Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Before she joined the federal bench in Arizona, Judge Diane Humetewa worked as a jurist on a relatively young court, where she regularly set new legal precedent.
While a spate of BigLaw firms have announced in recent weeks their plans to exit or downsize operations in China, Kobre & Kim LLP is settling in, focusing its efforts on areas such as cross-border disputes, firm leaders recently told Law360 Pulse.
The general counsel who navigated General Electric Co. through its recent split into three companies is becoming a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP on Oct. 1, where he looks forward to taking on corporate crises and maybe even a pro bono death penalty case.
Baker McKenzie said Tuesday it has hired the head of the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices from O'Melveny & Myers LLP to serve as the new co-head of its transactional group in New York.
A King & Spalding LLP international arbitration partner based in Chicago announced that he has left the law firm to launch a solo practice focused on investor-state and commercial arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution matters.
The Chapter 11 examiner appointed in the bankruptcy case of fallen cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading absolved debtor law firm Sullivan & Cromwell of any conflicts or misconduct related to the business's collapse and restructuring, recommending limited further investigations into discrete matters.
A Massachusetts federal judge is calling out U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for controversial flags reportedly seen flying outside his homes, saying such actions erode public trust in the courts.
The justices issued three rulings this week, including a unanimous one about arbitrability in a case involving a cryptocurrency exchange, and divided ones concerning racial gerrymandering and sentencing enhancements for those with drug convictions. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
It was a week of mammoth wins for petite law firms, with two intellectual property boutiques — Lex Lumina PLLC and Irwin IP LLP — leading off this week's Law360 Legal Lions list with an explosive win at the Federal Circuit throwing out "rigid" tests for design patents.
Nixon Peabody LLP has brought on a pair of Littler Mendelson PC attorneys who previously worked in California's Occupational Safety & Health division as practice co-chairs.
As she begins steering Squire Patton Boggs LLP's new insurance disputes and counseling practice, Elizabeth Ahlstrand is setting her sights on growth both across the country and abroad.
Womble Bond Dickinson announced on Thursday the hiring of a capital markets partner who most recently led a legal and compliance team for investment analytics startup Venn.
Electric motor design and software company ECM PCB Stator Tech has a new in-house counsel.
Sidley Austin LLP partner Aaron Rigby has helped nonprofit Carry The Load expand its reach to include a national relay covering thousands of miles that will culminate this Memorial Day weekend with a flagship march in Dallas to honor military service members and their families.
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP is urging a New Jersey state court to order its former chief financial officer to pay roughly $1.5 million damages for "unauthorized compensation" he paid himself and force him to disgorge $5.4 million in pay he received from the firm.
A finance lawyer with deep expertise has joined DLA Piper from Goodwin Procter LLP in its Palo Alto shop, strengthening its offerings in the Golden State.
Nearly one in five queries caused leading legal artificial intelligence tools to respond with misleading or false information, according to a new report on Thursday, reminding users to remain cautious about the outputs of these platforms.
The upcoming holiday weekend didn't stop the legal industry from making this another action-packed week as BigLaw expanded and adjusted practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
In 1948, attorney Irwin R. Buchalter joined California lawyers Jerry Nemer and Murray Fields and founded a firm to serve the Los Angeles area's growing postwar commercial community.
A New York federal magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered DLA Piper to let her privately review previous pregnancy discrimination complaints against it as part of discovery in a former attorney's suit, an order that comes after the firm argued the burden of sharing them "far outweighs its likely benefit."
Bracewell LLP announced that the former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York's Long Island district joined the firm's government enforcement and investigations practice as a partner.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC announced Thursday that it has named two attorneys as executive shareholders and selected its board of directors, after a new CEO and chairman took the reins of the firm earlier this month.
Paul Hastings LLP has named New York litigation partner Eric W. Dittmann as co-chair of its intellectual property department alongside fellow co-chairs Bruce Wexler and Naveen Modi, according to several sources.
The Wallace Foundation announced Thursday it will be bringing on an experienced general counsel who has focused on nonprofits and philanthropy while moving between private practice and in-house work, most recently working as counsel in Goodwin Procter LLP's tax-exempt organizations group.
Experience working at a Top 50 Am Law firm continues to have a more significant impact on in-house lawyers' compensation than experience at a boutique or even within the second top 50. But that's just one factor that plays a role. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at how compensation differs by corporate lawyers' previous employers and their practice areas.