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    MVP: Wiley Rein's Joshua S. Turner

    Wiley Rein LLP partner Joshua S. Turner has spent the last year taking on some of the biggest cases in telecommunications, including a Sixth Circuit case against the Federal Communications Commission's "net neutrality" reversal and a challenge to its 5G upgrade order, earning recognitions as one of the 2024 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.

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    MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis

    John Yanchunis, head of the class action group at plaintiffs' injury firm Morgan & Morgan, helped secure a deal whereby Google agreed to settle claims that the search giant misled Chrome users about the privacy features of the browser's "Incognito Mode," earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

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    Ex-Arnold & Porter Atty Leads New Law School in Liberia

    The Liberia School of Law, the country's second law school, opens Nov. 4. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to Kwame Clement, the school's founding president and dean, about his journey from embattled broadcast journalist to lawyer.

  • Ex-Fox Rothschild Clients Push To Revive Malpractice Suit

    Two former clients of Fox Rothschild LLP asked a New Jersey federal judge to reject the firm's bid to dismiss a third amended complaint alleging attorneys deceived them into opening credit cards and engaging in a fake marriage under the guise of trying to secure a U.S. visa.

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    MVP: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Joseph Saveri

    Joseph Saveri of Joseph Saveri Law Firm has tackled some of the year's biggest antitrust class action cases — winning settlements for Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters, competitive cheer teams and Jackson Hewitt employees — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition MVPs.

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    Simpson Thacher Taps Atty Duo As 1st Banking Team Leaders

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has named two longtime New York City-based partners, including the co-head of its global banking and credit practice, as the first co-leaders of its global investment banking practice, the firm announced Monday.

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    Fox Rothschild Finishes Move To New Philadelphia Office

    After nearly 18 months of construction and preparation, the more than 100 attorneys and 250 professional staff in Fox Rothschild's Philadelphia office have a new place to call home.

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    King & Spalding Adds White & Case Antitrust Litigator In NY

    King & Spalding LLP is expanding its business litigation team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a White & Case LLP litigator as a partner in its New York office to boost its antitrust capabilities.

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    Pierson Ferdinand Hires Ex-Morris Manning L&E Atty

    Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday that a former Morris Manning & Martin LLP attorney whose practice spans litigation, human resources counseling and transactional work is the latest addition to its employment, labor and benefits practice.

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    CoCounsel's Research Changes Costly But Largely Embraced

    CoCounsel, a popular generative artificial intelligence tool in the legal industry, significantly changed its research capabilities in 2024, sparking mixed reactions from law firms.

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    Finance Committee Top Int'l Trade Atty Returns To Akin In DC

    The chief international trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee's chair, Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, has closed the book on a decade of public service work and rejoined the firm where she started her legal career as a summer associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday.

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    Linklaters Adds 4 A&O Shearman Finance Partners In NY

    Linklaters LLP announced Monday the addition of four partners from the recently merged Allen Overy Shearman Sterling to the firm's finance division, deepening its U.S. capital markets and restructuring offerings in New York.

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    Cleary Adds Northern Calif. Deputy Criminal Chief As Partner

    The deputy chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California has joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Bay Area office as a partner in the Americas litigation practice, the firm said Monday.

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    MVP: Covington's Gerry Waldron

    Gerry Waldron of Covington & Burling LLP helped usher radio into the 21st century by convincing the Federal Communications Commission to greenlight technology that will allow stations to deliver geotargeted content, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.

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    MVP: Sidley's Justin Savage

    Sidley Austin LLP partner Justin Savage has been a steady hand for the firm's clients over the past year, helping BP PLC and Cummins Inc. resolve federal investigations, leading a charge to force Alexandria, Virginia, to stop decades of coal tar discharges into the Potomac River, and successfully advocating for refineries' and petrochemical plants' interests in federal rulemaking — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.

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    MVP: Covington's Alex Berengaut

    Alex Berengaut of Covington & Burling LLP led a successful effort to block Montana's TikTok ban by scoring a preliminary injunction in federal court last November, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.

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    MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu Mainigi And Ryan Scarborough

    Williams & Connolly LLP's Enu Mainigi and Ryan Scarborough helped Fifth Third Bank steer a billion-dollar Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement lawsuit to a $15 million resolution, parried class actions against Bank of America and halted a new community lending rule for banks, earning them a place among the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

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    MVP: Dechert's Brenda Sharton

    Dechert LLP partner Brenda Sharton helped the developer of a popular "magic avatar" app shake sprawling class claims that its AI-generated portraits unlawfully harvest Illinois residents' biometric data, earning her a place among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Victoria Maroulis

    Victoria Maroulis — co-chair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's national intellectual property litigation practice — beat back a major patent infringement case against Samsung Electronics in Texas and helped guide junior attorneys through an important cross-examination in patent proceedings on behalf of Juul Labs Inc., earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

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    MVP: Brown Rudnick's Jeff Jonas

    Jeff Jonas of Brown Rudnick LLP's bankruptcy practice helped spearhead the successful dismissals of Johnson & Johnson's first two bankruptcies tied to talc injury claims and the bankruptcy of a 3M subsidiary facing injury claims over military earplugs, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

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    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Cathy Clarkin

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Cathy Clarkin steered multibillion-dollar capital raises that funded big acquisitions for energy producer Enbridge Inc. and Fulton Bank's owner over the past year, as well as advising underwriters on Goldman Sachs' preferred stock and debt offerings totaling $15.5 billion to bolster the investment bank's balance sheet, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.

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    Mayer Brown Eyes The Opportunities In Post-Election Change

    Mayer Brown Chair Jon Van Gorp has been focused on growing his law firm's regulatory and enforcement capabilities and sees the impending changes to leadership at the top of government with the U.S. presidential election as an opportunity to continue doing that.

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    Paul Hastings Adds REIT Partners In Boston, Chicago

    Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that a pair of experienced real estate attorneys who have worked on some of the industry's largest initial public offerings have joined its Boston and Chicago offices as partners — additions the firm said are part of a strategic focus on capital markets.

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    Kennedys' New Head Steps Up In 'Evolving' Insurance World

    Meg Catalano, who was named Kennedys’ new global managing partner this week, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss her vision for the role and how the firm looks to stay on top of client needs in a volatile world under her leadership.

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    National Footprints Scramble Partner Pay's Link To Location

    Law firm partners' increasing pay often varies based on where those attorneys are located, a fact reinforced by a new study out Thursday, but experts say the relationship between compensation and location has become more complicated as more firms operate on a national scale. 

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