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Blank Rome Adds Commercial Real Estate Expert In DC
The former president and general counsel of Edge Funds Management LLC has joined Blank Rome LLP as an of counsel in the real estate group.
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MVP: Latham's Serrin Turner
Serrin Turner of Latham & Watkins LLP led the team that recently succeeded in gutting a landmark U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case against software developer SolarWinds Corp., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.
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MVP: Fried Frank's Rachel C. Strickland
Rachel C. Strickland, partner and global chair of the restructuring department at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, represented two Georgia election workers in a bankruptcy lawsuit against Rudolph W. Giuliani and advised NanoString Technologies Inc. on its asset sale, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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MVP: MoFo's Justin Salon
Justin Salon of Morrison Foerster LLP managed to secure a $5 billion initial public offering for client Arm Holdings PLC in late 2023 while aggressively expanding the capital markets practice that he chairs, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.
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Mayer Brown Adds German Litigation Pro From Freshfields
Mayer Brown LLP has hired a litigation and arbitration expert as a partner in its office in Düsseldorf, Germany, as the firm moves to bolster its cross-border contentious matters and commercial disputes practice.
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Polsinelli Continues Philly Growth With 2nd Oct. Hire
Polsinelli PC grew its recently opened Philadelphia office with the addition of a real estate attorney who returns to private practice after providing in-house counsel for a commercial real estate subsidiary of Blackstone.
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4-Atty Healthcare Team Joins Burr & Forman In SC
Burr & Forman LLP announced that four healthcare attorneys, including three partners, have been added to the firm's Charleston, South Carolina, office from Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP, in what the firm said is a continued focus on growing in the state's largest city.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Karen Dunn
Karen Dunn, co-chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's litigation practice, over the past year has co-led a defense of Google LLC and secured two pretrial wins against the U.S. Department of Justice's pending antitrust suit alleging the tech giant runs a monopoly on online advertising, earning Dunn a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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BCLP Adds Ex-Seattle Mayor, US Atty As US White Collar Head
After a short break focused on pro bono work and chairing a Washington State Bar Association task force on emerging technologies and the practice of law, former Seattle mayor Jenny A. Durkan is returning to private practice at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.
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DLA Piper's FDA Regulation Vice Chair Joins White & Case
The former vice chair of DLA Piper's FDA regulatory practice has joined White & Case LLP's global life sciences and healthcare group and intellectual property practice.
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Barnes & Thornburg Names 19 New Partners In Reduced Class
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has promoted 19 attorneys to partners in states including Georgia, Texas, California and New York beginning Jan. 1, marking a decrease from its 2024 and 2023 class sizes, though the new partnership class outpaces promotions in preceding years.
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Gibson Dunn Lands Trump Impeachment Prosecutor, 4 Others
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Wednesday that it had hired away former President Donald Trump's impeachment prosecutor from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP to co-chair its global litigation practice group in New York, as well as four other former federal prosecutors from that firm.
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Sheppard Mullin Adds Former NY Health Agency Leader
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced on Wednesday that it has hired a former New York State Department of Health deputy commissioner as a healthcare partner in New York.
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Seyfarth Launches Energy Deals Group With Polsinelli Trio
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has launched an energy transactions group in Texas with the addition of three attorneys from Polsinelli PC, as part of Seyfarth's strategic plan to enhance its corporate and transactional capabilities, the firm announced Wednesday.
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MVP: Napoli Shkolnik's Paul Napoli
Paul Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik LLP secured four massive settlements with 3M, Tyco Fire Products, DuPont de Nemours and BASF Corp. ranging from $316.5 million to $12.5 billion on behalf of public water systems impacted by "forever chemical" contamination, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: Winston & Strawn's Sean G. Wieber
Winston & Strawn LLP's Sean Wieber successfully defended OnlyFans in a suit accusing the popular content subscription site of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, earning him earn a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.
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MVP: Wachtell's Emily D. Johnson
Emily Johnson of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's capital markets practice led the financing for Diamondback Energy Inc.'s $26 billion acquisition of Endeavor Energy Resources LP, and steered the financing structure of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's transformational $14 billion all-cash purchase of Juniper Networks, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitch Eitel
Mitch Eitel has had a busy year with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services practice group — from advising UBS Group AG in a $3.2 billion takeover of Credit Suisse that was one of the most significant bank deals since the 2008 financial crisis, to advising Fulton Bank on its acquisition of failed Republic First Bank — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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Lewis Brisbois' Leader On Steering The Firm Forward
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has seen major leadership changes over the past year. Law360 Pulse caught up with managing partner Greg Katz to discuss the firm's vision moving forward, the impact of recent leadership transitions, and the strategies being implemented to navigate the competitive legal landscape.
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MVP: Kirkland's Steven Serajeddini
Steven N. Serajeddini, a restructuring partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has kept busy over the last year handling some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in the country, including the sprawling insolvencies of flexible workspace provider WeWork Inc. and cancer healthcare company GenesisCare, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Farshad E. Morè
Farshad E. Morè, a partner in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office and member of the firm's real estate department, advised longtime client KKR on two record-breaking multifamily and student housing transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.
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MVP: Steptoe LLP's Pantelis Michalopoulos
Pantelis Michalopoulos, a partner at Steptoe LLP, wasn't afraid to stand out from a crowd of defendants and guide his client Dish Network to forge a different path before the Seventh Circuit in a proceeding over franchise fees and public rights of way, and aided mergers involving EchoStar, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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Room For Improvement: How To Hone Atty 'MarTech' Use
Improving attorney adoption of marketing technology — otherwise known as "MarTech" — is a critical business need for law firms, but not enough lawyers have the skills needed to use such tools, platforms and software, according to an industry report made public Wednesday.
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How Mayer Brown Is Shaking Up Early Career Networking
For many lawyers in the earlier stages of their careers, activities like networking and business development don't come naturally. But with Mayer Brown LLP's NextGen platform, they may not have to.
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Pervasive Bullying In Law Is Impacting Young Attorneys
A report released earlier this month cataloging the experiences of more than 6,000 Illinois lawyers found that one quarter say they have experienced bullying within the last year. Among the youngest lawyers, that number jumps to 39%.