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Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday denied raping a 13-year-old alongside indicted hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and identified himself as the purported victim of extortion by Texas personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee, days after Buzbee sued Jay-Z's law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, for harassment in the escalating fight.
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has hired two litigators for its New York and San Francisco offices, the firm announced Monday.
Houston trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PC has joined the growing number of law firms to match the 2024 associate bonus scale first put forward by Milbank LLP, at least in part, according to a Monday report.
Loeb & Loeb LLP has continued expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in an Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP real estate investment expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
The former chief legal officer at Visa, who currently serves as the financial services giant's chief people and corporate affairs officer, earned over $13 million in fiscal year 2024, according to a Monday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Steptoe LLP is the latest firm to announce associates will have the opportunity to earn a higher base salary in 2025, with an associate's place on the payscale depending on their billable hours.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has promoted 34 attorneys to partner effective Jan. 1, nearly triple the number of its 2024 class.
Over the last five years, Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP has helped imprisoned Californians petition to reduce their life sentences following a 2018 change to the state's felony murder rules, most recently securing the release of a man who was originally sentenced to death.
A bipartisan bill to create more federal judgeships to meet increasing caseloads is on the House's schedule for next week, but its support from some Democrats appears to be waning.
Two former officials of Los Angeles County cities have pled guilty to bribing another local politician in an attempt to influence his votes for cannabis dispensary permits.
Two more boutique firms have gotten in on the bonus action, with Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP and Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP announcing Friday they'll be matching the associate cash bonuses set by Milbank LLP and followed by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
The U.S. legal sector saw job growth continue in November, logging its third consecutive month of increases after a four-month decline earlier this year, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has expanded its offerings in Silicon Valley with the additions of a capital markets attorney from Cooley LLP and an employee benefits and executive compensation attorney from Goodwin Procter LLP.
The legal industry began December with another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump continued to make appointments and BigLaw firms shifted their physical footprints. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Dechert LLP announced Thursday that it has more than doubled its partner class from last year's, elevating 13 attorneys from seven global practices and six U.S. and European offices.
In an otherwise fairly quiet week for litigation, lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP were preparing for a verdict, and a federal jury returned on Tuesday with a $452 million award for their client, Insulet Corp., in a trade secrets lawsuit.
A Polsinelli PC private equity mergers and acquisitions associate has developed a new deal management platform designed specifically for transactional attorneys that the firm said is redefining the application of legal technology in sophisticated deal work.
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law continues expanding its two-year-old Los Angeles office, announcing Thursday it is bringing in a Lanak & Hanna PC construction, environmental and real estate litigator as a principal.
Covington & Burling LLP is among the counsel for groups petitioning the California Supreme Court to address the state's court reporter shortage by mandating the use of electronic recording when court reporters are unavailable.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP continues expanding its technology team, announcing Thursday it has brought in an Allen Overy Shearman Sterling intellectual property litigator as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
Several law firms around the country found reasons to be thankful in November as hybrid work models helped slim down their office space or as firms sought out more room to accommodate growing teams.
Bonus announcements continued Thursday, with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP matching Milbank LLP's year-end and special cash bonuses, while Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP upped the ante with higher special bonuses.
The American Association of University Professors has chosen a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law to serve as its general counsel, the organization recently announced.
Legal consequences, disciplinary actions by law schools and reports of violence in connection to participation in protests against the war in Gaza are not necessarily causes to deny admission to the California Bar, a working group has recommended, urging a continued holistic approach to determinations of moral character.
International law firm Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP and two data breach victims have agreed to end a proposed class action against the firm in California federal court.
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?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.
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.
Certain precautions can help lawyers avoid post-settlement malpractice claims and create a solid evidentiary defense, as settle-and-sue lawsuits rise amid pandemic-induced dispute settlements, say Bethany Kristovich and Jeremy Beecher at Munger Tolles.
It is necessary in a virtual law firm summer program to think twice about asking questions you may be able to answer on your own, but this independence and other aspects of a remote internship may help to instill habits that would be useful for future full-time associates, says law student Kelley Sheehan, who interned at Patterson & Sheridan this summer.