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10th Circ. Rejects Ex-GC's Sanctions Bid Against Loeb & Loeb
The Tenth Circuit has sided with a district court's decision dismissing a bid by the former general counsel of a medical device company to have Loeb & Loeb LLP sanctioned for bringing what he said was a baseless lawsuit against him on behalf of his former employer.
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Former DHS Deepfakes Expert Joins Crowell & Moring
One of the nation's leading legal authorities on synthetic media, also known as deepfakes, has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as a privacy and cybersecurity partner to advise clients on the legal and business challenges raised by misleading online content, the firm said Tuesday.
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DLA Piper Fired IT Worker Because Of Depression, Suit Says
DLA Piper fired an information technology employee because of his depression and anxiety, he told a New York federal court, saying the firm cited a poor "culture fit" to gloss over terminating him at the end of his medical leave.
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Ex-DOJ Atty Joins Holland & Knight's Fla. Litigation Team
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its North Florida litigation practice group with the addition of a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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MoFo Adds Ex-DOJ Official To Investigations Team In DC
Morrison Foerster LLP has continued its recent expansion of its congressional investigations group with a former senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs.
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Don't Just Take The Money: Funding A Legal Tech Startup
Legal tech companies have been snagging record amounts of funding in recent years, but founders and executives in the industry said startups should think carefully about how much money they raise from investors.
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Puerto Rico's High Court OKs Nonlawyer Firm Ownership
Puerto Rico is set to adopt new rules allowing nonlawyer ownership stakes in law firms, joining a small number of U.S. states that have relaxed restrictions in recent years.
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Kirkland Hires Goodwin Investment Partner In Boston
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former counsel to a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who moves to the firm's Boston office after more than five years at Goodwin Procter LLP.
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Lewis Brisbois Opens Insurance Practice With Atty From WTW
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has launched a practice catering to the legal needs of insurance underwriters, product leaders and managing general underwriters and agents, hiring a former executive vice president at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson PLC to co-chair it.
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Pillsbury Adds Goodwin Venture Capital Ace In San Francisco
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP continues adding to its investment funds team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Goodwin Procter LLP venture capital expert as a partner in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.
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Reed Smith's New Princeton Leader On Building Connections
Nicholas Valvanis, the new head of Reed Smith LLP's office in Princeton, New Jersey, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about his ideas for attracting talent, his plans for raising the office's profile, and how his transactional practice translates into office leadership.
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Perkins Coie Lays Off 5% Of Staff Amid Strategic Review
Perkins Coie LLP, which successfully fended off President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, has reportedly laid off roughly 5% of its professional staff this month, and attributed the reductions to the firm's strategic realignments following a yearlong review of its business operations.
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Litigation Funders Fight 'Kill Shot' In 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Litigation funders are in panic mode over a provision in the massive federal spending bill that would impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry, with one executive calling it a "kill shot" and an academic warning it amounts to "unprecedented" weaponization of the U.S. tax code.
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Ex-DOJ Legislative Affairs Atty Returns To King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP announced Monday it has rehired a former special matters and government investigations partner who left three years ago for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, where he most recently was a deputy assistant attorney general.
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Quinn Emanuel Joins Firms Launching State AG Teams
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced Monday that it has become the latest major law firm to launch a state attorneys general practice group amid increasing activity from these offices, tapping two alumni of the public sector to lead the new team.
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Goldman Sachs Real Estate VP Rejoins Haynes Boone In NY
A former Haynes & Boone LLP attorney has returned to the firm's New York office as a real estate finance partner after leaving for three years to become a vice president on Goldman Sachs' real estate investment team.
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Weil Gotshal Hires Akin Gump Tax Partner In NY
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday the hiring of a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a tax partner out of Weil's New York office.
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Morgan & Morgan Adds Ex-Federal Prosecutor To Miami Office
Morgan & Morgan has added a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida to handle automobile injury cases in its Miami office.
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Skadden Adds 2 White & Case Energy M&A Partners In Texas
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired a pair of former White & Case LLP energy and infrastructure partners to its corporate practice in Houston, the firm said Monday.
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Reed Smith's 1st Female Global MP Elected For 4 More Years
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has elected global managing partner Casey Ryan to a new four-year term.
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Ex-Sidley, Covington Partners Launch White Collar Boutique
The former global co-head of Sidley Austin LLP's white collar defense and investigations practice has joined an ex-white collar partner from Covington & Burling LLP to launch a boutique litigation firm based in New York.
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DC Circ. Backs Morrison Foerster In Black Atty's Bias Suit
The D.C. Circuit affirmed Morrison Foerster LLP's win in a lawsuit from a Black lawyer who did contract work for the firm, ruling Friday that he hadn't provided enough details to draw parallels between him and white colleagues he said received opportunities and privileges he was denied.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued 11 decisions this week, including a high-profile one upholding Tennessee's ban on transgender care for minors and several dealing with federal agency decisions concerning environmental disputes. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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O'Melveny Names 11 New Office, Practice Group Leaders
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced major changes in leadership throughout the firm Friday, naming a new firm vice chair, announcing new leaders for five major practice groups and selecting new managing partners at seven offices including its flagship location in Los Angeles.
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Kirkland & Ellis Taps Longtime Private Equity Pro As 1st COO
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has chosen a veteran of the private equity field with a work history at EIV Capital LLC, Ares Management and Blackstone and decades of experience in the energy sector as its first chief operating officer.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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7 Tips For Predeposition Meetings Under New Federal Rule
Attorneys can use a new predeposition meet-and-confer obligation for federal litigation — taking effect Tuesday — to better understand and narrow the topics of planned testimony, and more clearly outline the scope of any discovery disputes, says James Wagstaffe at Wagstaffe von Loewenfeldt Busch.
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Guest Feature
Preparing The Next Generation Of Female Trial Lawyers
To build the ranks of female trial attorneys, law firms must integrate them into every aspect of a case — from witness preparation to courtroom arguments — instead of relegating them to small roles, says Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner at Susman Godfrey.
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Guest Feature
Mentorship Is Key To Fixing Drop-Off Of Women In Law
It falls to senior male attorneys to recognize the crisis female attorneys face as the pandemic amplifies an already unequal system and to offer their knowledge, experience and counsel to build a better future for women in law, says James Meadows at Culhane Meadows.
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.