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Womble Bond Atty Appeals Contempt Ruling To 4th Circ.
A Womble Bond Dickinson partner is appealing a North Carolina federal judge's December ruling holding him in contempt of court for failing to correct misrepresentations he allegedly made to a Dutch tribunal in parallel litigation involving a software developer and its former Dutch partner.
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Troutman Adds Former Ga. Middle District US Atty In Atlanta
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP has expanded its white collar litigation and investigations practice in Atlanta with the addition of the former U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, making him the second former U.S. attorney for the district to join the firm since 2021.
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Weil Adds SEC's Asset Management Co-Chief To NY Group
A more-than 12-year veteran of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who most recently co-led the agency's Asset Management Unit, is joining Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as the firm continues adding former regulators to begin the new year.
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Banking Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP earned dismissals in two shareholder securities class actions on behalf of Credit Suisse and UBS following the banks' merger, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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Former DOJ Antitrust Leader Joins Cravath From Paul Weiss
The former co-chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's antitrust practice group, who previously served as the ranking deputy at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, has joined Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP as a New York-based litigation partner.
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Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP had a big 2024 highlighted by high-profile, blockbuster deals as diverse as Skydance Media's merger with Paramount Global, and Healthpeak's $21 billion merger with Physicians Realty Trust, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
The intellectual property group at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP clocked numerous wins in the past year, including a $58 million attorney fee award for representing Oracle in a software copyright battle and a win at the U.S. International Trade Commission for Korean drugmaker Hugel, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley
Insurance lawyers at Wiley Rein LLP secured rulings that adopted a carrier's methodology for calculating business expenses under a cyber policy, and strengthened the distinction between civil and criminal defense costs under professional liability policies, helping the Washington, D.C., firm earn a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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Paul Weiss Hires Exec Comp Head From Sullivan & Cromwell
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is bringing on Matt Friestedt, the former head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's executive compensation mergers and acquisitions practice, as a partner in its New York office.
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Employment Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein
The plaintiff-side law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC snagged over $78 million last year in settlements for workers who'd faced discrimination on the job, including big payouts from both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Quinn Emanuel Rehires McGuireWoods Litigator In DC
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has welcomed back a former partner who previously spent nine years with the firm representing clients such as the international soccer governing body FIFA, Digital Bridge and other corporations and clients in white collar and corporate fraud matters after several years at McGuireWoods, the firm announced Thursday.
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Ex-US Attorney Philip Sellinger Rejoins Greenberg Traurig
Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger — known for creating the first stand-alone civil rights division at any U.S. attorney's office — is rejoining his former firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP, the firm announced Friday.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Keller Postman LLC, Ward & Smith PA, Pope McGlamry PC and Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that after a Missouri resident dropped her federal claims in a putative class action over alleged mislabeling of prescription dog food, the case was properly sent back to state court.
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Littler Adds ERISA Partner From Trucker Huss In Calif.
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC has expanded its offerings in California with the addition of an attorney from Trucker Huss.
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Polsinelli Commercial Litigation Vice Chair Joins Honigman
Honigman LLP announced the addition of Polsinelli PC's vice chair of commercial litigation on Thursday, saying his experience will support the growth Honigman anticipates in the commercial real estate market.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court closed out this week by deciding the fate of the social media app TikTok, and still weighed five cases, including a free speech challenge to a law regulating pornographic websites and the retroactivity of the First Step Act. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Rodl Picks Up 25-Person Warsaw Team From Hogan Lovells
Germany-based professional services firm Rödl & Partner announced Wednesday the hiring of 19 attorneys, including five new partners, from Hogan Lovells' closing Warsaw office.
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Morgan Lewis Shrinks China Presence With Shenzhen Closure
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has closed its office in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen after less than two years, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Friday, the latest firm to reduce its operations in the country recently.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as law firms inked new deals, elevated attorneys and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Hogan Lovells Lands Quinn Emanuel IP Litigator In SF
Hogan Lovells has brought on a former longtime Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner in its San Francisco office, bolstering its intellectual property practice with an experienced trial and appellate lawyer who has guided technology companies such as Google in IP litigation.
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Milbank Elects 17 Attorneys As Partners
Milbank LLP has elevated 17 attorneys to partner in one of its largest new partner classes ever, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Litigators Make Up Half Of Ballard Spahr's Promotion Class
Ballard Spahr LLP unveiled five promotions to partner and seven to of counsel on Wednesday, elevating lawyers for four of its five departments in five cities.
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O'Melveny Adds Ex-NBA Assistant GC As Partner
The National Basketball Association's former assistant general counsel, a key figure in the planning and carrying out of the "bubble" in which the league completed the COVID-19 pandemic-interrupted 2019-2020 season, has joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner.