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Jack Smith Drops Trump's Federal Cases
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to drop the federal prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump in D.C. and Florida, citing long-standing Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president while insisting that the government "stands fully behind" the merits of the charges.
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Akin Adds EY Tax Expert To DC Team
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has hired a former Washington Council Ernst & Young senior manager, who is bringing her tax policy-focused practice to the firm's Washington, D.C., office, according to a Monday announcement.
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Bondi Vowed Trump Payback. Ex-Colleagues Aren't Worried.
U.S. attorney general nominee Pam Bondi is an outspoken ally of President-elect Donald Trump and vowed during the campaign that his "prosecutors will be prosecuted," but people who've worked with her say she's well qualified to serve as the nation's top cop and downplayed concerns that she would politicize the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Law Faculties Growing More Diverse And More Credentialed
Law school faculties are becoming more racially diverse and include a greater share of women, who make up a majority of faculty members entering the profession in the past 20 years, according to a report out this week from the Association of American Law Schools.
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Perkins Coie's 2025 Partner Class Includes 23 Attorneys
Perkins Coie LLP has announced that it will promote 23 attorneys to partner on Jan. 1, a class that the firm touted for its skill set and diversity.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Former Associate GC To DC Team
The former associate general counsel for the American Society of Anesthesiologists has moved her practice to Barnes & Thornburg LLP, joining its corporate team in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP, King & Spalding LLP, Holland & Knight LLP and Barnes & Thornburg LLP lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions for beating a Pennsylvania state court lawsuit brought against Bayer AG unit Monsanto by a woman who said she got cancer by using the weed killer Roundup.
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Mayer Brown Promotes 39 Lawyers To Partnership
Mayer Brown LLP announced Friday that it has promoted 39 lawyers to its partnership, with women accounting for nearly half of its latest cohort of newly minted partners.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump sought to dismiss his hush money trial and BigLaw firms elevated attorneys amid soaring billing rates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Top Firms Big And Small Join In On Milbank Bonuses
The latest law firms to follow Milbank LLP on 2024 associate bonuses late Thursday and into Friday run the gamut from global giant to boutique, according to firm memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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Trump Sentencing Halted To Weigh President-Elect's Immunity
The New York state judge who oversaw Donald Trump's hush money trial officially canceled his Nov. 26 sentencing date Friday to weigh the impact of his new status as president-elect, pushing briefing into December.
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High Court Quietly Pulls Meta Case Without A Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Meta Platforms Inc. case that sought to narrow the types of risk disclosures corporations need to make to investors, saying that the court shouldn't have taken up the case in the first place.
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Ex-Invenergy Atty Joins McDermott's Energy Team In DC
McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced Friday its Washington, D.C., office has brought on an in-house renewable energy and taxation expert with more than a decade of experience to further help the firm's clients utilize energy transition tax credits available in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Senate Deal Halts 4 Circuit Court Nominations
Democrats and Republicans cut a deal Wednesday night to advance district court nominees before the year ends, while dropping four circuit court picks from confirmation efforts, Law360 has confirmed.
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House Appropriations Deputy Staff Director Moves To H&K
An attorney who most recently worked as the deputy staff director, budget director and counsel to the House Committee on Appropriations has joined Holland & Knight LLP's public policy and regulation group as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.
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DC Firms' Performance Trailing Overall Legal Industry
Revenue and demand for law firms based in the nation's capital continued to lag behind the national averages during the first nine months of the year, according to new data from the Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group.
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Senate Approves Honeywell GC For Arizona Judge Seat
The Senate voted 82-12 on Thursday to confirm Sharad H. Desai, a vice president and general counsel for Honeywell International, for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
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BigLaw Trio Join In On Matching Milbank Bonuses
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP are the latest BigLaw firms to go big on associate performance rewards, announcing they will match Milbank LLP in both year-end and special bonuses.
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Mayer Brown Practice Co-Head To Lead Linklaters Team
Following a series of high-level corporate and finance hires this year, Linklaters announced Thursday that it is hiring the former co-leader of Mayer Brown LLP's infrastructure mergers and acquisitions practice as its head of U.S. infrastructure and private capital M&A.
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$1.5M Georgetown Tuition Refund Deal Closer To Final OK
A D.C. federal judge appears poised to give final approval to a $1.5 million settlement resolving claims over Georgetown University's move to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, but his skepticism that a graduate student outside the settlement class should score a $1,000 service award dissuaded him from granting final approval Thursday.
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House Dems Tell Gorsuch To Recuse Over NEPA Case Conflict
A group of House Democrats has called for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from a dispute over federal environmental review requirements, arguing the court's decision could directly benefit a Colorado billionaire and former client who campaigned for the justice's first judicial appointment.
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Gaetz Ends AG Bid, Citing 'Distraction' To Trump Transition
Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general amid allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
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Judiciary Touts Reforms In Handling Workplace Complaints
The federal judiciary is successfully reforming the controversial process that aims to protect its 30,000 employees from sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a new internal report released Wednesday, even as lawmakers have called for scrapping that process altogether and replacing it with a new one.
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Washington State, DC District Court Picks Secure Seats
The Senate on Wednesday voted 50-48 to confirm Washington Court of Appeals Judge Rebecca L. Pennell to the Eastern District of Washington and 50-49 to confirm Amir Ali, former president and executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center and co-director of the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic at Harvard Law School, to the District of Columbia.
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Steptoe Elevates 12 Attys In Firm's Largest Promotion Class
Steptoe LLP announced that it has promoted 12 attorneys to partner or of counsel, highlighted by five promotions coming from the summer associate class of 2015, in what it said is the largest class in the firm's history.