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Ex-Judge Aims To Shield Bank Records In Romance Probe
A former U.S. bankruptcy judge is hoping to sink a subpoena from the U.S. Trustee's Office for his banking records in connection with its inquiry into his concealed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner who appeared before him in a number of cases.
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Husch Blackwell Litigators Join Spencer Fane In Dallas, KC
Spencer Fane LLP announced Tuesday that a trio of insurance litigators from Husch Blackwell LLP joined the fast-growing firm as partners based in Dallas and Kansas City, Missouri.
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Dilworth Paxson Opens Erie Office With Veteran Finance Atty
A proposed state rule that would require attorneys to prepare a written succession plan for their practices has led a transactional attorney in northwest Pennsylvania to close his solo practice and open Dilworth Paxson's new Erie, Pennsylvania, location.
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Foley Hoag Wants Bulk Of Claims Axed In NY Wage Suit
Foley Hoag LLP has asked a New York federal judge to toss most of the claims in an employee's suit alleging the firm failed to pay overtime wages and engaged in various forms of retaliation and discrimination against him, arguing the complaint "is largely devoid of well-pleaded factual allegations."
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Columbia Prof Says Firm Abandoned Her During Israel Probe
A Columbia Law School professor accused plaintiffs employment firm Outten & Golden LLP of abruptly dropping her as a client amid the school's investigation into her comments on campus tensions tied to Israel's attack on Gaza, saying on X Wednesday that the firm's alleged conduct prompted her attorney to resign after nearly 24 years as a partner there.
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Lucosky Brookman Adds Saul Ewing Atty For Northeast Push
Lucosky Brookman has hired a Saul Ewing LLP partner and former prosecutor, who has nearly 15 years of experience handling microcap fraud cases, as the firm's newest white collar practice partner, expanding its footprint into New England.
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How Robbins Geller Turned A Google Win Into A $350M Deal
After six years of litigation against Google parent company Alphabet Inc., including a successful bid to revive the suit before the Ninth Circuit, class action firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured a $350 million settlement for investors by not being deterred by setbacks.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 2 Partners In California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP has added two new California partners, a labor and employment attorney who spent seven years in solo practice and a cybersecurity and data privacy attorney who joins from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Taylor English Brings On Another IP Ace In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has continued growing its Atlanta intellectual property team, adding a former Cherian LLP partner with over two decades of experience handling complex and IP litigation.
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How Law Firms Are Focusing Their Pro Bono Efforts
Millions of people across the United States desperately need free or reduced-cost legal services, and attorneys and law firm leaders want to make a difference. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at firms' pro bono priorities.
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The 2024 Pro Bono Ranking: How Firms Stack Up
Law firms are often eager to burnish their social responsibility credentials by leveraging their training and experience to help communities that don’t have the resources to pay BigLaw billing rates. See which firms are leading the pack in pro bono hours.
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Law Firms Diverge As Anti-ESG Pushback Continues
A continuing onslaught of legislation and litigation opposing corporate environmental, social and governance actions has created a fork in the road for law firms, with some choosing to scale back efforts and others pushing ahead with their internal ESG and diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
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These Firms Are The 2024 Social Impact Leaders
Law firms are being heavily scrutinized for their social responsibility efforts, with attorneys, clients and critics all pushing for accountability. Find out which firms made Law360 Pulse's list of firms that are taking the greatest strides on social responsibility.
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A 'Trend To Embrace': Attys Shifting Tasks To AI Is A Win-Win
To some, a recent report's finding that nearly 60% of legal department leaders expect a reduced reliance on outside legal service providers due to GenAI might be gloomy, but many lawyers view the innovations as a way for clients and counsel to strengthen their relationships.
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Disbarment Isn't One Size Fits All For Attys Guilty Of Crimes
Attorney discipline, much like the criminal justice system, is rarely a simple math equation where authorities can plug in a type of wrongdoing and an appropriate punishment is spit out.
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FisherBroyles Names New Practice Leaders In Corporate Dept.
FisherBroyles LLP, which bills itself as the first and the world's largest distributed law firm, is shaking things up in its corporate department, appointing 10 new practice area chairs.
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Burns & Levinson Collapse: A 'Cautionary Tale' For Law Firms
After 64 years in business, Boston-based law firm Burns & Levinson LLP is closing its doors this month after a tumultuous year that saw nearly half of its attorneys leave and merger talks fail.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP top this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a California federal judge wrapped up a high-profile antitrust fight filed by Epic Games against Google that began in 2020.
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Retired NJ Judge Plans To 'Give Back' At Bressler Amery
David Bauman, formerly a presiding judge in the Monmouth County Superior Court, spoke to Law360 Pulse about his plans to mentor attorneys at Bressler Amery & Ross PC upon his return to the firm where he began his legal career.
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Civil, Criminal Litigator Joins Norris McLaughlin In Pa.
Norris McLaughlin PA expanded the litigation team at its Allentown, Pennsylvania, office this week with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice from boutique law firm Ridley Chuff Kosierowski & Scanlon PC.
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Ex-Natural Gas Co. CLO Joins Kean Miller In Houston
The former chief legal officer at natural gas company CSI Compressco LP joined Kean Miller LLP's Houston office as special counsel, according to a recent firm announcement.
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Sheppard Pratt Appoints Ex-Miles & Stockbridge Atty As GC
Maryland-based mental-health care provider Sheppard Pratt announced that an experienced healthcare law attorney from Miles & Stockbridge PC was appointed its new general counsel.
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Legal Tech Funding Surges In Q3 Thanks To 3 Megadeals
Three outlier megadeals pushed funding for legal technology companies to $1.57 billion in the third quarter of 2024, up from $392.5 million in the same period last year, but the number of mergers and acquisitions fell by about 50%.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made a slew of hires and a state judge was admonished for lip synching "Jump" by Rihanna in a TikTok. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Snell & Wilmer Employment Litigator Joins Procopio In Calif.
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is expanding its Orange County team, bringing in a Snell & Wilmer LLP employment litigator as a partner and a Jackson Lewis PC employment attorney as an associate.
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 — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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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 work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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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.