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    Fla. Healthcare Boutique Wolfe Pincavage Opens In NY

    Miami-based healthcare boutique Wolfe Pincavage is launching a second office in White Plains, calling the move a response to "a surge in client demand across New York" in a statement Monday.

  • Hogan Lovells Adds Ex-Apis Atty Amid Expected M&A Pickup

    The former head of legal compliance at Apis & Heritage Capital Partners is now Hogan Lovells' head of New York financial institutions mergers and acquisitions, the firm announced Monday as it prepares for what it expects will be a rise in M&A activity.

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    Career Kramer Levin Atty Moves To Pryor Cashman In NY

    Pryor Cashman LLP's new bankruptcy lateral, Joseph A. Shifer, invoked the words of journalist H. L. Mencken when explaining in an interview on Tuesday why he'd stuck with working on creditors' rights issues for more than 17 years: to him, the practice is "the life of kings," he told Law360 Pulse.

  • 'Jailhouse Lawyer' Admits Firing Off Error-Filled Filings

    A convicted fraudster accused of duping people into paying him for legal work told a Manhattan federal jury on Monday that he "wanted to help people," before a prosecutor showed evidence that he "cut and pasted" often-sloppy court papers in rapid-fire fashion.

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    20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.

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    Kleinberg Kaplan Adds Simpson Thacher Atty As Tax Partner

    Kleinberg Kaplan announced Monday that it has added a Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney to help provide clients with expertise on tax aspects of private investment fund formation and operation, as well as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and financings.

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    K&L Gates Adds Ex-Schulte Roth Broker-Dealer Adviser In NY

    K&L Gates LLP has added as a partner in New York an attorney previously with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP who assists hedge funds, broker-dealers and asset managers with regulatory compliance, the firm announced Monday.

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    How Public Companies Are Changing Their DEI Disclosures

    So far in 2025, public companies appear to be adjusting to new legal and regulatory pressures surrounding diversity issues, with some jettisoning all mention of DEI in their disclosures and others maintaining broad commitments to equity in their operations, according to a study released on Monday.

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    Mayer Brown Gets New Leadership In New York

    Mayer Brown announced Monday that an intellectual property trial lawyer is taking over leadership of its New York office.

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    Littler Elects 6 New Members To Board Of Directors

    Littler Mendelson PC has elected six new members to its 19-member, 2025 board of directors, the management-side employment and labor law firm announced Monday.

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    Belkin Burden Hires Tax Exemption, Zoning Experts

    Belkin Burden & Goldman LLP announced Monday it has added five new attorneys from Seiden & Schein PC who will form the firm's new tax exemptions and zoning incentives department.

  • Reed Smith To Fight Removal In $102M Shipping Award Suit

    A New York federal judge has paused his order removing Reed Smith LLP as counsel for the former owners of reorganized international shipping group Eletson Holdings in litigation over a $102 million arbitral award while the BigLaw firm appeals the decision to the Second Circuit.

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    New State Courts Org. President On Its 'Vitally Important' Role

    Elizabeth Clement, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and the incoming president of the National Center for State Courts, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about her new role in maintaining the functioning and independence of state court systems around the country.

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    AmEx CLO Bonus, Stock Awards Bump Compensation To $11M

    American Express Co. paid its longtime top lawyer close to $11.3 million in total compensation last year — up from about $10.7 million in 2023 — largely a bonus and stock awards, according to a securities filing Friday.

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    How Rivkin Radler Won Ruling For Wigdor Against Leon Black

    In the latest twist in former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black's legal battles with Wigdor LLP, New York-based Rivkin Radler LLP this month secured a novel ruling that New York law barred Black's suit over allegations that Wigdor improperly pursued claims for a woman accusing him of sexual misconduct.

  • Convict Seeks Prison Delay Ahead Of Nadine Menendez Trial

    An associate of former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez who is appealing his conviction for bribing the politician with gold and cash asked a New York federal judge Friday to postpone his voluntary surrender for imprisonment as he prepares to testify in the trial of the ex-politician's wife. 

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    Skadden Litigation Partner Joins Investment Firm As CLO

    An attorney who spent the last three decades working at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is making the move in-house to German investment company JAB Holding Co.

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    Partners At Coffey Modica Get To Be 'The New Guy' Together

    Business and insurance defense litigation firm Coffey Modica LLP has added two partners to its team in Tarrytown, New York, marking a homecoming of sorts for one, who worked as an associate under the firm's founding partner, while allowing both veteran attorneys to simultaneously be "the new guy."

  • NY Energy Atty Exits Troutman Pepper For Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has brought on a former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner to its growing energy, infrastructure and project finance team in New York.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    White & Case LLP, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Fish & Richardson PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches.

  • Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty Ordered To Pay $15.5M To IRS

    A former Greenberg Traurig LLP attorney who was sentenced to prison for helping a musician skirt taxes owes $15.5 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, a New York federal judge ruled.

  • Advisory Firm ZRG Acquires Executive Recruiter EP Dine

    Talent advisory firm ZRG Partners LLC on Thursday announced its acquisition of executive legal recruiting company EP Dine Inc., effectively expanding its capabilities in placing general counsels and widening its talent pool to include law firm hires.

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    Goldman Sachs' CLO Earned $17.6 Million In 2024

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s top attorney brought home more than $17 million for her work with the company in 2024, returning her compensation to its 2022 level after a dip in 2023, according to a Friday securities filing.

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    King & Spalding Real Estate Ace Jumps To Benesch In NY

    Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has added commercial real estate attorney David Hudson from King & Spalding LLP as part of efforts to expand the firm's New York bench.

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    Recruiter Reflects On Law's Pay, Culture Changes

    Drawing from his four decades in the legal industry, including as a BigLaw litigator and more recently as a legal recruiter, Major Lindsey & Africa managing director Ronald Wood says a number of competing factors in the industry today are driving major shifts in the market.

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