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Office Snapshot: Halloran Farkas & Kittila's New Del. Digs
Halloran Farkas & Kittila LLP has moved its Delaware office into a larger space in a 1820s-era home not far from its prior location, the office's managing partner told Law360 Pulse.
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Eckert Seamans Names IP, Litigation, Product Liability Chairs
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott has tapped attorneys in its Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Boston offices to lead the firm's intellectual property, commercial litigation and product liability practices.
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Money Fight Between Trustee, Law Firm Goes To Mediation
A money conflict between a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee and an outside law firm is going to mediation, the parties announced in a court filing this week. It's the latest move in the saga of Litigation Practice Group, the failed California debt relief law firm that was secretly run by a disbarred lawyer.
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Inside The Booming Congressional Investigations Bar
A congressional investigation is a dangerous mix of litigation, politics and public relations. And with the pace of oversight increasing, Law360 explores why congressional investigations attorneys are in demand at BigLaw firms, what their job entails and how it went from an afterthought to a respected and sought-after specialty.
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BigLaw Talent Wars Reach Congressional Oversight Attys
Demand for experienced congressional investigations attorneys is at an all-time high, leading to lateral hires and the launch of new practices as firms rush to compete with the handful of established oversight market leaders.
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Behind The Scenes With The Congressional Investigations Bar
Congressional oversight is a strange beast: part litigation, part politics and part public relations. Oversight veterans spoke to Law360 about what the process looks like and the many pitfalls they try to avoid.
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Nature Abhors A Vacuum: The Creation Of The Oversight Bar
Just 15 years ago, congressional investigations were barely regarded as a full-on practice area, even in the D.C. legal world. The 2008 financial crisis — and a few pioneering attorneys — changed all of that.
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Gaming Co. Derides DraftKings' $2.3M Fee Bid In Patent Suit
The fallout from a testy patent dispute over DraftKings' geolocation technology intensified this week as Interactive Games pushed back against the online gambling giant's request for $2.3 million in legal fees in Delaware federal court.
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Skadden Taps Fried Frank Exec As Its 1st Chief People Officer
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Wednesday that it will soon welcome as its first-ever chief people officer an experienced human resources professional who spent eight years in a similar role at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
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Law Grads Told To 'Ride The Waves Of Change'
In debunking a familiar quote shared by Apple's Steve Jobs and comparing working with colleagues to being NFL teammates, 2024 law school commencement speakers asked their future legal colleagues to allow space for their career aspirations to change and not underestimate the impact they can make — both individually and as a community.
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Shareholders To Settle Discovery-AT&T Merger Suit In Del.
Former shareholders of Discovery Inc. who sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery over the media entertainment company's $43 billion merger with AT&T in 2022 have agreed to settle their class action and intend to finalize settlement documentation by July 5, the parties told the court late on Tuesday.
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Law Firms Roll Back Summer Programs In Tight Legal Market
Law firms that can't find enough work for the deluge of prospective and newly minted attorneys already on their hands are tightening their pipelines for new talent this season, rolling back their summer associate positions for 2024, according to legal industry experts.
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The 2024 Summer Associates Survey
Summer associateships are more coveted than ever, with candidates landing comparatively fewer on-campus interviews amid a tightening legal market. Find out what's in store for this year's summers, as well as which firms topped their wish lists, in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.
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What Are Summer Associates Saying?
Law360 Pulse asked prospective summer associates about how their top-choice firms distinguished themselves from their peers. Here are some of the ways.
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These Law Firms Are Where Summers Want To Work
Concerns and anxieties about future job prospects have continued to arise among law students as they find themselves facing reduced success in securing interviews for sought-after summer associateships this year, according to Law360 Pulse's 2024 Summer Associate Survey.
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Hunter Biden Found Guilty Of Federal Gun Charges
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony gun charges by a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors Tell Jury To Ignore Hunter Biden's 'Stories'
Jury deliberations in Hunter Biden's trial on felony gun charges will continue Tuesday at a federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, after a five-day trial ended Monday afternoon with Biden's attorney imploring jurors to avoid "conjecture and suspicion" and prosecutors urging them not to fall for "fictional stories."
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Tesla Investors Gearing Up For Thursday Vote On Musk Pay
Among several hot issues coming up at Thursday's annual meeting of Tesla Inc., investors are preparing for possible confrontation over CEO Elon Musk's pay package.
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Tesla Rips 'Unprecedented' $5.6B Fee Bid In Musk Pay Fight
Tesla urged Delaware's Chancery Court on Friday to reject a $5.6 billion stock-based fee request by counsel representing investors who blocked Elon Musk's record Tesla pay package, arguing the "unprecedented" fee bid is unreasonable, unwarranted and 17 times larger than any fee award in Delaware history.
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Legal Job Market Keeps Momentum With May Gains
Following April's increases, the U.S. legal sector saw marginal job growth in May, with an increase of 400 jobs compared to the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Beveridge & Diamond PC's successful pursuit of a writ of certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court in a Clean Water Act case and Farella Braun & Martel LLP's work on a cannabis company business loan lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 24 to June 7.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sonosky Chambers Sachse Endreson & Perry LLP, Jenner & Block LLP, Sidley Austin LLP and Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal government is required to reimburse two Native American tribes millions of dollars in administrative healthcare costs.
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Del. Deputy AG With Felony Charge Barred From Law Practice
A deputy attorney general who has worked at the Delaware Department of Justice since 2010 and was barred from practicing law by the state's Supreme Court following his felony arrest has been given a notice of intent to terminate by the department, a DOJ representative told Law360 Pulse Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began June with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Hallie Biden Tells Jury She 'Panicked' Finding Hunter's Gun
Hunter Biden's former sister-in-law and ex-girlfriend told a Delaware federal jury Thursday that she "panicked" when she found a gun and a box of bullets in his truck and threw the gun in a grocery store trash can because she was afraid he might hurt himself.