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Dems Claim DOJ Atty's 'Quid Pro Quo' Violated Ethics Rules
Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee senior members lodged ethics complaints against acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, accusing the recently appointed Bove of violating ethics rules by allegedly pushing prosecutors to drop criminal bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a "quid pro quo" deal with President Donald Trump.
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NYC Bar Slams Trump's Order On Covington Attys
The New York City Bar Association has joined the chorus of legal groups decrying President Donald Trump's order suspending security clearances held by Covington & Burling LLP attorneys representing former special counsel Jack Smith, calling it an "improper use of government power."
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DA Eyes Type Of Weinstein Evidence That Sank 1st Verdict
Manhattan prosecutors preparing to retry Harvey Weinstein want a jury to hear about alleged sexual assaults by the jailed Hollywood mogul that are not part of his indictment — the same kind of testimony that doomed his original conviction on appeal.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and Kontnik Cohen LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that cases dismissed voluntarily can later be eligible for special judicial relief and reopening, even if a statute of limitations would typically block the lawsuit.
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Orrick Corporate Ace Jumps To Morrison Cohen In NY
Morrison Cohen LLP announced that a corporate attorney from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP focused on working with emerging and growth stage companies has joined the firm's New York office as counsel.
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Nixon Peabody Adds Smith Gambrell Real Estate Atty In NY
An experienced real estate attorney who focuses his work on commercial transactions has made the move from Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP to Nixon Peabody LLP's New York office.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Why Pro Bono Work Is Essential To Any Attorney's Practice
Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.
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Judge Axes NYC Loan Row, Sanctions Firm For Depositions
A New York federal judge has dismissed a commercial real estate lender's claims against two guarantors for a 2022 loan it made, ripping the lender and its ex-counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP, for deposition no-shows.
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Winklevoss Twins Say SEC Crypto Probe Over, Attys Must Go
The founders of crypto exchange Gemini are calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to fire and publicly call out staff members who worked on crypto enforcement cases under the Biden administration as they announced that the agency has dropped its investigation into the company.
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More CFPB Attys Departing Amid Agency Uncertainty
Two more Consumer Financial Protection Bureau litigators are leaving the agency as it faces uncertainty due to the new presidential administration, including an attorney who has been with the agency since its creation in 2011.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Building on a new report showing that leasing activity by the legal sector finally returned to prepandemic levels in 2024, a number of firms around the U.S. got in on the action as they announced new offices or relocations.
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How Adams' Latest Move Might Checkmate The DOJ
New York City Mayor Eric Adams' push to permanently dismiss his federal corruption case is a clever legal strategy that appears to have backed the government into a corner, experts say.
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Selendy Gay Names New Managing Partner, COO
Litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC announced Thursday that it has appointed bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer Kelley Cornish as managing partner and landed the top legal head of Cinch Home Services as its new chief operating officer.
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Michelman & Robinson Adds Corporate, Real Estate Trio In NY
Michelman & Robinson LLP hired a trio of attorneys from Goulston & Storrs PC, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Graubard Miller to bolster the firm's transactional and real estate offerings in New York, according to an announcement.
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Paul Weiss Revenue Grows By More Than 30%
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP reported high double-digit growth in 2024, with revenue increasing by more than 30% amid continued success on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Law Firm Marketing Budgets Have Fallen Behind Firm Growth
During a period when many law firms experienced strong revenue and headcount growth, the industry's marketing budgets did not grow at the same pace, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.
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Legal Groups Call Out Trump's 'Outrageous' Covington Attack
Defense attorney groups on Wednesday expressed concern over President Donald Trump's retaliation against Covington & Burling LLP attorneys for representing former special counsel Jack Smith, asking the wider legal community to join their members in condemning the president's "outrageous action."
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Willkie Wins Sanctions, But Fees Cut, In Old Asbestos Ch. 11
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has won sanctions against plaintiffs in the 1982 bankruptcy case of Johns Manville Corp., but the firm's fee award was drastically slashed after a New York judge found that lawyers had not provided enough details about their work.
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Litigator Paul Clement Called 'Sensible' Pick For Adams Case
Prolific conservative U.S. Supreme Court litigator Paul D. Clement is a "talented," "wise" and "sensible" selection to look into and potentially argue against the federal government's effort to dismiss the corruption case facing New York Mayor Eric Adams, attorneys who know Clement say.
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Ballard Spahr Launches AI Tools Led By 'Ask Ellis' Chatbot
National law firm Ballard Spahr will roll out a custom suite of generative artificial intelligence tools, highlighted by Ask Ellis, a chatbot named after a co-founding attorney of the 140-year-old firm.
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PierFerd Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Real Estate Finance Attorney
Pierson Ferdinand LLP said Wednesday it has added a real estate finance securitization partner who was previously an attorney at Alston & Bird LLP to its corporate department.
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SDNY Complex Frauds, Cybercrime Pro Joins Pryor Cashman
The former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's complex frauds and cybercrime unit has joined Pryor Cashman LLP's white collar and regulatory enforcement practice as a partner, the firm said Wednesday.
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Mastercard Rehires Ex-CLO After State Dept. Stint
Mastercard's former chief legal officer is returning to the company to serve as chief administrative officer following a nearly two-year stint as deputy secretary with the U.S. Department of State.
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Dentons Hires Ex-DLA Piper Insurance Team And Co-Chair
Dentons has hired two former DLA Piper partners, including the law firm's insurance co-chair, for its commercial litigation practice in New York.
Expert Analysis
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Series
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Perspectives
Judges On Race: The Path To A More Diverse Bench
To close the diversity gap between the judiciary and the litigants that regularly appear in criminal courts, institutions including police departments, prosecutor offices and defense law firms must be committed to advancing Black and Latino men, says New York Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards.
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The Unique Challenges Of Protecting A Law Firm Brand
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.