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  • Skadden Closing In Shanghai, 'Rescaling' Corporate Practice

    Sixteen years after opening in China's largest city, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP will close its Shanghai office, the firm said Friday.

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    O'Melveny Duo Includes Ex-Hogan Lovells Singapore Head

    O'Melveny has expanded its platform in Asia with the addition of two transactional lawyers from Hogan Lovells, including a former practice head and Singapore managing partner who will now lead O'Melveny's Singapore and Southeast Asia team as well as its Singapore office.

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    NY State Court System Escapes Ex-Employee's Bias Suit

    A federal judge has given the New York State Unified Court System a summary judgment win in a bias suit filed by a former court clerk who is a Hindu, ruling that the ex-employee didn't show that religious discrimination was a motive for denying her leave or her firing.

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    Seton Hall Fights Moving Ex-Prez's Suit Over Law Clerk Ties

    Seton Hall University has urged a New Jersey Superior Court judge to undo an order transferring a whistleblower suit by its former president out of Essex County because of a supposed conflict of interest involving the law clerk daughter of one of the defendants.

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    Getting Attys To Change Isn't Easy, But Psychology Can Help

    Convincing lawyers to adopt new tools often comes with a lot of resistance, but law firms can alter their approach to get lawyers to comply with almost anything, a leading legal industry expert said Friday.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Fenwick & West LLP and the Dacus Firm PC kick off this week's list of Law360 legal lions with a winning jury verdict for Amazon finding the e-commerce giant didn't infringe certain claims in a trio of wireless network patents.

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    From Miss America To Law: Ill. Atty Strives To Fight Bullying

    The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism recently released what is believed to be the first large-scale survey and report on bullying in the legal profession in the U.S., and Erika Harold, its executive director and a former Miss America, says the topic of bullying is personal for her.

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    Ted Kennedy Jr. On Disability Inclusion In The Legal Industry

    Ted Kennedy Jr., a healthcare regulatory attorney at Epstein Becker Green and a pediatric bone cancer survivor who has an amputation, has made it his life’s work to advocate for people with disabilities. Here, Kennedy talks with Law360 Pulse about why legal employers should be more inclusive.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as Lewis Brisbois saw a founder leave and other BigLaw firms tapped new leaders and talent. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Two Years In, Law Firms See Real Results From Generative AI

    Law firms are reaping the benefits of generative artificial intelligence two years after this technology was publicly unleashed, despite some external challenges, a panel of BigLaw technology leaders said at a legal conference on Thursday.

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    DLA Piper International Appoints New Executive Committee

    DLA Piper International LLP said on Friday that it has appointed a new executive committee to help take its business forward under fresh leadership after electing a new managing partner earlier in the year.

  • Paul Hastings Investment Funds Head Leaves After 18 Months

    Paul Hastings LLP has parted ways with New York-based partner John Budetti, who has been global chair of its investment funds and private capital practice since joining the firm in April 2023 from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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    Baker Donelson Bolsters Innovation Team With TD Bank Atty

    Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has brought on the former head of external legal services for TD Bank, strengthening its client solutions and innovation group with a professional who has private practice experience in labor and employment law.

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    A&O Shearman Opts For 3-Level Partnership Comp

    A&O Shearman has moved its partnership to a three-level compensation structure using an all-equity model, sources close to the firm told Law360 on Thursday.

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    A&O Shearman Practice Head Joins Simpson Thacher In NY

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Thursday the firm added the co-head of A&O Shearman's compensation, employment and governance group as a partner based in its New York office, touting the experience she has handling transaction-related compensation and benefits matters.

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    A&O Shearman Taps Governance Veteran To Co-Lead Practice

    A&O Shearman said Thursday that it has tapped a longtime partner to co-head the firm's compensation, employment, pensions and governance practice, bringing it under the joint leadership of alum from each of its two legacy firms after the merger between New York-based Shearman & Sterling and London-based legacy firm Allen & Overy became official last May.

  • White & Case Promotes 37 New Partners In Latest Round

    White & Case LLP said Thursday that it has promoted 37 lawyers to partnership in a slight dip from 2023, with women accounting for just a fifth of those who made the grade.

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    Texas Bar Exam's July Pass Rate Rises For 3rd Straight Year

    The overall pass rate for Texas bar examinees reached nearly 75% in July, marking the highest rate for a July test since the state began using the Uniform Bar Examination in 2021 and a rise of more than 3.5 percentage points over last year, according to a recent statistical report.

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    How BigLaw Firms Shape Knowledge Teams In The Age Of AI

    Generative artificial intelligence, change management and data strategy are among the factors affecting how BigLaw knowledge management teams are organized, according to a group of panelists who have successfully navigated different structures.

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    Polsinelli Hires McDermott Tax Counsel In DC

    Polsinelli PC has hired an attorney who joined the firm's tax group as a shareholder after 12 and a half years with McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

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    DLA Piper's New US Head On Adapting To Change

    DLA Piper announced this week that it has promoted a corporate finance attorney and former managing partner of its Atlanta office as co-U.S. managing partner of the firm. Here, Gerry Williams talks to Law360 Pulse about his main priorities.

  • House Resolution Introduced To Laud Hispanics In Legal Field

    A Florida representative in the U.S. Congress earlier this week introduced a resolution to designate Oct. 15, 2024, as a day to "honor the diaspora of Hispanic culture, and the representation of Hispanics in the legal profession and the judiciary."

  • Airline Owner Can't Force Cravath To Give Docs, Court Says

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP doesn't have to turn over documents used in the prosecution of an airline owner accused in a scheme to defraud Polar Air Cargo Worldwide of millions of dollars, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the defendant hasn't shown the firm was part of the prosecution.

  • Liebert Cassidy's LA Office Head Now Co-Managing Partner

    Liebert Cassidy Whitmore announced Tuesday that Melanie L. Chaney, the managing partner of the firm's Los Angeles office, is being elevated to firmwide co-managing partner alongside J. Scott Tiedemann, who plans to transition in a year into a full-time legal practice. 

  • Ex-Davis Polk Atty Drops Appeal Of Bias Verdict Loss

    A former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate on Tuesday dropped his appeal of a jury verdict clearing the firm and two lawyers of liability in a suit alleging he was fired in retaliation for airing concerns about racial bias and diversity.

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