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Akin Announces Associate Bonuses, 2025 Salary Scale
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP told Law360 Pulse on Monday it will pay associates and counsel year-end bonuses of between $15,000 and $115,000 and special bonuses of between $6,000 and $25,000, based on seniority, in February.
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Former Morgan & Morgan Atty Is One Of Two New Fla. Judges
Florida's Orange County Court bench will soon be home to a pair of new judges, including a legal adviser to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a solo practitioner who was previously a managing attorney at Morgan & Morgan PA.
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Jack Smith Drops Trump's Federal Cases
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to drop the federal prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump in D.C. and Florida, citing long-standing Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president while insisting that the government "stands fully behind" the merits of the charges.
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Bondi Vowed Trump Payback. Ex-Colleagues Aren't Worried.
U.S. attorney general nominee Pam Bondi is an outspoken ally of President-elect Donald Trump and vowed during the campaign that his "prosecutors will be prosecuted," but people who've worked with her say she's well qualified to serve as the nation's top cop and downplayed concerns that she would politicize the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Gaetz, Greene Face Atty Fees Bid For $550,000 In Calif. Suit
Progressive groups including the NAACP are seeking more than $550,000 in attorney fees and costs from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and former Rep. Matt Gaetz after escaping their lawsuit alleging that the organizations conspired to pressure city officials in California to cancel the politicians' rallies.
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Law Faculties Growing More Diverse And More Credentialed
Law school faculties are becoming more racially diverse and include a greater share of women, who make up a majority of faculty members entering the profession in the past 20 years, according to a report out this week from the Association of American Law Schools.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Real Estate Atty From Ice Miller
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has continued its string of adding new transactional attorneys in recent months with the hiring of a former Ice Miller LLP attorney who will serve in both Indianapolis and South Florida.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP, King & Spalding LLP, Holland & Knight LLP and Barnes & Thornburg LLP lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions for beating a Pennsylvania state court lawsuit brought against Bayer AG unit Monsanto by a woman who said she got cancer by using the weed killer Roundup.
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Fowler White Expands To Jacksonville With Maritime Atty Hire
Florida firm Fowler White Burnett PA announced that a transportation attorney focused on maritime law with over 30 years of experience has joined its newly opened Jacksonville office as a shareholder in what the firm said was a response to the industry's recent growth in the state's largest city.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump sought to dismiss his hush money trial and BigLaw firms elevated attorneys amid soaring billing rates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Top Firms Big And Small Join In On Milbank Bonuses
The latest law firms to follow Milbank LLP on 2024 associate bonuses late Thursday and into Friday run the gamut from global giant to boutique, according to firm memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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Trump Selects Ex-Fla. AG Pam Bondi As New AG Pick
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has selected Pam Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, as his new pick for U.S. attorney general, just hours after former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration amid allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
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Tax Firm Must Disclose Case Info In Malpractice Suit
A tax firm being sued for malpractice and unfair trade practices by former clients can't hide behind a state bar association rule to avoid producing discovery documents it claims are privileged, a Wisconsin federal court ruled Thursday.
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Dentons Atty Owed No Duty In $54M Currency Deal, Jury Says
A Florida state court jury found Thursday that a former Dentons US LLP attorney didn't intentionally make a false statement or commit malpractice in a failed $54 million dollars-to-bolivares currency swap in which a Venezuelan lawyer lost millions of dollars.
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Florida Law Firms Hike Atty Pay To Keep Up With Competition
Florida law firms spiked their lawyer compensation in the first nine months of 2024 by almost 21%, likely in an attempt to keep up with the pay structures of major non-Florida firms moving into the market, according to findings released this week from Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group.
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Holtzman Vogel Expands To South Florida With Weil Atty
Washington, D.C.-based firm Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has added a Miami litigation partner previously at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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BigLaw Trio Join In On Matching Milbank Bonuses
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP are the latest BigLaw firms to go big on associate performance rewards, announcing they will match Milbank LLP in both year-end and special bonuses.
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PierFerd Adds Fla. Transactions Partner From Taylor English
Pierson Ferdinand LLP just got a bit larger with the addition of a partner in Miami from Taylor English Duma LLP, bringing expertise in real estate, banking and financial services that is expected to bolster the firm's ongoing growth.
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Gaetz Ends AG Bid, Citing 'Distraction' To Trump Transition
Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general amid allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
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Ex-Fla. Official Says Litigation Privilege Bars Defamation Suit
A former Florida banking regulator fired because of sexual harassment allegations told the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that a lawyer's defamation claims against him were barred by the litigation privilege because they are based entirely on claims made in a lawsuit.
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Fla. Judge Can't Get Free Speech Ruling In Ethics Case
A hearing panel chair for the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission on Wednesday denied a state judge's attempt to prevent authorities from presenting evidence or argument that her "philosophical beliefs" violated judicial ethics guidelines because she improperly used a particular kind of motion.
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Shumaker Atty Named GC Of United Soccer League
Tampa, Florida-based United Soccer League has brought on a new top lawyer with the addition of an international partner from Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP as the national professional and semi-professional sports organization looks to continue its rapid growth.
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Akerman Opens In Charlotte With 2 Moore & Van Allen Hires
Akerman LLP announced Wednesday the firm opened its second North Carolina office in Charlotte and brought on two new partners from Moore & Van Allen PLLC, including the former head of its renewable energy project finance team and a tax law expert.
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Fla. Judges May Create Nonprofits To Improve Legal System
Sunshine State judges may form nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations with a focus on improving the legal system, the state's judicial ethics watchdog has found, also clearing the way for judges to serve as board members of these nonprofit groups.
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Ex-K&L Gates Chair On Growth, Leadership And Remote Work
During the two decades Peter Kalis served as chairman and managing partner of K&L Gates, from 1997 to 2017, the law firm grew from a primarily Eastern Seaboard firm to one with offices around the globe, with annual revenue that ballooned by 700%.