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A&O Shearman To Cut Partner Numbers By 10%
A&O Shearman said Friday that it is cutting its global partnership by approximately 10% as the newly merged firm plows ahead with cost-cutting measures and seeks benefits from its transatlantic tie-up.
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Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Announce Megamerger
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP will merge in January 2025 to create a combined firm with more than 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices in the United States and two in Europe, the law firms announced Thursday.
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Norton, Quinn Emanuel Decry $600M Patent, Contempt Ruling
NortonLifeLock and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP again urged the Federal Circuit to overturn a $600 million patent infringement verdict against the company that was in part based on the firm's being held in contempt, with both saying the holding has serious flaws.
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Troutman Pepper Faces $59 Million Malpractice Suit In NY
Queens-based construction company Judlau Contracting has launched a $59 million malpractice suit against Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in New York state court, alleging the firm and a partner in its construction practice of failing to provide adequate representation in two underlying court cases.
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More Law Firms Using AI For Business Tasks Despite Hurdles
Artificial intelligence topped the list of new technologies used by law firms this year, but many firms still struggle in adopting and making use of emerging technologies, according to the summary of a new survey released Thursday.
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Buchanan Ingersoll COO Jumps To Faegre Drinker
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired a chief operating officer who previously held that role at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, the firm said Thursday.
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Haynes Boone Raises Volume On Atty Wellness With Podcast
From caffeine and parenting to ergonomics and sleep, Haynes and Boone LLP has taken on a wide array of topics in its "Wellness in Law" podcast series. Abby Read, the firm's first wellness manager, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss the initiative.
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Veteran Atty Launches Solo Patent Boutique In Va.
Longtime patent attorney Michael Kiklis — a former partner at both Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustadt LLP who has represented companies including SLB, Thermo Fisher Scientific's Life Technologies Corp. and Steuben Foods Inc. — has launched his own patent boutique in Alexandria, Virginia.
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DLA Piper Names Co-Leaders For Growing Mexico City Office
DLA Piper has elevated two regional Latin America practice group co-leaders as co-managing partners of the firm's Mexico City office.
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Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty To Tax Charges In Surprise Move
Hunter Biden entered a surprise guilty plea to nine criminal tax charges in California federal court on Thursday, bringing a dramatic conclusion to the case following a dizzying series of events on what was set to be the first day of his trial.
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Cooley Hires Corporate Governance Pro As Strategic Adviser
Cooley LLP has hired a thought leader with expertise in securities regulation as a strategic adviser to provide content for clients, including a new blog to give guidance on all types of governance issues, the firm announced Thursday.
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With Dechert Chicago Closing, Shook Hardy Gets Criminal Pro
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has nabbed a Dechert LLP regional white collar practice chair and former federal prosecutor for its Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices in the wake of Dechert's recent decision to shutter its Windy City office.
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Polsinelli Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Litigator To LA Office
Polsinelli PC announced Tuesday that it is continuing to expand its litigation bench by adding an experienced trial attorney as a principal to the firm's Los Angeles office.
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Weil Adds Longtime FTC Mergers Assistant Director In DC
An almost 19-year veteran of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission who helped lead a group of attorneys focused on mergers has moved to private practice, joining Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as an antitrust partner in the nation's capital, the firm announced Wednesday.
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McElroy Deutsch's Former CFO Fights Bid To Sink Ch. 11 Case
The currently incarcerated former chief financial officer for McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP denied that his Chapter 11 filing was a bad faith maneuver meant to stall ongoing civil litigation, claiming instead that the bankruptcy will allow for the liquidation of property for the benefit of creditors.
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Longtime Duane Morris Litigator To Co-Lead NY Team
A longtime Duane Morris LLP attorney focused on securities litigation and regulatory investigations is stepping up as co-leader of the firm's New York team as it plans to combine its offices on Broadway and Park Avenue.
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Linklaters Gains NY Restructuring Pro From Simpson Thacher
An attorney with more than 25 years of transactional experience has left Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP this week to join Linklaters' New York office as head of the firm's U.S. capital solutions practice.
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Freshfields Adds Ex-Paul Hastings Capital Market Vice Chair
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announced on Wednesday the lateral hire of Paul Hastings LLP's vice chair of securities and capital markets as a partner in its New York office.
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Can K&L Gates Quadruple Its Revenue Again?
In the last two decades, K&L Gates LLP has quadrupled its annual gross revenue. Global strategic growth partner Craig Budner discusses growth strategy, as well as industry factors at play as the firm and its peers look to the future.
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Reed Smith Is Latest Firm To Wind Down Operations In Beijing
Sixteen years after expanding into Asia, Reed Smith LLP said it will be consolidating its work in China in its Shanghai office and, according to a source familiar with the matter, closing its Beijing office.
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Overheard At ILTACON: Law Firms Face AI Growing Pains
Law firms exploring artificial intelligence tools face growing hurdles in implementing those technologies effectively while dealing with pushback from clients, based on what I overheard at a recent legal technology conference.
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Arnold & Porter Adds Mintz Healthcare Enforcement Leader
After setting up shop in Boston a little less than a year ago, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced Tuesday that it was welcoming the co-chair of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's healthcare enforcement defense group.
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Baker McKenzie Adds MoFo M&A Team In Singapore
Baker McKenzie member firm Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow has announced it hired a team that was led by the managing partner of Morrison Foerster's Singapore office and an experienced corporate lawyer, bolstering its mergers and acquisitions abilities in the nation.
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O'Melveny Hires Restructuring Partner From Willkie In NY
O'Melveny & Myers LLP on Tuesday announced the hiring of a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York for its corporate restructuring group.
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Bracewell Energy Ace Joins Willkie In New York
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its energy team by hiring a leading renewable energy and energy finance attorney as a partner in the firm's New York office.