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    Baker Botts Gains Mayer Brown Energy Ace In Houston

    Baker Botts LLP announced Tuesday that it has tapped a former Mayer Brown LLP attorney in Houston to lead the firm's critical minerals and metals subsector, strengthening the firm's corporate department.

  • Barnes & Thornburg Dallas Head Rejoins Haynes Boone

    Haynes and Boone LLP has hired the former Dallas office managing partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP as global chair of the trials practice group, the firm said Monday.

  • Texas Firm Says Recordings Show Call Center Deception

    A Texas personal injury law firm asked a federal judge to impose a preliminary injunction on a lawyer referral service, arguing that newly obtained audio recordings from the referral service's call center show the other company deliberately tries to trick the firm's potential clients into signing up with other lawyers.

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    BCLP Promotes GC For The Americas To Serve As Global GC

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has promoted its general counsel for the Americas to global general counsel, elevating a litigator who began her career as a summer associate there, the firm announced Monday.

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    Gibson Dunn Picks Up Weil Litigator In Dallas

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Monday that it has bolstered its litigation and trials practice groups with a partner in Dallas who joined from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.

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    How 3 Law Firm Leaders Manage Multiple Generations

    Law firm leaders today are faced with an unprecedented challenge and opportunity: managing anywhere from four to five generations of lawyers together in a single workplace.

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    A Look At Cooley's Generative AI Chatbot For Startups

    International law firm Cooley LLP recently launched a generative artificial intelligence chatbot called Cooley GObot to make it easier for startups to access online resources provided by the firm about building a company.

  • Texas Justices To Answer SMU Law Prof's Defamation Query

    The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to answer a question posed by the Fifth Circuit regarding the interpretation of the state's human rights act in a case involving a former Southern Methodist University law professor who sued the school and several administrators after being denied tenure.

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    Littler Announces 2 New Leaders for Mentor, Diversity Groups

    Employment law firm Littler Mendelson PC has announced that a pair of experienced shareholders have been named leaders of its associate mentorship program and one of its diverse affinity groups.

  • Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Robins Kaplan LLP's work pursuing royalties on the COVID-19 vaccine for the University of Pennsylvania and Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP's handling of an aviation acquisition lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 26 to Aug. 9.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fourth Circuit revived Florida-based NTE Energy Services' anticompetitive lawsuit accusing Duke Energy of squeezing it out of the market in North Carolina.

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    Winstead Mourns Loss Of Founding Shareholder

    Peter "Pete" Winstead, a founding shareholder of Winstead PC who died unexpectedly this week at 84, is not only being remembered for his tireless commitment to his law firm but for his dedication to the Austin, Texas, community where he lived for nearly three decades.

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    Barnes & Thornburg Taps Trial Atty As Dallas Office MP

    When Thomas Haskins joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP in 2015, he'd practiced law about six years. More than nine years later, the firm where he first became a partner has named him its Dallas office managing partner and elected him to the firmwide management committee, according to an announcement Friday.

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    Recruiters Predict Domino Effect After Milbank Midyear Bonus

    As Milbank LLP becomes the latest law firm to award midyear bonuses, legal recruiters anticipate a ripple effect, with other major firms expected to follow suit in announcing similar bonus payments for their attorneys.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the American Bar Association held its annual meeting in Chicago. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Texas Acts Like It Has 5th Circ. In 'Back Pocket,' Judge Says

    U.S. District Judge David Ezra accused a Texas state attorney of misleading the Fifth Circuit by hinting that he may ignore the appellate court's decision to overrule his order for the state to move a barrier deterring migrants from crossing the Rio Grande.

  • 5th Circ. Erases Firm's Sanctions In United Airlines Suit

    The Fifth Circuit on Thursday scrapped $50,000 in sanctions imposed on a Texas employment law firm for accusing United Airlines Inc. of committing medical leave retaliation even after it learned that its client may have fabricated evidence, ruling that the firm wasn't able to properly defend itself.

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    An Olympics Volunteer, This GC Still Seeks To Be Champion

    Robert Herbst, a former general counsel and world champion weightlifter, has woven together the law and sports throughout his career, including this week in Paris where he is working with the U.S. Olympic team as a volunteer.

  • Calif. Atty Says Lending Groups Illegally Threatened Fee Suit

    A California attorney is accusing his former clients of illegally threatening a lawsuit over a $91,000 invoice, according to a suit filed in a Texas federal court.

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    Holland & Knight's Philly Leader Among 47 Joining Polsinelli

    Nearly 50 Holland & Knight LLP attorneys around the country have moved their practices to Polsinelli PC, led by 35 shareholders, counsel and associates who helped the firm launch a new office in Philadelphia.

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    Former In-House Atty Says Mortgage Co. Was 'Oppressive'

    A former staff attorney for mortgage company Newrez LLC alleges in a Texas state court lawsuit made public this week that she was terminated last year after witnessing a deputy general counsel engage in sexually inappropriate conduct with an intoxicated subordinate attorney at a work-related gathering.

  • Ex-Exec Says Texas Law Firm Can't Arbitrate Harassment Suit

    A former executive of a Texas legal tech company has asked a New York federal judge not to let her former law firm force her to arbitrate sexual harassment claims against the firm and its legal technology partner, ClaimDeck.

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    How Law Firms Can Avoid Fallout Over Politics, Social Issues

    With a presidential election approaching, the Israel-Hamas war continuing, and numerous social issues creating division in the country, Dawn Reddy Solowey of Seyfarth Shaw LLP discusses how law firms might de-escalate potential conflicts that could erupt at work.

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    Bid For Ex-Judge's Phone Records Halted At Texas Hearing

    A Texas bankruptcy judge shut down a bid from JCPenney's bankruptcy administrator to subpoena former Judge David R. Jones' cellphone records in a partially sealed hearing Wednesday in connection with Jones' secret romance with a onetime lawyer at Jackson Walker LLP.

  • Dykema Faces Sony Sanctions Bid In Baseball Game TM Suit

    Attorneys from Dykema representing a baseball training program in its trademark battle against Sony hit back at the media juggernaut's bid for punitive sanctions Tuesday, blasting the request as baseless.

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