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MVP: Beveridge & Diamond's Parker Moore
Parker Moore of Beveridge & Diamond PC, who helped advance the fiercely contested Mountain Valley Pipeline and settled litigation against a leading supplier of endotoxin testing products, is now helping defend tiremakers in litigation over the rubber additive 6PPD, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's George Davis
George Davis, global chair of Latham & Watkins LLP's restructuring and special situations practice, negotiated successful prepackaged Chapter 11 plans for Joann Inc. and Audacy and helped Mallinckrodt navigate two bankruptcy cases tied to opioid litigation, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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The Psychology Of Top Firms' Growing Partner Pay Spreads
Dan Binstock, a legal recruiter who works with top law firms, recently said to me about partner pay, "You can never please everybody."
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MVP: Simpson Thacher's Jonathan Youngwood
Jonathan Youngwood of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's banking practice helped secure a New York state court reversal nullifying certain due diligence requirements for underwriters involved in offerings from Paramount Global, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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Ex-Jones Day Litigator Joins Honigman In Detroit
Honigman LLP has brought on a former Jones Day business and tort litigation associate as a business litigation practice group partner.
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MVP: Davis Wright's Ambika Kumar
Ambika Kumar of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has worked on multiple high-profile online free speech cases, including successfully halting a groundbreaking California law surrounding online privacy protections for children, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Davis Polk's Derek Dostal
Derek Dostal of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP led the team representing underwriters in chip designer Arm Ltd.'s $4.9 billion initial public offering and advised placement agents in connection to the upsized private investment in public equity related to Lionsgate's $4.6 billion SPAC merger, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.
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MVP: Wiley Rein's Joshua S. Turner
Wiley Rein LLP partner Joshua S. Turner has spent the last year taking on some of the biggest cases in telecommunications, including a Sixth Circuit case against the Federal Communications Commission's "net neutrality" reversal and a challenge to its 5G upgrade order, earning recognitions as one of the 2024 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis
John Yanchunis, head of the class action group at plaintiffs' injury firm Morgan & Morgan, helped secure a deal whereby Google agreed to settle claims that the search giant misled Chrome users about the privacy features of the browser's "Incognito Mode," earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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Ex-Arnold & Porter Atty Leads New Law School in Liberia
The Liberia School of Law, the country's second law school, opens Nov. 4. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to Kwame Clement, the school's founding president and dean, about his journey from embattled broadcast journalist to lawyer.
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Ex-Fox Rothschild Clients Push To Revive Malpractice Suit
Two former clients of Fox Rothschild LLP asked a New Jersey federal judge to reject the firm's bid to dismiss a third amended complaint alleging attorneys deceived them into opening credit cards and engaging in a fake marriage under the guise of trying to secure a U.S. visa.
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MVP: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Joseph Saveri
Joseph Saveri of Joseph Saveri Law Firm has tackled some of the year's biggest antitrust class action cases — winning settlements for Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters, competitive cheer teams and Jackson Hewitt employees — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition MVPs.
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Simpson Thacher Taps Atty Duo As 1st Banking Team Leaders
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has named two longtime New York City-based partners, including the co-head of its global banking and credit practice, as the first co-leaders of its global investment banking practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Fox Rothschild Finishes Move To New Philadelphia Office
After nearly 18 months of construction and preparation, the more than 100 attorneys and 250 professional staff in Fox Rothschild's Philadelphia office have a new place to call home.
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King & Spalding Adds White & Case Antitrust Litigator In NY
King & Spalding LLP is expanding its business litigation team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a White & Case LLP litigator as a partner in its New York office to boost its antitrust capabilities.
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Pierson Ferdinand Hires Ex-Morris Manning L&E Atty
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday that a former Morris Manning & Martin LLP attorney whose practice spans litigation, human resources counseling and transactional work is the latest addition to its employment, labor and benefits practice.
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CoCounsel's Research Changes Costly But Largely Embraced
CoCounsel, a popular generative artificial intelligence tool in the legal industry, significantly changed its research capabilities in 2024, sparking mixed reactions from law firms.
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Finance Committee Top Int'l Trade Atty Returns To Akin In DC
The chief international trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee's chair, Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, has closed the book on a decade of public service work and rejoined the firm where she started her legal career as a summer associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday.
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Linklaters Adds 4 A&O Shearman Finance Partners In NY
Linklaters LLP announced Monday the addition of four partners from the recently merged Allen Overy Shearman Sterling to the firm's finance division, deepening its U.S. capital markets and restructuring offerings in New York.
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Cleary Adds Northern Calif. Deputy Criminal Chief As Partner
The deputy chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California has joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Bay Area office as a partner in the Americas litigation practice, the firm said Monday.
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MVP: Covington's Gerry Waldron
Gerry Waldron of Covington & Burling LLP helped usher radio into the 21st century by convincing the Federal Communications Commission to greenlight technology that will allow stations to deliver geotargeted content, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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MVP: Sidley's Justin Savage
Sidley Austin LLP partner Justin Savage has been a steady hand for the firm's clients over the past year, helping BP PLC and Cummins Inc. resolve federal investigations, leading a charge to force Alexandria, Virginia, to stop decades of coal tar discharges into the Potomac River, and successfully advocating for refineries' and petrochemical plants' interests in federal rulemaking — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Alex Berengaut
Alex Berengaut of Covington & Burling LLP led a successful effort to block Montana's TikTok ban by scoring a preliminary injunction in federal court last November, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu Mainigi And Ryan Scarborough
Williams & Connolly LLP's Enu Mainigi and Ryan Scarborough helped Fifth Third Bank steer a billion-dollar Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement lawsuit to a $15 million resolution, parried class actions against Bank of America and halted a new community lending rule for banks, earning them a place among the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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MVP: Dechert's Brenda Sharton
Dechert LLP partner Brenda Sharton helped the developer of a popular "magic avatar" app shake sprawling class claims that its AI-generated portraits unlawfully harvest Illinois residents' biometric data, earning her a place among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.