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  • Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's global team mastered the gamut of capital-raising transactions across continents in 2024, including billion-dollar-plus initial public offerings involving Finnish sporting goods giant Amer Sports and Swiss skincare company Galderma, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Akin

    The more than 100 restructuring lawyers at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP have untangled some of the most complex Chapter 11 cases in recent years for the benefit of unsecured creditors, including the sprawling proceedings of hospital system Steward Health Care and the difficult reorganization of Diamond Sports Group, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

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    K&L Gates IP Pro Jumps To BakerHostetler's DC Office

    An attorney specializing in trademark and copyright matters has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Washington, D.C., office after 11 years with K&L Gates LLP.

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    J&J Investigations And Gov't Litigation Head Joins O'Melveny

    The global practice leader for investigations and government litigation at Johnson & Johnson has joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP after two decades in-house, the firm said Monday.

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    Morgan Lewis Adds K&L Gates Benefits Pro In Pittsburgh

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has grown its employee benefits practice in Pennsylvania with the addition of a K&L Gates LLP attorney.

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    With Eye On Growth, Husch Blackwell Shakes Up Leadership

    In an effort to "capitalize on growth opportunities," Husch Blackwell LLP has named a new chief operating officer and split its organizational structure to create separate operations and marketing and business development divisions, the firm announced Monday.

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    Troutman Says Lawyer's Firing Due To Performance, Not Bias

    A former Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP associate was let go from the firm due to under-performance, not racial bias, the firm told a D.C. federal judge in a bid to end the lawyer's racial discrimination suit, arguing undisputed facts show a diverse group of partners agreed she was not meeting expectations prior to her being dismissed.

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    Paul Hastings Taps Ex-Fried Frank AI Expert For New Practice

    Paul Hastings announced Monday the hiring of a former partner at Fried Frank to lead its new technology transactions practice out of New York.

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    Reed Smith Leaders On Strategy Behind Atlanta Shop Launch

    Two Reed Smith LLP leaders joined Law360 Pulse to discuss what led the firm to launch its first Atlanta office with 37 attorneys joining from Morris Manning & Martin LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP.

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    Goodwin Hires Kirkland Antitrust Partner In DC

    Goodwin Procter LLP has hired a career Kirkland & Ellis LLP antitrust litigation attorney, who told Law360 Pulse in a recent interview that she wanted to bring her practice focused on healthcare and life sciences clients to a platform rife with industry expertise.

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    Weil Adds Ex-A&O Shearman Financing Pro As Partner In NY

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has added a banking and finance attorney previously with Allen Overy Shearman Sterling as a partner in its New York office, the firm announced Monday.

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    Judges, Colleagues Remember Attys Lost In DC Plane Crash

    Three attorneys who are among the 67 people presumed dead after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., are being remembered by their colleagues and mentors as "brilliant," "funny" and "passionate" young lawyers who each had bright futures ahead of them.

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    'Elite' High Court Attys Have Outsized Role As 'Repeat Players'

    U.S. Supreme Court cases are increasingly argued by a small, elite group of attorneys who appear before the justices time after time, a trend that seems to have less impact on those lawyers' success than it does on their growing homogeneity and influence over the law, according to new research.

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    Dinsmore & Shohl Grows In Fla. With Tampa Boutique Pickup

    Dinsmore & Shohl LLP announced Friday that it plans to merge with boutique firm Shankman Leone in Tampa, Florida, adding a 10-attorney team to its ranks.

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    Jackson Lewis Reelects Chair Amid Leadership Changes

    In its latest leadership shake-up, Jackson Lewis PC has reelected its firm chair and managing principal for a second term, while also implementing a leadership restructuring that includes the reorganization of its practice groups and the appointment of several new national heads.

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    Gunderson Dettmer Starts In Atlanta With Morris Manning Trio

    Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP has opened an Atlanta office with four former Morris Manning & Martin LLP attorneys — three of whom now join one colleague who came to the firm last year — making Gunderson Dettmer the second BigLaw firm this month to open an office with a group from the Atlanta-based firm.

  • Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's diverse tax practice went from strength to strength this year, from advising well-known companies like Boeing and Discover that inked multibillion-dollar deals to counseling industry leaders in shaking up their sectors, helping it earn a place among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • Technology Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP won a significant victory for Google in an ongoing antitrust case and advised longtime client Apollo Global Management on one of the year's most significant technology deals, a joint venture with Intel, earning recognition as a 2024 Law360 Technology Group of the Year.

  • Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP was successful in several significant First Amendment cases, including one upholding a reporter's right to express opinions, and two others recognizing the importance of summary judgment against the chilling effect of a defamation lawsuit, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • White Collar Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP successfully ended a five-year government investigation into alleged illegal monkey importation by two drug development companies with no enforcement actions and secured a favorable plea for a private equity manager accused of what prosecutors claimed was the most significant white collar case ever in Oregon, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • Environmental Group Of The Year: Bracewell

    Bracewell LLP helped a Louisiana chemical facility stave off a regulatory push that would allegedly force it to shut down, helped small refiners win hardship exemptions from renewable fuel-blending requirements, and helped companies advance regional hydrogen hub and offshore wind projects, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP had a banner year guiding the largest New York Stock Exchange initial public offering of 2024, arranging the top two high-yield transactions of 2023 and wielding an international team to help their clients stand out in any market, earning the firm a spot in the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day's bankruptcy attorneys spent 2024 on the frontiers of their practice, with work that included helping a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary enter bankruptcy with a proposal for a historically large talc injury settlement, as well as helping Spark Networks SE to navigate a new German bankruptcy law and the Chapter 15 process — putting the team among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge refused to certify a class of consumers who say Meta would have to pay users for their data if it didn't lie about privacy safeguards.

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    Orrick's New Antitrust Litigation Head Is Looking To Hire

    Former Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Eric Hochstadt has taken on the newly created job of antitrust litigation leader at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. With the creation of the post, Hochstadt says he has big plans for building out a team around him at the firm within the practice area.

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