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4th Circ. Nomination Sent To Full Senate With NC Senator's Ire
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on Thursday the nomination of Ryan Young Park, solicitor general of North Carolina, to the Fourth Circuit, with one Republican senator repeating his warning that Park does not have the votes.
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Proskauer Taps Ex-Creative Artists Agency CFO As New COO
Proskauer Rose LLP announced Thursday that it has hired the former chief financial officer from Creative Artists Agency as its chief operating officer to oversee the firm's operations and 800 business services professionals.
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4 Law Firm Leaders On Why They're Dead Set Against Merging
As the number of U.S. law firm combination announcements this year ticks up over 90 with the newly announced merger between Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin, these four leaders tell Law360 Pulse they have no interest in entertaining such talks.
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Nixon Peabody Promotes Longtime CFO To COO
Nixon Peabody LLP has named its longtime chief financial officer as its new chief operating officer responsible for all firm operations, including finance, human resources, knowledge management, information technology and administrative services.
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Justices Puzzled By Nvidia's Position In Investor Case
Some U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed to regret the decision to hear a dispute between chipmaker Nvidia Corp. and its investors, wondering whether a disagreement over what the company knew about its sales to crypto miners has any bearing on other securities class action lawsuits.
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Firms Seek To Ax 'Retaliatory' Suit Over Arbitration Demands
Two plaintiffs law firms urged a D.C. federal court to toss a suit from two casino-style gaming websites that accuse the firms of filing meritless arbitrations against them, telling a judge during a hearing Wednesday that the litigation is retaliatory and has no ties to Washington, D.C.
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Groom Law Atty To Lead Morris Manning Benefits Group In DC
A former Groom Law Group principal who spent almost 15 years with that firm has moved to Morris Manning Martin LLP to lead its employee benefits and executive compensation practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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Shifting Market Winds Blew Kramer Levin To HSF Deal
In the span of four years, Kramer Levin co-managing partner Howard Spilko went from "very happy" with the firm's geographical footprint to announcing a combination with a more-than-2,000-lawyer global giant. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at the increasing headwinds for smaller law firms that led to that change in position.
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Law Firms Positioned To Finish 2024 On 'Very Strong' Note
The legal market is positioned to have a very strong year, with firms seeing increases in demand, revenue and attorney productivity during the first three quarters of 2024, according to the results of a survey by Citi Global Wealth at Work.
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What's Next For Court Reform In This New Political Climate?
Advocates are not holding out hope for bills that would firm up a code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court, impose term limits on justices or give judiciary employees antidiscrimination job protections, saying Republican control of the federal government will likely stall any progress that's been made with court reform efforts.
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Trump Taps DOJ Critic Matt Gaetz For Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the next U.S. attorney general, seeking to elevate a close political ally to lead a Justice Department that the Florida lawmaker has sharply criticized and that last year declined to charge him in a sex-trafficking investigation.
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Squire Patton Taps Paul Hastings Atty As US Antitrust Head
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Wednesday that a partner who led Paul Hastings LLP's team on antitrust regulatory issues will lead its U.S. antitrust practice — a group the firm says it's currently focused on deepening.
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Senate Fills Another Illinois Judge Seat
The U.S. Senate voted 50-46 on Wednesday to confirm U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Hawley for a district judgeship for the Central District of Illinois.
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Wiley Gets Chief Financial Officer From Chapman And Cutler
Wiley Rein LLP has hired as its new chief financial officer an administrator who had overseen national firm Chapman and Cutler LLP's financial functions since January.
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Perkins Coie Insurance Litigator Returns From Pillsbury
Perkins Coie LLP is rehiring an insurance litigator from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, as the firm's insurance recovery work has more than doubled in the past three years, that group's practice chair told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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Gibson Dunn 'Titan,' Ex-Solicitor General Theodore Olson Dies
Theodore B. Olson, the founder of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's appellate and constitutional law practice group and a former U.S. solicitor general, died Wednesday, the law firm announced.
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Trump Taps Ex-Jones Day Partner For White House Counsel
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that William J. McGinley, a former Jones Day partner who worked as assistant to both the president and Cabinet secretary during Trump's first term, will serve as White House counsel during the upcoming term.
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Crime Of Inaction Leaves Justices Mulling Legal 'Absurdities'
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether an alleged mobster can be guilty of a murder-for-hire scheme if he did not physically participate in the botched hit job, with one justice remarking that both parties' interpretations of a "violent" crime of inaction could produce absurd results.
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In-House Counsel Less Wary Of Making BigLaw Jump
While most in-house counsel aren't actively looking to shift to private practice, a survey out Tuesday found there may be an increasing openness to that career lane shift if certain conditions — such as better salaries, work-life balance, and firm culture — are met.
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Freshfields Adds Ex-DOJ Atty To Co-Lead Investigations Team
Freshfields has added the former associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice as the firm's new co-chair of its congressional investigations team, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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After Trump's Win, DC Recruiters See Surge In Gov't Atty Calls
Legal recruiters in the nation's capital, used to seeing a bump in activity around presidential elections, say they have been fielding a rush of calls from government attorneys in the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week.
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Ohio Judge Reverses Senior Status Plans Post-Election
Following last week's election, a federal judge for the Southern District of Ohio has reversed his decision to take semi-retired status, leaving President-elect Donald Trump with one fewer judicial vacancy to fill.
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Justice Alito Calls Bid To Unfreeze Spousal Parole Rule Moot
Justice Samuel Alito denied as moot Tuesday an immigrant rights group's bid to withdraw a Texas court order freezing a new program that would have allowed certain noncitizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to stay in the United States while applying for legal status.
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Miles & Stockbridge Merges With DC Real Estate Firm Krooth
East Coast regional firm Miles & Stockbridge PC on Tuesday announced a pending merger with 30-attorney Washington, D.C., real estate finance boutique Krooth & Altman LLP, expanding Miles & Stockbridge's presence in the nation's capital and bringing its attorney headcount above 200.
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Skadden Adds Former Solar Company General Counsel In DC
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired the former general counsel of solar company Summit Ridge Energy to beef up its energy and infrastructure practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Tuesday.