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Blank Rome Adds Partner To Launch Luxury Brands Practice
Blank Rome LLP has hired a New York partner in its real estate industry group to chair the firm's new luxury brands practice.
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Arbitrator In Virus Coverage Case Wasn't Biased, Panel Says
A New York state appeals panel affirmed a trial court's decision refusing to disqualify a Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner as an arbitrator in proceedings between a Zurich unit and the operator of Saks Fifth Avenue over coverage for COVID-19 losses.
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Goodwin Exec Joins Lowenstein As Chief Marketing Officer
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has brought on a senior leader from Goodwin Procter LLP as chief marketing and business development officer, the firm said Wednesday.
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Feds Again Deny Leaks In NYC Mayor's Corruption Case
Federal prosecutors again rejected the claim that they had leaked classified information about New York City Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case to the press, telling a judge that they were not the source that allowed the New York Times to identify a grand jury witness and that Adams hadn't shown how he was prejudiced by the disclosure.
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NY Personal Injury Law Firm Hits Ch. 11 With $9M Debt
Personal injury firm Munawar Law Group PLLC filed for Chapter 11 in New York with almost $9 million in debt, including a disputed claim from a Florida investment firm worth roughly $6.3 million.
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K&L Gates Promotes 33 Attys Across 18 Offices
K&L Gates LLP has promoted 33 attorneys across 18 of the firm's 45 offices, 27 of whom will join its partnership, along with a handful of other promotions of employees who will take on government affairs and of counsel roles, the firm recently announced.
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Ballard Spahr, Lane Powell Leaders On Post-Merger Plans
Ballard Spahr LLP officially merged with Lane Powell PC on Jan. 1, marking its entry into the Pacific Northwest. Law360 Pulse spoke with Peter Michaud, chair of the combined firm, and Barbara Duffy, former Lane Powell president, about their leadership priorities, integration strategies and growth plans.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court To Stop NY Sentencing
Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt proceedings in his New York criminal hush money case, including a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday, as the president-elect seeks to throw out the charges and the jury's conviction.
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DLA Piper Adds Ex-Verizon GC As Telecom Partner
DLA Piper is boosting its global telecom practice with a new partner at its New York office who joins after serving as Verizon Business' senior vice president and general counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.
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What To Know About Joe Nocella, Trump's EDNY Top Cop Pick
While few were expecting President-elect Donald Trump to select Nassau County District Judge Joseph Nocella as the next U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, ex-prosecutors in the office and his former colleagues say he has the requisite experience and integrity for the job.
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Liskow & Lewis Opens NY Office And Expands Maritime Team
Liskow & Lewis APLC, a Gulf Coast-based firm focusing on matters in the energy sector, has opened an office in New York City and hired two new shareholders to lead the firm's maritime practice in New York.
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Arnold & Porter Promotes 2 To Innovation, Marketing Roles
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has promoted two executives in New York and Washington, D.C., to serve in the new role of chief practice innovation officer and as the firm's new chief business development and marketing officer, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Lawyer From King & Wood Mallesons
Fox Rothschild LLP announced the latest addition to its New York office on Monday, welcoming a former lawyer with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and U.S. Department of Justice from Asia-based firm King & Wood Mallesons.
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Braverman Greenspun Acquires NY Real Estate Boutique
Braverman Greenspun PC said Tuesday it has acquired real estate boutique Zingman & Associates PLLC, allowing it to deepen its capabilities in landlord-tenant related issues.
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Harter Secrest Names New CFO, Management Group Members
Harter Secrest & Emery LLP announced a number of leadership appointments this week, including a new chief financial officer, practice group leaders and members of the firm's management committee.
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Greenspoon Marder Unveils Alliance With Davidoff Hutcher
Florida-based Greenspoon Marder LLP and New York-based Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP have entered into a strategic alliance, which will expand the offerings for both firms' clients in the two states, they announced Tuesday.
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Lowenstein Sandler Elects 5-Atty Partner Class For 2025
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced a class of five new partners for 2025 this week, drawing on attorneys working from New York and New Jersey and bringing expertise in tax law, environmental law, white collar defense and more.
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Alston & Bird Partner Class Highlights Litigation Bench
Litigators again dominated Alston & Bird's partner class this year as the firm announced Tuesday that it had promoted a roster of 20 attorneys, slightly fewer than last year's 27.
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Approach The Bench: Justice Goodwin Liu On Oral Argument
When Goodwin Liu became a California Supreme Court justice in 2011, the constitutional law professor found the intellectual demands of judging similar to academia, but was surprised to learn that "the art of judging is much more practical than people think."
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Menendez's Wife Fears His Sentencing Would Taint Her Trial
The wife of former Sen. Robert Menendez asked a New York federal judge on Tuesday to delay her trial on bribery charges, scheduled for Feb. 5, to avoid having it commence within one week of the sentencing of her husband and co-defendant.
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Baker McKenzie Adds Tax Partners In California And New York
Baker McKenzie is fortifying its tax practice by hiring a partner in San Francisco with experience in planning tax positions and handling controversies for technology-driven companies and rehiring another in New York who is skilled at state taxes and journalism.
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Here's How Paul Hastings' Big Bet On Finance Paid Off
As the financial markets swayed between booms and busts in recent years following the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul Hastings LLP stayed the course, doubling down on its transactional practices by recruiting top-tier talent across key global markets like New York and London, and rising hubs such as Texas.
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Venable Picks NY, Chicago Attys To Lead Sports Law Team
Venable LLP has named a former competitive gymnast and a standout college lacrosse player as co-leaders of its new sports law team.
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Human Rights First Adds Dorsey & Whitney Pro Bono Pro
New York-based nonprofit Human Rights First has brought on an attorney with more than 25 years of legal and humanitarian experience, including spending the last two decades at Dorsey & Whitney taking on high-profile human rights cases as well as complex civil litigation and criminal defense.
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Trump Can't Halt Sentencing In NY Case, Appeals Judge Says
A New York appellate judge Tuesday declined to freeze proceedings in Donald Trump's criminal hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to be sentenced as scheduled on Friday following his guilty verdict and just days before his inauguration.