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GrayRobinson Faces More Suits Over 2025 Data Breach
After being hit with a proposed class action accusing GrayRobinson PA of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach, the Florida-based firm is now facing two further suits regarding the same incident.
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Fenwick Adds 5-Atty IP Team From Winston & Strawn
Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday it has welcomed a team of five attorneys from Winston & Strawn LLP, saying their additions "[deepen] Fenwick's patent litigation work across telecommunications, hardware, software, and semiconductors."
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Life After BigLaw: These Attys Found Freedom At Boutiques
Former BigLaw attorneys who are now practicing at boutiques are grateful for their experiences at those large law companies, but they are finding a small law arrangement gives them more control over their practices.
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Former AG Bondi To Appear Before House Committee May 29
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear before the House oversight committee on May 29, committee Republicans said Wednesday.
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Hogan Lovells Rehires Baker McKenzie Chair As Partner In DC
Hogan Lovells has rehired an attorney who was most recently the chair of Baker McKenzie's U.S. healthcare and life sciences regulatory practice, who advises life sciences, food, consumer platform and technology companies.
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BigLaw Associate Gives Partner Kidney — And Saves His Life
Thompson Coburn LLP associate Hope Watson had never spoken to partner Bernie Citron before deciding to give him a life-saving kidney donation last year.
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Associates Are Facing Shifting, Unclear In-Office Policies
Law firm policies on in-office work are in flux and often require reading between the lines of office culture and leader preferences in order to fully comply, a reality that's driving a high degree of frustration in the industry, according to recruiters who work with lateral associate candidates.
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Justices Limit Voting Rights Act Suits While Voiding La. Map
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map containing two majority-Black voting districts Wednesday and further limited the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in legislative redistricting — a decision the dissent claims completes the conservative majority's "demolition" of the seminal civil rights law.
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Justices Wary Of Cisco's Bid To Avoid Aiding Torture Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday of Cisco Systems Inc.'s argument that the Alien Tort Statute categorically bars claims for aiding and abetting alleged human rights violations, with several justices suggesting the viability of such claims should turn on the facts of each specific case.
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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures
GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.
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Jenner & Block Hires 10-Year WilmerHale Litigator In DC
Jenner & Block LLP has hired a former WilmerHale partner who spent the past decade there working on commercial litigation, including class actions, government-facing litigation and consumer protection disputes, the firm announced Tuesday.
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HSF Kramer Appoints Belfast Lead As ALSP Managing Partner
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP on Tuesday announced the appointment of a partner who has been with the firm for over two decades as its new managing partner of digital legal delivery, its alternative legal services practice.
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Sidley Adds Another Finance Atty, This Time In DC
Sidley Austin LLP has hired a Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP sponsor finance counsel to its Washington, D.C., team who has about 20 years of experience working with a range of financial entities on transactional matters.
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AI-Powered Legal Ops Is Starting To Pay Off On Deals
A new study supports what some legal industry experts have been saying for months — an AI-driven legal operating model is taking over the contract management industry and has begun giving companies a real return on their investment.
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2nd Trump Judicial Nominee Questioned Over Fla. State Case
For the second time in a year, a judicial nominee for a Florida federal court is under scrutiny for allegedly presiding over a state level case involving President Donald Trump while being considered for a federal judgeship.
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Ex-Federal Workers Seek Reinstatement In Md. Federal Court
The Trump administration disguised ideologically motivated firings as routine layoffs, then pushed workers into a broken system to challenge their discharges, a group of laid-off federal workers alleged, asking a Maryland federal judge to deem the layoffs unconstitutional and reinstate the workers to their former positions.
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Legal Ops Teams Grapple With Slew Of 'AI Native' Firms
The growing number of law firms pitching themselves as "AI native" is generating feelings of artificial intelligence fatigue inside corporate legal departments, as legal operations experts say the term is becoming diluted amid the rush to cash in on the AI boom.
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Axinn Hires Chief Innovation Officer From Proskauer
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Monday the hiring of Rachael Philbin, previously at Proskauer Rose LLP, as its chief innovation officer out of New York City.
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Greenberg Traurig Hires 6 From Holland & Knight In DC
Six attorneys and advisers from Holland & Knight LLP, including a leader of its federal government affairs practice group, have jumped to Greenberg Traurig LLP in a move Greenberg Traurig's chairman called "a transformative moment" for the firm's presence in Washington, D.C.
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V&E Expands Corporate Practice With 4 WilmerHale Attys
Vinson & Elkins LLP announced Monday that it has bolstered its corporate practice with four former WilmerHale attorneys who advise companies and private equity clients in a wide range of corporate and securities matters.
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Vedder Hires MoFo Finance Attorney For DC Office
Vedder has hired an attorney from Morrison Foerster LLP who focuses his practice on representing lenders, development finance institutions and similar clients in financing transactional matters, the firm announced Monday.
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Justices To Weigh DOL's In-House H-2A Fine Power
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review whether the U.S. Department of Labor can levy $580,000 in penalties via its in-house court against a New Jersey farm for alleged violations of the H-2A temporary visa worker program.
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Up Last At High Court: TPS, Geofence, Skinny Labels
The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Shutts & Bowen's work on a data center company's stock offering and Robbins Geller's lead counsel spot in an investor class action lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 10 to 24.
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Munger Tolles Gains Traction With Summer Associate Revamp
Since Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced plans to overhaul its summer associate program, the firm this week said applications have increased by more than a third and nearly all the selected law students have accepted the positions.