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Former IRS Counsel Joins Hinshaw In Chicago
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced that a longtime government attorney who most recently served as deputy managing counsel of the Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel in Chicago, has joined the firm's government practice as a partner.
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Surety Expert Rejoins Chiesa Shahinian After In-House Stint
A former Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC surety and fidelity attorney has returned after nearly two years working for a private insurer, bringing in-house experience in the field back to the firm.
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Flaster Greenberg Brings On Gordon Rees Litigator In NJ
Flaster Greenberg PC expanded its Cherry Hill, New Jersey, office this week with the addition of a commercial litigation and employment law partner from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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PierFerd Hires First Innovation And Partnerships Head
International law firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP has picked a former director of legal innovation from banking giant Citi to be its first-ever head of innovation and partnerships, the firm said Thursday.
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Robins Kaplan Reelects Managing Partner, Names Exec Board
Robins Kaplan LLP announced that it had appointed and reelected a number of attorneys to the firm's executive board, highlighted by the reelection of the firm's managing partner as chair.
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Managing Partner Said Atty Was 'Too Old' To Hire, Suit Says
A managing partner for a law firm told a 59-year-old attorney that she was "too old" to work there, according to a lawsuit the lawyer filed in Illinois federal court, claiming that she was initially rejected for a job due to her age and continually faced harassment once she got in the door.
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Vetting Law Firm Compensation: Tips For Lateral Partners
As law firms adjust their compensation systems to the changing legal job market, a system that works in favor of one lateral candidate could be a bad fit for another, forcing prospective laterals to wade through seemingly endless pros and cons related to partner pay.
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Drew Eckl Can't Keep Breakaway Firm In Arbitration Over Fees
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday found that Burke Moore Law Group LLP — founded by former Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP partners and others — cannot be subject to arbitration over fees between Drew Eckl and those ex-firm partners since Burke Moore did not sign the agreement at issue.
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By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing
Lateral hiring among the top 200 law firms rebounded in 2024, with firms adding 900 lateral hires, according to a new Leopard Solutions report that also highlighted ongoing transitions in the legal industry, including generational leadership shifts, evolving career aspirations, and growing pressures on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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2nd Circ. Upholds Sanctions In Chinese Billionaire's Ch. 11
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday torpedoed an appeal from the daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo — also known as Ho Won Kwok — and her attorney seeking to overturn a nearly $83,400 discovery sanction, saying the contempt ruling was merited.
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Greenspoon Marder Adds Phillips Nizer Real Estate Trio In NY
Greenspoon Marder LLP announced Wednesday that a trio of real estate attorneys including two partners have joined the firm's New York office from Phillips Nizer LLP.
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First-Time Bar Passage Rate Improved In 2024
Nearly 83% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2024 passed, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2023, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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Brach Eichler Adds NJ Land Use Pro From Chasan Lamparello
Brach Eichler LLC has picked up a land use expert in New Jersey with over 40 years of experience practicing and a niche focus on title issues and waterfront property matters, according to an announcement this week.
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Michael Best Lobbying Arm Announces Partnership In Texas
Michael Best Strategies, the lobbying arm of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, has partnered with Texas consulting firm Haloo Group to better support its government relations and public relations offerings in the Lone Star State.
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4 Tips For Women On How To Advance Their Legal Careers
Contract management platform LinkSquares held a virtual event this week where women attorneys discussed their legal careers and challenges they have encountered. Here are four tips they shared for how women lawyers can excel in their careers.
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Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says
Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.
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Schulte Roth Establishes Nonequity Partnership Tier
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP has implemented a nonequity partnership tier this year, appointing 12 income partners in January, a firm spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.
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Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent
On-campus interviewing — an outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates — is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Porter Wright Sports Law Head Joins Amundsen Davis
Amundsen Davis LLC announced that the former head of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP's sports law practice has joined the firm's Columbus, Ohio, office as a partner.
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Ex-FINRA Atty Joins Maynard Nexsen From Moore & Van Allen
Maynard Nexsen PC announced that a veteran attorney who spent over a decade working in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's enforcement department has joined the firm from Moore & Van Allen PLLC as of counsel.
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Social Security Admin. Atty Rejoins Potomac Law Group
A former senior investigative counsel for the Social Security Administration has rejoined Potomac Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday, and she told Law360 Pulse in an interview she was looking forward to rejoining the firm she left about a decade ago.
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White House Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Atty To Lead USPTO
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated John Squires, Goldman Sachs' former longtime chief intellectual property counsel, to serve as the next U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.
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As Law Firms Remain AI Cautious, Some Attys Jump In
Legal professionals are using artificial intelligence more often than last year, even as their law firms take a more measured approach, according to a new survey released on Tuesday.
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Ga. IP Boutique Says Md. Firm Copied Its 'Founders' Mark
A Georgia-based law firm that does business as Founders Legal on Monday sued a similarly named Maryland firm and its founder for allegedly infringing its federally registered marks in a way that is likely to confuse prospective and current legal clients.
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Benesch Expands New York Office With M&A Atty
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP continued to grow its New York office with the recent addition of an attorney with a decade of experience working on mergers and acquisitions, who has joined the firm after one year as general counsel for a hedge fund.