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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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    MVP: McKool Smith's Jennifer Truelove

    McKool Smith patent trial attorney Jennifer Truelove helped Netlist secure $445 million in patent infringement damages awards, and also assisted in getting a $192 million verdict against Samsung for Mojo Mobility and a $142 million award for another company, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 IP MVPs.

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    Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In

    As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.

  • Polsinelli Real Estate Shareholder Joins Kilpatrick In SF

    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced on Thursday the hiring of a former principal and shareholder at Polsinelli as a counsel in its San Francisco office.

  • How An Ex-US Atty's Kirkland Team Aids Trafficking Victims

    After becoming a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in 2021, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox is now in the third year of an effort by firm attorneys to seal or expunge the criminal records of human trafficking survivors who have convictions or arrests connected to their victimization, with the initiative roughly doubling its work year to year.

  • NY Sees Its Highest July Bar Passage Rate Since 2013

    The state of New York saw the highest passage rate this year for its July bar exam since 2013, with the state's bar examination organization saying 69% of the more than 10,000 test-takers made it through.

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    New Prez Of Black Women Attys Org On Value Of Camaraderie

    As she prepares to steer the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles toward its 50th anniversary next year, Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner Shardé Skahan said the group is particularly special for its sense of community.

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    Ex-Judge Can't Hide Bank Records In Romance Cash Probe

    A Texas bankruptcy court on Friday shot down a former judge's bid to shield his banking records from a U.S. Trustee's Office inquiry into his concealed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner, giving Bank of America NA one week to provide six years of the former judge's bank statements.

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    MVP: Hueston Hennigan's John C. Hueston

    John C. Hueston of Hueston Hennigan LLP led his firm to victory against Google twice last year, once on behalf of dating service company Match and then was invited onto the Epic Games trial team, where he helped convince a jury that the tech behemoth had used its app store to stifle competition, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition MVPs.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    MVP: Robbins Geller's Shawn Williams And Mark Solomon

    Shawn Williams and Mark Solomon, managing partners at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, represented a British pension fund in a shareholder lawsuit against one of the deepest-pocketed companies in the world, Apple Inc. After years of litigation, Apple agreed in March to settle the case for $490 million, an outcome that landed both Solomon and Williams on the list of the 2024 Law360 Securities MVPs.

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    MVP: Davis Polk & Wardwell's Oliver Smith

    Oliver Smith of Davis Polk & Wardwell's mergers and acquisitions practice was a leader on the team that advised ExxonMobil Corp. on its blockbuster $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and Truist Financial Corp. on the sale of its remaining stake in Truist Insurance Holdings at a $15.5 billion enterprise value, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 M&A MVPs.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Kemp Jones LLP, Parker Nelson & Associates and Campbell & Williams lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions with back-to-back wins in ongoing litigation against a bankrupt "alkaline water" company.

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Expert Analysis

  • For The Future Of Legal Practice, Let's Learn From The Past Author Photo

    At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

  • Why All Law Firms Should Foster Psychological Capital Author Photo

    Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.

  • A GC's Guide To Litigation, Inspired By Sun Tzu's 'Art Of War' Author Photo

    With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.

  • ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers Author Photo

    Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.

  • Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning Author Photo

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.

  • Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan Author Photo

    Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.

  • Priorities For Improving The Legal Industry In Texas Author Photo

    To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.

  • Leading Your Law Firm's Creation Of A New Practice Group Author Photo

    Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates? Author Photo

    Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.

  • 10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems Author Photo

    Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.

  • Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law Author Photo

    The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Incorporating ADA Guidance Into Lawyer Wellness Movement Author Photo

    The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business? Author Photo

    Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.

  • 9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term Author Photo

    Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.

  • What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties Author Photo

    As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.

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