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Windels Marx Elevates Longtime Attorney To Managing Partner
Jackson Lewis Names New Leader In White Plains, NY
Deutsche Bank CLO Steps Down 'For Personal Reasons'
McDermott Antitrust Atty Joins V&E In NY
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Crypto Co. OKX Taps Ex-NY Regulator Linda Lacewell As GC
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX said Tuesday that Linda Lacewell, former superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, has joined the company as its general counsel, a month after the firm agreed to a $504 million deal with federal prosecutors over compliance failures.
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Ex-Manager Asks To Toss Remainder Of Singer's Contract Suit
The former manager for the Season 18 "American Idol" contestant behind the 2022 hit "Fingers Crossed" is hoping to toss what remains of her New York federal lawsuit against him, accusing the artist of trying to stop him from collecting his firm's entitlements under their agreement.
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King & Spalding Hires Mayer Brown PFAS Expert In NY
King & Spalding LLP is expanding its mass torts team, bringing in a Mayer Brown LLP product liability and "forever chemicals" specialist as a partner in its New York office.
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Hunton Andrews Names New Office, Practice Group Leaders
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed several attorneys to key leadership posts, including new leaders of its Miami and Richmond offices.
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Paul Hastings Atty Joins Dechert's Global Finance Team In NY
Dechert LLP's New York office has landed a former Paul Hastings LLP of counsel and CIFG Assurance North America deputy general counsel, saying Monday that his hire bolsters the firm's capabilities in private credit finance, securitization and structured and derivative products.
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Fox Rothschild Names Office, Practice Group, Dept. Leaders
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has installed new office managing partners in four cities, added co-chairs to its taxation and wealth planning department, and brought on an aviation practice group co-chair as part of the firm's standard leadership rotation.
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Goldman Sachs Exec Rejoins Weil As NY Banking Partner
A former executive for Goldman Sachs & Co. has rejoined Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he began his legal career as a summer associate and banking and finance attorney, the firm said in a Tuesday announcement.
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Davis Polk Adds Structured Finance Pro From Cadwalader
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has expanded its finance practice in New York with the addition of a structured finance pro from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
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How Lewis Brisbois Is Addressing Associate Pay Delay
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired two new staff members and is working to refine its process for determining discretionary bonuses and merit pay after the firm notified a portion of its associates this week that those payments would be delayed.
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Ex-CFTC Enforcement Chief Joins Sidley As Partner
Ian McGinley, who served as the enforcement director for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined Sidley Austin as a partner at its New York office, where he will be handling regulatory enforcement and white-collar matters with a focus on commodities and securities laws, the firm said Monday.
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NY Law Allows Ex-Thompson Hine Atty's Harassment Suit
A former Thompson Hine LLP income partner who accused the firm of allowing a "toxic boys club" to flourish at its New York office may continue to pursue the bulk of her harassment claims, a federal judge ruled Monday, finding that a New York law ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment claims invalidates an arbitration agreement.
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NFL Taps Ex-Facebook, White House Atty Ullyot As GC
Former Facebook general counsel and White House lawyer Ted Ullyot will become executive vice president and general counsel of the National Football League on May 1, the league announced Monday.
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'American Idol' Singer Wants Early Win In Contract Fight
Songwriter and former "American Idol" contestant Lauren Spencer-Smith, who rose to fame when her 2022 song "Fingers Crossed" went viral on TikTok, is seeking an early win for her New York federal lawsuit's breach of fiduciary and contractual obligations and faithless servant allegations, saying Saturday that the defendants "took the trust that was reposed in them as Spencer-Smith's attorneys and agents, and used that trust for their own benefit to the detriment of Spencer-Smith."
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Ex-SEC Chair's Enforcement Counsel Joins Kostelanetz
The former enforcement officer to the recently departed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has joined Kostelanetz LLP in New York as partner, the firm announced Monday.
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DLA Piper Names New Leaders In NY, Chicago
DLA Piper has three new leaders in New York and Chicago, the firm announced Monday.
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Firms Look To Build Ties With Clients Amid Lateral Churn
The departure of a key partner from a law firm in many cases can mean the departure of a major client in tandem, a vulnerability law firms are increasingly looking to address through strategies to build stronger institutional relationships with their clients.
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Eric Adams Urges Speedy Dismissal As NYC Primaries Loom
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday urged a Manhattan federal judge to promptly throw out his bribery and corruption charges, pointing to an upcoming mayoral election filing deadline and the court's previous vows to rule quickly.
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Cleary Gains 5-Atty Latham Team Known For Big IP Wins
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has welcomed a bi-coastal team of five intellectual property litigators from Latham & Watkins LLP, lauding their history leading "many of the most high-profile and complex patent and trade secrets cases of the last decade" in a statement Monday.
