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    Plaintiffs Ask To Seal $8.5M Data Breach Deal With Gunster

    Plaintiffs in a proposed data breach class action asked a Florida federal court Thursday to let them file under seal an $8.5 million settlement agreement to resolve accusations that Florida corporate law firm Gunster failed to safeguard the personal information of nearly 10,000 clients, employees and other individuals from cybercriminals.

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    McDermott Welcomes Back Employee Benefits Atty In DC

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's status as a top BigLaw firm with a specialized practice focused on employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, prompted an employee benefits attorney to recently return to the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

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    Orrick Trial Partner Joins Morgan Lewis In Boston

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced that an experienced litigator from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP joined the firm's Boston office as a partner, enhancing its capacity in areas such as life sciences and regulatory compliance.

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    MVP: King & Spalding's Stephen J. Orava

    Stephen Orava, chair of King & Spalding's global trade practice, brought a family-owned pea protein company across the finish line when the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously affirmed that plant proteins from China were hurting the domestic industry and took the reins on developing strategies targeting the potential impacts of China's overcapacity in chemical sectors, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.

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    MVP: Weil's Stephanie E. Srulowitz

    Stephanie E. Srulowitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private funds practice led real estate investment firm Crow Holdings Capital Partners in raising a $3.1 billion Fund X, guided Lee Equity Partners to close an oversubscribed $1.3 billion Fund IV and shepherded Graycliff Partners in a $600 million fundraise push, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.

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    MVP: McNicholas & McNicholas' Matthew McNicholas

    This past year, Matthew McNicholas of McNicholas & McNicholas LLP secured a trio of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of police officers who alleged they were mistreated by their departments, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.

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    Katten Atty Brings Derivatives Expertise To Faegre Drinker

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP announced a new addition to its New York office on Thursday, touting the derivatives focus the former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner takes to the firm's investment management group.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Covington & Burling LLP leads this week's list of Law360 legal lions for helping Mark Zuckerberg beat multidistrict litigation claims alleging Meta concealed social media's risks to young users.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as President-elect Donald Trump announced key appointments and Milbank kicked off BigLaw bonus season. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    MVP: Williams & Connolly's Lisa S. Blatt

    Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice won high-profile victories at the U.S. Supreme Court involving injunctions against employers and the scope of federal bribery law in corruption cases, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

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    MVP: Sidley's Mehdi Khodadad

    Mehdi Khodadad of Sidley Austin LLP's private equity practice advised Clearlake Capital Group LP and its partners through more than $18 billion worth of transactions in a year marked by high interest rates, including the $4.4 billion take-private deal for artificial intelligence company Alteryx Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

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    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Tim McCrystal

    Tim McCrystal, co-chair of Ropes & Gray LLP's healthcare practice, has guided clients through serious regulatory changes, including advising Vistria Portfolio Co. in its acquisition of Recco Home Care Services Inc. and representing Gentiva in the $350 million sale of its personal care business, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.

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    Squire Patton's New Dallas Leader Is Ready For 'Prime Time'

    About a decade after joining Squire Patton Boggs LLP, Jon Mureen wants to carry on the legacy of his mentors as the new managing partner of the firm's Dallas shop.

  • Trump Names Solicitor General, SDNY Picks

    President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday he is tapping for solicitor general the lawyer who represented him before the U.S. Supreme Court and will name his former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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    BCLP Brings On SEC Enforcement Atty In Atlanta

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's newest addition in Atlanta is an experienced enforcement attorney who spent time with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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    Office Snapshot: Winston & Strawn Keeps Pace In Miami

    In the slightly more than two years since launching its Miami office, Winston & Strawn LLP has been expanding at such a fast pace that the firm revamped its plans for a permanent space and decided to expand its footprint in a city skyline staple.

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    Pierson Ferdinand Atty Accused Of Helping Defraud Client

    The co-owner of an esports gaming platform has accused a Pierson Ferdinand attorney in Philadelphia, his firm and several other BigLaw shops where he has worked in recent years of assisting his former partner in a scheme to funnel millions of dollars out of the company they formed into new entities controlled by the ex-partner.

  • Giuliani Attys Signal Impasse In Bid To Exit Collection Cases

    Attorneys representing disgraced ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a New York federal court to allow them to withdraw from representing him in a pair of cases from former Georgia poll workers seeking to collect a $148 million defamation award against him, indicating they are at odds with the onetime New York City mayor.

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    Ex-Jones Day Attys Say Firm Can't Hide Family Leave Memo

    Two married ex-associates suing Jones Day over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy want the firm to hand over a memo from 1994, which they claim could be key to the bitterly contested case.

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    Meet The Holtzman Vogel Atty Picked As Trump's WH Counsel

    In selecting his top White House attorney, President-elect Donald Trump has turned to a longtime Republican election lawyer who also served in his first administration and has lobbied for a range of clients in recent years.

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    With Rise Of Gen AI, Firms Advised To Rethink Billable Hours

    As legal professionals continue to use generative artificial intelligence tools in their work, law firms need to reconsider billable hours and how they train associates, legal industry consultant Jordan Furlong said during an American Bar Association webinar Thursday.

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    Proskauer Taps Ex-Creative Artists Agency CFO As New COO

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced Thursday that it has hired the former chief financial officer from Creative Artists Agency as its chief operating officer to oversee the firm's operations and 800 business services professionals.

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    Greenberg Traurig Adds Procopio Corporate Ace In San Diego

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a San Diego corporate partner who previously led the corporate and transactional practice at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP.

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    Gowling Taps Norton Rose Innovation Head To Lead AI Efforts

    Gowling WLG said Wednesday that it has tapped the former director of strategic innovation and legal design at Norton Rose Fulbright to lead its efforts around the use of artificial intelligence.

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    How Reed Smith Helped Delaware ACLU Win Loitering Case

    Attorneys for Reed Smith LLP, which helped the ACLU of Delaware recently secure a win for an organization that challenged state solicitation and antiloitering laws, told Law360 Pulse that they drew on the firm's litigation resources to do so.

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Expert Analysis

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage? Author Photo

    Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

  • How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager Author Photo

    To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.

  • Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career Author Photo

    Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.

  • Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use Author Photo

    ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.

  • Opinion

    We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds Author Photo

    Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.

  • Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity Author Photo

    Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.

  • Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers Author Photo

    Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.

  • How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up Author Photo

    In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys? Author Photo

    Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.

  • Law Firm Cybersecurity Should Not Get Lost In The Cloud Author Photo

    A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.

  • Advice For Summer Associates Uneasy About Offer Prospects Author Photo

    There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.

  • How Law Firms Can Cautiously Wield AI To Streamline Tasks Author Photo

    Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.

  • Keys To Managing The Stresses Of Law School Author Photo

    Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.

  • Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts? Author Photo

    Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.

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