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Pillsbury Adds Middle East-Focused Litigator As Partner In DC
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has announced that an experienced litigator who focuses on clients from and working in the Middle East joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office from boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC.
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ABA Tells States To Nix Rape Disclosures For Bar Applicants
The American Bar Association unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that calls on state admission authorities to stop asking would-be lawyers to disclose their experiences of sexual violence and harassment during the attorney licensure process.
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David Graeler Finds His Groove As Nossaman's Leader
David Graeler, who joined Nossaman LLP as an associate in 2003, said his imposter syndrome kicked in after he became its managing partner last year, but he has since developed a strong sense of confidence in his ability to lead the firm. Graeler spoke with Law360 Pulse about what he's learned and what he plans.
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Frost Brown Brings On Chief Diversity Officer From Skadden
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Tuesday that it tapped a new head of diversity with more than a decade of experience in the legal industry from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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ABA: Ease State Licensing Barriers For Military Spouse Attys
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Tuesday passed a resolution urging all state supreme courts and bar associations to accommodate the unique needs of military spouse attorneys who must move frequently to support the nation's defense.
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Arnold & Porter Adds Abramson Cancer Center Chief Counsel
Throughout her career and while working in progressive leadership roles for the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Mir Masud-Elias, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's newest counsel, has asked herself the same question: Is this role the best use of her time on Earth?
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Which GCs Sold Stock In July? Monolithic, Meta and More
Saria Tseng, general counsel of Monolithic Power Systems Inc., pocketed a cool $32.5 million in July after selling off several thousand shares of the semiconductor company's stock, according to a securities filing.
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Justices Reject Missouri's Bid To Block Trump's NY Gag Order
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday an effort by Missouri's Republican attorney general to lift convicted former President Donald Trump's gag order on First Amendment grounds and delay sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case until after the general election.
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Dems Unearth Another Thomas Trip Paid For By Harlan Crow
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took a previously undisclosed trip between Hawaii and New Zealand on a billionaire Republican donor's private jet in 2010, lawmakers revealed in a letter Monday that offered the donor a "final opportunity" to explain how that trip and others don't constitute a tax fraud scheme.
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ABA House Of Delegates Votes Against NDAs In Employment
The American Bar Association's policymaking body has recommended against including nondisclosure agreements as a condition of employment, and for legislation to be enacted that protects patients' access to "gender-affirming care."
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Armstrong Teasdale Grows Executive Team With Talent Officer
Armstrong Teasdale LLP has expanded its executive team this week with the addition of the former director of practice management for Epstein Becker Green, the firm announced Monday.
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Brownstein Hyatt Promotes GC To First Chief Legal Officer
Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has promoted its general counsel and long-time shareholder to chief legal officer and elevated its conflicts and ethics counsel to fill the general counsel role.
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ABA Hires New GC From American Chemistry Council
The American Beverage Association has hired a new general counsel and executive vice president of its legal and regulatory affairs team who has a range of legal leadership experience, including service as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's deputy general counsel under former President George W. Bush.
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ABA: Few Latino Attys May Lead To Less Civic Engagement
The relatively low percentage of Latinos in the legal industry may be part of the reason the ethnic group sees less engagement in civic activities nationwide and is underrepresented in civic leadership roles, according to a new American Bar Association report released Saturday.
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Uber Legal Chief Takes Leave To Aid Kamala Harris' Campaign
Uber Technologies' Tony West, who has served as its chief legal officer since 2017, will take a leave of absence to volunteer for his sister-in-law Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, a representative of the ride-share company confirmed Friday.
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ABA Taskforce Urges Attys To Step Up Election Volunteering
The American Bar Association's Task Force for American Democracy, launched last year, published a 12-page report Friday outlining the importance of lawyers knowing their state's election laws and encouraging them to volunteer their time to bolster faith in elections.
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Fla. Atty Cops To Attempted DC Bombing, Explosion In Texas
A Florida criminal defense attorney pled guilty on Friday to federal charges stemming from an attempted bombing outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 2023 and the bombing of a satirical sculpture of communist leaders in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022.
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Bar Exam Rape Disclosure Among ABA Resolutions To Watch
This coming week at its annual meeting in Chicago, the American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to discuss the "traumatic" practice of requiring would-be lawyers to disclose and discuss their experiences of sexual violence during the attorney licensure process.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP and Covington & Burling LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge overturned a Los Angeles jury's $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League for violating antitrust laws with its Sunday Ticket television package.
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Legal Jobs Ticked Down Slightly In July
The legal industry shed 500 jobs in July, continuing a three-month streak of declines following a gain in April, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Sheppard Mullin's DEI Network Gets New Co-Leader
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced that a business trial partner has been named co-leader of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Attorney Network, which is a firmwide affinity group for its attorneys of color.
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Kilpatrick Adds Government Relations Adviser In DC
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has hired a former Cox Communications government and public affairs senior specialist, who joined the firm as a government relations adviser, to advise clients on federal funding and navigating state and federal grant programs.
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Crowell & Moring Team Flocks To Defend Its Real-Life Mascots
Some employees from Crowell & Moring LLP, whose mascot is a rubber duck, spent the summer helping to rescue real-life ducklings who were caught in precarious situations on the firm's Washington, D.C., balconies. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to a firm wildlife expert who made it her mission to help the baby Mallards.
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Boeing Plea Deal Homes In On CLO, But There's Blame For All
The proposed plea agreement between the Boeing Co. and the U.S. Department of Justice over compliance failures related to two fatal passenger jet crashes in 2018 and 2019 prominently mentions the role of its new global chief compliance officer, just before it lists several pages of compliance lapses.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of July with another action-packed week of news as BigLaw made hires across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.