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Meet Jenner & Block, WilmerHale's Attys In Trump Order Suits
A slew of experienced litigators and appellate advocates from Cooley LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC signed on Friday to represent Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale in the BigLaw firms' respective lawsuits over President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting them.
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Mitchell Silberberg Chair Talks His Path From Paralegal To Chair
Law360 Pulse caught up with Yakub Hazzard to discuss him being named chair of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP nearly 40 years after starting his legal career there as a paralegal — and his unusual background as a basketball star’s kid.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
UCLA School of Law's Supreme Court Clinic and Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP head this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank.
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Goulston & Storrs Adds 4 NY Attys Spanning 3 Practice Areas
Goulston & Storrs PC has brought on three associates and a counsel to add to its capabilities in real estate, litigation and corporate matters, the firm announced Thursday.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Epstein Becker Litigator In NY, NJ
Greenberg Traurig LLP brought on as a partner in New Jersey and New York this week a trial expert with experience in high-stakes civil and criminal cases and a background litigating corruption cases as a federal prosecutor.
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Skadden Offers $100M In Pro Bono Work To Avoid Trump Order
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to avert an impending executive order that could have prevented it from taking on work connected to the federal government and its contractors, according to an announcement by the president Friday on social media platform Truth Social.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Keep Nonequity Partners Happy
Law firms that successfully manage two-tiered partnership do so by creating a culture that treats everyone with respect and by establishing financial incentives outside their base compensation to reward performance, says Carol Morganstern at Major Lindsey.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Leverage Your Atty Bio
If maintained properly, your firm bio can help attract potential clients and create authentic connections, so it's crucial to take steps to write an updated attorney profile that goes beyond a list of credentials, says Raychel Lean at Reputation Ink.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Promote Thoughtful Use Of AI?
Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.
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Making Legal Cents: Firm Culture Is The New Game Plan
Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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5 Questions Firms Must Ask For Successful Lateral Integration
To ensure that lateral partners effectively integrate their books of business, firms should design a structured transition plan based on a few fundamentals, from tracking the right data to implementing meaningful incentives, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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Goldilocks Solution: Why The 4-Day Office Week Is Just Right
As law firms continue to wrestle with return-to-office policies, many are being pulled toward one or the other of two extremes: the rigidity of a five-day in-office schedule and the laissez-faire approach of a flexible three-day hybrid model — but a four-day in-office workweek may be the sweet spot, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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As Attys Adopt Generative AI, 3 Elements Should Be Cardinal
As the legal world increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence, lawyers and firms must develop and utilize strong prompting skills, keep a pulse on forthcoming tech evolutions, and remain steadfast to ethical obligations, say Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi and Marty Robles-Avila at BAL.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Prioritize Connections
One reason business development in the legal industry seems so mysterious is because human relationships are so complex, but lawyers can reorient their thinking in two important ways to drive the process of connecting with new colleagues and contacts, say Jamie Lawless and Angela Quinn at Husch Blackwell.
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Overcoming US Law Firms' Hesitancy To Enter Indian Market
Successful private equity exits with strong returns have solidified India's buyout market as an increasingly attractive destination for future investments, offering compelling reasons for the U.S. legal community to overcome its caution on the country's markets, says Vaishali Movva at Eimer Stahl.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Make A Plan For The Year
While firms are busy allocating resources and assessing client demand, individual attorneys should use the start of the year to slow down and create a personal business plan, which can be accomplished with a few steps, say Elizabeth Gooch, Teri Robshaw and Chris Newman at McDermott.
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Talking Mental Health: Caring For Everyone As A Firm Leader
Reid Phillips at Brooks Pierce discusses how he manages the pressure of running a law firm, how sources of stress in the legal industry have changed over the past decade, and what firm leaders should do to help manage burnout and mental health issues among employees.
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How Firms Can Use LinkedIn To Aid Marketing Efforts In 2025
LinkedIn has several features law firms can use to showcase their capabilities and thought leadership to reach prospective and existing clients, including the Event and Live features, says Sofia Millar at Reputation Ink.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Emotions In Trauma Cases
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Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm discusses what motivates her to represent victims of catastrophic injuries, how she copes with the emotional toll of such cases, and what other attorneys taking on similar cases can do to protect their mental well-being.
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Strategies For Successful Law Firm Mergers In 2025
Law firms are expected to continue consolidating in the year to come, and because these mergers require a different kind of playbook, firm leaders must carefully consider office culture nuances, professional services economics and talent retention strategy before any merger, say directors at FTI Consulting.