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Office Snapshot: Honigman Keeps Up With Windy City Growth
About a decade after arriving in the Windy City, Honigman LLP has moved into a new riverfront office in downtown Chicago to accommodate a growing roster that has already tripled in attorney headcount.
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Seasoned Patterson Belknap Trial Team Joins Linklaters In NY
Linklaters LLP announced Friday it has brought aboard a high-profile team of litigation partners from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, including one who is the current president of the New York City Bar Association and a lawyer former President Joe Biden had nominated to the Third Circuit.
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Morgan Lewis Gains Blank Rome Energy Ace In Houston
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Friday that it has added an experienced energy-focused transactional attorney in Houston who most recently practiced with Blank Rome LLP, fortifying the firm's finance capabilities in the Lone Star State.
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Data Centers Blur Lines At BigLaw Firms
The rise in complex, hybrid data center deals is increasingly calling for real estate, infrastructure and private equity attorneys to work together and, in some cases, to combine their practice groups.
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DLA Piper Adds Digital Finance Regulatory Partner In NY
DLA Piper has hired a financial regulatory and technology partner who has a range of experience helping found and lead digital platforms and technology businesses to its New York team, the firm announced Thursday.
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5 Key Topics To Watch At The ABA Midyear Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to consider more than two dozen proposals at its semiannual meeting Monday, including two resolutions concerning judicial security as violence against judges is on the rise.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of January with another action-packed week as firms expanded practices and hired high-profile government attorneys following the ascent of President Donald Trump. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Civil Rights Atty, 2 Boutique Attys Among Plane Crash Victims
At least three attorneys are among the 67 people presumed dead after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet Wednesday night near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., according to several reports Thursday.
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Patent Lawyer Moves From DLA Piper To Kilpatrick
A Seattle lawyer who does patent work for branded drug developers is taking her practice to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP from DLA Piper.
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Reed Smith Debuts In Atlanta With 37 Attys From 2 Firms
Reed Smith LLP has launched its first office in Atlanta with a 37-attorney team composed of lawyers coming aboard from Morris Manning & Martin LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP, the firm announced Thursday.
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Law Firms See Generational Shift In Leadership In 2024
The legal industry saw a wave of leadership transitions in 2024, with a growing number of top executives in the nation's top 200 law firms stepping down, paving the way for a new generation of leaders, according to an upcoming report by Leopard Solutions.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
A new year brought new surroundings for a number of law firms throughout the U.S., including Honigman LLP's move to a new office in Chicago nearly 10 years after launching in the Windy City, and Snell & Wilmer LLP launching another San Diego office to accommodate its growing staff.
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Jackson Lewis Brings On Littler Atty As San Diego Leader
Employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Littler Mendelson PC litigator to be the new office managing principal in San Diego.
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Greenberg Traurig Opens Second German Office In Munich
Greenberg Traurig LLP expanded its footprint in Germany on Thursday, announcing the opening of a new office in Munich along with the hiring of eight attorneys for the location from McDermott Will & Emery LLP and Ehlers Ehlers & Partner.
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Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's technology practice has advised on a range of high-value deals and litigation matters in the sector over the past year, including handling over $20 billion in venture financing transactions for artificial intelligence companies and overturning a $2 billion trade secrets verdict, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Kaplan Marino
Kaplan Marino secured a client's acquittal of federal bribery charges, dismissal of state charges for an attorney accused in a kickback scheme and negotiated a probated sentence for a doctor accused of over 40 state crimes, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Environmental Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's environmental practice handled a particularly diverse array of cases last year, including successfully defending eBay against U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency allegations that it violated three environmental statutes via harmful products sold using its platform, earning the team a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP attorneys played a key role in a massive $28 billion merger agreement between Paramount and Skydance that would create a new media conglomerate, and it counseled Disney in a suit from a Mexican soccer club claiming it was owed millions in streaming rights following Disney's purchase of 21st Century Fox, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice advised on key deals and cases in 2024, including Mars Inc.'s $35.9 million acquisition of Kellanova and BlackRock Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter LLP's capital markets team steered Astera Labs, a provider of connectivity chips that support cloud software and artificial intelligence systems, through its upsized $774 million initial public offering and guided drug developer Bicara Therapeutics through its upsized $362 million IPO, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil
Bankruptcy attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP steered hospital chain Steward Health Care's $9 billion bankruptcy and represented Scandinavian Airlines in its restructuring of $2 billion in debt across the U.S. and Sweden, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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BakerHostetler Adds Fish & Richardson Litigator In Del.
BakerHostetler has hired a commercial litigator who formerly worked for intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC for more than a decade to bolster its Delaware office and complex litigation prowess in the Chancery Court and elsewhere.
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Orrick Adds Head Of Antitrust Litigation From Weil
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has hired Eric Hochstadt from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as the firm's new head of antitrust litigation and a member of its management committee, the firm announced Thursday.
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Brazil Biz Pro Joins Kobre & Kim To Lead Latin America Team
Kobre & Kim LLP has brought on an experienced international trade expert and consultant as regional managing director for Latin America, enhancing the cross-border dispute and investigation firm's business and product development and overall operations from her base in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Dentons Taps SEC Enforcement Vet From Morrison Cohen
Dentons has brought on a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney from Morrison Cohen LLP, where his work made headlines when he won a rare sanctions order against the regulator over its handling of a case against a client, the crypto project known as Debt Box.