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    The Firms That Handle The Most Trade Secrets Work

    Gordon Rees remains the most active law firm representing plaintiffs in trade secrets disputes, according to a new report by Lex Machina analyzing a three-year period from 2021 to 2023, while Littler Mendelson continues to lead the pack on the defendants' side during that same timeframe.

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    Phelps Dunbar Recruits 6 Litigators In Raleigh

    Phelps Dunbar LLP has hired six lawyers in Raleigh to serve the business and litigation needs of companies in North and South Carolina, adding strength in health care, construction, employment and intellectual property.

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    Constangy Brings On More Jackson Lewis Attys In San Diego

    Three former Jackson Lewis PC attorneys have come aboard at the San Diego office of labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP, joining four onetime Jackson Lewis colleagues who arrived at Constangy this summer. 

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    Onetime Actor Ready For His Close-Up With PierFerd

    A former professional actor is ready for his latest role — law partner in the Philadelphia office of fast-expanding Pierson Ferdinand LLP.

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    Shumaker Advisors Adds Ex-Fla. Senate Aide

    The lobbying arm of Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP, Shumaker Advisors, has added a former staffer in the Florida state senate to run the government affairs operations of its state team.

  • Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO's Ch. 11 Case Nixed As 'Bad Faith'

    McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP convinced a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to throw out the Chapter 11 filing of its former chief financial officer, who is behind bars for stealing over $1 million from the firm, with the judge finding Tuesday that the petition was brought in "bad faith" to stall related state litigation. 

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    Womble Bond Eyes Growth, Not Layoffs, With New Tie-Up

    The merger between Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP is not about cutting costs because of mounting competition, the international law firm's U.S. boss told Law360 on Tuesday. It's about growth in the U.S., the U.K. — and beyond.

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    Manatt Phelps Grows Pot Practice With Special Counsel Hire

    Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP on Tuesday revealed the latest expansion of its cannabis and CBD practice, saying it has hired a former Barclay Damon LLP attorney who specializes in corporate, tax and regulatory issues for clients including retail dispensary licensees, cultivators and multistate operators.

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    Lewis Brisbois Lands 9 Litigators From Pillinger Miller

    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has added more litigation muscle with a nine-attorney pickup from Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP, expanding the larger firm's head count in locations including New Jersey and New York.

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    Womble Bond Dickinson To Merge With Lewis Roca

    Womble Bond Dickinson said Tuesday that its U.S. business is merging with regional law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP at the start of the new year, the third law firm merger to be announced in the last week.

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    Embattled Former Miami City Atty Joins Shutts & Bowen

    Former Miami city attorney Victoria Méndez has landed at Shutts & Bowen LLP, just months after the end of her 20-year tenure with the city amid multiple controversies.

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    Most Young Lawyers Say Debt Alters Their Career Plans

    A recent student debt study by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division has found that student debt affects young attorneys in many ways — including changing their career plans.

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    Michelman & Robinson Houston Leader Joins Brown Rudnick

    Brown Rudnick LLP continued to grow its new Houston office this week with the addition of an oil and gas litigator who moved her practice from Michelman & Robinson LLP after nearly three years.

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    MG&M Expands Miss. Presence With Jackson Office

    Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP opened an office near Jackson, Mississippi, shortly after the August hire of two experienced partners based in the state capital, the firm announced.

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    Kramer Levin Beats NJ Malpractice Suit From RE Developer

    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP has defeated a malpractice suit from a real estate developer who claimed it represented both the developer and a firm partner's son — who was an employee of the developer — at the same time, according to a New Jersey state appellate decision issued Monday.

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    Ballard Spahr, Lane Powell Strike Deal To Combine

    Philadelphia-founded Ballard Spahr LLP and Seattle-based Lane Powell PC announced on Monday their plans to merge and form a combined firm with more than 750 lawyers under the Ballard Spahr name.

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    WilmerHale, Hanotiau Duo Launch New Arbitration Boutique

    Two international arbitrators from WilmerHale and Hanotiau & van den Berg have left their previous firms after near-20-year stints to set up their own boutique practice.

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    Procopio's Managing Partner Dies At 55 From Cancer

    Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's managing partner, John D. Alessio, has died after a five-year battle with cancer, at age 55.

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    Tyson & Mendes Unveils 6th Calif. Shop In Sacramento

    Insurance and civil litigation firm Tyson & Mendes LLP is expanding its presence in California, opening a sixth office in the state, this one in Sacramento.

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    Trustee Backs Tossing Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO's Ch. 11 Case

    The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss a Chapter 11 petition from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former CFO, who is currently incarcerated for embezzling millions from the firm, because he has stonewalled the trustee's requests for information about his finances.

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    Lowenstein Sandler Atty To Lead Rutgers Gymnastics Probe

    Rutgers University has selected the leader of Lowenstein Sandler LLP's white collar defense team and chair of the firm's corporate investigations and integrity group to head an investigation into the university's women's gymnastics program amid widely publicized allegations of bullying by the team's head coach.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Selendy Gay PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware vice chancellor ruled that Johnson & Johnson owes over $1 billion to a medical robotics developer and entrepreneur over a post-acquisition dispute.

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    Legal Job Market Continued Downward Trend In August

    The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    McGlinchey Stafford Adds Ex-United Auto Credit GC In Texas

    McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced that it has strengthened its financial institutions compliance practice group with a Dallas-based attorney who came aboard after more than seven years as general counsel and chief compliance officer for United Auto Credit Corp.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry kicked off September with another action-packed week as law firms shifted offices and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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