Adds Ex-Polsinelli Ace As Private Credit Head
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has added the former head of Polsinelli PC's private credit and cross-border finance practice as its new global head of private credit and direct lending, the firm announced Monday.
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Mastercard Admin Officer Rejoins Ford Foundation Board
After announcing he would return to Mastercard as chief administrative officer following his two-year stint as a deputy secretary in the State Department, a onetime Mastercard chief legal officer has rejoined the board at the Ford Foundation, according to a Monday announcement.
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O'Melveny Adds Ex-Commerce Official, AI Regulatory Expert
An expert on artificial intelligence regulations who recently served as a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner in New York, the firm announced Monday.
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Former Knicks Player Takes A Shot At Sanctions Against MSG
Former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley has moved for spoliation sanctions against Madison Square Garden and its counsel for allegedly failing to preserve emails, text messages and other material related to his federal assault suit, accusing the venue's operators of having "conveniently lost a lot of information about this case."
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E-Discovery Startup Focused On Redactions Raises $2.8M
An e-discovery startup that aims to simplify complex redactions for legal teams secured a $2.8 million seed funding round on Monday.
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Ex-Katten Partner Hits Firm With $67M Age Bias Suit
A former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner launched a $67 million discrimination lawsuit against his one-time firm in New York federal court, alleging he was pushed out of the aircraft-finance practice group, pressured to resign and then fired because of the firm CEO's "stereotyped views of lawyers in their 60s."
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Ex-DOJ Atty Convicted In 1MDB Case Ordered Disbarred In NY
A New York appellate court ordered Wednesday that a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney be disbarred due to his felony conviction as part of a sprawling, billion-dollar fraud scandal connected to 1Malaysia Development Berhad and Fugees founder Pras Mich茅l.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP's work monitoring compliance in the T-Mobile and Sprint merger and Choate Hall & Stewart LLP's role in the $6.1 billion acquisition of the Boston Celtics lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 4 to 18.
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Attys Score Bitcoin-Based Fee Award In Crypto Mining Suit
The attorneys who won $4.6 million and 25 bitcoins in a class action accusing crypto mining company Stronghold Digital Mining Inc. of failing to fully disclose its supply chain risks will, along with the class, be partially paid in the cash equivalent of bitcoin, according to an order.
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Skadden Atty Joins Milbank's Financial Restructuring Group
Milbank LLP has added a longtime Skadden counsel as a partner in its financial restructuring group in the New York office, as part of the firm's ongoing global expansion of its restructuring practice.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Schlichter Bogard LLC and the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court revived a class action from Cornell University workers who said their retirement plans were saddled with excessive fees.
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Law Firm In-Office Policies Steady Real Estate Footprints
Law firms' office real estate footprints are stabilizing as firms bolster their in-office attendance 鈥� through return-to-office programs and a focus on culture 鈥� and move away from space-sharing for attorneys, according to a report from CBRE.
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Alston & Bird Bolsters NY Office With Ex-Sheppard Mullin Atty
Alston & Bird LLP continued to bolster its corporate practice and New York office, announcing Thursday the hiring of a private equity partner formerly with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the D.C. Bar kicked off its annual election. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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K&L Gates Bungled Crypto Co.'s Bankruptcy Claim, Suit Says
Gryphon Digital Mining has sued its former counsel K&L Gates LLP,聽claiming it dropped the ball聽on a bankruptcy filing that cost the company millions of dollars and complicated another legal case, all while allegedly overbilling the crypto mining firm by $1 million for related matters.
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Steptoe Welcomes Former Conn., Calif. AUSA To NY Office
Steptoe LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut with a history of prosecuting everything from fraud to violent crime.
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Fox Rothschild Real Estate Pro Joins Smith Gambrell In NY
Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP has grown its litigation and real estate practices with a former Fox Rothschild LLP partner who serves as outside counsel to condominium and cooperative apartment boards.
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Feds Call Menendez's Wife 'Partner In Crime' As Trial Ends
Federal prosecutors told a Manhattan jury Thursday that Nadine Menendez was former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's "partner in crime," closing out her bribery and public corruption trial by casting her as his "go-between 鈥� demanding payment, collecting payment."
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Dorsey & Whitney Adds DOJ Bankruptcy Ace In Del., NY
Dorsey & Whitney LLP has fortified its bankruptcy and financial restructuring group in Delaware and New York with an attorney who came aboard from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Haynes Boone Atty Joins Mintz Capital Markets Team
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC said Tuesday that its New York office has welcomed a corporate attorney from Haynes Boone who advises investment banks and private issuers on equity securities offerings and strategic investments.
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Greek IT Co.'s Suit Over Leaked Patent Info Gets Tossed
A New York federal judge has tossed a Greece-based technology company's suit alleging Ladas & Parry LLP sent proprietary information to a third party while the company had an attorney-client agreement with the firm.
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Former NY US Attorney Joins Barclay Damon From Manatt
A longtime U.S. Department of Justice attorney who spent seven and a half years as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York has joined Barclay Damon LLP's Albany and New York offices as a partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Legal Staffing Co. Latitude Expands In DC, San Diego, NYC
National legal recruitment and staffing provider Latitude has recently expanded its roster with three attorneys who will lead the company's new offices launched in Washington, D.C., San Diego and New York City.
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Marshall Dennehey Hires Appeals Expert In New York
The former head of appeals at litigation boutique Barry聽McTiernan & Moore has joined聽Marshall Dennehey as special counsel, a role in which she will continue her work focused on a range of environmental, general liability and construction appellate matters.
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.