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Orrick Lands 13-Atty VC Team From Gunderson Dettmer In LA
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has hired a 13-attorney team from Gunderson Dettmer, including the co-founders of its Los Angeles office, to bolster its tech company and venture capital services.
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Conservative Groups Say ABA Clerk, Intern Programs Illegal
Conservative advocacy groups urged the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday to scrutinize the American Bar Association's diversity and internship programs, claiming the organization is committing unlawful discrimination in the name of diversity.
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Ex-FTC Commissioner's Accusers Call Damages Bid 'Fiction'
Women who accused former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright of sexual misconduct stemming from his role as a law professor have told a Virginia judge that his damages expert in his defamation lawsuit against them failed to do his homework and his testimony shouldn't be allowed at the upcoming trial in the case.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Corporate Trio In Phoenix, Austin
One week after Husch Blackwell LLP named a new chief operating officer and changed its organizational structure, the firm added three new partners to its financial services and capital markets industry team, it said on Monday.
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Greenberg Traurig Gains Finance Pro In Dallas From Troutman
Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its public finance and infrastructure practice with a Dallas-based shareholder who came aboard from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, strengthening the firm's Texas presence.
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How Law Firms Are Helping Their Partners Generate Wealth
As U.S. law firms look back at another year of strong profits, many partners are left with a good deal of cash in their bank accounts and little time to think about how to invest it.
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DC Prosecutor Axed Jan. 6 Case Against Client, Group Says
A legal group filed a bar complaint in Missouri Thursday against President Donald Trump's top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., saying the attorney violated rules of professional conduct when, in his new government role, he moved to dismiss charges related to the U.S. Capitol attack against his own client.
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Womble Bond Adds Foley Hoag White Collar Atty In DC
Womble Bond Dickinson has grown its business litigation practice with the addition of the former co-partner in charge of Foley Hoag LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
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Legal Sector Gains 900 Jobs In January Amid Data Revisions
The U.S. legal sector started the year with a modest boost, adding 900 jobs in January, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday following the agency's annual employment data revision that also lifted earlier job figures from the past year.
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Dentons US Names Capital Markets Leader Managing Partner
Dentons tapped capital markets partner and regulatory team leader John Holahan to serve as U.S. managing partner, the firm announced Friday.
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Ballard Spahr Prepares Move To New Downtown Denver Office
Ballard Spahr LLP plans to move 60 of its attorneys and other employees to a new downtown Denver office in August, having signed an 11-year lease for 19,000 square feet of space, the law firm announced Friday.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Lawyers from Latham & Watkins LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP kick off this week's Law360 Legal Lions, with a jury decision ending a $500 million antitrust lawsuit against their clients, U.S. Soccer and Major League Soccer.
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Adams And Reese Atty Talks Bringing Super Bowl To NOLA
Adams and Reese LLP counsel Philip Sherman joined Law360 Pulse to discuss his role in bringing Super Bowl LIX to New Orleans on Sunday.
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WilmerHale Adds Perkins Coie Gov't Contracts Ace In DC
WilmerHale announced Friday that it picked up a government contracts practitioner for its defense, national security and government contracts group from Perkins Coie LLP.
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BigLaw Firms Saw Double-Digit Profit Growth In 2024
Last year was "one of the strongest years on record" for U.S. law firm financial results, according to Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group head Gretta Rusanow, with a survey by the bank of mostly large law firms showing a 16.6% increase in profits and a 12.3% increase in revenue over 2023.
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Private Equity Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's recent work advising on a number of significant mergers and acquisitions, including representing Amentum in its reverse Morris trust merger with two Jacobs subsidiaries, has scored the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP helped shape new NFL rules allowing private equity firms to become team owners and represented students fighting to protect transgender athletes' rights, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Wiley
Wiley Rein LLP's multiple recent successes in litigation involving federal contractor clients, including a precedent-setting victory for Boeing at the Federal Circuit, have earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley
Cooley LLP advised radiopharmaceutical therapeutics company RayzeBio on its $4.1 billion post-IPO sale to Bristol Myers Squibb and helped biopharmaceutical company Liquidia nab significant victories in a patent dispute with United Therapeutics, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP delivered a heavy hit last year to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to expand regulatory authority over public companies' cybersecurity practices, winning a landmark victory for SolarWinds Corp. and landing it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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Appellate Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly's appellate team led Starbucks to a Supreme Court victory that changed the standard for NLRB officials seeking injunctions against employers, and convinced it to overturn a former Indiana mayor's conviction by narrowing a federal bribery law's scope, earning the firm recognition as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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4th Circ. Says LeClairRyan Founder May Duck Tax Liability
Defunct law firm LeClairRyan PLLC's operating agreement did not bar founder Gary LeClair from jumping ship in time to potentially dodge massive tax bills tied to the firm's collapse, the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday.
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Cooley Litigation Leader On 'Enormous Momentum' Of Team
Ian Shapiro, Cooley LLP’s new chair of litigation, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about his new leadership position at the firm where he’s spent almost all of his career, and developing the team into an elite litigation group.
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Sidley Joins Other Firms In Hiring AI Chief
Sidley Austin LLP announced the hiring of a chief data and artificial intelligence officer, joining a growing wave of firms over the past year to fill such a director position amid technological advances and client expectations.
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Pierson Ferdinand Taps Founding Partner As GC
The rapidly-growing firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Friday that it selected one of its Philadelphia-based founding partners to serve as the firm's global general counsel.