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    CBRE Chief Legal Exec Raked In $3.4M As GC Last Year

    CBRE's newly crowned chief legal and administrative officer Chad Doellinger was paid $3.39 million in 2024, a year in which the executive served as the commercial real estate services firm's general counsel, per a securities filing.

  • Texas County Settles Atty's Disability Suit On Eve Of Trial

    A Texas federal court tossed an attorney's suit accusing Harris County, Texas, of failing to accommodate his leave requests and instead punishing him with a negative performance review after the parties said they reached a deal ahead of trial.

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    AT&T's GC Saw Compensation Climb Past $13M In 2024

    AT&T's legal chief saw his total compensation rise to $13.6 million in 2024, up about $1.2 million from the $12.4 million he earned in 2023, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • Whistleblowers Fired By Paxton Get $6.68M

    A Travis County judge on Friday awarded four of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's former deputies $6.68 million, ending their claims that they were fired in retaliation for reporting alleged abuses to the FBI.

  • Houston Atty Says Unethical Funding Deal Means No Fee Split

    A Houston attorney has asked a Texas state court to rule that his partner is not entitled to an equal share of his case fees, accusing his colleague of mismanaging millions in funds and entering into an unethical agreement with a hedge fund.

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    Texas Justices Eye Nixing ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

    The Texas Supreme Court indicated Friday that the justices are considering whether to alter or end a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the Lone Star State bar.

  • 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. 

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    Ex-CapitalG, Ivo Counsel Joins Legal AI Co. Ruli

    Austin-based legal operations startup Ruli AI announced Thursday the hiring of a general counsel who formerly worked as an in-house attorney at legal software developer Ivo and Alphabet's venture fund CapitalG.

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    Blank Rome Expands Dallas Bench With Solo Real Estate Atty

    Blank Rome LLP has added an attorney in Dallas from a solo practice, further expanding the firm's national real estate group.

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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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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.

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    Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns

    The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • US Trustee Wants Jackson Walker Cases In District Court

    The U.S. Trustee's Office has renewed its call for a district court trial over whether Jackson Walker LLP should return millions in fees for failing to disclose an ex-partner's romance with a bankruptcy judge, saying all the questions in the case should be tried in one venue.

  • Echoing EEOC, Red State AGs Target Law Firms Over DEI

    A dozen Republican state attorneys general on Thursday urged 20 law firms to fork over information the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requested last month about their workplace diversity practices, doubling down on the acting EEOC chair's claim that those practices may be unlawful.

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    Sheppard Mullin Lands Troutman Health Pro In Houston

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Thursday that it deepened its bench in Houston with the addition of a healthcare partner from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP.

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    Blank Rome Adds Porter Wright Litigator In Houston

    Blank Rome LLP has strengthened its business litigation group, appellate litigation practice, and cannabis and life sciences industry teams with an experienced trial lawyer who came aboard in Houston from Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP.

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    Jackson Walker Adds Chamberlain Hrdlicka Labor Duo In Texas

    Jackson Walker LLP has strengthened the firm's labor and employment offerings with a pair of lawyers in Houston who came aboard from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry.

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    Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Broadcom, Meta And More

    The top legal officers at Broadcom, Merit Medical Systems and Meta gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay days in March by selling stock in their companies.

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    Motorcycle Retailer RumbleOn Severs Ties With Its CLO

    RumbleOn has cut ties with its chief legal officer — who joined the powersports vehicle retailer just over a year ago — months after it ended a proxy fight with stockholders, according to a securities filing Wednesday.

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    When Can Attys Decide To Drop Clients? ABA Says It Depends

    Lawyers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."

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    Eversheds Sutherland's New US-Based Leaders Start Roles

    Eversheds Sutherland started April with new leadership in the U.S. as former global energy sector co-head Lino Mendiola III began his term as the firm's global co-CEO and U.S. chief executive, and former global board co-chair Adam Cohen stepped into the role of U.S. executive partner.

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    American Airlines Taps Latham Atty As New Legal Chief

    American Airlines announced Wednesday that it has chosen a Latham & Watkins LLP partner to serve as the company's chief legal officer, effective May 5.

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    23 Firms Remain GCs' Top Picks Despite Referral Drop

    Even as corporate legal departments become more selective in recommending outside counsel to their peers, 23 law firms have managed to earn top marks for building trust and relationship management, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.

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Expert Analysis

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments? Author Photo

    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 work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging. 

  • Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap Author Photo

    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.

  • What Social Media Process Service May Look Like In Texas Author Photo

    The Texas Supreme Court's recently proposed rule change allowing substituted service through social media and email could take effect in December, and practitioners will need to know how to establish that the defendant received notice through a technological method, says Marcus Eason at McGinnis Lochridge.

  • Strategies For Associates Seeking Jobs Amid Hiring Slump Author Photo

    Law firms will be hiring conservatively well into 2021 and beyond, but associates eyeing a new firm or market can successfully make a move if they are pragmatic about their requirements, say Rebecca Glatzer and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.

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