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    Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q3

    A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the third quarter of the year.

  • Trump's NY Case Paused As DA Weighs Impact Of Election

    A New York state judge agreed to a joint motion to freeze the proceedings in Donald Trump's hush money case following his electoral victory last week, allowing the Manhattan district attorney time to brief the court on "appropriate steps going forward."

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    BigLaw Bonus Season Starts With A Move By Milbank

    Milbank LLP announced Monday that it will hand its associates year-end bonuses ranging from $15,000 to $115,000 depending on seniority, numbers that nearly align with bonuses the firm and its peers handed out last year.

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    Herbert Smith Freehills To Merge With US-Based Kramer Levin

    Herbert Smith Freehills LLP said Monday that it is joining forces with U.S. law firm Kramer Levin to form a global legal powerhouse in a move that could signal further consolidation in the sector.

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    Up Next At High Court: Self-Deportation Deadlines & Murder

    The U.S. Supreme Court will be closed Monday for Veterans Day, but the justices will return to the bench Tuesday to consider whether a 60-day deadline for immigrants to voluntarily leave the country has a grace period and what evidence is needed to allege securities fraud.

  • SDNY Judge To Assume Senior Status As Trump Takes Office

    U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni said Friday she plans to take senior status in January, a departure that could leave another vacancy for President-elect Donald Trump to fill on the Southern District of New York bench when he returns to office.

  • Kentucky Utility Asks High Court To Stay EPA Coal Ash Rule

    A Kentucky electric utility called on the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule strengthening federal regulations requiring safe management of coal ash dumped at operating and retired power plants, while it appeals the D.C. Circuit's refusal to block the rule.

  • How Trump Could Turn The Government Against Jack Smith

    Special counsel Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors could face politically motivated retribution by President-elect Donald Trump and his allies in the form of a congressional investigation, a U.S. Department of Justice probe and even criminal prosecution, according to experts.

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including a dispute between Facebook and investors over a data harvesting scandal and the formula used to calculate payments to hospitals treating low-income patients. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Gov't Union Continues Organizing Push For DOJ Attys

    Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights and environment divisions are stepping up their efforts to organize with the National Treasury Employees Union, the union confirmed Friday, as federal workers brace for coming changes under President-elect Donald Trump's new administration.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions for helping a California biotech startup beat a nearly $460 million trade secrets trial before a federal jury in Delaware.

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    Kirkland Aiding Navy SEAL Nonprofit's Governance Policies

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP capital markets partner Bob Hayward actively counsels pro bono the Navy SEAL Foundation, a nonprofit that provides over 30 programs for SEALs, veterans and their families. Hayward talked to Law360 Pulse ahead of Veterans Day on why he chooses to give his time to the cause.

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    Cozen O'Connor Vet Leader On Affinity Group, Military Service

    Affinity groups have become one way for law firms to make sure diverse groups of lawyers in their organizations feel connected and supported. Cozen O' Connor is among the firms that provide a forum for attorneys with military service to link up with one another along with provide pro bono work to veterans dealing with legal issues such as benefits and disability compensation matters.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms named new leaders and Donald Trump became president-elect. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • DC Judge Freezes Election Subversion Case Against Trump

    A D.C. federal judge on Friday wiped out the schedule in the case accusing President-elect Donald Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, granting a postelection request from the special counsel's office prosecuting the case.

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    V&E Reinforces DC Energy Team With Ex-Locke Lord Partner

    Vinson & Elkins LLP has hired a longtime Locke Lord LLP partner who represents several natural gas, crude oil and liquids pipeline and storage companies, boosting the firm's energy regulatory practice in Washington, D.C.

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    How General Counsel Are Preparing For Trump 2.0

    While the stock market surge after Donald Trump won election this week shows that business considers him a friend, corporations are still bracing for the impact of changes that a new administration will bring in 2025.

  • Man Gets 2 Yrs. For Illegally Accessing Ginsburg's Health Info

    A former healthcare industry worker who was accused of illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records and posting them online was sentenced Thursday in Virginia federal court to two years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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    Latham Elevates 24 Associates To Partner In Reduced Class

    Latham & Watkins LLP will promote 24 associates to partner at the start of 2025, a number that is down significantly from the 34 associates who were promoted to partner in January 2024, the firm has announced.

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    Polsinelli Adds Reed Smith Employment Litigator In DC

    Polsinelli PC has hired a new shareholder in Washington, D.C., who spent more than two decades with Reed Smith LLP, which included time as that firm's global labor and employment chair.

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    New Morgan Lewis Litigation Head Aims To 'Move The Needle'

    Troy Brown, a longtime Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP litigator, took over as global head of the firm’s litigation department in October. He joined Law360 Pulse to catch up about the journey to the new position and his plans for the firm’s largest practice group.

  • Justices Eye Narrowing Disclosure Rules In Meta Investor Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to hand Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. a narrow victory in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as justices put up a range of hypothetical scenarios to try to pin down when exactly a company needs to disclose to investors that a past event could cause future damage to its business.

  • GOP Will Get A Crack At The Judiciary, But First, Lame Duck

    With a little more than two months left in the Biden administration following Republicans' capture of the White House and Senate on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Durbin intends to confirm "every possible nominee" before time runs out on this Congress.

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    The Legal Work Awaiting Attys During Trump's Second Term

    Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House following his election victory on Tuesday is sure to bring a series of policy changes that will keep lawyers busy, particularly attorneys working in international trade, immigration, tax and antitrust.

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    Which GCs Sold Stock In Oct.? Broadcom, T-Mobile And More

    Legal leaders at Broadcom Inc., T-Mobile US Inc. and United Therapeutics Corp. got their treats before Halloween as they made significant stock sales in October that gave them multimillion-dollar paydays.

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